Country
Japan
Position
Former Executive Vice President (University Office),
Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow (School of Law)
Research Keywords
Philosophy of Law
Qualifications
MA: (LL.M.) University of Tokyo, 1979
PhD: (LL.D.) University of Tokyo, 1982
Message
I have been teaching philosophy of law and other related issues in law and moral theory for 37 years at Hokkaido University. In my career, I have also taught on several occasions in the USA and UK, and given various presentations at international conferences. I love this beautiful campus of the university and the nationally-known liberal academic environment of the School of Law. Although I retired from the university in 2020, I am honored to be still a part of the School of Law.
Being involved in the development of MJSP, I believe MJSP is an attractive interdisciplinary program in Japanese studies. I am delighted to be able to join you and my teaching colleagues for the progress of this program, and especially to provide you with a cultural-philosophical perspective on law in modern Japan.
Selected Publications
- “On the Modes of Confluence in Law” (in: K. Boele-Woelki
et.al., eds., Current Issues of Comparative Law, Springer,
2019, pp. 39-48) - “Interactive Reason in Law” (in：M. S. Sellers ed., Law,
Reason, and Emotion, Cambridge U. P., 2017, pp. 184-201)
(at:https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108355223.009) - “The Dynamics of “Confluence” in a Legal System”
(in Transnational Legal Theory, Vol. 7: 1, 2016, pp. 1-8)
(at:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20414005.2016.1170472) - “Normative Translation in the Heterogeneity of Law”
(in: Transnational Legal Theory, Vol. 6: 3-4, 2015, pp.501-517)
(at:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20414005.2015.1126111) - “How Can Law Hold Hope in Cultural Complexity?”
(2011, at:http://meridian-180.org/node/246) - “Between Rights and ‘Kenri’”
(in: E. Cashin-Retaine, ed., Legal Engineering and Comparative Law, Vol. 2, Schulthess, 2009, pp.87-103) - “Incorporating Foreign Legal Ideas through Translation”
(in: A. Halpin, et.al., eds. Theorizing the Global Legal Order, Hart Publishing, 2009, pp.85-106)
