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Mr. Lawley

 

 
Mr. Peter Lawley
Peter Lawley is a trainee solicitor at Australian law firm Clayton Utz, where he works in the Japan client practice. Prior to joining Clayton Utz, he completed an LL.B. with first class honours at the Australian National University (ANU). While at the ANU, Peter was a student editor of the Federal Law Review and a research assistant in Japanese commercial law for Professor Kent Anderson. Until recently, Peter was the Excecutive Co-ordinator of the Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL) and is still heavily involved with ANJeL activities. He captained the ANJeL-sponsored Australian team that won Japan's Intercollegiate Negotiation Competition in December 2006. Peter also completed an LL.B. at Tokyo University on a Monbukagakusho Scholarship before returning to Australia to study and work at the ANU.

Among his publications are:

  • “Panacea or Placebo? An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of the Japanese Committee-System Corporate Governance Law Reform” (October 2006).
  • Private International Law — Case Comment, 48 Japanese Annual of International Law 186 (2005) (translation).
  • “The Post-‘Law School’ Future of Japanese Undergraduate Legal Education – A Personal Perspective Comparison with Australia” (February 2005; presented at ‘Build It And They Will Come: The First Anniversary of Law Schools in Japan’, University of Melbourne, 21 February 2005; published in Journal of Japanese Law 10 (2005) 81).
  • “Investment and the World Trade Organisation – An Analysis of the Possibility of an Investment Framework within the WTO” (February 2004; written in Japanese).