Ko Hasegawa CV

Academic Career

2023-present Visiting Professor, Durham University Law School, UK

2019-2022  Adjunct Lecturer of Legal Philosophy, Graduate School of Law, University of Hokkaido

2013-2022   Associate Instructor, Modern Japanese Studies Program, University of Hokkaido

2017-2020   Executive Director- Vice President, University of Hokkaido

1997-2019   Member, The Board of Directors, The Japan
Association of Legal Philosophy

1983-2019   Professor of Philosophy of Law, School of Law, University of Hokkaido

2007-2017   Joint Staff, Hokkaido University Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences

2007-2017   Joint Staff, Hokkaido University Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies

2014-2016   Dean, School of Law, University of Hokkaido

2010-2016   Senior Fellow, Meridian 180 Project, Cornell University Law School, USA

2011-2014   Aid of Director, University of Hokkaido President's Office

2010 The Mori, Hamada & Matsumoto Distinguished Visitor, The Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture, Cornell University Law School, USA

2005-2008 Chair, Academic Planning Committee, The Japan Association of Legal Philosophy

2004-2008 Director, The Advanced Institute for Law & Politics, School of Law, University of Hokkaido

2002-2003 Academic Affiliate, Centre for Politics, Law & Society, University College London, UK
(The Ministry of Education Overseas Research Grant)

2002 James B. MacDonald Distinguished Visiting Professor, East Asian Legal Studies Center, University of Wisconsin Law School, USA

1998 Program Visitor, The Philosophy Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Australia

1987-1988 Visiting Researcher, New York University Law School, USA (The Fulbright Grant)

1986-1987　Research Associate, Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley, USA (The Fulbright Grant)

1983-1991　Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Hokkaido

Fields of  Research

Theories of Equality and Rights, The Concept of Law, Theory of Value, The Creolization of Law

"The Common Good at a Local Level in the Arctic" (Work in progress: to be published from State University of Applied Sciences in Wloclawek, Poland, 2024)

"Human Dignity as a Global Common Good" (Work in progress: to be published by Springer Verlag, 2024)

"On Chiba Masashi's Law and Time " (Work in progress: to be published by Shinzansha, 2024)

"The Interactive Grounds of Law" (Work in progress)

Main Publications

"The Possibility of the Human Right to Environment" (in: Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo, ed., The Global Community Yearbook of Int'l Law and Jurisprudence 2021, Oxford U. P., 2022, pp. 57-89)

"The Fabric of Normative Translation in Law" (in: Helge Dedek, ed., A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence: Essays in memory of H. Patrick Glenn, Cambridge U. P., 2021, pp.249-266) [original draft download]

"Outou [Response]" (in: N. Sugawara & S. Kaku, eds, Kousei na Hou wo Meguru Toi [Problems Concerning Law and Fairness], Shinzan-sha, 2021, pp. 281-314)

"On the Modes of Confluence in Law" (in: K. Boele-Woelki et.al., eds., Current Issues of Comparative Law, Springer, 2019, pp. 39-48)
(at: https://www.springerprofessional.de/on-the-modes-of-confluence-in-law/17153716)
　

"Interactive Reason in Law" (in：M. S. Sellers ed., Law, Reason, and Emotion, Cambridge U. P., 2017, pp. 184-2016)(at: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108355223.009)

"How to Deal with the Multiplicity of Law" (in: ARSP Beiheft 152, pp. 97-104, 2017)

"Hou no Konseiteki Datou [The Hybrid Validity of Law]" (in: Takeshi Tsunoda et. al., eds, Houriron wo Meguru Gendai teki Shomondai [Current Problems Concerning Legal Theory], Koyo Shobo, 2016, pp. 203-211)

"The Dynamics of "Confluence" in a Legal System―
Comments on H. Patrick Glenn's Insights on Legal Traditions" (in Transnational Legal Theory, Vol. 7: 1, 2016, pp. 1-8)
(at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20414005.2016.1170472)

"Normative Translation in the Heterogeneity of Law"
(in: Transnational Legal Theory, Vol. 6: 3-4, 2015,
pp.501-517) (at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20414005.2015.1126111)

"Getting through National Responsibility toward Global Justice" (in: ARSP, Beiheft 139: Human Rights and
Global Justice, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014, pp. 81-87)

"Hou no Kureouru to Houteki Kannen no Honyaku [The Creole of Law and the Translation of Legal Ideas]"
(in: Ko Hasedawa, ed., Hou no Kureouru Josetsu [Introduction to the Creole of Law], Hokkaido Univ.
Press, 2012, pp. 1-32)

"How Can Law Hold Hope in Cultural Complexity? ーCritical Comments on Prof. Annelise Riles' View
of Law and Culture" (at: http://meridian-180.org/node/246, Cornell University Law School,
2011) [download]

"21 Seiki no Hou no Gainen [The Concept of Law in the 21st Century]" (Hou no Riron [Theory of Law], No. 30, 2011)

"Between Rights and 'Kenri'" (in: E. Cashin-Retaine, ed., Legal Engineering and Comparative  Law, Vol. 2, Schulthess, 2009, pp.87-103) [download]

"Incorporating Foreign Legal Ideas through Translation" (in: A. Halpin, et.al., eds. Theorizing the Global Legal
Order, Hart Publishing, 2009, pp.85-106) [download]

"Kaishaku teki Houshikou no Kitei [The Basis of Hermeeutic Legal Thinking] (in: Aoi & Suehisa, eds.,
Doitsu Houriron tono Taiwa [Dialogues with German Legal Theory], Tohoku University Press, 2008)

"Hou no Kureouru no Gainen wo meguru Kisoteki Kousatsu [Fundamental Considerations concerning         the Concept of the Creole of Law]" (in: Hokudai Hougaku Ronshuu [Hokkaido Law Review], Vol.58-3, 2007)

"Kihan Shoutotsu no Kaishakugaku [Hermeneutics of Norm Conflict]" (in: Hougaku [Jurisprudence], Vol.69-6, 2006)

"Human Well-being and Public Provision" (in: Hokudai Hougaku Ronshuu [Hokkaido Law Review], Vol.54-6,2004)[download] (Revised Version [download]）

"On Prof. Will Kymlicka’s Thinking about the Rights of Indigenous People” (in: Archiv für Rechts- und　Sozialphilosophie, Beiheft 96, 2004)

"The Structuration of Law and Its Working in the Japanese Legal System" (in J. Vanderlinden et.al., eds.,
La Structure des Systèmes Juridiques, Bruylant, 2003) [download]

Kousei no Houtetsugaku [The Legal Philosophy of Fairness] (Shinzansha, 2001)

"Legal Reasoning & Interpretation of Justice" (in: Hokudai Hougaku Ronshuu [Hokkaido Law Review], Vol.48-5, 1998)  [download]

Kaishaku to Houshikou [Interpretation and Legal Thinking]( Nihon Hyouronsha, 1996)

Kenri・Kachi・Kyoudoutai [Rights, Values, and Community](Koubundou, 1991)
　

<To Contact>   email:  hasegawa[at]juris.hokudai.ac.jp

* Previous address <khase2@eis.hokudai.ac.jp> became inactive in October 2020.

[Last Updated: February, 2024]