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Dr John Gillespie

Professor, Business Law and Taxation

  • BSc (Monash)
  • LLB (Monash)
  • LLM (Monash)
  • PhD (ANU)
  • Barrister and Solicitor (Vic)

Professor John Gillespie is the director of the Asia-Pacific Business Regulation Group. His research and teaching interests include Asian comparative law, law and development theory and regulatory theory.

His recent books include (co-authored) Regulation in Asia: Pushing Back on Globalization, London: Routledge, (2008); Transplanting Commercial Law Reform: Developing the Rule of Law in Vietnam, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate (2006) and (co-authored) The Diversity of Legal Change in Socialist China and Vietnam, Canberra: Australian National University Press, (2005).
He is the lead investigator on an ARC discovery project exploring 'Regulatory networks: Assessing the limits to the Rule of Law in East Asia' 2006-2008 and was the lead investigator on an ARC discovery project on 'Transplanting Commercial Legal Development into East Asia' 2001-2003.

Prior to joining Monash, John worked as an Associate Professor in the Law School at Deakin University and as a visiting research fellow at the Australian National University. He has also worked in the research and information department of the Law Institute Victoria and in legal practice with several commercial law firms.

Over the last 15 years he has consulted widely to international donors such as the World Bank, UNDP, IFC, Danida and AusAID on legal development projects in East Asia. He has also worked on committees advising the Federal Attorney General and AusAid on legal cooperation and developed in East Asia. He is an adviser to the Australian Journal of Asian Law and member of the International Trade Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia.

Contact details

Telephone
+61 3 9903 4064
Email
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Postal address
Department of Business Law and Taxation
PO Box 197
Caulfield East, Vic 3145
AUSTRALIA

Recent Competitive Research Grants

Summary of Recent Competitive Research Grants (1997-2008)

Research

John's research interests cover comparative commercial law, with a particular focus on law and development and regulatory theory. He is currently working on a project with the Centre of Comparative and Public Law, Law Faculty, Hong Kong University comparing legal development in China and Vietnam.

Recent publications (doc, 25kb)