Collaborating Members

Keisuke Takeshita Professor, Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University

Keisuke Takeshita is a professor of private international law at Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University in Japan. He was the first delegate of Japan at the 22nd Diplomatic Session of HCCH. Currently, he is the Chair of the Working Group of the HCCH Jurisdiction Project. He has engaged in many legislative projects concerning private international law in Japan. He was working at the Ministry of Justice as a senior researcher for the modernization of the Japanese choice of law rules. He was also an associate member of various subcommittees of the Legislative Council, including those on jurisdiction (family law matters), the revision of the Code of Civil Procedure (Use of IT), and the revision of the Arbitration Act.

Simon Deakin University of Cambridge, Director of Business Research Center, Professor, Faculty of Law

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, Faculty of Law

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.

Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge, Professor, Computer Lab + Allan Turing Institute, Data & Policy (Cambridge University Press) Chief Editor

For Jon’s bio, please see: https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/people/jac22

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).

Hideyuki Morito Professor, Keio University Law School

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.

Chikako Kanki Professor, Graduate Schools of 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.

Tokunaga Takenobu 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.

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).