Faculty Members: Academic Areas and Research Topics
Graduate School of Law Major in Law
Yuka Aoyagi
Professor
Economic law
Competitive neutrality of State (e.g. regulation of state aid), anti-monopoly law and intellectual property law
Hiroko Aratani
Professor
Commercial law, financial products transaction law
Research into various issues on financial products transaction laws, research related to the decision-making parties of joint stock companies
Aya Osawa
professor
Civil code, consumer law, medical affairs law
The civil code’s significance in contemporary times from the perspective of its relationship with consumer law, theory of service providers’ responsibilities (physicians, architects, and so on), French contract and consumer law research
Tatsuji Ohno
Professor
Legal philosophy
Validity of laws, legal dynamics, local government, German law and nation-state philosophy
Masayoshi Kaneko
Professor
Constitutional Law
Human Rights Law, Human Rights Policy (in particular Remedial Systems of Local Government for Human Rights and National Human Rights Institutions)
Yoshihiko Kawaguchi
Professor
History of Japan’s legal system
Japan’s modern land law system, overview of Japan’s modern legal history, relationship between the hamlet system and administrative villages
Yoko Kawamura
Professor
Civil Law (Law of Contract, Torts, Property)
Comparative and Historical Study of the Promise-based Liability
Mayumi Kurabe
Professor
Civil procedure law, bankruptcy law
Treatment of security interests in reorganizing-type bankruptcy proceedings, such as civil rehabilitation proceedings and corporate reorganizing proceedings
Noriko Kokubun
Professor
Constitutional law
Comparative research into the history of constitutional legal thought in East Asia and research into governance structure in Korea, particularly the constitutional court systeｍ
Kazushi Sugimoto
Professor
Civil procedure law
Interdisciplinary studies of civil substantive law and civil procedural law French civil procedures
Yukiko Taka
Professor
Western Legal History
History of English Equity, The Influence of English Law upon Japanese Civil Code
Shigeru Takahashi
Professor
Administrative law, environmental law
Administrative law and the administrative relief law in general, and science and technology safety law
Masahiko Takizawa
Professor
Civil Law
Contract Law
Masashi Takeo
Professor
Intellectual property law
A historical and comparative study of the role the concept and system of prior use played in patent laws, specific development of legislative and interpretative implications to existing Japanese law that can be derived from the studies and the relevance between intellectual property right law and economic law (competition law)
Hiroko Tateishi
Professor
Constitutional Law
Relationship between constitution and treaties, the impact of the European human rights treaty on basic rights in France, identifying respect for individual rights with regard to the right to form a family and the right to life
Sayoko Tanaka
Professor
International law
Use of force in international law
Yasushi Tochikawa
Professor
Business law, corporate law, security law, settlement transaction law
Legal problems related to settlement transactions
Kosuke Nishida
Professor
Administrative law
Administrative planning, agreements between private individuals, land law, U.S. land use laws
Masayuki Numata
Professor
Social law (labor law, social security law)
Study of issues relevant to labor and social security law for temporary workers, such as fixed term labor agreements, worker dispatch, and social insurance coverage of temporary workers
Aken Ban
Professor
Commercial law
Study relevant to institutions of joint-stock companies and insurance contract law
Akio Morita
Professor
International law
State jurisdiction, International law of the sea, International supervision
Mikihiko Wada
Professor
Civil code (particularly family and inheritance law), history of civil law legislation, laws and genetics/bioengineering
Family law hermeneutics and legislation history, law and bioethics, law and genetics, law and evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology
Taichi Asamura
Associate Professor
Criminal Procedure
the Privilege against Self-Incrimination
Teruyuki Sato
Associate Professor
Criminal law
Dangerous offenses and crimes against social interests protected by the law
Fumihiko Sano
Associate Professor
Criminal law
Criminal Responsibility (Culpability), Penal Theory
Takashi Fujiki
Associate Professor
Labor & Employment Law, Constitutional Law, Comparative Law
Study relevant to Labor & Employment issues in Japan & U.S., such as concerted activities, fundamental rights at work in constitutional law, and the impact of technological development (platform economy, AI & algorithm management)