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ABE Rikiya

ABE Rikiya
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements Comparative study of theory of principal and accomplice, especially on the structure of co-perpetration

AMAGAI Yoshihiko

AMAGAI Yoshihiko
Title Professor
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EJIMA Akiko

EJIMA Akiko
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements The Symbiotic relationship between the domestic constitution and the international human rights treaty; the Human Rights Act 1998 (UK) and the European Convention on Human Rights; The constitutional status of the European Court of Human Rights; political funding and legal system; the anti-terrorism legislation and human rights; The use of foreign precedents by the Supreme Court of Japan

HIRATA Atsushi

HIRATA Atsushi
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements Approach to the shape of family in super-aging society, public and private, and public nature and privatism principle based on Civil Code and social welfare act. Study of comprehensive social construction principle.

IWASAKI Masaaki

IWASAKI Masaaki
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements The Study on the Administrative Law and the Tax Law, especially tax controversies on practice and procedure.

KAMATA Isao

KAMATA Isao
Title Professor
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KUDO Yugen

KUDO Yugen
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements Main study theme has been nonexempt property preservation system, focusing on subrogation rights of creditors. At present, we are interested in problems of the Civil Code in financial law trading such as mortgage act.

KUMAGAI Kenichi

KUMAGAI Kenichi
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements Involved in legislative work as an examiner in the Patent Office and in the Patent Office, General Affairs Department, Industrial Property System Reform Office, and Ministry of International Trade and Industry Policy Bureau Intellectual Property Policy Office. At present, engaged in comprehensive study of intellectual property policy.

KURASHINA Naofumi

KURASHINA Naofumi
Title Full-time Staff
Research Themes and Achievements With my abundant experience with various criminal cases, I study the role of theory and practice and have always improved my expertise by assuming a civil defense instructor at the Legal Research and Training Institute (1996-1999) and handling other legal problems such as suits against local governments.

MATSUYAMA Miwako

MATSUYAMA Miwako
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements Management supervision for large-scale stock corporations, Legal problems concerning institutional investors

MITSUBAYASHI Hiroshi

MITSUBAYASHI Hiroshi
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements Securities for aggregate claims, mortgage, corporate surety defeasance period (extinctive prescription and statute of limitation), theory of acts of law, lease transactions

NAKAMURA Hajime

NAKAMURA Hajime
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements Study of thought background and historical development of binding effect of contracts and contract liability. Comparative study of contract law and act law.

NAKAYA Hiroki

NAKAYA Hiroki
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements The structure of liability in apparent theory, Multilateral legal relationship in contract law.

NAKAYAMA Koji

NAKAYAMA Koji
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements Service and due process in civil procedure, stability of res judicata and its limits, consumer right to access the court

NAKAYAMA Tomomi

NAKAYAMA Tomomi
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements Study of basic theory of mortgage system and general theory of legal transaction in comparison with Germany law. Also I am interested in real subrogation, real property right, guarantee, type of contracts, default and mandatory rules, and legal multi-relations.

NOGAWA Shinobu

NOGAWA Shinobu
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements I have conducted comparative studies of labor laws in the EU, especially Germany, and Japan. In addition to focusing on the establishment of international legal systems, I’m also dedicated to systemizing Japanese labor policies by studying the role of worker representative systems and active employment policy and reorganization of marine labor system centered on seafarers. ILO Japanese government representative adviser (2002-), Labor Policy Council public-interest commissioner (2009-), Transportation Policy Council Public-interest commissioner (2007-), former Central Labour Relations Commission for Seafarers public-interest commissioner (2006-2007), member of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Policy Assessment Advisory Council (2001-), former executive director of Japanisch-Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Arbeitsrecht (2002-2006)

OCHI Yasumi

OCHI Yasumi
Title Professor
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OHASHI Mayumi

OHASHI Mayumi
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements Solving system for cases and conflicts related to household and family (as well as family conciliations, family trials, and personal status suits, solving systems outside court is also included as a study subject)

OTSUKA Hiroshi

OTSUKA Hiroshi
Title Professor
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SEGI Hiroshi

SEGI Hiroshi
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements Making legal studies and practice of civil lawsuits scientific and objective. Creating a bridge between the practice and theory of civil lawsuits. Judicial systems and legal ethics. The Civil Provisional Remedies Act. Reporting at the Japan Association of the Law of Civil Procedure and The Japan Society for Socio-Legal Studies on Family Issues.

SEINO Kikuko

SEINO Kikuko
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements Focusing on the “constitution and the environment,” study of German precedent theory whose impact on Japanese constitutional law is substantial and whose theory is sophisticated. Study of actual administrative practice in the 12th year of Information Disclosure and Personal Information Protection Review Board (for local regions).

SHIMIZU Makoto

SHIMIZU Makoto
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements Functions of criminal defense, functions of attendant lawyers in juvenile trials, medical accidents and application of criminal law

SUZUKI Syuichi

SUZUKI Syuichi
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements Engaged, mainly in the United States, in corporate acquisition, joint ventures, project finance, corporate financing deals, and other international business transactions, as well as international litigation including antitrust lawsuits.

TAKAKURA Shigeo

TAKAKURA Shigeo
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements International negotiations on intellectual property, patent system reform, and development of intellectual property personnel

TEZUKA Akira

TEZUKA Akira
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements Worked on civil cases such as suits, execution, and protection as a judge, as well as criminal cases and juvenile cases. As a lawyer, serve as an on-duty lawyer and public defender.

TSUBAKI Kumiko

TSUBAKI Kumiko
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements Personal and real security, such as corporate surety, accident security, and real guarantee, Cancellation of act of law, mutui datio, sub-agent, statute of limitations, pet laws

TSUJIMURA Miyoko

TSUJIMURA Miyoko
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements The Constitutional Theories on Sovereignty, the right to suffrage, Human Rights; Comparative Constitutional Law, Gender and Law, French Constitutional History; Vice President of The Japan Association of Constitutional Law ( The Japan Section of International Association of Constitutional Law:IACL),
Ex- President of the Association for Studies of Constitutional Law;
The Constitutional Principles during the French Revolution ( 7th Shibusawa-Claudel Prize, published in Japanese, 1989 ); Egalité des Sexes : La Discrimination Positive en Question , Société de la Législation Comparée,2006 (dir. avec D. Lochak) ; Gender Equality and Social Diversity (ed.), Tohoku University Press, 2008; The Constitutional Law and Gender (2nd Showa-Women’s University Jyosei-Bunka prize, published in 2010)

TSUJIWAKI Yoko

TSUJIWAKI Yoko
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements Study of the role of juvenile justice and criminal justice to address juvenile crimes and problems of crime victims from the perspective of communication between interested subjects

UCHIYAMA Yoshio

UCHIYAMA Yoshio
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements Study on illegality of crime,especially on criminal attempt and selfdefense

UEHARA Toshio

UEHARA Toshio
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements Law of civil procedure, debtor-creditor law and insolvbency law. Support for development of legal system in asian countries.

UKEGAWA Kandai

UKEGAWA Kandai
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements study of Company Law , especially Protection and Remedy of Stakeholders in Merger and
Division of companies.

YAMAGISHI Keiko

YAMAGISHI Keiko
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements Study on Legal Theory of Objective Administrative Litigation(studying how objective litigation differs from sbjective litigation,and explaining the significance of existence of objective litigation)

YANAGI Kenichiro

YANAGI Kenichiro
Title Professor
Research Themes and Achievements Study of environmental law policy, study of European environmental laws, study of environmental laws of developing countries. Serve as an executive board member of the Japan Association for Environmental Law and Policy, executive board member and executive director of the Japan Society for Impact Assessment, executive board member of the Society of Environmental Science, member of the Pollution-related Health Damage Compensation Act Dissatisfaction Review Committee, member of the Tokyo Environmental Assessment Council, chairman of the Koto Ward and the Urayasu City Environmental Council

YASUNISHI Fumio

YASUNISHI Fumio
Title Professor
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