Ko Hasegawa

Country

Japan

Position

Former Executive Vice President (University Office),
Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow (School of Law)

Research Keywords

Philosophy of Law

Qualifications

MA: (LL.M.) University of Tokyo, 1979
PhD: (LL.D.) University of Tokyo, 1982

Message

I have been teaching philosophy of law and other related issues in law and moral theory for 37 years at Hokkaido University. In my career, I have also taught on several occasions in the USA and UK, and given various presentations at international conferences. I love this beautiful campus of the university and the nationally-known liberal academic environment of the School of Law. Although I retired from the university in 2020, I am honored to be still a part of the School of Law.

Being involved in the development of MJSP, I believe MJSP is an attractive interdisciplinary program in Japanese studies. I am delighted to be able to join you and my teaching colleagues for the progress of this program, and especially to provide you with a cultural-philosophical perspective on law in modern Japan.

Selected Publications

  • “On the Modes of Confluence in Law” (in: K. Boele-Woelki
    et.al., eds., Current Issues of Comparative Law, Springer,
    2019, pp. 39-48)
  • “Interactive Reason in Law” (in:M. S. Sellers ed., Law,
    Reason, and Emotion, Cambridge U. P., 2017, pp. 184-201)
     (at:https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108355223.009)
  • “The Dynamics of “Confluence” in a Legal System”
     (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)
  • “How Can Law Hold Hope in Cultural Complexity?”
     (2011, at:http://meridian-180.org/node/246)
  • “Between Rights and ‘Kenri’”
     (in: E. Cashin-Retaine, ed., Legal Engineering and Comparative Law, Vol. 2, Schulthess, 2009, pp.87-103)
  • “Incorporating Foreign Legal Ideas through Translation”
     (in: A. Halpin, et.al., eds. Theorizing the Global Legal Order, Hart Publishing, 2009, pp.85-106)