Nadirsyah Hosen
Nadirsyah Hosen is known for his expertise on Shari'a and Indonesian law. 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.
Hosen completed his first PhD at the University of Wollongong and a second PhD at the National University of Singapore. 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 various journals such as the Nordic Journal of International Law, Asia Pacific Law Review, Australian Journal of Asian Law, European Journal of Law Reform, Asian Journal of Comparative Law, Journal of Islamic Studies, and Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.
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, Constitutionalism in Asia in the Early Twenty-First Century.
Hosen is also a former President of the Indonesia Council for the period 2011-2015. The Indonesia Council is an area-based sub-division of the Asian Studies Association of Australia where all top scholars and researchers on Indonesia are members of the Indonesia Council. Since 2005 he has served a Muslim community as Rais Syuriah of Nahdlatul Ulama special branch in Australia and New Zealand.
He is the author of Human Rights, Politics and Corruption in Indonesia: A Critical Reflection on the Post Soeharto Era, ; Shari'a and Constitutional Reform in Indonesia ; a co-editor of Islam in Southeast Asia, 4 volumes, ; and a co-editor of Law and Religion in Public Life: The Contemporary Debate. His recent book is Modern Perspectives on Islamic Law
