Workshops and Seminars

2008

*25-26 November 2008 “Aspects of Free Trade Agreements in the Asia and Pacific Region” Workshop at the Centre for Comparative Law and Development Studies in Asia and the Pacific (CLDSAP), University of Wollongong, Australia, in cooperation with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCi) and the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich (MPI). Conveners: Prof. Christoph Antons and Prof. Reto Hilty (Director of the MPI). The following attended the Workshop: Prof. Christoph Antons (CLDSAP), Prof. Reto Hilty (MPI), Prof. Christopher Arup (Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University), Dr. Ann Fitzgerald (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane), Dr. Thomas Jaeger (MPI), Prof. Dae-Hee Lee (Korea University, Seoul), Prof. Lim Heng Gee (Faculty of Law, University of Technology MARA, Shah Alam), Prof. Robert Lutz (School of Law, Southwestern University, Los Angeles), A/Prof. Ng-Loy Wee Loon (Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore), Prof. John Ravenhill (Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra), Prof. Megan Richardson (Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne), Mr. Ferdinand Negre (Bengzon, Negre, Untalan, Manila), Ms. Nahoko Ono (AIPPI, Tokyo), Mr. Gunawan Suryomurcito (Suryomurcito & Co., Jakarta), Prof. Peter Yu (Drake University, Des Moines), Prof. Kamal Puri, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology), Mr. Matthias Schaub, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Ms. Thitapha Wattanapruttipaisan, ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta.

* Mr. Ziqiang Tang, Senior Lecture at Chang'an University and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Comparative Law and Development Studies in Asia and the Pacific (CLDSAP), presented a paper entitled: "Chinese Courts and Judicial Independence" on 05 November 2008. The seminar was held by CLDSAP.

*Prof. Chris Arup, Professor of Business Law in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University, presented a paper entitled: "WTO, Patents and Pharmaceuticals - International Demands and National Resources" on 01 October 2008. The Seminar was jointly held by CLDSAP and the Faculty of Law.

*Prof. Christoph Antons, Director of the Centre for Comparative Law and Development Studies in Asia and the Pacific (CLDSAP), presented a paper entitled: “Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights in Asia: Global Agendas, Local Subjects” on 27 August 2008. The Seminar was jointly held by CLDSAP and the Faculty of Law.

*Mr. Yuichiro Nakaya, Patent Examiner of the Japan Patent Office and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Comparative Law and Development Studies in Asia and the Pacific, presented a paper entitled: “What are Japanese Patent Examiners Doing? Japan Patent Office’s Efforts toward Expeditious and Efficient Patent Examination” on 22 May 2008. The Seminar was jointly held by the Centre for Comparative Law and Development Studies in Asia and the Pacific (CLDSAP) and the Faculty of Law.

2007

*11-12 December 2007 “Intellectual Property Enforcement in the Asia Pacific Region” Workshop at the Centre for Comparative Law and Development Studies in Asia and the Pacific(CLDSAP), University of Wollongong, Australia, in cooperation with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCi) and the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich. Conveners: Prof. Christoph Antons and Weerawit Weeraworawit (Minister (Commercial Affairs), Thailand, and Visiting Professorial Fellow, CLDSAP. The following attended the Workshop: Prof. Christoph Antons (CLDSAP), Prof. Michael Blakeney (Queen Mary University of London), Ms. Louise Blakeney (Crown Prosecution Services, London), Prof. Jianfu Chen (La Trobe University, Melbourne), Prof. Brian Fitzgerald (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane), Dr. Ann Fitzgerald (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane), Dr. Thomas Jaeger (Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich), Prof. Yee Fen Lim (Galexia Consulting, Sydney; National University of Singapore), Mr. Ferdinand Negre (Bengzon, Negre, Untalan, Manila), Ms. Rahamatthunisa Mohamed Nizamuddin (Malaysian Intellectual Property Office, Kuala Lumpur), Ms. Nahoko Ono (AIPPI, Tokyo), Mr. Phan Viet Dung (Trang & Associates, Hanoi), Mr. Michael Schlesinger (Greenberg Traurig, Washington; George Washington University, School of Law), A/Prof. Natalie Stoianoff (University of Wollongong), Mr. Gunawan Suryomurcito (Suryomurcito & Co., Jakarta), Mr. Weerawit Weeraworawit (Minister (Commercial Affairs), Ministry of Commerce, Bangkok; Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of Wollongong), and Prof. Peter Yu (Drake University, Des Moines).

*Prof. Christoph Graber, University of Lucerne presented a paper entitled: “Developing Legal Safeguards for Traditional Cultural Expressions: Collisions of Archaic and Modern Patterns of Social Organisation” on 31 October 2007. The seminar was jointly held by the Centre for Comparative Law and Development Studies in Asia and the Pacific (CLDSAP) and the Legal Intersections Research Centre (LIRC).

*17 September 2007 The Centre for Comparative Law and Development Studies in Asia and the Pacific (CLDSAP) in co-operation with the Asian Law Centre (ALC) at the University of Melbourne organised a workshop on “Approaches to Law and Development in the Asia Pacific Region” Speakers at the workshop included Professor Antons (University of Wollongong), Professor Gessner (University of Bremen, Germany), Professor Alex Ziegert (University of Sydney), Professor Andrew Harding (University of Victoria, Canada), Professor Tim Lindsey (Federation Fellow, University of Melbourne), Professor John Gillespie (Monash University), Gabriel Garcia (UOW) and Dr Luke Nottage (University of Sydney). [more details…]

*Professor Dr. Thomas M.J. Möllers from the Institute for European Legal Systems, Augsburg University and the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center visited the Centre on 28 February 2007 and presented a paper entitled “Enforcement in European Unfair Competition Law”. The seminar was jointly held by the Centre for Comparative Law and Development Studies in Asia and the Pacific (CLDSAP) and the Legal Intersections Research Centre (LIRC).

2006

*19-20 December 2006 “Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Cultural Expression and Intellectual Property Law in the Asia-Pacific Region” Workshop at the Centre for Comparative Law and Development Studies in Asia and the Pacific, University of Wollongong, Australia, in cooperation with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCi) and the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich. Convener: Prof. Christoph Antons. The following attended the Workshop: Dr. Indunil Abeyesekere (Sri Lanka), Prof. Christoph Antons (CLDSAP), Prof. Chris Arup (Monash University), Ms. Maroochy Barambah (Daki Budtcha Records, Brisbane), Prof. Michael Blakeney (University of London), Prof. Martin Chanock (La Trobe University), Prof. Brian Fitzgerald (Queensland University of Technology), A/Prof. Susy Frankel (Victoria University of Wellington), Prof. Christoph Beat Graber (University of Lucerne, Switzerland), Dr. Eric Kansa (University of California), Mr. Ade Kukoyi (Daki Budtcha Records, Brisbane), Dr. Silke von Lewinski (Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich), Dr. Gerard Persoon (University of Leiden, The Netherlands), A/Prof. Megan Richardson (University of Melbourne), A/Prof. Natalie Stoianoff (CLDSAP), Mr. Anthony Taubman (World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva), Mr. Brendan Tobin (United Nations University, Lima, Peru), Prof. S.K. Verma (University of Delhi, India), Mr. Weerawit Weeraworawit (Minister (Commercial Affairs), Ministry of Commerce, Thailand)

*Prof. Megan Richardson of the University of Melbourne visited the Centre on 17 October 2006 and presented a paper entitled “Folklore and Law in the 21st Century: The Case of the Ka Mate Haka”.

*Prof. Oliver Mendelsohn of La Trobe University visited the Centre on 19 July 2006 and presented a paper entitled “Lion or Jackal” The Indian Legal System as Support or Impediment to Development”.

*Dr Harald Baum, of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private Law and Private International Law visited the Centre in the first week of March 2006 and presented a paper entitled “Outsider vs. insider based models of corporate governance”. The seminar was jointly held by the Centre for Comparative Law and Development Studies in Asia and the Pacific and the Legal Intersections Research Centre (LIRC).

2005

*10 November 2005 (Wollongong, Australia). Dr Luke Nottage, of the University of Sydney and Australian Network for Japanese Law, presented a paper at the Centre for Comparative Law and Development Studies in Asia and the Pacific entitled “Nothing new in the (North) East Comparing corporate governance and social responsibility rhetoric and reality in Japan”.

Last reviewed: 3 April, 2009