Veronica L. Taylor is a socio-legal scholar of comparative law and regulation. She is internationally known for her work on Asian legal systems, legal actors and rule of law promotion. Within Australia she has contributed new thinking on professionalizing regualtory practice and evaluating regulatory impact. 

 Since 2021 she has been an expert advisor to the Australian government's regulatory reform team  Department of Finance) and academic advisor to the National Regulators' Community of Practice (NRCoP). She led the development of RegValue 1.0, a new tool for evaluating regulatory impact through measuring value as well as burden.

She is currently a Chief Investigator in the Radiation Innovation Centre (RadInnovate), an ARC and industry-funded research training centre. She leads the pillar focussing on the regulation and social legitimacy of new uses of nuclear materials and technologies.

In 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 legal education, universities and research systems (Afghanistan, Indonesia, Myanmar).

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 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 was a non-Executive Director of ANU Enterprise (2020-24) and its subsidiary, the Social Research Centre (2022-24).

She has been a non-executive Directo of the Australia-Japan Innovation Fund (AJIF) (2015-2026) and is a non-Executive Director of the Australia Japan Business Cooperation Committee (AJBCC). 

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 programs in regulation and governance and (from 2025) the Graduate Certificate in Nuclear Security and Safeguards.  Between 2013-2022 she was the the national coach for Team Australia, an experiential learning program in 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 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.

Law and society in Asia; regulation; corporate governance; rule of law promotion; law and justice reform; policy design; gender equity and inclusion; higher education.