Tim Lindsey is Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Asian Law Centre in the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne. He is also the Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam and has served as an Associate Dean of Law. A solicitor and then a barrister, he maintains a practice specialising in legal disputes involving Australians and Indonesians.

Tim is an internationally recognised specialist in Indonesian law and society and holds the degrees of BA (Hons), LLB, BLitt (Hons) and PhD from the University of Melbourne. He has been a visiting professor at the Australian National University and the Northern Territory University, as well as the University of Victoria, British Columbia and the National University of Singapore.

In 2006, Tim was awarded a Federation Fellowship to research "Islam and Modernity: Syari'ah, Terrorism and Governance in South-East Asia". He is a member of the Australia-Indonesia Institute and the Foreign Affairs Council, convened by the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Tim has near-native fluency in Bahasa Indonesia. He has worked as a consultant on law reform in Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam, Mongolia and Australia. His publications include leading texts on contemporary Asian law reform: 'Indonesia: Law and Society', 'Indonesia: Bankruptcy, Law Reform and the Commercial Court', 'Corruption in Asia' (with Professor Howard Dick), 'Chinese Indonesians: Remembering, Distorting, Forgetting' (with Helen Pausacker) and 'Law Reform in Developing and Transitional States' (in press). Tim is also a founding editor of the Australian Journal of Asian Law, a key international journal for Asian Law scholars and practitioners. He is currently working on a new book 'Islamic Laws in Indonesia'.