Assoc. Prof. Pip Nicholson joined the Asian Law Centre in 1997 and was a Senior Fellow of the Faculty from 1998. She joined the Faculty permanently as a lecturer in 2002, becoming a senior lecturer in 2004 and Director of Teaching in 2006-2007. A graduate in Law and Arts from the University of Melbourne with a Masters in Public Policy from the Australian National University and doctorate form the Law School University of Melbourne, Pip teaches on the Vietnamese legal system in both the LLB and Law Masters of the Melbourne Law School and teaches on Vietnamese law to a consortium of American law-schools.
Pip's doctoral research focused on the Vietnamese court system between 1945 and 1976, in the course of an analysis of the extent to which the Vietnamese legal system mirrored or diverged from its Soviet parent.
Pip is interested in the challenges of cross-cultural legal research and legal reform - particularly within Asia. She has recently completed research on corruption within the Vietnamese court system, the reforms to the Vietnamese court system commenced in 2002 and the take-up of labour law reforms in Vietnam. In 2005, she co-edited with John Gillespie, Socialism and Legal Change: The Dynamics of Vietnamese and Chinese Reform. Her most recent publication is Borrowing Court Systems: the Experience of Socialist Vietnam (Martinus Nijhoff, 2007). Her current research explores local Vietnamese mediation, drugs prosecutions within Vietnam and the utility of legal culture in the study of the transforming legal systems within Asia.
Pip currently consults on changes in transitional legal systems, with particular focus on Vietnam.
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