Dr. Nadirsyah Hosen

Position in Faculty

Lecturer

Degrees Held

Nadir has a Bachelors degree (UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta), a Graduate Diploma in Islamic Studies, and Master of Arts with Honours (University of New England), as well as a Master of Laws in Comparative Law (Northern Territory University).

He completed his first PhD (Law) at the University of Wollongong and a second PhD (Islamic Law) at the National University of Singapore. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at TC. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland.

He is also adjunct fellow at Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, at Griffith University. In June 2006, he was a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Research Areas

Islamic law, comparative law, anti-terrorism law and policy, human rights, Southeast Asian law, and constitutional law.

Publications

His articles have been published in internationally recognised and refereed journals such as the Nordic Journal of International Law (Lund University), Asia Pacific Law Review (City University of Hong Kong), Australian Journal of Asian Law (University of Melbourne), European Journal of Law Reform (Indiana University), Asia Pacific Journals on Human Rights and the Law (Murdoch University), Journal of Islamic Studies (Oxford University), and Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Cambridge University).

Teaching Commitments

LLB 100 Foundations of Law A
LLB 364 Islamic Law

Contact Details

Phone: (02) 4221 4192
Fax: (02) 4221 3188
Email: hosen@uow.edu.au

Last reviewed: 28 March, 2007

2009 National LexisNexis ALTA Award

LexisNexis

'UOW PLT program included the five finalists among Australian Law Schools for the 2009 national LexisNexis Australian Law Teacher's Association Award for 'Excellence and Innovation in the Teaching of Law'.