Christoph Antons is Professor of Comparative Law and Director, Centre for Comparative Law and Development Studies in Asia and the Pacific (CLDSAP), University of Wollongong, Australia; QEII Fellow, Australian Research Council; Adjunct Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich; Senior Fellow (Graduate Program), Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne. Recent book publications include Globalisation and Resistance: Law Reform in Asia since the Crisis (Hart, 2007; co-edited with Volkmar Gessner) and Law and Development in East and Southeast Asia (Routledge Curzon, 2003)