Takehisa Nakagawa is a Professor of administrative law at Kobe University Graduate School of Law/ Faculty of Law, Japan, where he served as Dean from October 2015 to September 2017.
After educated at the University of Tokyo (B.A., 1986 and LL.M., 1988) and Harvard Law School (LL.M., 1990), he started to teach at Kobe University in 1993. He received his Ph.D. in law from the University of Tokyo, and was a visiting scholar at Columbia University School of Law (1994 to 1996).
Professor Nakagawa has extensively written about administrative law topics such as separation of powers, judicial review, procedural protection, informal administrative activities, governmental tort liability, freedom of information, and consumer law enforcement.
His English-language publications include “Administrative Guidance: A Tentative Model of How Japanese Lawyers Understand It,” 14 Kobe University Law Review, 1 (1998）; “Administrative Informality in Japan: Activities Outside Statutory Authorization,” 51 Administrative Law Review 175-211 (2000); and “Participatory Administrative Law: Is It Emerging in Japan?,” 10 Journal of Japan-Netherlands Institute 203 (2010). He is also a contributor to CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF JAPAN (Kluwer International, 2001).
He has been on various advisory boards of the Japanese Government. Currently he serves as Chair of Consumer Safety Investigation Commission (Consumer Protection Agency); a Member of the Information Disclosure/ Privacy Protection Committee (Ministry of General Affairs); and as a Member of the Special Committee on Law Schools, the Central Council for Education (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology). Formerly, he was on such governmental advisory committees as those in the 1999 Judicial Reform (Administrative Litigation Law Revision Group), intellectual property protection, customs law, anti-monopoly law, and consumer protection.
RESEARCH AREAS
- Administrative Law (Japan & US)
- International & Transnational Administrative Law (Domestic Implementation/ Extraterritoriality)
- Regulatory Innovations (Consumer Law/ Competition Law)
- Separation of Powers/ Rule of Law/ Democracy
- Legislative & Judicial Processes (Administrative Reforms, Judicial Reforms, Statutory Interpretation, Supreme Court Watch)
- Legal Education
Contact
MAIL：nakagawa156[AT]diamond.kobe-u.ac.jp
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