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2023 Academic Year
The 66th Comparative Law and Politics Symposium
Global Trends in Corporate Governance and M&A
Date 4 August 2023, 13:00-17:00
Place Learning Theater, Fukutake Hall, The University of Tokyo
Contents
<Detail>
Topic: "Peer Group Governance"
Speaker: Yaron Nili, Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School

Topic: "The Effect of ESG Determinants in Executive Compensation"
Speaker: Tobias Tröger, Professor, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Faculty of Law

Topic: "Impact of the New European Foreign Subsidies Regulation on Cross-border M&A"
Speaker: Jacques Buhart, Partner, McDermott, Will & Emery, Paris and Brussels

Topic: "Shareholder Activism, ESG, and Agency Problems: The Case of the National Pension Service"
Speaker: Sang Yop Kang, Professor, Peking University, School of Transnational Law

Topic: "What Role, and What Future for Investor Stewardship?"
Speaker: Dionysia Katelouzou, Reader, King's College London, Dickson Poon School of Law

Topic: "No Need for Asia to be Woke: Contextualizing Anglo-America’s 'Discovery' of Corporate Purpose"
Speaker: Dan Puchniak, Professor, Singapore Management University, Yong Pung How School of Law
Moderator Gen GOTO, Professor, The University of Tokyo
Language English(Simultaneous Interpretations Provided)
Organized by Institute of Business Law and Comparative Law and Politics, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo
Advanced Business Law Program, The University of Tokyo
Supported by SHOJIHOMU Co., Ltd.
Registration
(By August 2nd)
https://forms.gle/VVZssEn95ZvSvTxSA
Contact lhikaku@j.u-tokyo.ac.jp
2022 Academic Year
The 63rd Comparative Law and Politics Symposium
Recent Developments and Reforms of the U.S. Law
Date 10 August 2022
Place Online
Contents Topic: "The Law of Democracy: 2022"
Speaker: Professor Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago Law School
Topic: "The Rise of the Minimum Tax"
Speaker: Professor Christopher H. Hanna, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law
Topic: “Digital Assets under the 2022 Revisions to the Uniform Commercial Code”
Speaker: Professor Emeritus Charles W. Mooney, Jr., University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Topic: “The Future of Civil and Commercial Judgments: The Hague Choice of Court Convention, The 2019 Hague Judgments Convention, Uniform Law, and Federalism”
Speaker: Professor Louise Ellen Teitz, Roger Williams University School of Law
Topic: “Recent Developments in the U.S. Law of Computer Crime”
Speaker: Professor Joseph Hoffmann, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Topic: “Digitizing Documents as Regulatory Reform”
Speaker: Professor Veronica Taylor, Australian National University
Facilitator Haruo Hirano, Professor, the University of Tokyo
Language English(Simultaneous Interpretations Provided)
Organized by Institute of Business Law and Comparative Law and Politics, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo
Advanced Business Law Program, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo
Supported by SHOJIHOMU Co., Ltd
2020 Academic Year
Online Special Lecture by Mr. David Harris, Chief Executive Officer of American Jewish Committee
Date 21:30-23:00, October 19, 2020
Place On Zoom
Speaker David Harris, Chief Executive Officer, American Jewish Committee (AJC)
Title How Do Jewish People in the United States See the Trump Administration, the Presidential Election and the World Where China Grows Rapidly?
Language English (Simultaneous Interpretations Provided)
Moderator/Commentator Fumiaki Kubo, A. Burton Hepburn Professor of American Government and History, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, the University of Tokyo
Sponsored by Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, the University of Tokyo; Institute of Business Law and Comparative Law & Politics, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, the University of Tokyo;
Nakasone Peace Institute
Co-sponsored by Study Group in American Politics
2019 Academic Year
The 59th Comparative Law and Politics Symposium
Global Trends in Corporate Governance and M&A
Date 5 August 2019
Place Yayoi Auditorium, Ichijo Hall, The University of Tokyo
Contents Topic: "Corporate Governance and Institutional Investors: Do Stewardship Codes make any difference?"
Speaker: Roger Barker, Head of Corporate Governance, Institute of Directors, UK
Topic: "Stewardship in Korea and Corporate Governance Implications"
Speaker: Sang Yop Kang, Professor, Peking University, School of Transnational Law
Topic: "Stewardship in Asia and Singapore"
Speaker: Dan Puchniak, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
Topic: "State Intervention in International M&A "
Speaker: Jacques Buhart, Partner, McDermott Will Emery, Paris and Brussels
Topic: "China as a “National Strategic Buyer”: Toward a Multilateral Regime for Cross-Border M&A"
Speaker: Curtis Milhaupt, Professor, Stanford Law School
Topic: "The Dark Side of Bank Resolution: Counterparty Risk through Bail-in"
Speaker: Wolf-Georg Ringe, Professor, University of Hamburg
Moderator: Gen Goto, Professor, the University of Tokyo
Language English(Simultaneous Interpretations Provided)
Organized by Institute of Business Law and Comparative Law and Politics, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo
Supported by SHOJIHOMU Co., Ltd
2018 Academic Year
The 57th Comparative Law and Politics Symposium
Modern Issues in American Law
Date 3 August 2018
Place Yayoi Auditorium, Ichijo Hall, The University of Tokyo
Contents Topic: "Trump and the Constitution"
Speaker: Tom Ginsburg, Professor, University of Chicago Law School
Topic: "Trump Tax Talk: An Insider's Look at the Law's Drafting and Impact"
Speaker: Christopher H. Hanna, Professor, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law
Topic: "Blockchain (Distributed Ledger) Technology for Transfer and Holding Securities in the United States and Globally"
Speaker: Charles W. Mooney, Jr., Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Topic: "Recent Developments in Class, Mass and Collective Arbitration: The U.S. and Global Experience"
Speaker: S.I. Strong, Professor, University of Missouri School of Law
Topic: "Recent Developments in U.S. Money Laundering Laws"
Speaker: Joseph L. Hoffmann, Professor, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Topic: "How the social licence is transforming Anglo-American corporate accountability"
Speaker: Veronica L. Taylor, Professor, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific / Affiliate Professor, University of Washington School of Law
Moderator: Keiichi Karatsu, Professor, the University of Tokyo
Language English(Simultaneous Interpretations Provided)
Organized by Institute of Business Law and Comparative Law and Politics, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo
Supported by SHOJIHOMU Co., Ltd
2017 Academic Year
The 55th Comparative Law and Politics Symposium
The 1st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Quantitative Political Science
Date 8-9 January 2018
Place Conference Room, 8F, Law Building No.3, the University of Tokyo
Contents January 8, Monday, 2018 (English)
10:00-10:10 Opening Remarks: Junko Kato, Professor, the University of Tokyo
10:10-11:00 "Eating Law" (with Jacob Gersen) 
Speaker: Stephen Ansolabehere, Professor, Harvard University
11:10-12:00 "Quantitative Text Analysis Using R"
Speakers: Kenneth Benoit, Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science(LSE); Akitaka Matsuo, Postdoctoral Researcher, LSE
12:00-13:15 <Lunch>
13:15-14:05 "Infinite Tree-Structured Topic Model" (with Daichi Mochihashi)
Speaker: Shusei Eshima, Student in Master Course, the University of Tokyo
14:15-15:05 "The Effect of Candidate List Position on Vote Share: Improving Internal and External Validity" (with Class of 2018, Fast Track Course, Gakushuin University)
Speaker: Kentaro Fukumoto, Professor, Gakushuin University
15:05-15:30 <Coffee Break>
15:30-16:20 "Validating Self-reported Turnout" (with Ted Enamorado)
Speaker: Kosuke Imai, Professor, Princeton University and the University of Tokyo
16:30-17:20 "Property Rights Make People More Trusting and Prosocial: Evidence From a Field Experiment"
Speaker: Daniel Rubenson, Associate Professor, Ryerson University
17:30-18:20 "Estimating Changepoints in Time-series Corpus" (with Daichi Mochihashi)
Speaker: Tomoya Sasaki, Student in Doctor Course, the University of Tokyo
18:30- Reception (Banquet Room, Forest Hongo Hotel)
Language English and Japanese
Sponsored by International Center for Comparative Law and Politics (ICCLP), Graduate School of Law and Politics, the University of Tokyo and the Japanese Society for Quantitative Political Science
Special Lecture by Mr. David Harris, AJC Executive Director
Date 17:30-19:00, October 31, 2017
Venue Conference Room, 8F, Law Building No.3, the University of Tokyo
Speaker David Harris, Executive Director, American Jewish Committee (AJC)
Title U.S. Foreign Policy in the New Era: An American Jewish Perspective
Language English(Simultaneous Interpretations Provided)
Moderator/Commentator Fumiaki Kubo, A. Burton Hepburn Professor of American Government and History, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, the University of Tokyo
Sponsored by Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, the University of Tokyo; Institute of Business Law and Comparative Law & Politics, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, the University of Tokyo; Study Group in American Politics
2016 Academic Year
The 52nd Comparative Law and Politics Symposium
Democratization, Taxation, and the Welfare State in the Developing World
Date 11 January, 2017
Place Conference Room, 8F, Law Building No.3, the University of Tokyo
Contents 10:15-10:30 OPENING REMARKS
Junko Kato (The University of Tokyo)
10:30-12:30 PRESENTATIONS
"Recent Trend in State Revenue Production in Developing Countries"
Junko Kato (The University of Tokyo) and Seiki Tanaka (University of Amsterdam)
"Tax Development and the Different Waves of Democratization"
Junko Kato (The University of Tokyo) and Miki Toyofuku (The University of Tokyo)
"Taxes, Redistribution, and Governance in Latin America"
James Mahon (Williams College)
14:00-17:40 PRESENTATIONS
"Taxation, Accountability and Democratic Attitudes in Africa"
Dominika Koter (Colgate University)
"Financing the Welfare State in Post-Crisis South Korea: Time for a new fiscal contract?"
Sijeong Lim (University of Amsterdam)
"Welfare Politics in Taiwan: Taxation Reforms and Electoral Competition"
Chen-Wei Lin (Tokoha University)
16:00- 16:20 Tea Break
"Searching for Democratic Stability in Thailand: A Perspective from Financial Policies in the Aftermath of the Asian Financial Crisis"
Tomoko Matsumoto (Nagoya University)
"Navigating the Globalization Paradox: Welfare compensation, democracy and openness in the developed and developing worlds"
Brian Burgoon (University of Amsterdam)
Closing Remarks
Junko Kato (The University of Tokyo)
DISCUSSANTS
Nobuhiro Hiwatari (The University of Tokyo), Rieko Kage (The University of Tokyo), Ikuo Kume (Waseda University), Masashi Nakamura (IDE-JETRO), Gregory W. Noble (The University of Tokyo), Yuriko Takahashi (Waseda University)
Language English
Sponsored by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, "Democratization, Taxation, and Equality in Newly Developing Countries" (PI: Junko Kato)
Co-sponsored with International Center for Comparative Law and Politics (ICCLP), Graduate School of Law and Politics, the University of Tokyo
Jean-Marc Sauvé, vice-président du Conseil d' État français
Le Conseil d' Etat et le droit européen et international
Date 26 October, 2016
Place Conference Room, 8F, Law Building No.3, the University of Tokyo
Contents Opening Remarks: Masahiko Iwamura, Dean, Faculty of Law, the University of Tokyo
Speaker: Jean-Marc Sauvé, Vice President, Conseil d' État français
Moderator: Yoichi Ito, Professor, the University of Tokyo
Language French and Japanese (Simultaneous Interpretations Provided)
Sponsored by Graduate Schools for Law and Politics
Supported by Egusa Foundation
The 51st Comparative Law and Politics Symposium
Date August 5, 2016
Place Auditorium, Sanjo Conference Hall, University of Tokyo
Speakers and Contents Speakers
Harald Baum, Professor, MPI Hamburg and Hamburg University
Jacques Buhart, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery, Paris, France and Brussels
James Fisher, Project Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo
Dan Puchniak, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
J. Mark Ramseyer, Professor, Harvard Law School
Marco Ventoruzzo, Professor, Bocconi University, Italy, and Pennsylvania State University

13:00-13:05 Welcome
13:05-13:35 Board Composition and Directors' Role: Comparisons and Empirical Evidence
Marco Ventoruzzo
13:35-14:05 Independent Directors in Asia: Divergent Convergence
Dan Puchniak
14:05-14:35 Studying Executive Compensation
J. Mark Ramseyer
14:35-14:50 Questions and Answers
14:50-15:10 Coffee Break
15:10-15:40 England's Experiments in the Corporate Attribution of Illegal Acts
James Fisher
15:40-16:10 Overview of the French Contract Law Reform: Implications for Corporate Practice
Jacques Buhart
16:10-16:40 Exchanges and Mistrades: Liability Under German Law
Harald Baum
16:40-16:55 Questions and Answers
16:55-17:00 End
Language English
Simultaneous interpretation between English and Japanese will be provided.
Moderator Gen Goto, Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo
Organized by Institute of Business Law and Comparative Law and Politics, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo
Supported by SHOJIHOMU Co., Ltd
2015 Academic Year
DIE REFORM DES TRANSPORT- UND SEEHANDELSRECHTS IN JAPAN UND DEUTSCHLAND
AUS RECHTSVERGLEICHENDER PERSPEKTIVE
Date 27. / 28. Oktober 2015
Place Fukutake Hall, Universität Tokio
Contents 27. Oktober
Eröffnung und Grußworte
Dr. Jan Grotheer, Präsident der Deutsch-Japanischen Juristenvereinigung, Hamburg
Nobuo Inada, Staatssekretärim Ministerium der Justiz, Tokio
Dr. Stefanie Hubig, Staatssekretärin des Bundesministeriums der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz, Berlin

Sitzung 1
Wesentliche Merkmale der Transport- und Seerechtsreform
Vorsitz: Prof. Tomonobu Yamashita, Doshisha Universität
Prof. Tomotaka Fujita, Universität Tokio
Dr. Beate Czerwenka, LL.M. (Duke Univ.), Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz, Berlin

Sitzung 2
Frachtverträge, insbesondere die Haftung des Frachtführers
Vorsitz: Dr. Beate Czerwenka
Prof. Gen Goto, Universität Tokio
Rechtsanwalt Dr. Carsten Harms, Hamburg

Sitzung 3
Frachtverträge, insbesondere Vertragsfreiheit, Pflichten des Absenders, Verfügungsrecht und Beförderungsdokumente
Vorsitz: Prof. Noboru Kobayashi, Seikei Universität
Prof. Hideyuki Matsui, Rikkyo Universität
Rechtsanwalt Detlef Neufang, Bonn

Sitzung 4
Seefrachtverträge, insbesondere die Haftung des Verfrachters
Vorsitz: Rechtsanwalt Hartmuth Sager, Hamburg
Prof. Manami Sasaoka, Staatliche Universität Yokohama
Rechtsanwalt Prof. Dr. Schwampe, Hamburg

28. Oktober
Sitzung 5
Sonstige maritime Verträge (Charterverträge) sowie verkehrsträgerunabhängige Personenbeförderungsverträge
Vorsitz: Prof. Tomotaka Fujita, Universität Tokio
Prof. Takashi Hakoi, Waseda Universität, Tokio
Rechtsanwalt Hartmuth Sager, Hamburg

Sitzung 6
Multimodalverträge
Vorsitz: Rechtsanwalt Prof. Dr. Schwampe, Hamburg
Prof. Fumiko Masuda, Universität Okayama
Rechtsanwalt Jan Otto Bodis, LL.M. (Münster), Hamburg

Schlussworte und Ende des Symposiums
Prof. Kenjiro Egashira, Waseda Universität, Professor emeritus an der Universität Tokio
Sponsored with Deutsch-Japanische Juristenvereinigung / Japanischer Seerechtsverein
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transportrecht / Deutscher Verein für Internationales Seerecht
Institute of Business Law and Comparative Law and Politics, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo

Das Symposium wird vom Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz und vom Japanischen Justizministerium sowie von folgenden Einrichtungen unterstützt: Tsuneo Ohtori Fund for International Exchange and Academic Research, Japan Maritime Center, The Japanese Shipowners' Association, Tokyo Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
Nikkei Project for Students: Debates with Professor Joseph Nye
'U.S.-Japan Alliance and Asia’s Future'
Date October 27, 2015
Place The Ito International Research Center
Contents Part I: Keynote
Joseph S. Nye, JR, University Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard/Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) / Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense

Part II: Debates
Professor Joseph S. Nye, JR and Fumiaki Kubo, Professor, the University of Tokyo
Moderator: Tsuyoshi Sunohara, Senior Editor, Nikkei Press / Visiting Professor, Sophia University
Sponsored with Nikkei; Institute of Business Law and Comparative Law and Politics, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, the University of Tokyo
Public Lecture by Mr. David Harris, Executive Director of AJC
Date October 21, 2015
Place Conference Room, 8F, Law Building No.3, University of Tokyo
Contents Opening Remarks: Yoichi Nishikawa, Dean, Faculty of Law, the University of Tokyo; Junichi Chano, Executive Director, the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership
Speaker: David Harris, Executive Director, American Jewish Committee
Title: 'Politics, Society, and Presidential Campaign in the U.S.: An American Jewish Perspective'
Moderator: Fumiaki Kubo, Professor, Faculty of Law, the University of Tokyo
Sponsored with Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership; American Jewish Committee; Study Group in American Politics; Institute of Business Law & Comparative Law and Politics, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, the University of Tokyo
The 49th Comparative Law and Politics Symposium
Modern Issues in American Law
Date August 5, 2015
Place Learning Theater, Fukutake Hall, University of Tokyo
Contents Moderator: Professor keiichi Karatsu

Tom Ginsburg, Professor, The Law School, University of Chicago
‘The evolution of international human rights law in US courts’

Charles W. Mooney, Jr., Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School
‘The "Paripassu" Clause in Sovereign Bonds under New York Law’

Joseph L. Hoffmann, Professor, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
‘The Extra-Territorial Application of U.S. Criminal Law’

Veronica Taylor, Professor, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific / Affiliate Professor, University of Washington School of Law
‘Exporting Law and Regulation: The Coming Contest between America and China’
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2014 Academic Year
The 47th Comparative Law and Politics Symposium
The Global Trends in Modern Competition Law & Policy
Date August 5, 2014
Place Sanjo Conference Hall, University of Tokyo
Contents Moderator: Professor keiichi Karatsu

Topic: Evidence in EU cartel proceedings
Speaker: Jacques Buhart, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery, Paris & Brussels

Topic: Merger control for the acquisition of non-controlling minority shareholdings: Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut?
Speaker: Andreas Fuchs, Professor, School of Law, Institute of Commercial and Business Law, Osnabruck University

Topic: Judicial review in EU competition cases
Speaker: Marc van der Woude, Judge, General Court, Court of Justice of the European Union

Topic: Your money and your life: The export of U.S. antitrust remedies
Speaker: Harry First, Professor, New York University School of Law

Topic: The Moral and pedagogic functions of markets in a democratic society and the role of antitrust law
Speaker: Howard Langer, Adjunct Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School / Managing partner of Langer, Grogan & Diver, P.C.

Comments in light of trends in Japan
Professor Tadashi Shiraishi
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2013 Academic Year
The 45th Comparative Law and Politics Symposium
Third Party Investigation Organization for Medical Accidents: How We Should Establish It for Improving Patient Safety
Date Saturday, 20 April 2013
Place Room 101, School of Law Bldg.
Contents Chairs: Yasuji Kodama, Lawyer/Project Professor, University of Tokyo; Futoshi Iwata, Professor, Sophia University

Part 1: Introduction
Professor Norio Higuchi; Satoru Honma, Professor, Tsukuba University; Kishiko Hirukawa, Managing Nurse, Tokyo Area Office, Japan Patient Safety Investigation Organization

Part 2: Comments
Ikuko Toyoda, Safety Manager, Shin-katsushika Hospital; Masanori Tonegawa, Staff Writer, Yomiuri Shimbun; Emi Komiya, Chief Director, NHK Radio; Robert B Leflar, Professor, University of Arkansas; Yoshimasa Nagao, Professor, Nagoya University
Co-sponsored with Health and Labour Sciences Research Grants, 'Responsive Regulation on Patient Safety' (Project Leader: Futoshi Iwata)
Supported by: Japan Patient Safety Investigation Organization and the Institute of Gerontology, the University of Tokyo
2012 Academic Year
The 44th Comparative Law and Politics Symposium
Corporate Governance Contributing to Create Value of Company
-Role of Independent Director-
Date 31 January 2013
Place Yayoi Auditorium Ichijyo Hall, University of Tokyo
Contents Opening Remarks: Professor Keiichi Karatsu

Speeches
Title: Corporate Governance Contributing to Create Value of Company-Role of Independent Director-
-Supervisory Board and Corporate Govenance
Speaker: Professor Hiroyuki Kansaku

Title: TSE's Concerns and Measures under Consideration
Speaker: Hiroyuki Matsuzaki, Director of Listing department, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc.

Title: Proactive Role of Independent Directors to Create Long-term Corporate Value
Speaker: Kazuhiro Takei, Attorney-at-Law, NISHIMURA & ASAHI

Title: The Role of Outside Directors in Corporate Governance at Hitachi, Ltd.
Speaker: Atsushi Doi, General Manager, Legal Division, Hitachi, Ltd.
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SHOJIHOMU Co., Ltd.
The 43rd Comparative Law and Politics Symposium
Roundtable Discussion on Modern Issues about M&As under Corporate and Securities Laws: A Comparative Perspective
Date Friday, 3 August 2012
Place Yayoi Auditorium Ichijyo Hall, University of Tokyo
Contents EU Takeover Directive
A Recent Case in the U.S.
MBOs in Japan

<Speakers>
Harald Baum, MPI Hamburg, Germany
Jacques Buhart, McDermott Will & Emery, Paris, France
Paul Davies, Oxford University, UK
Jill Fisch, University of Pennsylvania, US
Curtis Milhaupt, Columbia University, US
Hideki Kanda, University of Tokyo
Moderator: Keiichi Karatsu, Professor, the University of Tokyo
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2011 Academic Year
The 41st Comparative Law and Politics Symposium
International Dimension of Modern Competition Law and Policy
Date Thursday, 4 August 2011
Place Yayoi Auditorium Ichijyo Hall, University of Tokyo
Contents Jacques Buhart, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery Paris and Brussels
"Recent developments in EU competition rules"

Andreas Fuchs, Professor, Osnabruck University
"The Transatlantic Gap in Price Squeeze Cases: Linkline Communications, Inc. v. Deutsche Telekom, TeliaSonera et al."

Harry First, Professor, New York University School of Law
"Microsoft and the Globalization of Antitrust"

Michael P. A. Cohen, Partner, Paul Hastings Washington D.C.
"Global Competition Law: Really? Why?"

Kenju Watanabe, Partner, Paul Hastings Tokyo / New York
"Premerger Notifications and Takeovers of Public Companies - A Transactional Lawyer's Perspective"

Tadashi Shiraishi, Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo
"Effects on Domestic Purchasers: A Descriptive Theory for Competition Law on Cross-Border Cases"

Q&As

Moderator: Keiichi Karatsu, Professor, the University of Tokyo
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2010 Academic Year
The 40th Comparative Law and Politics Symposium
Seminar on Cross-Border Insolvency Law
Date Friday, 11 March 2011
Place Law School Room #101
Contents Presentations
The Honorable Bruce A. Markell, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, District of Nevada
Junichi Matsushita, Professor of Law, University of Tokyo

Comments
Jay L. Westbrook, Professor of Law, University of Texas
Hideyuki Sakai, Partner, Bingham, McCutchen & Murase /Sakai, Mimura & Aizawa

Moderator
Charles W. Mooney, Jr., Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania
Organized by Global Centers of Excellence Program"Soft Law and the State-Market Relationship"
Program on the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law (Tokyo Stock Exchange)
Institute of Business Law and Comparative Law and Politics, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo
University of Pennsylvania Law School
The 37th Comparative Law and Politics Symposium
Modern Issues in American Law
Date Wednesday, 4 August 2010
Place ANA InterContinental Hotel Tokyo, Banquet Room
Contents Joseph L. Hoffmann, Professor, Indiana University
"Recent Developments in the American Law of Fraud"

Charles W. Mooney Jr., Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School
"Insolvency Regimes for Large Non-bank Financial Institutions"

Christopher H. Hanna, Professor, Southern Methodist University
"The Future of Tax Planning in the United States"

Veronica L. Taylor, Professor, Regulatory Institutions Network, ANU College of Asia and the Pasific
"Exporting U.S. Rule of Law: Lessons from China"

Closing: Hideki Kanda, Professor, the University of Tokyo

Introduction: Yoshiaki Miyasako, Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo
Moderator: Hideki Kanda, Professor, the University of Tokyo
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2009 Academic Year
The 34th Comparative Law and Politics Symposium
M&As:Major Issues in Modern Corporate Law
Date Wednesday, 5 August 2009
Place ANA InterContinental Hotel Tokyo, Banquet Room
Contents U.S.-Reinier Kraakman Professor, Harvard Law School
"Hostile takeovers and the future of the board-centered model of corporate governance"

UK-Paul Davies , Professor, London School of Economics, Department of Law
"Sticking with a shareholder-centred approach"

Germany-Klaus Hopt, Profssor, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
"Material adverse change (MAC) clauses in financial and takeover law"

France-Jacques Buhart, Partner, Herbert Smith LLP, Paris
"The new role of the board of directors in hostile takeovers in France and other European countries under the European takeover directive"

Coment: Edward B. Rock Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Coment: Hideki Kanda, Professor, the University of Tokyo

Introduction: Hideki Kanda, Professor, the University of Tokyo
Moderator: Yoshiaki Miyasako, Professor, University of Tokyo
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2008 Academic Year
The 32nd Comparative Law and Politics Symposium
Recent Issues of American Law
Date Tuesday, 5, August 2008
Place ANA InterContinental Hotel Tokyo, Banquet Room
Contents 繝サTom Ginsburg, Professor, The Law School, University of Chicago
"Recent Developments in International Law in the United States "

繝サChristopher Hanna, Professor of Law, Southern Methodist University
"The Intersection of Tax and Financial Accounting"

繝サAnthony Zaloom, Adjunct professor at the University of California at Berkeley; Director, China Profram, BCLBE, Former of-counsel to the Tokyo law firm of Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
"An American Legal Transplant: the New Anti Monopoly Law in China"

繝サToshiko Takenaka, Professor, University of Washington School of Law
"Roles of General Courts and Specialized Courts in Patent Law
Jurisprudence・哭essons from U.S. Experiences"

繝サVeronica Taylor, Professor, University of Washington School of Law
"Doing Business in Developing Markets: New Tools and Insights from
Development Law"

Introduction: Hideki Kanda, Professor, the University of Tokyo
Moderator: Yoshiaki Miyasako, Professor, University of Tokyo
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2007 Academic Year
The 30th Comparative Law and Politics Symposium
Developing International IP Norms for the 21st Century
Date Monday, 30 July 2007
Place ANA InterContinental Hotel Tokyo, Banquet Room
Contents Panel discussion I. "Copyright"
Moderator: Yuko Kimijima, Associate Professor, Keio University

David Vaver, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford "Copyright in the 21st century: a British (and European) Perspective"

Diane Zimmerman, Professor, New York University School of Law "Copyright in the 21st century: a US Perspective"

Graeme Dinwoodie, Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law "Recent Trends in U.S. Trade Dress Protection for Designs"
Panel discussion II. "Patents"
Moderator: Toshiko Takenaka, Professor, University of Washington School of Law

Rochelle Dreyfuss, Professor, New York University School of Law "Recent US Supreme Court Decisions and Their Impact on IT Related Inventions"

Peter Meier-Beck, Judge, German Federal Court of Justice /Professor, Dr., University of Duesseldorf "Patent Quality, in particular nonobviousness, and other current issues in Patent Protection: From a German perspective"

Heinz Goddar, German Patent Attorney and European Patent and Trademark Attorney / Professor, Dr., University of Bremen
"Patent Quality, in particular nonobviousness, and other current issues in Patent Protection: From an EPO perspective"
Introduction: Hideki Kanda, Professor, the University of Tokyo
Moderator: Hideaki Kanda, Professor, University of Tokyo
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