Contact Details
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f: +61 2 9514 3400
Location
Faculty of Law
Cnr Quay St & Ultimo Road
Haymarket NSW 2007
Room# CMB05.04.06
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Mailing Address
UTS:LAW
P.O. Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007
AUSTRALIA
Areas of Expertise
› Chinese Corporate/
Commercial Law
› Chinese Legal Reform
› East Asian Legal Systems
› Corporate Law
› Comparative Law
› Internet & Legal Reform
Current Teaching
70417 Corporate Law
76003 Asian Law and Legal Systems
77724 International Banking and Finance Law
78026 Business and Law in China
Academic Profile
Colin Hawes grew up in the UK & gained a B.A. in Chinese Studies from the University of Durham. Subsequently, he lived in China for three years, developing his Chinese language skills further, and then moved to Canada to complete a Ph.D. in Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver.
Dr Hawes began researching Chinese and East Asian law while teaching Chinese language and culture at the University of Alberta, Canada. He subsequently returned to UBC to complete his law degree. He practised law in Vancouver focusing on Asia-related files before joining the UTS Law Faculty in 2005.
Colin is especially interested in the intersection between legal reform and culture: how cultures impact on the way that law is implemented in different societies, and what happens to laws when they are imported into a new cultural context. This interest is reflected in his recent articles on corporate governance and banking with Chinese characteristics, and on Chinese corporate culture.
Curent Research Activities
Transforming Chinese corporate culture
Chinese corporate governance and banking reforms
Judicial reforms in China
Recent Grants, Publications & Conference Papers
2006 PPF grant: "Corporate governance reforms in Chinese Banks"
2005-6 LSF grant: "Transforming Chinese corporate culture"
"Foreign Strategic Investors in the Chinese Banking Market: Cultural Shift or Business as Usual?" co-authored with Dr Thomas Chiu (UTS) Banking & Finance Law Review 22.2 (Feb. 2007)
"Flogging a Dead Horse? Why Western-Style Corporate Governance Reform Will Fail in China, and What Should Be Done Instead," co-authored with Dr Thomas Chiu (UTS) Australian Journal of Corporate Law 20.1 (Dec. 2006)
"Critical & Cultural Analysis of Recent Corporate Governance Reforms to Chinese Banks", ALTA Conference, Melbourne, 2006.
"Improving the Quality of the Judiciary in China: Recent Reforms to the Procedures for Appointing, Promoting & Discharging Judges", chapter 19 of K.E. Malleson & Peter H. Russell, eds., Appointing Judges in an Age of Judicial Power: Critical Perspectives from Around the World (University of Toronto Press, 2006)
"Corporate Culture with Chinese Characteristics: A Preliminary Analysis of the Websites of Major Chinese Corporations", ALTA Conference, New Zealand, 2005.
"The Evolution of Published Commercial Law Court Judgments in Contemporary China", Australian Journal of Asian Law 5 (2003): 1-41