Monday 18th December 2023 – One day Symposium
“Legal Innovation: Technology changing society and the law”
List of Speakers
 | Mihoko Sumida Professor, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Studies, Hitotsubashi University Mihoko Sumida is a Professor of Civil Law at Hitotsubashi University, Hitotsubashi Institute of Advanced Studies(HIAS). She researches private law theories that support the redress of the rights of consumers and citizens, whose disadvantage tends to be concentrated due to changes in the economy and society. In recent years, she explors the legal challenges posed by innovative technologies such as AI and the potential of AI-based legal research. A related book is “Legal Innovation”(Kobundo, 2022), co-edited with Felix Steffek. Area Editor of the international journal, “Data & Policy” (Cambridge University Press). |
 | Joichi Ito Co-founder, board member, and chief architect of Digital Garage President, Chiba Institute of Technology Joichi “Joi” Ito is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur, writer, and scholar focusing on the transformation of society and technology. He served as director of the MIT Media Lab from 2011 to 2019 where he lead the establishment of the Digital Currency Initiative in 2015. He has served on numerous boards, including at The New York Times Company and Sony Corporation. He was a senior independent advisor to Japanese Financial Services Agency from 2016-2019. He is a member of The Digital Society Council and the Web 3.0 Study Group of the Digital Agency of Japan. |
 | Mikiharu Noma Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University He graduated from Hitotsubashi University, Faculty of Commerce, and completed the doctoral course at Hitotsubashi University (Ph.D. in Commerce). After working as a full-time lecturer at Yokohama City University since 2002, he became an associate professor at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University in October 2004. After serving as an associate professor at Hitotsubashi University, he is currently a professor at the Graduate School of Business, Hitotsubashi University. “Unfunded Pension Liability and Corporate Behavior” (Chuokeizai, Inc., 2020), the Nikkei Economic Book Culture Award, the Ota-Kurosawa Award of the Japanese Accounting Research Association, the International Accounting Research Association From 2010 to 2011, he was a research fellow at Columbia University’s School of Business, Fullbride Research Institute. |
 | Simon Deakin Professor, University of Cambridge Simon Deakin is professor of law and director of the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge. He specialises in labour law and private law, and conducts research in the fields of empirical legal studies and the economics of law. He is currently exploring the implications of machine learning for law. His books include Is Law Computable? Critical Perspectives on Law and Artificial Intelligence (ed. with Chris Markou, Hart, 2021). |
 | Felix Steffek Professor, University of Cambridge Felix Steffek is Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge, Director of Studies at Newnham College and Global Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. At Cambridge, he serves as Director of the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL) and Director of International Strategy and Partnerships. He has been awarded a JM Keynes Fellowship in Financial Economics by the University of Cambridge. He has advised the World Bank, the EBRD, the OECD, UNIDROIT, the Financial Stability Board, the European Commission, the European Parliament as well as national governments, parliaments and courts. For further information, please see https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/f-steffek/6136. |
 | Yuichi Washida Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University (Director, Data Design Research Center) His specialties are marketing and innovation research. Graduated from Hitotsubashi University School of Commerce in 1991. He joined Hakuhodo Inc. and engaged in consumer research and technology dissemination research at the Marketing Department, Lifestyle Research Institute, and Innovation Lab. In 2003, he studied abroad at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2008, he completed the doctoral program at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Doctor of Science). In 2011, he became an associate professor at the Graduate School of Commerce, Hitotsubashi University. Incumbent since 2015. |
 | Chikako Kanki Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo Chikako KANKI is Professor at the Graduate Schools of Law and Politics, the University of Tokyo. In 2010, she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. She was formerly Associate Professor at Rikkyo University. Her field of study is labour & employment law, with special focus on issues such as: minimum wage regulation; fair treatment of non-regular employees; and the development of legislation and legal theory regarding the UK labour market from a comparative legal perspective. Her recent related article is ‘Changes in Work Styles and Labor-Management Relations due to Technological Innovation’ Yuhikaku Online, 2023. |
 | Bhumika Billa PhD Student, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge Bhumika is a PhD student and Cambridge Trust scholar at the Faculty of Law, and a research assistant at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge. She reads, writes and lectures on questions of law and political economy, law and technology, and gender. She completed her LLM at Cambridge in 2019 with first-class honors and BA LLB at GGSIP University, Delhi in 2018 with a university gold medal. |
 | Wataru Uehara Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University Wataru Uehara is an associate professor of marketing at the School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University. He received his PhD in Commerce and Management from Hitotsubashi University in 2008. His research interests include consumer behaviour, marketing management, global marketing, and tourism. He has published in several academic journals, including the International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, International Journal of Marketing & Distribution, Journal of Marketing Science, Tourism: International Interdisciplinary Journal, and Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights. |
 | Takashi Araki Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo Takashi Araki graduated from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law in 1983, received his master’s degree (1985) and doctoral degree (1992) from the University of Tokyo, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics. He became a research associate in 1985, an associate professor in 1988, and a professor in 2001 at the University of Tokyo. He has served as Chairman of the Working Conditions Subcommittee of the Labor Policy Council of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Chairman of the Tokyo Labor Relations Commission, Vice Chairman of the Central Labor Relations Commission, Vice President of the International Society for Labor and Social Security Law. He is author of a number of books, including “The Legal Structure of Working Time” (1991), “The Employment System and the Law of Changing Working Conditions” (2001), “Labor and Employment Law in Japan” (2002), “Multinational Human Resource Management and the Law (co-author, 2013), Labor Law (5th ed.) (2022). |
 | Daiji Kawaguchi Professor, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo Daiji Kawaguchi is a Professor of Economics at the University of Tokyo. Dr. Kawaguchi graduated from Waseda University (B.A., 1994), Hitotsubashi University (M.A., 1996), and Michigan State University (Ph.D., 2002). In addition to his position at the University of Tokyo, Kawaguchi is a program director of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry. Before joining the University of Tokyo faculty in 2016, Kawaguchi was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Osaka University (2002-03) and the University of Tsukuba (2003-05), and Associate and full Professor at Hitotsubashi University (2005-2016). He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (2005-06). He has recently published “Robots and Employment: Evidence from Japan, 1978-2017” with Daisuke Adachi and Yukiko Saito, forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Economics. |
Tuesday 19th December 2023 – One day Workshop “AI Analysis of legal norms: new horizon for Legal Discussion?”
List of Speakers
 | Ken Satoh Professor, National Institute of Informatics Graduated from the Department of Information Science, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo in 1981, joined Fujitsu Laboratories in the same year, became assistant professor at Hokkaido University in 1995, and professor at the National Institute of Informatics in 2001, where he currently remains. His specialty is research on the logical foundations of artificial intelligence. He studied law at the University of Tokyo Law School from 2006-2009 to apply his research on AI to a law domain. He passed the bar exam preliminary exam in 2015 and the bar exam in 2017. Executive committee member of IAAIL (international association of AI and Law, 2016-2017). |
 | Linda Shuku Research Fellow, Centre for Business Research, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge I am a Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research, Cambridge Judge Business School. I am working with Professor Simon Deakin on the Legal Systems and Artificial Intelligence project. I use text analysis and other quantitative methods to analyse historical poor law cases from 1680 to 1950. I have recently completed my PhD studies in Economics at King’s Business School, King’s College London. My PhD research was on central bank communication strategies, where I analysed the impact of speeches delivered by central bankers on forecasting main economic and financial measures. |
| Simon Deakin Professor, University of Cambridge Simon Deakin is professor of law and director of the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge. He specialises in labour law and private law, and conducts research in the fields of empirical legal studies and the economics of law. He is currently exploring the implications of machine learning for law. His books include Is Law Computable? Critical Perspectives on Law and Artificial Intelligence (ed. with Chris Markou, Hart, 2021). |
 | Hideyuki Morito Professor, Keio University School of Law 1988 – Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo (LL.B.). After serving as a research associate at the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law, associate professor at Seikei University Faculty of Law, professor at Sophia University Faculty of Law, etc., currently serving as a professor at Keio University Law School. Specializes in Labor and Employment Law, Social Security Law, and Corporate Pensions. |
 | Ludwig Bull CEO and Founder, CourtCorrect Visiting Scholar, Hitotsubashi University Ludwig Bull is the CEO & Founder of CourtCorrect – the online legal system. Ludwig read law at Sidney Sussex College at the University of Cambridge, before launching CourtCorrect within a year of his graduation. CourtCorrect is building a platform that brings together consumers and large businesses to resolve disputes effectively using AI and has raised over £2m in VC funding. Ludwig is also a Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration in Zurich and a Visiting Researcher at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo. |
 | Yuya Ishihara Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Hitotsubashi University Xspear Consulting, Inc. Senior Manager Yuya Ishihara is a project lecturer at Hitotsubashi University and a technological consultant at Xspear Consulting, Inc. After graduating master’s degree from Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, he worked as a quantitative trader and then as a machine learning engineer at a venture company. Currently he is researching Law and AI field and interested in how the justice will be affected by technology. |
 | Kazuhiko Yamamoto Professor, Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University Graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law (1984). Professor of Law at the Graduate Schools for Law of the University of Hitotsubashi since 2002. His main areas of research are law of civil procedure, insolvency law, civil execution law, arbitration and ADR. He has been involved in recent reform for digitization of court proceedings and reform of the arbitration Act for promotion of ODR. Recent publication in Japanese: “Reform for digitization of Civil Procedure” (Koubundou, 2023),and publications in English :“Special Proceedings for the Collective Redress for Property Damage incurred by Consumers – About So-Called “ Japanese Class Action”(in Japanese Yearbook of International Law No.61, 2019）,“The ADR Act ―Purpose, Actual Situation and Future” (in Japan Commercial Arbitration Journal No.1, 2020） |
 | Helena Xie PhD Student, University of Cambridge Helena Xie, PhD student at the Computer Lab at the University of Cambridge, and Research Assistant at the Judge Business School (since 2022). Helena Xie is currently working with Felix Steffek on WP3 of the ‘Legal Systems and Artificial Intelligence’ project, focusing on the curation and analysis of the Cambridge Law Corpus. Helena’s PhD work focused on robust evaluation of natural language generation tasks, such as image captioning, sports news generation and open-domain dialogue systems. Previously, she completed the MPhil in Advanced Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, working on diagnostic evaluations of multimodal VQA models. |
| Chikako Kanki Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo Chikako KANKI is Professor at the Graduate Schools of Law and Politics, the University of Tokyo. In 2010, she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. She was formerly Associate Professor at Rikkyo University. Her field of study is labour & employment law, with special focus on issues such as: minimum wage regulation; fair treatment of non-regular employees; and the development of legislation and legal theory regarding the UK labour market from a comparative legal perspective. Her recent related article is ‘Changes in Work Styles and Labor-Management Relations due to Technological Innovation’ Yuhikaku Online, 2023. |
 | Hiroaki Yamada Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology Hiroaki Yamada is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2021. He specializes in computational linguistics and natural language processing, with dedicated research focusing on their applications in the legal field. He is also a member of The Association for Natural Language Processing, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and the International Association of Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL). |
| Mihoko Sumida Professor, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Studies, Hitotsubashi University Mihoko Sumida is a Professor of Civil Law at Hitotsubashi University, Hitotsubashi Institute of Advanced Studies(HIAS). She researches private law theories that support the redress of the rights of consumers and citizens, whose disadvantage tends to be concentrated due to changes in the economy and society. In recent years, she explors the legal challenges posed by innovative technologies such as AI and the potential of AI-based legal research. A related book is “Legal Innovation”(Kobundo, 2022), co-edited with Felix Steffek. Area Editor of the international journal, “Data & Policy” (Cambridge University Press). |
| Felix Steffek Professor, University of Cambridge Felix Steffek is Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge, Director of Studies at Newnham College and Global Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. At Cambridge, he serves as Director of the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL) and Director of International Strategy and Partnerships. He has been awarded a JM Keynes Fellowship in Financial Economics by the University of Cambridge. He has advised the World Bank, the EBRD, the OECD, UNIDROIT, the Financial Stability Board, the European Commission, the European Parliament as well as national governments, parliaments and courts. For further information, please see https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/f-steffek/6136. |
 | Mans Magnusson Assistant Professor, Uppsala University Dr. Magnusson is an assistant professor of Statistics at Uppsala University, Sweden. His primary research interests are Bayesian inference, probabilistic machine learning, and statistical inference from textual data. He works in multiple areas of applications, mainly sociology and law. |
 | Takenobu Tokunaga Professor, School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokunaga Takenobu is a professor at School of Computing, Tokyo Institute of Technology. He received his PhD degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1991. His current research interests include natural language processing, particularly building and managing language resources, discourse analysis, dialogue systems, and applications of language technologies to intelligent information access and education. |
Wednesday 20th December 2023 – Afternoon pre-Event “Future of AI & LAW Research” / International Workshop “The Future of Dispute Resolution”
List of Speakers
 | Jat Singh Principal Research Associate, Dept. Computer Science & Technology, University of Cambridge Dr Jat Singh is based at the Department of Computer Science & Technology (Computer Laboratory), University of Cambridge, where he leads the multi-disciplinary Compliant and Accountable Systems research group that works at the intersection of computer science and law. Jat is also Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute – the UK’s national institute for data science and AI – where he helps lead a research strand on accountability, inclusion and rights. Jat is also active in the tech-policy space, working with government, regulators, professional bodies and third-sector organisations. |
 | Holli Sargeant PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge Holli Sargeant is a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge funded by the General Sir John Monash Foundation. Her research examines the consequences of using AI in high-stakes decision-making. Her research examines the economic, moral, and legal implications of artificial intelligence, particularly in high-stakes decision making. Holli works with various international organisations and not-for-profits to provide legal advice on the use of emerging technology to improve access to justice and uphold human rights. Prior to commencing her PhD, Holli was an Australian solicitor working in digital law, technology transactions and human rights at Herbert Smith Freehills and the Australian Human Rights Commission. |
 | Jennifer Cobbe Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge Dr Jennifer Cobbe is an Assistant Professor in Law and Technology in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD in Law and an LLM in Law and Governance from Queen’s University, Belfast. Jennifer is generally interested in critical, interdisciplinary work on questions of power, political economy, and the law around internet platforms and informational capitalism, technological supply chains and infrastructures, and AI and automated decision-making. |
| Helena Xie PhD Student, University of Cambridge Helena Xie, PhD student at the Computer Lab at the University of Cambridge, and Research Assistant at the Judge Business School (since 2022). Helena Xie is currently working with Felix Steffek on WP3 of the ‘Legal Systems and Artificial Intelligence’ project, focusing on the curation and analysis of the Cambridge Law Corpus. Helena’s PhD work focused on robust evaluation of natural language generation tasks, such as image captioning, sports news generation and open-domain dialogue systems. Previously, she completed the MPhil in Advanced Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, working on diagnostic evaluations of multimodal VQA models. |
| Bhumika Billa PhD Student, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge Bhumika is a PhD student and Cambridge Trust scholar at the Faculty of Law, and a research assistant at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge. She reads, writes and lectures on questions of law and political economy, law and technology, and gender. She completed her LLM at Cambridge in 2019 with first-class honors and BA LLB at GGSIP University, Delhi in 2018 with a university gold medal. |
 | Shohei Hisada PhD Student, Nara Institute of Science and Technology Graduated from Kyoto University’s Faculty of Law in 2016 and completed the master’s program at Nara Institute of Science and Technology in 2022. Currently in the second year of the doctoral program at the same institution and a research fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) DC1. With a strong interest in social media research, I have delved into studies of political polarization and fake news, and now focus on online communication, particularly insults and defamation. Using computational linguistics, I am currently working on the topic of defamation and related legal precedents, and on another topic, the evaluation of large-scale language models from the perspective of social regulation. |
 | Jiro Kokuryo Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University Dr. Jiro Kokuryo is a Professor at the Faculty of Policy Management as well as a Professor at the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University. Prof. Kokuryo joined Keio in 1993 as an associate professor at the Graduate School of Business Administration, where he was appointed professor in 2000. He served as Executive Director of the Keio Research Institute at SFC (2005-2009) and Dean of the Faculty of Policy Management (2009-2013), before being appointed Vice-President for International Collaboration (2013-2017) and for Information Infrastructure (2017-2021). |
 | Shusuke Kakiuchi Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo Graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law (1996). Professor of Law at the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics of the University of Tokyo since 2012. His main areas of research are law of civil procedure and ADR, in particular the roles of judges and parties in civil court proceedings and the relationship between the state court proceedings and ADR. He has been involved in recent reforms for digitization of court proceedings and promotion of ODR. Recent publications in European languages: Impact of COVID-19 on Japanese Civil Justice (in: B. Krans & A. Nylund(eds.), Civil Courts Coping with Covid-19, 2021), Contractualisation of Civil Litigation: Current Situation of Japanese Law (in: ICCLP Publications No. 16, 2023) |
| Felix Steffek Professor, University of Cambridge Felix Steffek is Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge, Director of Studies at Newnham College and Global Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame. At Cambridge, he serves as Director of the Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law (3CL) and Director of International Strategy and Partnerships. He has been awarded a JM Keynes Fellowship in Financial Economics by the University of Cambridge. He has advised the World Bank, the EBRD, the OECD, UNIDROIT, the Financial Stability Board, the European Commission, the European Parliament as well as national governments, parliaments and courts. For further information, please see https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/f-steffek/6136. |
 | Wataru Murata Professor, Chuo University Law School Mr. Murata has served the court for over 36 years and retired from his final position as presiding judge at the Tokyo High Court upon reaching retirement age on December 14 ,2020. Mr. Murata oversaw mainly civil and family cases, handling many cases at various district courts in Japan, and in doing so he was given many opportunities to observe Litigation activities, etc.by various attorneys and consider the state of justice in Japan. Mr. Murata also taught younger colleagues in the legal profession as professor in charge of training judges, at the Legal Training and Research Institute. He is teaching as professor at Chuo Law School (specializing in Civil code and the code of Civil Procedure). |
| Mihoko Sumida Professor, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Studies, Hitotsubashi University Mihoko Sumida is a Professor of Civil Law at Hitotsubashi University, Hitotsubashi Institute of Advanced Studies(HIAS). She researches private law theories that support the redress of the rights of consumers and citizens, whose disadvantage tends to be concentrated due to changes in the economy and society. In recent years, she explors the legal challenges posed by innovative technologies such as AI and the potential of AI-based legal research. A related book is “Legal Innovation”(Kobundo, 2022), co-edited with Felix Steffek. Area Editor of the international journal, “Data & Policy” (Cambridge University Press). |
| Yuya Ishihara Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Hitotsubashi University Xspear Consulting, Inc. Senior Manager Yuya Ishihara is a project lecturer at Hitotsubashi University and a technological consultant at Xspear Consulting, Inc. After graduating master’s degree from Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, he worked as a quantitative trader and then as a machine learning engineer at a venture company. Currently he is researching Law and AI field and interested in how the justice will be affected by technology. |
| Kazuhiko Yamamoto Professor, Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University Graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law (1984). Professor of Law at the Graduate Schools for Law of the University of Hitotsubashi since 2002. His main areas of research are law of civil procedure, insolvency law, civil execution law, arbitration and ADR. He has been involved in recent reform for digitization of court proceedings and reform of the arbitration Act for promotion of ODR. Recent publication in Japanese: “Reform for digitization of Civil Procedure” (Koubundou, 2023),and publications in English :“Special Proceedings for the Collective Redress for Property Damage incurred by Consumers – About So-Called “ Japanese Class Action”(in Japanese Yearbook of International Law No.61, 2019）,“The ADR Act ―Purpose, Actual Situation and Future” (in Japan Commercial Arbitration Journal No.1, 2020） |
| Simon Deakin Professor, University of Cambridge Simon Deakin is professor of law and director of the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge. He specialises in labour law and private law, and conducts research in the fields of empirical legal studies and the economics of law. He is currently exploring the implications of machine learning for law. His books include Is Law Computable? Critical Perspectives on Law and Artificial Intelligence (ed. with Chris Markou, Hart, 2021). |