CURRICULUM  VITAE        Ko  HASEGAWA
　

Emeritus Professor of Legal Philosophy
Graduate School of Law
University of Hokkaido

　

Academic Career

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

2020-present  Visiting Fellow, the Advanced Institute for Law and Politics, Graduate School of Law, University of Hokkaido

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, Central Office, 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, President's Office, University of Hokkaido

2006-2014   Associate Member, Division of Law, The Science Council of Japan 

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

2008            Visiting Professor, School of Law, Swansea University, UK   

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

2005            Visitor, Institute Suisse de Droit Comparé, Lausanne, Suisse                                          

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, 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

1982 　　　  LL.D., Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo 

1979            LL.M., Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo                              

1977　         LL.B., Faculty of Law, University of Tohoku
　

Fields of  Research

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

SSRN Author Page
　

Ko Hasegawa at SSRN


Ongoing Works

"On Chiba Masashi's Law and Time "
"Japanese Law and Its Culturality"
"An Outline for the Interpretivist Conception of Law"


Main Publications

"Nexus of Validity in Global Law" (to be published in: Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo, ed., The Global Community Yearbook of Int'l Law and Jurisprudence 2024, Oxford U. P, 2025)

"Sokuhosei・Ho Paradigm・Ho Dento [Legality, Legal Paradigm, and Legal Tradition]" (to be published shortly in: Shun Kaku et. al., eds., Hotetsugaku to iu Kuwadate [The Project of the Philosophy of Law], Shinzansha, 2024)

"The Common Good at a Local Level in the Arctic" (to be published shortly in: J. Laskowska, F. Nalikowski & K. Czarnecki eds., Innovative self-government and Green transformation – Opportunities and Challenges, State University of Applied Sciences in Wloclawek Publishing House, Poland, 2024)

"Human Dignity as a Global Common Good" (in: Reiko Gotoh, ed., Dignity, Freedom and Justice, Springer Verlag, 2024, Ch. 5) (Open Access at: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-0519-1)

"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]

"Ohto [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)

"Ho no Kureoru to Hoteki 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 Ho 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 & R. V. Roeben, eds., Theorizing the Global Legal Order, Hart Publishing, 2009, pp.85-106) [download]

"Kaishaku teki Hoshiko 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)   

"Ho no Kureoru no Gainen wo meguru Kisoteki Kosatsu [Fundamental Considerations concerning the Concept of the Creole of Law]" (in: Hokkaido Law Review, Vol.58-3, 2007)

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

"Human Well-being and Public Provision" (in: 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]

Kosei no Hotetsugaku [The Legal Philosophy of Fairness] (Shinzansha, 2001)

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

Kaishaku to Hoshikou [Interpretation and Legal Thinking] (Nihon Hyouronsha, 1996)      
       
Kenri・Kachi・Kyodotai [Rights, Values, and Community] (Koubundou, 1991)

　

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

[Last Updated: October, 2024]