Anthony Regan, LLB (Adelaide)
Fellow, State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program (SSGM) and Department of Political and Social Change
Email: anthony.regan@anu.edu.au
Biographical Statement
Anthony Regan is a constitutional lawyer who specialises in constitutional development as part of conflict resolution. Has lived and worked in Papua New Guinea for 15 years and in Uganda for over three years. In PNG he advised government on decentralisation policy and law and taught at the UPNG Law Faculty, and was involved in the Bougainville peace process. In Uganda he was a constitutional adviser to the Government of Uganda. He has been an adviser to Bougainville parties in the Bougainville peace process since 1994, and has been involved in the Solomon Islands and Sri Lanka peace processes, and the constitution-making process in East Timor.
Research Interests
His current research includes:
conflict resolution in Melanesia, with particular reference to the lessons from the Bougainville conflict;
ombudsman institutions and leadership codes as constitutional accountability and anti-corruption mechanisms;
civil society in Melanesia.
Key Publications
- (ed. with R. May) Political Decentralisation in a New State: The Experience of Provincial Government in Papua New Guinea, Crawford House Publishing, Bathurst, 1997.
- (ed. with S. Dinnen and R. May) Challenging the State: The Sandline Affair in Papua New Guinea, NCDS and Department of Political and Social Change, RSPAS, ANU, Canberra, 1997.
- 'Causes and course of the Bougainville conflict', The Journal of Pacific History, 33(3), 269-285, 1998.
- (ed. with O. Jessep and E. Kwa) Twenty Years of Papua New Guinea Constitution, Law Book Company, Sydney, 2001.
Career Highlights
Government legal adviser, Papua New Guinea (1981-85); Senior Fellow, PNG Institute of Applied Social & Economic Research (1981-89); Senior Lecturer, Law Faculty, University of Papua New Guinea (1989-96); full-time constitutional adviser to Government of Uganda (1991-94).
