Hisashi Harata
Japan
August 2013

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 charged in Japanese national reporter of private international law session of the conference of International Academy of Comparative Law held at Taipei in May 2012 and will be Japanese national reporter of a session on international commercial arbitration of the next conference of the same academy to be held at Vienna in June 2014.