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Wataru Tanaka
Division | Department of Comparative Contemporary Law |
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Research Fields | Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Law and Economics |
twataruiss.u-tokyo.ac.jp | |
Homepage | https://researchmap.jp/read0190993?lang=en |
Teaching and Research Appointments
September 2007 - March 2015 |
Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo |
January 2010 - March 2010 |
Visiting Associate Professor, The University of Chicago Law School |
April 2015 - | Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo |
Topics of Research
- 1Duty and liability of corporate directors
- 2Mergers and associations, especially hostile takeovers and going-private transactions
- 3Economic analysis of law
- 4Research on Methods of Legal Analysis
Selected Publications
- “Extinguishing Security Interests: Secured Claims in Japanese Business Reorganization Law and Some Policy Implications for U.S. Law”, Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal, 22(2), pp.427-479, 2006.
- “Corporate Law” (in Japanese)(co-authored with Yasushi Ito, Kenichi Osugi and Hideyuki Matsui, 2nd ed., Yuhikaku, 2011).
- “Going-private and the Role of Courts: A Comparison of Delaware and Japan,” UT Soft Law Review, No.3, pp.12-23, Mar 2011.
- “Numerical Analysis of Corporate Law” (in Japanese)(edition, Yuhikaku, 2013).
- “Corporate Takeovers and Defenses” (in Japanese)(Shoji-homu, 2012).
- “Corporate Law (3rd ed)”, University of Tokyo Press, March, 2021.
- Wataru Tanaka ed., “Numerical Analysis of Corporate Law”, 2nd ed., Yuhikaku, 2021 (in Japanese)
- Kazunori Suzuki and Wataru Tanaka, eds., “Theories and Practices of Corporate Valuation”, Nihon Keizai Shuppan, 2021 (in Japanese)
- Wataru Tanaka, "Corporate Law" (4th ed), University of Tokyo Press, March 2023 (in Japanese)
- Tanaka, Wataru, and Masaki Iwasaki, "Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in How Institutional Investors Perceive Corporate and Securities Regulations," European Business Organization Law Review (First online published Jan.16, 2023)
Educational Activities
Graduate Schools of Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo |
Law and Economics |
Graduate Schools of Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo |
Commercial Law Seminar |