School of Law

Present Position
Senior Lecturer

Tel: 61 3 5227 1429
Fax: 61 3 5227 2151
Email: janefu@deakin.edu.au

Academic Qualifications
LLB(Peking)
LLM(Canberra)
PhD (UNSW)

Subjects Taught

Research Interests

Work History

Lecturer, School of Law, Victoria University of Technology
Research Officer, Faculty of Law, and Sessional Lecturer, Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management,The Australian National University
Research Officer, Sessional Lecturer and Tutor, School of Law, University of Canberra
Section Chief, Legislative Affairs Commission, the Standing Committee of the PRC National People's Congress (Seconded to Beijing Intermediate People's Court during Nov 1989 - Nov 1990)

Research Grants

2002, Co-Chief Investigator, ARC Discovery Grant for a three-year research project entitled “Directing China’s Top 100 Companies: Corporate Governance, Accountability and Corporate Law in the Top 100 Companies in China” ($330,000).
Member of the research team for a DEST-funded 12 months research project entitled "Corporate Governance in Post-WTO China" under the China Higher Education Strategic Initiatives - 2003/2004 ($140,000).

Professional Memberships

List of Selected Publications

Book chapters

Chapter 5 'Company Law in China' in R Tomasic (ed) Company Law in East Asia, Ashgate Press, Aldershot, England, pp135 – 181, 1999 (second co-author).
'Commentary on China's Securities Law' in G Walker (ed) International Securities Regulation: Pacific Rim, Oceana Publications, New York , 1999 (first co-author).
'Commentary on China's Securities Law and Regulation' in Robert Rosen et al (ed) International Securities Regulation, Oceana Publications, New York, 2003 (first co-author).
Chapter 12 'Private Enterprises and the Law' in Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song (eds) China's Third Economic Transformation: The Rise of the Private Economy, pp 166 - 177, RoutledgeCurzon, the UK, 2004.

Selected Book Articles

Introduction of PRC Copyright Law and Analysis of Copyright Cases (in Chinese), co-author, Beijing, China Broadcasting & Film Press, 1991.
On General Principles of the PRC Adoption Law (in Chinese), Beijing, the Supreme People's Court Press, 1991.
Annotation of the PRC Arbitration Law (in Chinese), co-author, Beijing, Law Press, 1995.
Annotation of the PRC Commercial Banking Law (in Chinese), co-author, Beijing, China Commercial Publishing House, 1995.
Annotation of the PRC Lawyers' Law (in Chinese), co-author, Beijing, Law Press, 1996.
'Directors’ Duties of Information Disclosure in China’s Listed Companies' in WG Wang and R Tomasic (eds), Reform of PRC Securities and Insolvency Laws, Beijing, China University of Politics and Law Press, 1999, pp 332-357.
'Dispute Processing in Agricultural Trade Disputes under the WTO: the Australian Experience' in Gongyi Wang and Roman Tomasic (eds) Collection of Papers of Sino-Australia Seminar on Alternative Dispute Resolution and Modern Rule of Law (English), Beijing, Law Press, 2003, pp 167-179 (Chinese, first co-author), pp 231 - 245 (English, first co-author).
'WTO Norms and Dispute Resolution' in Gongyi Wang and Roman Tomasic (eds) Collection of Papers of Sino-Australia Seminar on Alternative Dispute Resolution and Modern Rule of Law, Beijing, Law Press, 2003, pp 209-218 (Chinese, second co-author), pp 209-217(English, second co-author).

Refereed Journal Articles

'Company Regulation with Chinese and Australian Legal Characteristics', (third co-author), Canberra, (1997/98) 4(1/2) Canberra Law Review 51-80.
'Why Arbitrate Rather Than Litigate Commercial Disputes in China? Implications for the Rule of Law', (1998) 7 The Canterbury Law Review 65-81.
'The Enterprise Concept in Chinese Law and Its Application in PRC Company Law', (1998) 8(3) Australian Journal of Corporate Law 266-99.
'Information Disclosure and Investor Protection in China's Securities Markets', (1998) 9(2) Australian Journal of Corporate Law 194-20.
'The Securities Law of the People’s Republic of China: An Overview', (1999) 10(3) Australian Journal of Corporate Law 268-89,second co-author second.

Non-refereed Articles and Unpublished Conference Papers

'Introduction to China's Legislative System' (in English & Chinese), Hong Kong, (1994) The Hong Kong Lawyer 1.
'Law to Establish and Improve Macro-Adjustment of Socialist Market Economy: Law on People’s Bank of PRC', (first co-author), Beijing, (1995) 5 Economic Management 30-32.
'Is the Chinese Legal System Ready for Its WTO Accession?' presented at the annual Australian Postgraduate Law Students Association conference held at the University of Sydney in 2001.

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