Kent Anderson is a member of the ANU College of Law and ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, and is Head of the Japan Centre in the Faculty of Asian Studies. He convenes a variety of courses on Japanese law for both the Law and Asian Studies faculties. His research has largely focused on comparative law, particularly with regards to Japan; private international law (ie, conflict of laws); commercial law, particularly insolvency; and Law & Film Studies. Before joining ANU, Kent was first a marketing manager with a regional airline in the United States; later a practicing lawyer specialising in international transactions and debt restructuring with a large commercial firm in Hawaii; and then associate professor at Hokkaido University School of Law. He has also been a visiting professor at Waseda University, Nagoya University, and Chuo University. Outside work, Kent enjoys brewing Ales, listening to the Blues, and playing with his Child—the ABCs of life. Email Kent.

Dr Luke Nottage is an Associate Professor at Sydney Law Faculty. He studied at Kyoto University and Victoria University of Wellington, and first taught at the latter and Kyushu University Law Faculty. His book on Product Safety and Liability in Japan: From Minamata to Mad Cows was published by Routledge Curzon in January 2004. His publications include another co-authored book, two co-edited books, and over 60 major book chapters or articles, in English and Japanese. These focus on contract law, product liability, civil dispute resolution (especially arbitration), corporate governance, cyber-law, and legal education, mostly comparing developments in Japan or transnationally. Over 2000-6, Luke was a contributing editor for Japan in the CCH Doing Business in Asia looseleaf/CDROM service; and from 2007 became contributing editor for the CCH Japan Business Law Guide (2-volume looseleaf) He is also qualified to practice law in Australia and New Zealand. Email Luke.

Hitoshi Nasu is a lecturer at the Australian National University, ANU College of Law. He is a graduate of Aoyama Gakuin University (BA & MA) and the University of Sydney (MIL, PhD). He specialises in international and migration law and is interested in a variety of areas of international law including international law on the use of armed force, international human rights law, international environmental law, international law in Japan and human rights in Japan.

Vivienne Bath is Senior Lecturer in Law, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, and Director of the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney. She has first class honours in Chinese and in Law from the Australian National University, and Master of Laws from Harvard University. Prior to joining the Faculty of Law, she was a partner of international firm Coudert Brothers, working in the Hong Kong and Sydney offices, and specialising in commercial law, with a focus on foreign investment and commercial transactions in the People's Republic of China. She has many years of practical experience advising Japanese corporations in their business activities in the Asian region, particularly in relation to their investments in China and a long-standing interest in the issue of China-Japanese relations. Vivienne Bath has published widely in the area of Chinese law and is a frequent participant in conferences and seminars focusing on developments in the Chinese legal regime. Her most recent publications include "Reducing the Role of Government – the Chinese Experiment", (2008) Asian Journal of Comparative Law: Vol. 3, Iss. 1, Article 9 and "The Company Law and Foreign Investment Enterprises in the People’s Republic of China – parallel systems of Chinese-foreign regulation", (2007) 30(3) UNSW Law Journal 774.
She teaches International Business Law, courses on Doing Business in China and Chinese law.
She is the Director of the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law in the University of Sydney, which focuses on research and teaching in the area of Asian and Pacific Law. See http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/caplus

Carol Lawson is the principal of Legal Communications Japan, a Japanese to English legal translation consultancy. Carol holds degrees from the Australian National University (BA (Asian Studies) / LLB), the University of Sheffield (MA in Advanced Japanese with Distinction) and the University of NSW (LLM). She has published papers on topics including the new Japanese privacy legislation and Japanese government legal translation initiatives. She specializes in the translation of legislation and case law and is involved in teaching legal translation in the Masters in Japanese Interpreting and Translating at the University of Queensland and Japanese law subjects offered in the Asian and Comparative Law stream at the University of NSW. Her current research interests include the recent reforms to the Japanese prisons legislation, the sociology of Japanese legal language and facilitating legal communication in the Japanese-English language pair.

Scarlet Wilcock is a final year Arts/Law student at the University of New South Wales. She has been an ANJeL assistant since June 2008. Her work has focused on assisting the research of the Sydney Judge-in-Residence on the operation of the Australian jury system.

Alicia Lyons is a penultimate year Arts/Law student at the University of Sydney. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in 2008, with majors in Japanese Studies and English. Alicia took up her position as ANJeL Assistant in July 2009. Her work involves assisting Luke Nottage with his research and the administration of the Sydney Judge-in-Residence program.