Professor Veronica Taylor
ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Veronica Taylor is Professor of Law and Regulation at the ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet). She previously served as School Director and Dean of the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and has had several terms as Director of the ANU Japan Institute.
Professor Taylor is an international lawyer and socio-legal scholar. Her current work centres on the regulatory dimensions of international law and justice norm-making, particularly rule of law assistance and its intermediation as foreign policy, commercial activity and a professional practice.
She has contributed extensively to the study of Asian legal systems. In Japan and Indonesia her work includes empirical and comparative studies of contracts, competition and corporate governance and now higher education reform and research and development policy.
Her work draws on 30 years’ professional experience as a designer and implementer of legal reform for international and bilateral aid programmes in 15 countries for organisations including the Asia Foundation, the International Development Law Organization, USAID, the World Bank, and (the former) AusAID.