November 2025

Pranks as Academic Ethos and Intercultural Legal Dialogue from the Domestic: A Conclusion

Natasha Naidu is a PhD Candidate and Research Associate at the UNSW Faculty of Law and Justice. In this post, she brings the intercultural legal dialogue series to a close with a reflection from the domestic vantage point. The Blog Series The intercultural legal dialogue blog series has its roots in a set of panels […]

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New Perspectives on Chinese Cultural Diplomacy with Minglei Wang, John Legge Prize Honourable Mention 2025

Congratulations on your honourable mention for the John Legge Prize 2025! Can you tell us a bit about your thesis? What is the topic it explores and what did you find? My doctoral research examines China’s cultural diplomacy, with a particular focus on the China Cultural Centres (‘CCCs’) which are cultural organisations established by the

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Re-Imagining Education as a Practice of Freedom: Reflections on Being an Academic in Sri Lanka with Shanil Wijesinha

Shanil is a PhD Candidate and Teaching Fellow at UNSW Law & Justice and a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. In this post, he sets out a pedagogy which re-imagines education as a practice of freedom and an ethos of his research making sense of who he is and

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Minerva Inwald: ASAA Oral History Project

Minerva traces her journey in Asian Studies back to her childhood in Sydney in the 1990s, when her mother insisted she learn Chinese and enrolled her in a Chinese school. As the only white student, she was warmly embraced by the Chinese Australian community—an experience that shaped her enduring commitment to Chinese language and culture.

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Experiments, Enculturation and Excitement: Encounters with Indian Legal Education with Aman

Aman is a PhD Candidate and Teaching Fellow at UNSW Law & Justice and an Associate Professor of Legal Practice (on leave) at Jindal Global Law School, India. In this post, he plays with themes of “experiments, enculturation and excitement” to reflect on the changing law school landscape in India. Tell us about how your

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“Seeing How Law Operates in Real Life”: Intercultural Legal Dialogue with Tirtawening

Tirtawening is a PhD candidate at the UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice and a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Universitas Indonesia. In this post, she reflects on her path to socio-legal studies and the Tri Dharma academic workload in Indonesia. Please introduce your academic role and your faculty. How does your law school

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