 
People – Visitors
CEPS at the ANU enjoys many visitors throughout the year, including scholars who participate in CEPS' highly active
Visiting Scholars Program, and scholars attracted by ANU-based
and other local institutions associated with CEPS.
Below is a list of current, forthcoming and regular visitors whom we think may be of interest to our colleagues in
the policing and security community, as well as a record of past visitors.
If you would like to schedule a meeting with any of our distinguished guests, please contact us on ceps@anu.edu.au.
Click on a name to scroll the page to the relevant section:
| Professor Liqun Cao |
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Affiliation: |
Professor of Sociology and Criminology, Faculty of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies, University of
Ontario Institute of Technology. |
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Biography: |
Dr Liqun Cao, PhD (1993) is a Professor of Sociology and Criminology. His research interests include comparative
studies, criminological theory, gun ownership, and policing. His research essays have appeared in many national and international
journals, including the top journals of Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Criminal Justice, and Policing.
His co-authored paper won the Donal MacNamara Award of Academy of Criminal Justice Science in 2008. In addition, he published
the monograph ‘Major Criminological Theories: Concepts
and Measurement’ and co-edited the anthology ‘Lessons From International/Comparative
Criminology/Criminal Justice’ in 2004. He also writes in Chinese and his co-authored book ‘The Empirical Status of Major Criminological
Theories’ was published in Chinese with Professor Susyan Jou in 2007. He co-edited an anthology "Criminology" in Chinese with Professor
Xin Ren in 2008.
Visit Liqun Cao's homepage on the University
of Ontario Institute of Technology website » |
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Research interests: |
Criminal justice in China. |
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ANU visitor status: |
RegNet visitor. |
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Visiting dates: |
7th – 8th December, 2009. |
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Seminar details: |
‘Exploring terra incognita: Family values and prostitution acceptance in China;’ Tuesday
8 December: 12.30pm – 1.30pm; details are available on the CEPS ANU Program in Policing and Security
Events page. |
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| Professor Arkadiusz Lach |
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Affiliation: |
Professor at the Department
of Criminal Procedure, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Nicolaus Copernicus (Poland). |
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Biography: |
Download Professor Lach's CV » (PDF 95KB) |
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Research interests: |
Legal aspects of IT, procedural aspects of fighting high technology crime, digital evidence, identity
theft, European criminal law, cooperation in criminal matters (including comparison between EU and Australia), procedural guarantees
(with particular stress on medical examination of suspects), comparative criminal procedure and evidence law, privacy. |
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ANU visitor status: |
Group of Eight Fellow; Visiting Research Fellow, RegNet.
Read more about the Group of Eight (Go8) European
Fellowship »
Professor Lach will look at the Australian model of criminal justice and the role of privacy in criminal proceedings during
his fellowship at The Australian National University's Regulatory Institutions Network:
“I Intend to carry out my research in two fields.
The first one is the Australian model of criminal justice, with a focus on the cooperation in criminal matters between the
states (territories) and the role of the federal legislation. Beside that, the division of competencies between the states
(territories) and the Commonwealth is very interesting. The system of federal, state and territory courts is also of great
importance. I think that the model and experience could be useful for proposing the model of the organisation of criminal
justice for the European Union which is still under discussion. Australia has much more experience in this area than the
EU. I would also like to analyse the functioning of the Australian Crime Commission and compare it with the tasks and powers
of the EU agencies (Europol, Eurojust). The second field of my research would be the problem of privacy in criminal proceedings.
This topic is currently of particular importance. The introduction of new provisions in criminal procedure, justified by the necessity of
fighting with terrorism and organised crime, DNA collection, data analysis, lifting bank secrecy and different forms of surveillance calls
for analysis whether the privacy of participants in criminal proceedings is protected adequately. This is particularly important in the
context of the accused. Privacy rights and the principles of open justice and fair trial must also be confronted in the light of court reporting
and broadcasting of criminal trials (also on the Internet). In this regard Australian states and territories have many interesting legal
provisions and cases. I think that the results of my research could be interesting both for Polish (European) and Australian
researchers, practitioners and legislators. The results will be disseminated in the form of publications.”
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Visiting dates: |
13th August – 1st December, 2009. |
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Seminar details: |
‘The limits of investigative examinations of suspects in criminal proceedings,’ Thursday
19 November, 12.30pm – 1.30pm; details are available on the CEPS ANU Program in Policing and Security Events page. |
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| Professor Jianming Mei |
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Affiliation: |
Associate Professor, Department of Criminology, Chinese People's Public Security University, Beijing, China. |
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Biography: |
Download Professor Mei's CV » (PDF 59KB) |
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Research interests: |
Terrorism, organised crime, policing, crisis management. |
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ANU visitor status: |
Visiting Scholar (CEPS Visiting Scholars Program). |
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Visiting dates: |
11th – 20th August 2009. |
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Seminar details: |
‘Organised crime in contemporary China: Fictional anecdote or factual existence?’ Friday 14th August,
12.30pm – 1.30pm;
details are available on the CEPS ANU Program in Policing and Security
Events page. |
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| Professor T.J. Pempel |
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Affiliation: |
Director, Institute of East Asian Studies;
Professor of Political Science, Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science; University of California, Berkeley. |
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Biography: |
Professor Pempel is renowned for his extensive work in the field of International Political Economy. His research
focuses on comparative politics, Japanese political economy, and Asian regionalism. His most recent books include
'Crisis as Catalyst: Asia’s Dynamic Political
Economy' (Cornell University Press, 2008), 'Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region' (Cornell
University Press, 2005), and 'Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia-Pacific'
(Stanford University Press, 2004).
Download Professor Pempel's CV » (PDF 65KB)
Visit Professor Pempel's homepage on the Department of
Political Science, UC website » |
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Research interests: |
Asian security. |
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ANU visitor status: |
Visiting Scholar (CEPS Visiting Scholars Program); Visiting Research Fellow, ANU Department of International
Relations. |
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Visiting dates: |
17th July – 9th August 2009. |
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Seminar details: |
‘The Economic-Security Nexus and East Asian Regionalism;’ Thursday 30th July, 1.30pm – 3.00pm;
details are available on the CEPS ANU Program in Policing and Security
Events page. |
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| Professor Alison Ritter |
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Affiliation: |
Associate Professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
(NDARC), University
of New South Wales. |
| Biography: |
Professor Alison Ritter completed her PhD at The University of Melbourne, on the impact of alcohol-related
brain injury on treatment outcomes. As Deputy Director of Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre from
1994 to 2005, Professor Ritter completed numerous clinical research projects, including trials of new medications for the treatment
of heroin dependence. With an NHMRC Research Fellowship and a significant philanthropic grant, Professor Ritter is currently
Director of a major illicit drug policy research program, the Drug Policy Modelling Program (DPMP) in
collaboration with scholars from The Australian National University, Turning
Point Alcohol and Drug Centre and Griffith University's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
The goal of the work is to advance illicit drug policy through improving the evidence-base, developing new policy decision-making
tools and integrating treatment, law enforcement, harm reduction and prevention.
Visit
Alison Ritter's homepage on the RegNet website »
Visit
Alison Ritter's homepage on the Drug Policy Modelling Program (DPMP) website » |
| Research interests: |
Illicit drug policy. |
| ANU visitor status: |
Visiting Research Fellow, RegNet; CEPS Associate Investigator (Associate Investigators are drawn
from multiple organisations and disciplines and contribute specific expertise to a CEPS research project). |
| Visiting dates: |
Please contact Professor Ritter on t: +61 2 9385 0236 or e: Alison.Ritter@anu.edu.au to
confirm dates. |
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| Professor Lawrence Sherman |
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Affiliation: |
Director of the Jerry Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania,
USA; Darwin College Fellow, Wolfson Professor of Criminology, and Director of the
Police
Executive Programme, Institute of Criminology, University
of Cambridge, UK. |
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Biography: |
Read
Professor Sherman's biography on his University of Pennsylvania homepage »
Read
Professor Sherman's biography on his University of Cambridge homepage » |
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Research interests: |
Crime prevention, evidence-based policy, restorative justice, police practices, experimental criminology. |
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ANU visitor status: |
Visiting Research Fellow, RegNet. |
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Visiting dates: |
17th January – 12th March 2010. |
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Seminar details: |
TBA |
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| Professor Michael Stohl |
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Affiliation: |
Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at
the University of California, Santa Barbara. |
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Biography: |
Professor Michael Stohl joined the Department of Communication at UCSB in January 2002. His research focuses on organisational
and political communication with special reference to terrorism, human rights and global relations. Currently he is working
on two projects related to terrorism, a study of networks of terrorism, and a project on the interaction between the media and terrorism.
Visit Michael
Stohl's homepage on the Department of Communication at UCSB website » |
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Research interests: |
Human rights, terrorism, failed states. |
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ANU visitor status: |
CEPS Partner Investigator (Partner Investigators are scholars who are based
in international agencies and work with Chief Investigators on CEPS research projects). |
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Visiting dates: |
24th – 27th August 2009. |
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Seminar details: |
‘Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose? The War on Terror and Networks of Terrorism from George
W. Bush to Barack Obama;’ Monday 24 August: 12.30pm – 1.30pm; details are available on the CEPS ANU Program in Policing
and Security
Events page. |
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| Professor Catherine Weaver |
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Affiliation: |
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, Lyndon
B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin. |
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Biography: |
Catherine (Kate) Weaver is currently an Assistant Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at
the University of Texas at Austin. Dr Weaver received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
in 2003. From 2001-2002, she was a Brookings Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington,
D.C., and from 2002-2008 an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas.
Dr Weaver's research focuses on the organisational culture, behaviour and reform of international financial institutions,
foremost the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Her book, ‘Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform,’ was published by
Princeton University Press in November 2008. In addition to several book chapters, she has also published or will be publishing
articles in the journals Global Governance, Journal of International Relations and Development, Brown Journal of World
Affairs, Review
of International Political Economy, and New Political Economy. Dr Weaver is also the co-editor or co-author of three forthcoming
books, ‘The Politics of International Organizations: Bridging the Rationalist-Constructivist Divide’ (with Alex Thompson and
Michael J. Tierney), ‘International Political Economy and the Transatlantic Divide’ (with Nicola Phillips), and ‘Theory
and Practice of International Organizations’ (with Michael Lipson and Michael Mosser), and is currently a co-editor for the journal Review
of International Political Economy, and serves on the editorial advisory boards for the journal Poverty and Public Policy,
the New Millennium Books Series of Rowman & Littlefield Press, and the Routledge/University of Warwick Studies in Globalisation book series.
Dr Weaver is currently working on a new book, entitled ‘The Paradox of Accountability: Transparency, Evaluation and the IO Learning
Curve.’
In addition to being an Assistant Professor at the LBJ School, Dr Weaver is a Fellow and Director of the Global Governance
Program for the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas. She is currently
a core researcher in a $7.6 million U.S. Department of Defense Minerva Project Grant on Political Instability and Climate Change in Africa.
Dr Weaver received the Chadwick Alger Prize for Best Book on International Organizations and Multilateralism, International
Studies Association in February 2009 for her book ‘Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform’ (Princeton University
Press 2008).
Download Dr Weaver's research statement » (PDF
121KB)
Visit Catherine
Weaver's homepage on the LBJ School of Public Affairs website » |
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Research interests: |
Dr Weaver's research is located at the
intersection of the theoretical and empirical study of international organizations (IOs),
international political economy (IPE), and global development. |
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ANU visitor status: |
Visiting Scholar ( CEPS Visiting Scholars Program). |
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Visiting dates: |
25th August 2009. |
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Seminar details: |
‘In the Heart of Darkness? The Ethics of Defense Funding for Scholarly Research on Climate Change and Political
Fragility in Africa;’ Tuesday 25th August: 3.30pm – 4.30pm; details are available on the CEPS ANU Program in Policing and
Security
Events page. |
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