Nguyễn Ngọc Hà

Emerging Scholar

Emerging scholar

Monash Business School | PhD Candidate

Harvard Law School | Visiting Scholar

Contact information

Email: ha.nguyen5@monash.edu.au

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ha-Nguyen-26

Office: N3.19, Monash Caufield, Melbourne

Overview

Ha Nguyen has been at Monash University since January 2020 as a teaching associate, research assistant, and PhD candidate. By 2022, the Harvard Law School expressed recognition of her research by inviting her to participate in the East Asian Legal Studies program as a Visiting Scholar in 2023. Prior to her appointment at Monash, she taught in the Criminology Department at the University of Melbourne. Ha is currently researching in areas of cyberspace regulation, East Asian societies, and law and society theory. With her interdisciplinary background in political science, criminology, legal and Asian studies, she has been invited to participate in interdisciplinary research projects on American constitutionalism, corporate ontology, and international trade. Her published work is forthcoming in top-rated law journals, such as the Columbia Journal of Asian Law. Alongside her academic research, she has consulted in research projects for the Victoria Police, Department of Health and Human Services and Deakin University in Victoria, Australia. She also administered social research projects at the Australian Social Research Center and Roy Morgan Research Company in the past. Ha earned her Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Honours research degree (Hons) with First Class Honours from the University of Melbourne before receiving the Australian Research Training Program Scholarship (RTP) for her PhD at Monash University. Her interdisciplinary works have been presented in conferences held by the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, Asian Law Institute, the Asia- Pacific Regulation Research Group.

Appointments

• Harvard Law School | December 2022 - August 2023 | Massachusetts, USA

Visiting Scholar | East Asian Legal Studies Program

Project: 'Transplant cybersecurity principles into Vietnam'

• Monash University | June 202 – present | Melbourne, Australia

Teaching Associate | Department of Business Law and Taxation, Department of Management

Teaching courses: MGF5730 International Trade Policy, MGF5911 Geopolitics and Business Globalisation, MTF5910 Corporate Sustainability Regulation, BTX3100 Sustainability regulation for business

Research Assistant | Department of Business Law and Taxation

Projects: ‘Reforming the American Constitution’, ‘Corporate Ontology, Corporate Accountability', 'Liquidation as a Corporate Death Penalty’

• The University of Melbourne | January 2019- July 2020 | Melbourne, Australia

Academic Tutor | Department of Criminology | Teaching courses: CRIM10001 From Graffiti to Terrorism, CRIM20003 Terrorism: Shifting Paradigm

• The Social Research Centre |April 2018 – February 2020

Project Administrator | Projects: Policing perception, Gambling addiction, Population Health studies

• Deakin University | January 2018 – July 2019 | Melbourne, Australia

Research Associate | Project: Care not Custody

• Victoria Police | January 2018 – December 2018 | Melbourne, Australia

Research Associate | Project: Care not Custody

• Roy Morgan Research | February 2016 – January 2018 | Melbourne, Australia

Market researcher | Projects: qualitative and quantitative projects

Education

• Monash University | Doctor of Philosophy | February 2020 – present

Thesis title: ‘Inquiring Vietnam: Society Through the Lens of Cyber Regulation’

• The University of Melbourne | Honours in Criminology | December 2018

Thesis title: ‘Australian Counterterrorism: Implications of Laws and Policies’ | First Class Honours

• The University of Melbourne | Bachelor of Arts | December 2017

Double majors in Politics and Criminology

Selected publications

• Nguyen, H. N. (2022). Regulating Cyberspace in Vietnam: Entry, Struggle, and Gain. Columbia Journal of Asian Law, 35(2), 160–199. https://doi.org/10.52214/cjal.v35i2.10028

• Ha Ngoc Nguyen, ‘From legal consciousness to systems theory’ (revise and resubmit by the Journal of Law and Policy)

• Ha Ngoc Nguyen, ‘Transplanting cybersecurity principles into Vietnam’ (work in progress)

Scholarships

• Australian Research Training Program Scholarship (RTP) | Awarded for the Doctor of Philosophy | $30,000 AUD per year

• Visiting Scholar Grant from Harvard Law School| Awarded for the East Asian Legal Studies Visiting Scholar Program | $6500 AUD

• Monash Business Law and Taxation Research Grant 2021| Project: Corporate Ontology, Corporate Accountability, and Liquidation as a Corporate Death Penalty’ | Approx. $3000

• Monash Business Law and Taxation Research Grant 2020| Project: Reforming the American Constitution’ | Approx. $ 2000 AUD

• Monash Business Law and Taxation Travel Research Grant 2022 | Project: Inquiring Vietnam: society through a lens of cyber regulation | $7000 AUD

Conference presentation

• Paper: ‘The shaping of Vietnamese cyber regulation by domestic actors’ | Asian Law Institute 18th Conference ‘Law, Technology and Diversity in Asia’

• Paper: ‘The shaping of Vietnamese cyber regulation by domestic actors’ |Asia Pacific

Regulation Research Group 2021 Conference ‘Australia and Asia: Regulatory perspectives on continuity and change’

• Paper: ‘Australian Counterterrorism: Implications of Laws and Policies’ | Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology 2018 Conference

Research areas

Cyber laws and regulation

Internet Governance

East Asian societies

Sociolegal theory

Research methods

Qualitative Triangulation

Discourse Analysis

Documentary Research

Social Media and Network Analysis

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