Qualifications Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (university medal) - University of Queensland Bacherlor of Laws (Honours) (university medal) - University of Queensland Master of Arts in Japanese Interpreting and Translation - University of Queensland Master of Laws (Asian Comparative Law) - University of Washington Master of Education - University of Sydney Graduate Certificate in Flexible Learning - Griffith University Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice - College of Law Certificate of Japanese Language and Culture - Hokkaido University Conference interpreter and professional translator (Japanese-English) - National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) Level 1 Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) - Japan Foundation Leon joined Bond University in 2010. Following service as a legal practitioner in the Sydney office of Allen Allen & Hemsley (now Allens Arthur Robinson), Leon commenced an academic career at the Australian National University in 1998 as a lecturer in the Faculty of Law and a research associate at the Australia-Japan Research Centre. He later served as a senior lecturer and associate professor at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales. In 2008-2009, Leon had back-to-back fellowships in Japan, including a Japan Foundation Fellowship at Ritsumeikan and Sophia Universities (2008-2009) and and an Endeavour Research fellowship at the International Centre for Comparative Law and Politics, Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo (2009). Leon has qualifications in law, Japanese Studies and higher education. In addition to university medals and honours degrees in Law and Japanese Studies, Leon has three masters degrees: a LLM in Asian and Comparative Law; a Masters of Japanese Interpreting and Translation; and a Masters of Education (Higher Education). He is currently completing a doctorate in Japanese labour law and comparative corporate governance at the Australian National University. Leon is admitted as a legal practitioner in New South Wales. He also is a NAATI-accredited Japanese-English interpreter and translator with level one certification in the Japan Foundation's Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT).
Articles
Learning through writing: Reconceptualizing the research supervision process, International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (2011)
This paper seeks to re-conceptualize the research supervision relationship. The literature has tended to view...
Review of the book Imposing Peace and Prosperity: Australia, Social Justice and Labour Reform in Occupied Japan by C. De Matos, Australian journal of politics and history (2011)
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Christine de Matos finds little evidence of an Australia imprint on Occupation policy on...
The dark side to Australia's equity revolution: Credit crunch, creditor protection and corporate law, Ritsumeikan law review (2009)
This paper takes a fresh approach to the recent global credit crisis. Rather than interrogating...
'Learned' in the law versus 'learning' the law: The induction program for sessional teachers in the UNSW school of law, UNSW compendium of good practice in learning and teaching (2007)
In 2003, the School of Law introduced an induction program for new teachers, both sessional...
Gender, justice and the Japanese judiciary, The Tohoku annual review on gender law and policy (2007)
Women are considerably under-represented on the Japanese judiciary. Yet despite the enormous scholarly attention devoted...
Books
Community and the law: A critical reassessment of American liberalism and Japanese modernity (2010)
This book comprises translations of seven landmark essays by one of Japan's most respected and...
Corporate governance in the 21st century: Japan's gradual transformation (2008)
The 'lost' decade of economic stagnation in Japan during the 1990s has become a 'found...
Book Chapters
Legal translation, The Oxford handbook of translation studies (2011)
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Legal translation theory brooks little interference with the source legal text. With few exceptions (Joseph...
Lifelong employment, labour law and the lost decade in Japan: The end of a job for life?, Innovation in management and technology in Japan (2010)
This chapter discusses on the most prominent topics in Japanese management: lifelong employment. It sketches...
Translators' preface: The legal sociology of Takao Tanase (with Luke Nottage), Community and the law: A critical reassessment of American liberalism and Japanese modernity (2010)
‘Takao Tanase seamlessly combines sociolegal and philosophical analysis as he explores the tensions between individual...
Introduction: Japan’s gradual transformation in corporate governance (with Luke Nottage and Kent Anderson), Corporate governance in the 21st Century: Japan’s gradual transformation (2008)
Like other major post-industrial democracies around the turn of the 21st century, Japan is undergoing...
The death of lifelong employment in Japan?, Corporate governance in the 21st Century: Japan’s gradual transformation (2008)
Extract:
Lifelong employment in Japan is more trope than literal fact. As a synecdoche,...