Hisashi HARATA
Associate Professor, University of Tokyo
Visiting Scholar
August 2016

Hisashi HARATA is an Associate Professor at Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo. He teaches there Private International Law, including International civil procedure and international commercial arbitration. His main areas of specialization are Private International Law and Comparative Law, especially between the Western Legal Tradition and Asian legal systems.

His current research focuses on reconstructing a framework of transnational law, including various problems on fragmented public international law, international institutions of arbitration, lex mercatoria, investment agreement, transnational private regulation, international tax law, international corporate governance and so on.

He was a visiting scholar at Dipartimento di Diritto Romano at Università degli studi di Napoli, at Cornell Law School and at NUS. He often delivers lectures at Columbia Law School, Michigan Law School, and Chicago Kent-College of Law.