• Mr Rival Ahmad
• Mr Alfitri
• Mr Thomas Bray
• Ms Faye Chan
• Mr Tom Coghlan
• Ms Melissa Crouch
• Ms Amber Earles
• Ms Vannessa Hearman
• Mr Wawan Hermawan
• Mr Jeremy Kingsley 

• Ms Rozanna Abdul Latiff
• Ms Jemma Parsons
• Mr Nic Parsons
• Ms Jacinth Pathmanathan
• Ms Helen Pausacker
• Ms Trish Pentice
• Mr Robin Perry
• Ms Jessica Rae
• Dr Kerstin Steiner
• Ms Marcia Wibisono 

 Mr Rival Ahmad

Mr Alfitri 

Alfitri joined the Asian Law Centre in 2006 as a research assistant to Professor Tim Lindsey. He completed his Bachelor's degree (1999) and his Masters in Islamic Law (2004) at the State Islamic University (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He completed his LLM (funded by an Australian Development Scholarship) at the Law School, the University of Melbourne in December 2006, focussing on on Asian and international law.

After completing his study in Melbourne, Alfitri returned to Indonesia to continue his job as a lecturer at Samarinda State Institute for Islamic Studies (STAIN Samarinda). He teaches Islamic Criminal Law and Islamic Civil Law with an international law perspective. He is also continuing work on Professor Tim Lindsey's ARC Discovery Project "Islamic Law in Contemporary Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei'.

Alfitri's research interests include Islamic law and international human right laws and their interplays in Muslim countries.

Mr Thomas Bray

Ms Faye Chan

Faye Chan joined the Asian Law Centre in 2007 as a research assistant for Professor Tim Lindsey's ARC Federation Fellowship. She is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, with a B.A. (Hons) in Indonesian and Chinese Studies and a M.A. in History. Faye has spent the past 14 years in the Netherlands, where she freelanced as a proofreader of English manuscripts produced by European and Asian students/academics.

Faye is currently undertaking a PhD for the University of Amsterdam, researching three generations of Peranakan Chinese women in Java and the Netherlands, spanning the entire 20th century. Her research interests include comparing gender & Islam issues between Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

Mr Tom Coghlan 

Tom Coghlan joined the Asian Law Centre in 2007 as a research assistant. He is currently completing his final year of an arts/law degree at the University of Melbourne. He has spent time in both Indonesia and East Timor, which has included completing a youth exchange program in Indonesia in 2005, and acting as an electoral observer at the 2007 Parliamentary election in East Timor. His research interests include Islamic law, and law and governance issues in Indonesia and East Timor.

Ms Melissa Crouch 

Melissa joined the Asian Law Centre in 2005 as a research assistant. She became a research assistant for Professor Tim Lindsey's ARC Federation Fellowship in 2006. In 2006, Melissa completed Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws (Hons.) degrees at the University of Melbourne. She is currently completing her Articles of Clerkship at Lewis Holdway Lawyers.

Melissa's research interests include Indonesia law, the rights of minority groups (such as women and Christians) in Indonesia, as well as the impact of decentralisation and the influence of Islam on regional regulations. Melissa has had articles published in the Asian Journal of Comparative Law, the Australian Journal of Asian Law and the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies.

Ms Vannessa Hearman 

Vannessa Hearman joined the Asian Law Centre in 2007 as a Research Assistant for Professor Tim Lindsey's ARC Federation Fellowship. She is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, with the degrees of Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Contemporary Asian Analysis. Her PhD research in the School of Historical Studies is focused on experiences of violence and survival among Indonesia's former political prisoners. As a part-time research assistant also in Historical Studies, she works with Dr Kate McGregor on a project on Islam and the politics of memory. She is an award-winning and NAATI-accredited Bahasa Indonesia interpreter (both directions) and translator (into English), with experience of working for international organisations in East Timor and Indonesia.

Wawan Hermawan

Wawan joined the centre in 2009 as a research assistant. He completed his Bachelor's degree (2007) at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Before moving to Melbourne in mid 2007,He worked with Australian Consortium for In-Country Indonesian Studies (ACICIS), an organization for exchange students from Australia to Indonesia from 2003-2007. From 2006-2007 he managed Indonesian Internships, an Australian company based in Yogyakarta that organizes internships for Australian students in Indonesia based on their industry focus. Several years translating, proofreading, editing and interpreting from English to Indonesia.

Wawan has been an active member of the Indonesian community in Melbourne, he really enjoys Melbourne life and its great coffee.

Mr Jeremy Kingsley

Jeremy Kingsley joined the Centre for Islamic Law and Society (CILS) soon after its inception in 2005. He has been a Research Assistant at the Asian Law Centre (ALC) since 2003 and is now a Principal Research Assistant at the ALC.

Jeremy is a graduate of Deakin University, having completed a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws in 2001. Jeremy has recently completed the Master of Laws at the University of Melbourne (focusing on Asian Law and Comparative Legal Studies). Prior to this Jeremy practiced as a lawyer at a major city law firm.

Jeremy is currently a PhD Candidate in the Melbourne Law School, under the supervision of Professor Tim Lindsey and Professor Abdullah Saeed. In 2007-2008, he undertook fieldwork in Mataram, Indonesia, as part of his doctoral research. This research is supported by an Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Award and an ARC Federation Fellowship doctoral scholarship.

Jeremy's research interests include comparative legal studies, Indonesian law, Islamic jurisprudence and interdisciplinary research. Jeremy has written widely and has had articles have published in the Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law and the European Business Law Review, as a co-author of several chapters in edited collections on Islamic and Indonesian legal issues and writes regular opinion pieces in the Melbourne Herald Sun, the Australian and Straits Times (Singapore).

Ms Rozanna Abdul Latiff 

Rozanna Latiff joined the Asian Law Centre in 2007 as a research assistant for Professor Tim Lindsey's ARC Discovery Project "Islamic Law in Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore". She is predominantly working on Islamic law and administration in Malaysia.

Rozanna was born and raised in Malaysia and Singapore and is fluent in both English and Malay. She is currently in her fourth year of a Law/Arts (Media and Communications) degree at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests include law in Malaysia, Islamic law and comparative media studies.

Ms Jemma Parsons

Jemma Parsons joined the Asian Law Centre in 2007 as a Research Assistant for Professor Tim Lindsey's ARC Federation Fellowship, after completing a degree in Asian Studies (Indonesian) at the Australian National University in 2006. She was appointed as a Principal Research Assistant in the Centre in 2007. Jemma spent more than 2 years living and working in Indonesia while completing her undergraduate degree. She speaks Bahasa Indonesia. She is currently completing her Masters in Public and International Law at the University of Melbourne. Her current research interests include the regulation of Islamic education in Indonesia, as well as Islamic law and its development in Indonesia.

Nic Parsons

 Nic is currently completing a bachelors degree in Laws/Asian Studies
(Indonesia) at the Australian National University.

Nic developed his passion for Indonesian constitutional law, public law, international criminal law and human rights while completing a year-long in-country studies program based at the Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Jogjakarta. He speaks Bahasa Indonesia with near-native fluency and also studied traditional Sundanese drums at one of Indonesia's most highly regarded arts institutes, STSI-Bandung. His interests include politics, human rights and good governance.

Ms Jacinth Pathmanathan

Jacinth joined the Asian Law Centre in 2008 as a research assistant for Professor Tim Lindsey's ARC Federattion Fellowship. Jacinth holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Melbourne. Born in Malaysia, Jacinth speaks fluent English and Malay. Her research interests include commercial law, comparative law and law reform.

Jacinth has recently accepted a position as a researcher at the Supreme Court of Victoria

Ms Helen Pausacker 

Helen Pausacker joined the Asian Law Centre in 1999 and became involved in Professor Tim Lindsey's ARC Federation Fellowship in 2006. She is an Arts graduate of the University of Melbourne (BA (Hons), BLitt and Graduate Certificate in Gender and Development) and Monash University (MA) and is currently enrolled as a PhD student in the Law Faculty. Helen works as a Principal Research Assistant with Professor Tim Lindsey's ARC Federation Fellowship. Helen is involved in editing articles and translating Indonesian legal texts. Her research interests include charges of ‘pornography' and prosecution of religious sects, both under the current Indonesian Criminal Code. Helen also researches Indonesian (particularly Javanese) culture, has trained as a dalang (shadow puppeteer) and is a member of two gamelan orchestras.

 Ms Trish Prentice

Trish joined the centre in 2009 as a research assistant to Professor Tim Lindsey. Prior to undertaking post-graduate studies, Trish spent time working in Australia and overseas in various fields, including secondary teaching, as a human rights officer in Geneva, Switzerland, and as a legal case officer for a federal government department.

Trish has spent the last two years working in Cairo, Egypt, for an NGO focusing on inter-cultural dialogue and as an English editor for an Iraqi News Service. The experience exposed her to both the theoretical and practical aspects of Islamic law, which sparked her interest in this area.

After returning to Melbourne Trish completed her LLM in 2009 at the Law School, University of Melbourne, focusing on human rights and Islamic law.

Mr Robin Perry

Robin Perry joined the Asian Law Centre in 2009 as a research assistant and is currently studying for his Masters in Public and International Law at the University of Melbourne. Before coming to Melbourne he worked on a number of overseas rule of law programs, including in Liberia, Yemen and Timor-Leste, and prior to this practised law as a solicitor in Perth for several years.

Robin's current research interests include the relationship between formal and customary systems of law and transitional justice in post-conflict states. He speaks Bahasa Indonesia at an intermediate level.

Ms Jessica Rae 

Jessica Rae joined the Asian Law Centre in 2006 as a research assistant. She is currently in her fifth year of a Commerce/Law degree and Diploma of Modern Languages in Indonesian at The University of Melbourne.

Jessica has spent time in Indonesia, and East Timor where she worked on the United Nations Development Programme 'Strengthening the Justice System in Timor-Leste' project.

Her research interests include law reform, traditional justice systems and natural resource management in Indonesia and East Timor, and good governance in international territorial administrations.

Dr Kerstin Steiner 

Dr Kerstin Steiner joined the Asian Law Centre in 2001. She has been Research Manager for Asian Law Online since 2004. In 2007, she was appointed as Research Fellow for Professor Tim Lindsey's ARC-funded Discovery Project "Islamic Law in Contemporary Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei'. She has also held an appointment as Research Fellow at the Centre for Islamic Law and Society since 2005.

Kerstin holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Bielefeld, Germany and a Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne, focusing on Asian legal studies and comparative law. She completed her doctoral studies in 2006. Her thesis examined the ‘Asian Values' discourses with a particular focus on how this discourse has been misconstrued as a monolithic, static and regional debate while it is, in fact, multi-faceted, evolving and not regionally confined.

She has been a guest lecturer in various subjects at the undergraduate and graduate levels in some of the Centre's subjects. Since 2005, Kerstin has lectured in the Asia Institute, in the subject ‘Islam and Human Rights'. She has presented her research at conferences and seminars nationally and internationally.

Kerstin's research interests include the study of law reform in Asia; Islamic law in Asia; the implications of studying Asian legal systems for comparative law and international law, in particular, international human rights.

Ms Marcia Wibisono

Marcia Wibisono joined the Asian Law Centre in 2006 as a research assistant to Professor Tim Lindsey's ARC Federation Fellowship. She was born and grew up in Indonesia, and is therefore fluent in Bahasa Indonesia.

Marcia completed her Bachelor Degree in Law at Trisakti University, Jakarta in 2001 and her Masters Degree in Business Law at the University of Indonesia in 2003. She also completed the LLM Degree in 2006 at the Melbourne Law School, focusing on international and commercial law.

Marcia has extensive experience as a lawyer in Indonesia, particularly in the area of litigation. She was an associate in a very reputable lawfirm in Indonesia and Internal Legal Counsel for one of the largest paper companies in Asia. Prior to her study in Melbourne, she joined a well-known law firm in Jakarta, which mainly provides legal services to foreign companies, as an associate specialising in commercial litigation and corporate law.