Education
He completed his first Doctor of Philosophy (Law) at the University of Wollongong and a second Doctor of Philosophy (Islamic Law) at the National University of Singapore.
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He completed his first Doctor of Philosophy (Law) at the University of Wollongong and a second Doctor of Philosophy (Islamic Law) at the National University of Singapore.
He is a former associate professor at the School of Law, the University of Wollongong. Since July 2015 he has moved to teach at Monash University Faculty of Law, widely considered as one of the top law schools in the world. He is the first and the only Indonesian-born Australian scholar to be appointed as a full-time academic in an Australian law school.
He then worked for two years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at TC. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland.
His articles have been published in internationally recognised and refereed journals such as the Nordic Journal of International Law (Lund University), Asia Pacific Law Review (City University of Hong Kong), Australian Journal of Asian Law (University of Melbourne), European Journal of Law Reform (Indiana University), Asian Journal of Comparative Law (National University of Singapore), Journal of Islamic Studies (Oxford University), and Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Cambridge University). In 2012, Oxford University Press published Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: Between Upheaval and Continuity, edited by leading scholars R. Grote & T. Roder, where he was invited to contribute a chapter on Indonesia: A Presidential System with Checks and Balances.
He also contributed a chapter on Indonesian constitutional law in Albert Chen (ed), Constitutionalism in Asia in the Early Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Doctor Nadirsyah Hosen Doctor of Philosophy is also a former President of the Indonesia Council for the period 2011-2015.
His recent book (co-written with Ann Black and Hossein Esmaeili) is Modern Perspectives on Islamic Law (Edward Elgar, United Kingdom, 2013 and 2015).
The Indonesia Council is an area-based sub-division of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) where all top scholars and researchers on Indonesia are members of the Indonesia Council.