MARKET, GOVERNANCE
AND THE REINVENTED ROLE
OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM
Participant Bios (in alphabetical order)
Takeshi Fujitani is an Associate Professor of Law, at the Hokkaido University School of Law, Japan. He holds a n LL.M. (2002) from Harvard University and an LL.B. (1999) from the University of Tokyo . He was a research associate at the University of Tokyo (1999-2004), and has been in his current position since 2004. He is currently an S.J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School (expected to finish in June 2009).
His fields of writing include; tax policy for nonprofit organizations, tax justice and income redistribution, budget law, and market-based regulatory/incentive instruments (such as regulatory tax). His general interests are in how to design financial mechanisms in the public/business/social sectors so as to achieve efficient resource allocation without sacrificing substantive and procedural justice.
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Ryoko Hatanaka is a Project Researcher of the 21st COE program, at the Tokyo University School of Law, Japan. Sh e holds a n LL.M. (2002) from Tokyo University and an LL.B. (1999) from the Hosei University in Tokyo . She was a researcher in the Legal System Group at the Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (RISTEX) (2002-2006), and has been in her current position since 2006.
Her fields of research include; civil law especially medical malpractice issues, tort law reform, health policy, and healthcare management. Ryoko is particularly interested in effective design of the healthcare providing mechanisms in the public/business/social sectors so as to achieve the efficient resource allocation without sacrificing the substantive and procedural justice. She is also carrying out fieldwork, interviewing and surveying Policy-makers, Doctors and Patients on health policy movements.
Back Tomoyo Matsui is a n Associate Professor of Law, at the Tohoku University School of Law, Japan. She holds an LL.B. (1999) from the University of Tokyo . She was a research associate at the University of Tokyo from1999 to 2001 and 2002 to 2003 and worked at the Ministry of Justice, Legislation Bureau from 2001 to 2002. She has been in her current position since 2003 and is currently a visiting scholar at the East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School.
Tomoyo has published on topics including; stakeholder interest in corporate governance, banking regulation and social welfare, and sanctions and incentives mechanism for corporate regulation. Her general interest is in what kind of organizations are appropriate to pursue non-commercial or quasi-commercial objectives, such as environmental protection or the stability of international finance mechanisms.
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Hideaki Shiroyama is a professor of public administration at the Graduate School of Law and Politics and the Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo. His areas of research include; the policy making process in Japan ; international administration and its implementation; and environmental/ safety polic ies focusing especially on the interface between science/ technology and politics.
Hideaki was a visiting scholar at the Center for International Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1997 to 1997 and was a visiting professor at Science Po in Paris in 2001.
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