Research Staff

Hiroyasu Ishikawa

update at 8 April 2015

Division Department of Comparative Contemporary Law
Research fields Civil Law, Legal History
e-mail hiroyasu@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Teaching and Research Appointments

April 2008 − March 2015 Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
April 2015 − Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo

Publications (2013- )

    Journal Articles and Book Chapters

  1. “Codification, Decodification, and Recodification of the Japanese Civil Code” Julio Cesar Rivera (ed.), The Scope and Structure of Civil Codes (Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, Volume 32), Springer, December 2013, pp. 267-285.
  2. “Codification, Decodification, and Recodification of the Japanese Civil Code” University of Tokyo Journal of Law and Politics, vol.10, March 2013, pp.61-80.

Selected publications ( -2012)

  1. “History, Institutions, and Jurisprudence: A comparative contextual approach to the analysis of contract law” Social Science Japan, Number 39, September 2008, pp.20-23.
  2. “Book Review: Furanchaizu Keiyakuron (Franchise Law and Franchise Agreements), by Sōichirō Kozuka. Tokyo: Yūhikaku, 2006, 266 pp.” Social Science Japan Journal, vol.14 (2), July 2011, pp.286-292.

Topics of research

Historical study on civil law
Study on modernization of contract law
Comparative sociological study on institution and trust

Educational Activities in 2015

Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo Civil Law Seminar
Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo Civil Law Foundation and Modern Issues
Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo Civil Law (1)