Asia-Pacific Business Regulation Group

The Asia-Pacific Business Regulation Group (APBRG) was established in the Department of Business Law and Taxation in October 2006. The Group promotes theoretically informed and innovative ways of understanding international organisations and business regulation in the Asia-Pacific. It aims to build a dialogue among researchers that focuses on regulation in domestic and international settings and across a variety of regulatory domains in the Asia-Pacific. More particularly it aims to establish collaborative research projects that evaluate whether regulation in the Asia-Pacific is effective, responsive and coherent.

Group Objectives

• Collaborate with like-minded researchers in Australian and off-shore universities and research institutions.
  
  
• Establish a scholarly presence for business regulation both nationally and internationally.
  
  
• Run conferences, seminars and workshops for researchers and the public.
  
  
• Publish research in the media, working papers, journals and books.
  
  
• Develop opportunities for research grants and other research funding.
  
  
• Recruit HDR students that can contribute to research initiatives.
  
  
• Promote law reform initiatives.

Director

Professor John Gillespie
Email Professor Gillespie
Tel: + 61 3 9903-4064