Veronica L. Taylor is an international lawyer and socio-legal scholar. Her work centres on the regulatory justice. She is internationally known for her work on Asian legal systems and rule of law promotion as foreign policy, commercial activity and a professional practice.

She is currently a Chief Investigator in the Radiation Innovation Centre (RadInnovate), and Australian Research Council-funded Industrial Transformation Training Centre. She leads the pillar focussing on the regulation and social legitimacy of new uses of nuclear materials and technologies.

In the field of Asian Law, her work includes empirical and comparative studies of contracts, competition, corporate governance and criminal justice (Japan and Indonesia); legal pluralism (Afghanistan, Indonesia, Philippines) and the regulatory dimensions of law and rebuilding the higher education system (Afghanistan, Myanmar). She has also written and consulted extensively on the regulation of the legal profession in Asia.

Her work draws on 30 years’ professional experience as a designer and implementer of legal reform for international and bilateral aid programmes in 15 countries. The normative core of her work is how to transform legal networks and institutions in Asia in ways that are effective and just, while making powerful actors more accountable.

Veronica served several terms as Director of the ANU Japan Institute and as an ANU Public Policy Fellow. She is non-Executive Director of ANU Enterprise, the commerical arm of the university (from 2020) and of its subsidiary, the Social Research Centre (2022-24).

Her external engagement currently serving as a Director of the Australia Japan Innovation Fund, and of the Australia Japan Business Cooperation Committee. Since 2021 she has been an expert advisor to the Australian government's Regulatory Reform Division, Department of Finance and academic advisor to the National Regulators Community of Practice (NRCoP).

She was previously a founder and co-convenor of the Australian Law and Justice Development Community of Practice, in partnership with DFAT and Deputy Chair of the Australian goverment's Australia-Japan Foundation.

Over the course of her teaching career, Veronica has supervised more than 40 PhD, Masters and Honours-level research projects. Between 2018-23 she was a Visiting Professor in Law at the University of Tokyo. At ANU she designed the postgraduate education program in regulation and governance and currently teaches Regulating Nuclear Capabilities. Between 2013-2022 she was the the national coach for Team Australia, experiential learning for undergraduates in competitive bilingual negotiation and dispute resolution, in the Intercollegiate Negotiation Competition (INC)(Tokyo).

Veronica Taylor joined ANU in 2010 as Director of the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) (2010-2014) (now the School of Regulation and Global Governance) and served as Dean of the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific (2014-2016). Prior to joining the ANU, she was Director of the Asian Law Center at the University of Washington, Seattle. She received the Japanese Foreign Minister's Citation in 2017.