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Veronica Taylor
Professor Veronica Taylor
Veronica L. Taylor is an international lawyer and socio-legal scholar. Her work centres on regulatory intermediation and institutional reform. Within international law and justice norm-making, she analyzes the people and institutions that animate rule of law as foreign policy, commercial activity and a professional practice.
Within the field of Asian and Comparative law, her work on Japan and Indonesia includes empirical and comparative studies of contracts, competition and corporate governance. Her current work focuses on the actors shaping legal pluralism in the Philippines; the ways in which regulation and law are made in Myanmar; and how to improve Indonesia’s research competitiveness. She has written and consulted extensively on legal education reform and the regulation of the legal profession in Asia.
Her work draws on more than 30 years’ professional experience as a designer and implementer of legal reform for international and bilateral aid programmes in 15 countries.
Veronica Taylor is a Professor of Law and Regulation at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University. Veronica has supervised more than 40 PhD, Masters and Honours-level research projects. In undergraduate education, she has been the lead national coach for Team Australia in the bilingual Intercollegiate Negotiation and Arbitration Competition held annually in Tokyo: https://www.teamaustralia-inc.net
At ANU Veronica is an ANU Public Policy Fellow. Her external engagement includes co-convening the Australian Law and Justice Development Community of Practice, in partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She is a member of the Executive of the Australia-Japan Business Cooperation Committee; a Director of the Foundation for Australia-Japan Studies; and a member of the Oceania Advisory Committee for the interdisciplinary, transregional project Meridian 180: https://meridian.northwestern.edu
Veronica Taylor joined ANU in 2010 as Director of the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) (2010-2014) (now the School of Regulation and Global Governance) and served as Dean of the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific (2014-2016). She has served two terms as Director of the ANU Japan Institute. Prior to joining the ANU, she was Director of the Asian Law Center at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Research interests:
- Law and society in Asia
- Regulation and global governance
- Rule of law promotion
- Law and justice practice
- Policy design
- Higher education reform and policy

ARC grant awarded for ANU-led Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Radiation Innovation.
Congratulations to Veronica Taylor for her success in The Australian Research Council (ARC) Ind

RegNet congratulates Team Australia
RegNet congratulates Team Australia, the national undergraduate team that this year were runners-up in the 2020

Professor Veronica Taylor appointed to ANU Enterprise Board as Director
We are delighted to announce that Professor Veronica Taylor was appointed Director to the Board of

COVID-19: innovations from governance and justice programs- Professor Veronica Taylor writes for DevPolicy Blog
Professor Veronica Taylor, Lisa Denney and Leisha Lister, write about how COVID19 has impacted g

Benchmark Victory for Team Australia in International Arbitration Competition
This year’s Intercollegiate Negotiation and Arbitration Competition (INC) in Tokyo has been won by Team Australia – 21 stu

Nine ANU students contesting international moot competition in Japan
Nine ANU international law students are in Japan to test their mooting skills and try winning back the title of best transnational arbitration and negotiation team in the

Network Power
After Kurnia Toha was named to head Indonesia’s competition authority in 2018, ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet)

Inspiring women of RegNet
To mark International Women’s Day this year we are celebrating some of the professional and academic staff who make our College a world-leading institution for research and teaching on Asia and the

Message from Director of Education
As Director of Education, I am excited that you are considering pursuing a higher degree by research (HDR) at RegNet.

New publication - rule of law and the UN Security Council
New publication by Jeremy Farrall and Hilary Charlesworth on rule of law and the UN Security Council.

Veronica Taylor and Imelda Deinla in Advance
The Philippines is often seen as a democratic corner of Southeast Asia: authoritarian ex-military President Ferdinand Marcos was famously ousted through peaceful civilian protest in 1986 and Filipi
Current

How should we modernise document execution in Australia?
COVID-19 changed the way Australians engage with digital technologies and demonstrated an acceleration in the uptake of digital technologies by Australian businesses and consumers.

Law and Justice Development Community of Practice
The Law and Justice Development Community of Practice (LJCoP) brings together practitioners engaged in regional and international law and justice initiatives funded by Australia.

Responsive rule of law
Since 1990 there has been an exponential increase in the number and type of professionals and organisations involved in law reform efforts in developing, post-conflict and fragile states worldwide.

The peacebuilding compared project
What are the kinds of interventions that create wars and make things worse for people? How can peacebuilding contribute to justice and development?
Completed

Intercollegiate Negotiation 2018 Competition
Team Australia for the 2018 Intercollegiate Negotiation (INC) in Tokyo has been selected!

Pluralist justice for women after violence: An experiment in building justice webs in the Philippines project
Using violence against women (VAW) as case study, the project traces how justice institutions develop after the peace process and regional autonomy in Mindanao.

Author(s): Veronica L Taylor
Date of publications: 2019
Publication type: Journal article

Author(s): Veronica L Taylor
Date of publications: 2017
Publication type: Opinion piece

Author(s): Veronica L Taylor
Date of publications: 2017
Publication type: Book chapter