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(06/01/2023)
KOBAYASHI Fumiaki (Ph.D in Law)
Associate Professor, School of Law
Adjunct Lecturer, Law School
Visiting Scholar (June 1st, 2023-)
The William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Contact Infomation
Tokyo
1-1, Kanda-Sugrugadai, Chiyoda City, Tokyo, 101-8301, JAPAN (Map)
Telephone & FAX: +81 3 3296 2342
Email: kobayashi@meiji.ac.jp
US
Email: fumiakik@hawaii.edu
Research Interests:
Philosophy of Law
Law and Literature, Law and Humanities, Law and Culture
Law and Science
Gender and Law, Sexuality, Law and LGBTQs
Education(Degree):
LL.B. Meiji University, 2005
LL.M. Meiji University, 2007
Ph.D. in Law(LL.D.), Meiji University, 2016
Awards:
28th Rengo Sundai-Kai Academic Award 2023
YAMADA Junjiro Memorial Academic Award 2007
Courses Taught:
Philosophy of Law
Law and Literature
Gender and Law
Japanese Constitutional Law
Law and Science
Western Legal History
Employment:
Research Associate, Meiji University School of Law, 2008 - 2010, and 2011 - 2012.
Research Assistant, Research Center of Educating Legal Profession at Law School of Meiji University, 2011 - 2015.
Academic Researcher, Lybra Law Office, 2012 - present.
Part-time Lecturer ("The Constitution of Japan"), Tsurukawa Women's Junior College, 2012 - 2014.
Part-time Lecturer ("Philosophy and Law," "Western Legal History," and "Science and Law"), Rissho University, 2013 - 2020.
Special Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Law, Meiji Gakuin University, 2013 -2016.
Science Supporter(for Headquarters Events), Meiji University, 2015-2016.
Fellow, Meiji Law School's Center for Gender and Law, 2015-2016.
Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS), 2016-2017.
Associate Professor, School of Law, Meiji University, 2017 - present.
Part-time lecturer ("Ethics of Science"), Yokohama City University, 2019-2021.
Part-time Lecturer ("Law and Literature"), Meiji Gakuin University, 2020 - 2022.
Adjunct Lecturer ("Philosophy of Law" and "Gender and Law"), Meiji Law School, 2021 - 2022.
Academic Association Membership:
Member of the Executive Committee, Japan Association of Legal Philosophy
Books(in Japanese):
KOBAYASHI Fumiaki, Law and Literature: Its History and Possibilities (Tokyo: Keiso Shobo, 2020).
KOBAYASHI Fumiaki, "Reconsidering the Basis of Subjectivity Holding Rights and Duty from the Perspective of AI and Robots," in: ITO Kensuke, KOJIMA Hideo, NAKAZORA Toshimasa, and MATSUBARA Yoshihiro(eds.), Civil Deliberation and Criminal Law for Civil Liberties: A collection of Papers Commemorating the 70th Birthday of Prof. Dr. Yutaka Masuda (Tokyo: Keiso Shobo, 2018), pp. 143-153.
KOBAYASHI Fumiaki, "Gender and Law," "Gender and Occupation," in: NISHIOKA Shoko(ed.), Gender Equality Opens the Future: from the Gender Point of View(Kyoto: Minerva Shobo, 2016), pp. 49-73, and pp. 180-181.
KOBAYASHI Fumiaki, "The History of Law and Literature," in: KAMEMOTO Hiroshi(ed.), Dynamics of Contemporary Law(Iwanami Lecture Series 6): Interplay of Law and Science(Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten Publishers, 2014), pp.197-220.
KOBAYASHI Fumiaki, "An Interplay of Law and Art," in: NAKAMASA Masaki(ed.), Critique Theory and Social Theory I: Aisthesis(Aletheia Series No.13) (Tokyo: Ochanomizu Shobo, 2011), pp. 221-244.
Papers and Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals (in Japanese):
KOBAYASHI Fumiaki, "Emotions from a Perspective of “Law and Literature”," The Annals of Legal Philosophy 2021(2022), pp. 54-68.
KOBAYASHI Fumiaki, "For "Law and Literature" Studies with Complicated Feelings: A Reply to Prof. Morimura," The Annals of Legal Philosophy 2021(2022), pp. 146-50.
KOBAYASHI Fumiaki, "Legal Thought of Judge Masataro Miyake: Relationship between "Attitude toward Judicial Trial" and Performing Arts," Horitsu Ronso(The Meiji Law Review) Vol.91 No.6(2017), pp.151-168.
KOBAYASHI Fumiaki, "Where Law Meets Abyss: Shoshana Felman's Law and Literature Studies," Horitsu Ronso(The Meiji Law Review) Vol.89 No.4-5(2017), pp.107-132.
KOBAYASHI Fumiaki, "Law as Humanities: James Boyd White's Humanistic Study of Law," The Annals of Legal Philosophy 2012(2013), pp.201-211.
KIRA Takayuki, KOBAYASHI Fumiaki, KAWASE Takayuki, and MATSUBARA Katsushi(co-authored), "Legal Reasoning and Social Constructivism: toward Productive Cooperation of Philosophy of Law and “Science, Technology, and Society (STS)," Tokiwa International Studies Review 16(2012), pp. 63-89.
TANIGUCHI Koichi and KOBAYASHI Fumiaki(co-authored), "'Law and Literature' Studies," The Annals of Legal Philosophy 2010(2011), pp.142-143.
KOBAYASHI Fumiaki, "Legal Narrative: An Examination of its Concept, Function, and Some Problems," Studies in Law 34(2011), pp.99-112.
KOBAYASHI Fumiaki, "On the Constitutiveness of Language of 'Law and Literature'," Studies in Law (32)(2010), pp.139-149.
KOBAYASHI Fumiaki, "The Trial of Adolf Eichmann and the Quest for Limits of Law: Toward Law and History, Law and Art Studies," Studies in Law (29)(2008), pp.147-161.
Presentation(in English):
KOBAYASHI Fumiaki and KIRA Takayuki, "Law and Science in Japan," in National Academies: Committee on Science, Technology, and Law (CSTL) meeting, 11 March 2013, Washington D. C., USA.
Presentations(in Japanese) (partial):
"Emotions from a Perspective of “Law and Literature”, at the Annual Conference of Japan Association of Legal Philosophy, 11/2021, at Keio University (Zoom Online Meeting).
"Legal Discourse is Based on Non-legal Discourse: from Law and Literature's Point of View," presented at the Annual Conference of The Association for Language and Law, 12/2016, at Kinjo Gakuin University.
"Significance and Problem of Asking Right, Duty, and Person of Artificial Intelligence/Robot," at Annual Conference of Japan Association of Legal Philosophy, 11/2016, at St. Paul University.
"Analysis of Risk Problems and Decision-making Actor from the Viewpoint of Legal System," presented at the Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Science and Technology Studies, 11/2015, at Tohoku University.
"Speculation on Risk from Legal Philosophy's Point of View," presented at Study Group on the Future of Risk Assessment and Management(FoRAM), 07/2015, at the University of Tokyo.
"Discourse Analysis of Expertise from the Viewpoint of Law and Science," presented at Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Science and Technology Studies, 11/2013, at Tokyo Institute of Technology.
"Language in Philosophy of Law and Forensic Linguistics," presented at the Annual Conference of The Association for Language and Law, 12/2012, at Meiji University.
"The Practices and Possibilities of 'Legal Philosophy Café'," presented at Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Science and Technology Studies, 12/2012, at The Graduate University for Advanced Studies.
"James Boyd White's thought and 'Law and Literature' studies," presented at the Annual Conference of Japan Association of Legal Philosophy, 11/2012, at Kwansei Gakuin University.
"How American Courts Think of Technical Expertise: the History of Cases and the Scope of Judicial Review," presented at the Annual Conference of Japan Association for the Contemporary and Applied Philosophy, 04/2012, at Chiba University.
"Causation in Law and its Social Construction," presented at Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Science and Technology Studies, 12/2011, at Kyoto University.
"Scope of 'Law and Literature': 'Law and Literature''s Challenge and Some Problems of Narrative," presented at the Annual Conference of Japan Association of Legal Philosophy, 11/2010, at Seinan Gakuin University.