“...exciting recent developments provide a rare opportunity for organizing a dialogue between scholars working on similar themes at the juncture of persisting old questions, anti-universalist ideas and various levels of localist approaches.”



Sukhbaatar Sumiya
Kyushu University

Carter, Connie
Professor of Law
Royal Roads University

Dr Connie Carter is Professor of Law at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She teaches courses in Business Law and International Studies in the MBA and BCom programs.

Dr Carter has operated her own business consultancy advising on legal aspects of international trade, foreign investment, marketing, technology transfer and intellectual property in Europe, China, India and Southeast Asia.

She earned her Ph.D. in Law at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London in the UK. Dr. Carter has worked in the business and academic worlds in Europe, Scandinavia and Asia. Before joining Royal Roads University in Canada, she spent five years in China, partly as Professor of Law at Xiamen University, partly as Human Resources Director at a German-owned manufacturer of heavy machinery in Xiamen, China. She taught Law and Development at SOAS, and has been a Visiting Professor at several universities, including Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.

Her publications include: Eyes on the Prize: Law and Economic Development in Singapore, Kluwer Law (2002). Fighting Fakes in China: The Legal Protection of Trademarks and Brands in the PRC, IP Insitute, London(1996).

Annual Law Conference Series

  2006 Law Conference
   Law Conference/Alumni Symposium


  2007 Law Conference
   Corporate Governance in East Asia