Prof Zenichi Shishido
CLB-CALS Visiting Professor
1 March 2017 - 28 March 2017

Research Interest
Japanese and Comparative Corporate Governance

Zenichi Shishido is Professor of Law at Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy and continues to be a Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall) on a regular basis. Professor Shishido taught at Seikei University (1983-2009), and has been a Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School (1998-1999) and Harvard Law School (2005), and a Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School (2015).

Professor Shishido is a well-known authority on Japanese and comparative corporate governance, having written extensively on the subject in both Japanese and English. He has also served on advisory councils to Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and Ministry of Justice (MOJ). His publication in English include the books Enterprise Law: Contracts, Markets, and Laws in the US and Japan (Edward Elgar, 2014), and Joint Venture Strategies: Design, Bargaining, and the Law (Edward Elgar, 2015).