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1. News from the Chair
RegNet has surged into a new phase with the arrival of a new set
of staff and faculty. The university has managed to recruit people of exceptional talent. In addition to bringing to Australia some major international figures in regulation research, we have recruited two absolutely outstanding administrative staff in Linda Gosnell and Leah Dunn. I want to thank Clare Guenther and Alison Pilger for the wonderful part-time service they gave us during our setting up stage. We have also secured the assistance of a group of distinguished Australians to serve as Advisory Fellows. The Board of Advisory Fellows met for the first time in June. A productive and collegial discussion was held on the big issues of the future RegNet research agenda and on postgraduate training in regulatory studies. It was recommended by the Board that for the time being RegNet concentrate on doctoral and postdoctoral training and existing specialist masters courses rather than move at this time to establish a Masters in Regulatory Studies. Financial services and health are to be considered as possible future areas of RegNet research.
John Braithwaite
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2. Appointments to the Board of Advisory Fellows
Mr Michael Allworth, Canberra Chairman of Partners, KPMG
Dr Gary Banks, Chairman, Productivity Commission
Mr John Broome, Chair, ACT Gambling and Racing Commission
Mr Michael Carmody, Commissioner of Taxation, Australian Taxation Office
Ms Anna Cronin, Executive Director, National Farmers' Federation
Mr Bruce Davis, Director General, AusAID
Professor Alan Fels, Chairman, Australian Competititon and Consumer Commission
Mr Brent Fisse, Partner, Gilbert & Tobin Lawyers, Sydney
Dr Ian Heath, Director General, IP Australia
Mr John Murray, Chief Police Officer of the ACT
Dr Brian Robinson, Chairman, Environmental Protection Agency Victoria
Mr Robin Stewart-Crompton, Chief Executive Officer, National Occupational Health and Safety Commission
Ms Louise Sylvan, President, Consumers’ International, Chief Executive, Australian Consumers' Association
Professor Alice Tay, President, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
Mr Graeme Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
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New RegNet Academic Appointments
Professor Suzanne Corcoran, Flinders University
Professor Corcoran is a leading corporate lawyer and an expert on corporatization in the public sector in Australia and internationally. She is completing a stint as Chairman of the Academic Board of Flinders University. Her breadth of knowledge of the Australian university system makes her an ideal appointment to lead RegNet in the Faculty of Law and to connect the regulation scholarship there to work in other parts of the university. Arriving August 2001.
Professor Clifford Shearing, University of Toronto
Professor Shearing established the privatisation of policing as a research field with Professor Philip Stenning. Shearing is doing the most innovative research in the world - with projects in South Africa, Argentina and Brazil - on community development approaches to crime prevention, dispute resolution and environmental protection. Arrived July 2001.
Professor Peter Drahos, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
Professor Drahos is one of the leading intellectual property scholars in the world. He is the co-author with John Braithwaite of Global Business Regulation. Drahos is doing a lot of consulting with European and African governments and the Organization for African Unity on global intellectual property standards and issues such as AIDS in Africa. Arriving December 2001.
Professor Peter Grabosky, Australian Institute of Criminology
Professor Grabosky is one of the world’s leading criminologists as well as the co-author with Professor Neil Gunningham of Smart Regulation: Designing Environmental Policy and with John Braithwaite of Of Manners Gentle: Enforcement Strategies of Australian Business Regulatory Agencies. His two most recent books are on the regulation of cyberspace. He will be involved in establishing a Centre on Gambling Research. Arrived July 2001.
Dr. Imelda Maher, London School of Economics
Dr. Maher is one of the leading scholars of European competition policy. She also has interests on the interface between intellectual property law and competition law. It is hoped she will build a new Centre for Competition and Consumer Policy and contribute to our push as a centre of excellence in intellectual property, innovation and competition. Arriving September 2001.
Dr. Heather Strang, ANU
A reappointment of Heather Strang as head of the Centre for Justice has just been funded by the British Home Office. She will be leading a replication of the Canberra RISE Experiments on restorative justice as an alternative to court processing of criminal cases in the UK. This experiment had an enormous influence on policy thinking in many countries. Effective immediately.
Dr. Kersty Hobson, University of Pittsburgh
Hobson is a recent PhD graduate of the Environment and Society Research Unit, University College London. There she studied the policy and epistemological framings of the current sustainable development paradigm, specifically sustainable consumption, and its implications for public action and trust. She will translate some of these ideas into the tax arena working in the Centre for Tax System Integrity. Arrived July 2001.
Dr. Eliza Ahmed, University of Dhaka
Dr Ahmed is an ANU PhD who worked on school bullying and on the theoretical question of shame management and social control. She has just completed some comparative research on bullying in Australia and Bangladesh. Now she is working on shame management in tax compliance matters with the Centre for Tax System Integrity. Arrived.
Dr. Nicola Piper, Nordic Institute for Asian Studies
Dr. Piper is a sociologist who works on the regulation of labour and the globalization of labour markets and labour standards. She is fluent in Japanese, German and English and particularly interested in the sex trade, especially in Asia. Arrives December 2001.
Dr. Brenda Morrison, ANU
Though Canadian, Dr. Morrison is an ANU PhD. She has accomplished formidable networking on restorative justice programs in schools where her ideas have been very influential. She is acting as Head of the Centre for Restorative Justice. Arrived.
Dr. Michael Wenzel, University of Munster
Dr Wenzel received the prize for the best PhD in psychology from a German university. He works on social identity and is applying social identity ideas to tax compliance in the Centre for Tax System Integrity. Arrived.
Dr. Guy Masters, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Dr. Masters is already an influential restorative justice scholar who has been active in British NGOs such as Justice. He is interested in working on the global movement for restorative justice as well as local program and legislative developments in the ACT. Arrived
Ms. Yuka Sakurai, ANU
Ms. Sakurai received her undergraduate training in Japan, but has recently submitted an ANU PhD in the Graduate Program in Business. She is working in the Centre for Tax System Integrity on the compliance behaviour of Japanese compared with Australian, US and European multinational corporations. Arrived.
Dr. Natalie Taylor, ANU
Dr. Taylor works on social identity, reactance and compliance with the law. The Centre for Tax System Integrity has her engaged on risk leveraging experiments as well as survey research that tests out these theoretical approaches to economic behaviour. Arrived.
Ms. Tina Murphy, ANU
Ms. Murphy has recently submitted a PhD in psychology. She is primarily working with John Braithwaite in the Centre for Tax System Integrity on Aggressive Tax Planning. Arrived.
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4.
New RegNet Staff
Our temporary RegNet staff Clare Guenther and Alison Pilger have both moved on to greater glory in the Regulatory Institutions of the Australian Public Service. They provided RegNet with a wonderful start to our ANU operations. What they accomplished was especially impressive as they were working for RegNet only on a part-time basis.
Our new full-time RegNet administrators are Linda Gosnell and Leah Dunn. Linda was formerly PA to the Director of the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU and Leah has joined us from the Australian-American Fulbright Commission. They are already whipping Regnet into shape as new RegNet appointments begin to arrive.
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5.
Forthcoming Seminars
2.00pm, Monday 13th August.
Nathalie Des Rosiers
President, Law Commission of Canada
“The Process of democratic law reform".
Conference Room (room 425)
Top Floor of the Garden Wing
University House
Balmain Cresent
Australian National University
3.30pm, Monday 20th August.
B. Champan, M Chilvers, C.A. Kapuscinski, S. Roussell and D. Whatherburn
“Unemployment duration, school retention and property crime”.
Seminar Room C: Nadel Room (room 7241)
Research School of Social Sciences
Coombs Building
Fellows Road
Australian National University
All welcome! No need to register!
Email regnet@anu.edu.au or phone (02) 6125 6856 for more information.
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6.
Congratulations
Regnet members Professor Hilary Charlesworth and Professor Christine Chinkin have received The 2001 Certificate of Merit, award by the American Society of International Law for their book The boundaries of international law: A feminist analysis.
A full review of the book is available at http://www.anu.edu.au/pad/reporter/V32/5/clearlook.html .
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Publications
Peter Gabosky, Russell G. Smith and Gilliam Dempsey. Electronic Theft: Unlawful Acquisition is Cyberspace. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2001
“The fundamental principle of criminology is that crime follows opportunity, and opportunities for theft abound in the digital age. Electronic Theft, names, describes and analyses the range of electronic and digital theft, and constitutes the first major survey of the field.”
(Exert from book jacket)
Further information about Electronic Theft is available through the Cambridge University Press website at http://www.cup.edu.au/ .
Heather Strang and John Braithwaite (eds.). Restorative Justice and Civil Society. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001
“This collaborative volume looks at the burgeoning restorative justice movement and considers the relationship between restorative justice and civil society examining debates and exploring ideas about who should ?control? restorative justice the state or civil society.”
(Exert from book jacket)
Further information about Restorative Justice and Civil Society is available through the Cambridge University Press website at http://us.cambridge.org/sociology/ or http://uk.cambridge.org/sociology/criminology/new/
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8.
RegNet Centres at the ANU
Australian Centre for Environmental
Law (ACEL)
Centre for Commercial Law (CCL)
Centre for Democratic Institutions (CDI)
Centre for International and Public
Law (CIPL)
Centre for Restorative Justice (CRJ)
Centre for Tax System Integrity (CTSI)
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9. RegNet Office
As the Regulatory Institutions Network expands it has been necessary to find a new home for the RegNet headquarters. We are now located in University House and our new details are as follows:
Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet),
Research School of
Social Sciences,
1st Floor Garden Wing,
University House,
Australian National University,
Canberra
ACT 0200,
Australia.
Email regnet@anu.edu.au
Web http://regnet.anu.edu.au
Phone: +61 (0)2 6125 6586.
Fax +61 (0)2 6125 4933.
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Copyright RegNet, 2001.
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