Anne McNaughton

Anne McNaughton is the Director of the ANU Centre for European Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra where she was previously Deputy Director.  She has degrees in Arts and Law. Supported by a DAAD scholarship, Anne completed her first LLM at the Eberhard-Karls University in Tübingen (Germany) in 1991, writing her thesis, Die Eingliederung der ehermaligen DDR als Teil der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in die Europäische Gemeinschaft’ (‘The incorporation of the territory of former East Germany into the European Community) entirely in German.  Anne researches and teaches in the areas of comparative law, European Union law and the private law of contract and commercial law. She has published in these areas and her research has been supported by funding from the Australian Research Council and the European Union. Anne has been an external assessor for the University of the South Pacific (USP) Law School where she was also an external LLM thesis supervisor.  She is currently co-chair of the Special Interest Group, Global Private Law of the European Law Institute.  Anne has presented her research at international conferences and participated in workshops in Europe, the US, New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan and China.