October 2025

“A Small Act of Kindness in a Classroom”: Intercultural Legal Dialogue with Vinitika Vij

Vinitika Vij is an Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law School (OP Jindal Global University) and a PhD candidate at UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice. In this post she articulates a teaching approach which combines teaching critique with building student confidence through kindness in the classroom. What is language of education at your law […]

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“Not Always a Smooth Fit”: Intercultural Legal Dialogue with Jessica Marpaung

Jessica Marpaung is an academic and Head of the International Law Department at Universitas Pelita Harapan (UPH), Jakarta. She has over 10 years teaching experience in Human Rights, International Law, Constitutional Law, and Torts. Jessica received her LLB from UPH and her LLM from Harvard. Currently, she is a PhD candidate at UNSW Faculty of

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Liam Prince: ASAA Oral History Project

Liam traces his journey in Asian Studies to a childhood spent in Kathmandu, where his parents worked in international development, and he attended an international school. Returning to Australia for high school, he enrolled in Asian Studies at UWA in the late 1990s. Initially intending to study Hindi, he instead took Indonesian – almost by

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“Socially Responsive Legal Education”: Intercultural Legal Dialogue with Md Abdur Razzak

Md Abdur Razzak is an Assistant Professor of Law at Jagannath University in Bangladesh and PhD candidate at UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice. In this post he sets out a pedagogical approach of socially responsive legal education which is informed by his experiences of learning and teaching across Australia and Bangladesh. Please introduce your

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Carrying Many Roles: Reflections as a Law Lecturer in Indonesia

M Ibrahim is a PhD researcher at the UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice and previous lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia. In this post, he offers us a window into his life as an academic at an Indonesian law school. Please introduce your academic role and your faculty. How

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“Solidarity as Care” and “Solidarity Despite”: Intercultural Legal Dialogue with Shohini Sengupta

Shohini Sengupta is a Teaching Fellow and a PhD candidate at the UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice and an Associate Professor at the Jindal School of Banking & Finance in India. In this post she reflects on her experiences prior to academia, commencing teaching in India in 2020 and the solidarities being built among

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