John Braithwaite (born 30 July 1951, Ipswich) is a Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University (ANU).[1] Braithwaite is the recipient of a number of international awards and prizes for his work, including an honorary doctorate at KU Leuven (2008),[2] the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award with Peter Drahos for Ideas Improving World Order (2004),[3] and the Prix Emile Durkheim, International Society of Criminology, for lifetime contributions to criminology (2005).[2] In 2024 he was awarded the Balzan Prize for "Restorative Justice".[4]
His writings on regulatory capitalism have influenced regulatory scholars in other countries, such as Canadian political scientists G. Bruce Doern, Michael J. Prince and Richard Shultz.[5]