Chief Investigator

Professor Tim Lindsey

Professor Tim Lindsey is Chief Investigator of the ARC Federation Fellowship. 

He joined the Asian Law Centre in 1990 and was appointed to the Law School in 1994. His appointments include: Professor of Asian Law (until July 2006), ARC Federation Fellow (from August 2006), Director of the Asian Law Centre (since 2000), Associate Dean (International) in the Faculty of Law (until July 2006) and Co-Director of the Centre for Islamic Law and Society.

A graduate of the University of Melbourne Law School, Tim completed his doctoral thesis in Indonesian studies. His research interests are in the areas of Islamic law, Indonesian law, constitutional law, comparative law, law reform in developing countries and 'rule of law'.  His Federation Fellowship 'Islam and Modernity: Syari'ah, Terrorism and Governance in South-East Asia' brings all these themes together. Tim researches and teaches in bahasa Indonesia and is a long-serving member of the Board of the Australia-Indonesia Institute and a member of the Foreign Affairs Council, both in the Department of Foreign Affairs.  He is an Associate Member of the Academie Internationale de Droit Compare and of the International Council of the Asia Society  He worked previously at Mallesons Stephen Jaques and has been a practising member of the Victorian Bar since 1990, now specialising in Indonesian and East Timorese law.   He has near-native fluency in bahasa Indonesia.

Tim's publications include Indonesia: Law & Society (now in its second edition); Indonesia: Bankruptcy, Law Reform and the Commercial Court; Corruption in Asia: Rethinking the Governance Paradigm (with Howard Dick); Indonesia After Soeharto: Prospects for Reform; Law and Labour Market Regulation in East Asia (with Sean Cooney, Richard Mitchell and Ying Zhu); Chinese Indonesians: Remembering, Distorting, Forgetting (with Helen Pausacker); and Law Reform in Developing and Transitional States (also in its second edition).  Tim is a Founder and co-Editor of the Australian Journal of Asian Law and is currently writing a monograph on Islamic laws in Indonesia.   

Project Manager

Ms Kathryn Taylor

Ms Kathryn Taylor is the Project Manager of the ARC Federation Fellowship.  She joined the Asian Law Centre in 1998 as the Administrator. In 2005, she was appointed Manager of the Asian Law Centre and Manager of the Centre for Islamic Law and Society (formerly, Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam). Kathryn is also the Project Manager of Professor Tim Lindsey's ARC Federation Fellowship and Project Manager of Asian Law Online, the largest bibliographic database of English-language materials on Asian legal systems in the world.  She has been an editorial assistant to the Australian Journal of Asian Law since 2000.

Kathryn completed her Arts degree with Honours in Chinese from the University of Melbourne in 1999, after spending 16 months studying Mandarin at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan R.O.C. She completed a Master of Management (International Business) at Monash University in 2001. As part of this degree, Kathryn also completed a Winter Semester in Chinese Law at the East China University of Politics and Law.

Kathryn's research interests include the Chinese language and culture, Asian legal systems (particularly the legal systems of China and Taiwan), international business, the current state of China-Taiwan relations and Islam in China. She has near-native fluency in Mandarin and is currently editing a book with Stacey Steele, entitled Legal Education in Asia: Globalisation, Change and Contexts.

Administrator

Ms Kelly McDermott

Ms Kelly McDermott is the Administrator of the ARC Federation Fellowship, which she joined in 2007. She is also the Administrator for the Asian Law Centre and the Centre for Islamic Law and Society.  

Kelly completed her Arts degree in Religious Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand in 1999. After completing the Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Secondary) in 2002 she moved to the United Kingdom where she taught Religious Studies at a state school in the North East of England. 

After extensive travelling around the United Kingdom and Europe, Kelly has returned to Australia to work at the University. She is hoping to continue postgraduate studies in Islamic Law and develop skills and knowledge as a research assistant.