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Explore our legal expertise in a wide variety of Asian jurisdictions, including China, Japan, Indonesia and Malaysia.
The Centre for Asian and Pacific Law is located within Sydney Law School.
The centre's members have legal expertise in a wide variety of Asian jurisdictions, including China, Japan, Indonesia and Malaysia. The centre offers courses covering a wide variety of legal issues in these countries, including commercial law, investment, constitutional law, human rights, land law, tax, environmental law, labour law, customary law, Islamic law, law enforcement institutions, and dispute resolution.
Chinese law is taught intensively both in Sydney (in alternate years and to undergraduate and Juris Doctor students only) and in China at the Shanghai Winter School. Japanese law is taught intensively in Japan at the Kyoto and Tokyo Seminars, and Indonesian and Malaysian law is taught offshore at the Southeast Asia Field School.
The centre holds numerous seminars, workshops and conferences, and hosts visiting scholars from all over Asia.
Internships are offered periodically and will be advertised in the law student newsletter. For more information, visit the Internships page (in Canvas).
The Institute of Asian Studies at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam is funding a conference volume project on corruption and illegality in Asian investment arbitration. The Principal Investigator is CAPLUS affiliate Dr Nobumichi Teramura, and contributors include University of Sydney CAPLUS members Professor Luke Nottage, Professor Simon Butt and Professor Vivienne Bath.
This February 2022 webinar discussed how online legal education both before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, across several Asia-Pacific jurisdictions: Australia, Japan, Canada, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore and Macau.
We hold seminars, conferences and workshops throughout the year.