Dr Alice De Jonge - Researcher Profile

Dr Alice De Jonge

Address

Department of Business Law and Taxation
Monash University, Caulfield

Contact Details

Tel: +61 3 990 32587

Email: Alice.DeJonge@monash.edu


Biography

Dr Alice de Jonge is a senior lecturer in the department of Business Law and Taxation.

Alice joined the department of Banking and Finance in 1992 as assistant lecturer. By 1995, she had designed and established the faculty’s Graduate Certificate in Asian Business and its Asian Business Law teaching unit. 

Alice has travelled extensively throughout Asia and speaks Mandarin and Chinese. She lived and studied in Shanghai (Fudan University), and was a visiting scholar at Nanjing University. In 1998, she worked for two months as investigative lawyer for the Ombudsman Commission of Papua New Guinea.

She has provided written advice for the Central and East European Law Initiative of the American Bar Association, and provided advice in cases before the Refugee Review Tribunal.

Alice was awarded the LawAsia Research Award in 1998, and has also been the recipient of a number of travelling scholarships and research grants. 

In 1995, she was promoted to the position of lecturer and is currently a senior lecturer teaching the post-graduate units in international trade law, international law and policy, globalisation of law and development in Asia and comparative business law in Asia. In 2008, she received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Alice has also been involved in the design and delivery of a number of AusAid-funded international trade law short-courses aimed at government officials from Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Burma. 

Her research and supervision interests include corporate governance in Asia, cross-border issues of corporate governance in China and Hong Kong, women directors in China and India, Australia-China relations, international law and its applicability to transnational corporations, sovereign bankruptcy, and international law and unequal treaties in international law.

Keywords

International Law, Comparative Law, Asian Legal Systems

Qualifications

JURIDICIAL SCIENCE
Institution: University of Melbourne
Year awarded: 2008
GRAD DIP IN ASIAN LAW
Institution: University of Melbourne
Year awarded: 2005
ARTS
Institution: UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
Year awarded: 1991
LAWS
Institution: UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
Year awarded: 1991

Publications

Books

De Jonge, A., 2011, Transnational Corporations and International Law : Accountability in the Global Business Environment, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham UK.

De Jonge, A., 2008, Corporate Governance and China's H-Share Market, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham UK.

Book Chapters

De Jonge, A., 2012, Australia, in The Legal Protection of Foreign Investment: A Comparative Study, eds Wenhua Shan, Hart Publishers, Oxford UK, pp. 131-172.

De Jonge, A., 2011, Australia, in International Law and Domestic Legal Systems: Incorporation, Transformation and Persuasion, eds Dinah Shelton, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, pp. 23-54.

De Jonge, A., 2008, Corporate social responsibility: An international law perspective, in International Business under Adversity: A Role in Corporate Responsibility, Conflict Prevention and Peace, eds Gabriele G. S. Suder, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham UK, pp. 25-44.

De Jonge, A., 2008, Expanding the limits of corporate responsibility: An institutional approach, in Institutional Approach to Global Corporate Governance: Business Systems and Beyond, eds J. Jay Choi and Sandra Dow, JAI, UK, pp. 97-115.

De Jonge, A., 2005, Solving agency problems in a cross-border environment: Ten years of Chinese company listings in Hong Kong, in China's Business Reforms: Institutional Challenges in a Globalized Economy, eds Russel Smyth, On Kit Tam, Malcolm Warner and Cherrie Jiuhua Zhu, RoutledgeCurzon, UK, pp. 46-61.

De Jonge, A., 2004, Corporate governance in a cross-border environment: overseas listings of Chinese firms, in Trends and Developments in Corporate Governance, eds Dannis Campbell, Susan Woodley, Kluwer Law International, Hague The Netherlands, pp. 81-104.

Journal Articles

De Jonge, A., 2004, Global economic forces and individual labor rights: an uneasy coexistence, Human Rights & Human Welfare, vol 4, University of Denver, USA, pp. 107-118.

De Jonge, A., 2002, Refugees and the law, Dissent, vol 8, issue Autumn/Winter, Dissent Publications, ACT Australia, pp. 37-41.

De Jonge, A., Davidson, P.J., 2002, Singapore's new bilateral FTAs: consistency with the international legal framework for international trade and investment, Asia Pacific Law Review, vol 10, issue 2, Kluwer Law International, Hong Kong, pp. 185-193.

De Jonge, A., 2001, Recent developments in refugee law in Australia: litigation and legislation, International Legal Practitioner, vol 26, issue 4, International Bar Association, London UK, pp. 145-149.

De Jonge, A., 1998, Pacific rim development: integration and globalisation in the Asia-Pacific economy, Law Institute of Victoria, vol issue 87, Institute of Public Administration Australia, Manuka ACT, pp. 156-159.

De Jonge, A., 1998, Red-chip boom - H-share bust can the Chinese legal system cope? Solving cross-border incolvency problems in the new HKSAR-PRC relationship, Law Asia Journal, vol 1998, Faculty of Law & Ctr for Sth East Asin Law, NT Australia, pp. 17-38.

De Jonge, A., 1997, Russell Gibbons. Joint Ventures in China: A Guide for the Foreign Investor, Asian Studies Review, vol 21, Monash Asian Institute, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 241-245.

Conference Proceedings

De Jonge, A., 2012, Exploring the relationship between international law and national legal systems: Socio-economic rights in Malaysia and Indonesia, International Conference: Current Problems in Legal Theory and in Comparative Law, 26 October 2012, Cordial Lex Editing House, Cluj-Napoca Romania, pp. 186-232.

De Jonge, A., 2004, Government, business and economic development in the regulation of chinese companies listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange: nine case studies, Integrated Governance: Linking up Business, Government and Civil Society: Proceedings of the Conference, 25 October 2004 to 26 October 2004, Monash Governance Research Unit, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-19.

De Jonge, A., 2003, Corporate governance in a cross-border environment: 10 years of overseas listings of Chinese firms, Institutional Challenges for the Global China: Proceedings for the Conference, 13 November 2003 to 14 November 2003, Asian Business and Economics Research Unit, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 168-186.

De Jonge, A., 1998, Red chip boom - H-share bust: can the Chinese legal system cope?, The 3rd LAWASIA Business Law Conference, Tokyo Japan, 9-10 November 1998, LAWASIA Association of Japan, Tokyo Japan, pp. 353-376.

Other

Manning, I., De Jonge, A., 2006, Regulating the cost of credit, Consumer Affairs Victoria, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-45.

De Jonge, A., Baker, S.W., Dorris, G.C., Feldman, E.J., Greenwald, J.A., Hubert Jr., F.W., Matthias, R.A., Senie, A.L., Woodruff Turner, H., Jeffries, J.P., 1997, Analysis of the Draft Law About the State Regulation of the Foreign Trade Activity for the Republic of Tajikistan, The American Bar Association Central and East European Law Initiative, American Bar Association, Washington DC.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
A framework for consideration of natural capital in public policy and business decision making.
Supervisors:
De Jonge, A (Main), Stanley, J (Associate).