CAPI Research Chair on Asia-Pacific Legal Relations

Law Program overview:

CAPI's Law Program has focused on positioning CAPI as a leading centre for legal research on the Asia-Pacific region. To this end, conferences, symposia, and research projects have been initiated with a number of research centres, government and non-governmental agencies, and academic institutions in the field of Asia-Pacific legal relations.  Our Law Program continues to thrive and remain at the cutting edge of scholarship and research in the field.

CAPI Law Program Chairs and Visitors:

• Dr. Andrew Harding, Law Chair, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria
  • July 1, 2004 to Dec 2011

• Professor William A. W. Neilson, Law Chair, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria
  • July 1, 2001 to June 30, 2004

• Bui Thi Bich Lien, Law Program Visitor, Faculty of Law, Hanoi University, Vietnam
  • January 1 to April 30, 2003

• Dr. Luke Nottage, Law Program Visitor, Faculty of Law, Kyushu University, Japan
  • January 1, to April 30, 2001

• Dr. Stanley Meng Heong Yeo, Law Program Visitor, School of Law and Justice, Southern Cross University, Australia
  • July 15 to December 15, 1999

• Professor Shelley Wright, Law Program Visitor, School of Law, University of Sydney, Australia
  • January 1 to June 30, 1999

• Dr. Timothy Lindsey, Law Program Visitor, Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • January 1 to April 30, 1999

• Dr. Mark Buchanan, Law Program Visitor, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Australia
  • September 1, 1995 to May 31, 1996

• Dr. Douglas M. Johnston, Law Chair, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria
  • July 1, 1987 to June 30, 1995 

Some Law Program activities:

• A Hundred Years of Legal Development in Thailand, March 2009
• Special Economic Zones in Asian Market Economies (SEZAME), February 2009
• Judicial Training Program in Environmental Law for the Courts of Justice, Kingdom of Thailand, July 2008
• New Courts in the Asia-Pacific Region Workshop, July 2007
• Mapping Vietnam's Legal Culture: Where is Vietnam Going To?, March 2003
• Japanese Law Online 4th Conference, April 2001
• The Law of Homicide, Provocation and Self-Defence: Canadian, Australian and Other Asia-Pacific Perspectives, November 1999
• Property and Land in China: Development, Law and Markets
• Critical Issues in Managing the High Seas Fisheries of the North Pacific