Santa Clara Law 2014 Faculty

Keisuke Abe. Dr. Keisuke Abe is a Professor of Comparative Law at . He received his LLB from , 1988, his LLM from Harvard Law School, 1996, and his Ph.D. in Comparative Law from Tokyo University, 2001. He teaches Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, Bioethics and Law and Business Ethics and Law. Since 2005, he has been a member of Legal Research Team at Trust Companies Association of Japan. Most recently, he was a research fellow at University of Cambridge Professor Abe has also taught Japanese Law to Santa Clara Summer students, 2000 – 2008, addressing the civil law tradition and its Japanese reception, sources of Japanese Law, the constitutional framework and its implications for private law, and the role of law in Japanese Society.

Mitsuo Matsushita. Dr. and Professor Mitsuo Matsushita is Professor Emeritus at Tokyo University and counsel to Nagashima, Ohno & Tsunematsu, a leading international law firm in Tokyo. Mitsuo Matsushita of Japan served on the Wirld Trade organization Appellate Body from 1995 to 2000. Having earned a Ph.D. degree from Tulane University, USA, and a D.Jur degree from Tokyo University, Professor Matsushita went on to become widely acknowledged as one of the most authoritative Japanese scholars in the field of international economic law. In his academic career he has held Professorships at and Tokyo University. He has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, Georgetown University, University of Michigan, Columbia University, and at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. He has written many publications on various aspects of international trade and competition and investment law.

In his public career, Professor Matsushita has been attached to the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of International Economics and Trade as a member of various councils dealing with telecommunications, customs and tariffs, export and import transactions, and industrial property. He serves as a Member of the Office of the Ombudsman of Trade and Investment, which is part of the Japanese government and deals with market access issues.

Yasuhei Taniguchi. Yasuhei Taniguchi has taught at Tokyo Keizai University, and is an Attorney at Law in Tokyo. He obtained a law degree from Kyoto University in 1957 and was fully qualified as a jurist in 1959. His graduate degrees include LL.M., University of California at Berkeley (1963) and J.S.D., Cornell University (1964). He taught at Kyoto University for 39 years and has been Professor Emeritus since 1998. He also has taught as Visiting Professor of Law in the United States (University of Michigan, University of California at Berkeley, Duke University, Stanford University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, New York University, and University of Richmond), in Australia (Murdoch University and University of Melbourne), at the University of Hong Kong and at the University of Paris XII. Professor Taniguchi is former president of the Japanese Association of Civil Procedure and currently vice-president of the International Association of Procedural Law. He is affiliated with various academic societies and arbitral organizations as arbitrator, including the International Council for Commercial Arbitration; the International Law Association; the American Law Institute; the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association; the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; the American Arbitration Association; the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre; the Chinese International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission; the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board; and the Cairo Regional Centre of Commercial Arbitration. He has also been an active arbitrator in the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Court of International Arbitration.

Professor Taniguchi has written numerous books and articles in the fields of civil procedure, arbitration, insolvency, the judicial system and legal profession, as well as comparative and international law related to these fields. His publications have been published in Japanese, Chinese, English, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese.

Yoshiuki Inaba. Mr. Inaba is co-founder and a Senior Partner at TMI Associates, Tokyo. He earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Sophia University in 1973. A member of the Japan Patent Attorneys Association since 1974, he qualified as a Patent Agent with the US Patent and Trademark Office in 1980. In 2004, he qualified as a Litigating Patent Attorney ("Huki-Benrishi") in 2004. He has worked at law firms in the US, including Stevens Davis Miller and Mosher in Washington DC. From 2001-2003 he worked as an Examiner for the Patent Attorney Examinations.