CV (2025) *PDF available
(01/01/2025)
KOBAYASHI Fumiaki (Ph.D in Law)
Associate Professor, School of Law
Adjunct Lecturer, Law School
Visiting Scholar (June 1st, 2023-)
at 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:
Board Member of the Executive Committee, Japan Association of Legal Philosophy
Affiliate Member, Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Books(in Japanese):
KOBAYASHI Fumiaki, “Should gender-segregated restrooms be abolished?” in: TAKIKAWA Hirohide(ed.), Philosophers of Law Ask You (Tokyo: Houritsubunkasya, 2024).
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, "Should the Law Be Read?" Gendai Shisō (La Pensée d’Aujourd’hui), vol. 52, no. 12, September 2024, pp. 184-192.
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.
Articles, Book Reviews, and Proceedings(in Japanese)
Fumiaki Kobayashi, “Essay: Law of the Splintered Paddle and the Gun Control,” Keiso BiblioPhil, 2025 forthcoming.
Fumiaki Kobayashi, "Book Review: AI forces reflection on 'human' itself," Toshoshimbun(Book Review News Paper), No. 3491, April 10, 2021.
Fumiaki Kobayashi, "Book Review: 'Abunai Hotetsugaku' by Masami Sumiyoshi (Kodansha Gendai Shinsho, 2020)," Syukan-Dokushojin (Weekly Book Reader), August 21, 2020, p. 4.
Fumiaki Kobayashi, "Essay: About Prof. Tetsumi Kato," Horitsu Ronso(The Meiji Law Review), Vol. 91, No. 6, pp. 13-16, February 2019.
Fumiaki Kobayashi, "Workshop Overview: Artificial Intelligence/Robot and Law," The Annals of Legal Philosophy 2016(2017), pp. 163-164.
Fumiaki Kobayashi, "4. The Current State of Discipline on Privacy: Questions and Answers and Discussion," NBL, Vol. 1100, pp. 45-47, June 2017.
Fumiaki Kobayashi, "A Legal Institutional Consideration of the Risk Problem and Decision-Makers," in Proceedings of the 2015 Society for the Social, Technology, and Scoiety, November 2015.
Fumiaki Kobayashi and Takayuki Kira, "Contemporary Implications of the Social Constructivist Grasping of Law and Science," in Proceedings of the 2013 Society for the Social, Technology, and Scoiety, November 2013.
Fumiaki Kobayashi and Takayuki Kira, "The Practice and Possibility of ‘Legal Philosophy Cafe,’" Proceedings of the 2012 Society for the Social, Technology, and Scoiety, November 2012.
Fumiaki Kobayashi, “Causality and Social Construction in Law," in Proceedings of the 2011 Society for the Social, Technology, and Scoiety, December 2011.
Taniguchi, Koichi and Fumiaki Kobayashi (co-authors), "Prospects for Law & Literature," in The Annals of Legal Philosophy 2010, October 2011, pp. 142-143.
Translations(into Japanese)
Yuko Hashimoto, Fumiaki Kobayashi, and Hirono Ikeda(Co-translation), 『法と感情の哲学』(Hou to Kanjo no Tetsugaku), Keiso Shobo, 2023(Susan Bandes(ed.), The Passions of Law, NYU Press, 2000) (in charge of chapters 4, 6, 9, and 12).
Fumiaki Kobayashi(translation), 「行動に影響を与える選択フレーミング」Luigi Cominelli, "Choice Framing to Influence Behavior," Horitsu Ronso(The Meiji Law Review), Vol. 91, No. 1, October 2018, pp. 395-411.
Chihara Watanabe, Takayuki Kira, Fumiaki Kobayashi et al.(co-translation), 『法廷に立つ科学』(Houtei ni Tatsu Kagaku), Keiso Shobo, 2015 (Sheila Jasanoff, Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America, Harvard UP, 1997) (in charge of the preface to the Japanese edition, chapters 1 and 4, "How has the government talked about expertise?").
Takayuki Kira, Masaki Nakamasa, Fumiaki Kobayashi et. al(co-translation)『自由の道徳的イメージ』Ochanomizu Shobo, 2015 (Drucilla Cornell, Moral Images of Freedom: A Future for Critical Theory, Rowman & Littlefield, 2007) (in charge of Chapter 2, "Dignity in Presence: Between Subjectivity and Hospitality," pp. 63-122).
Yoshinori Seki, Fumiaki Kobayashi, Daisuke Nishisako et al.(co-translation), 『フーコーの法』Keiso Shobo, 2014 (Ben Golder and Peter Fitzpatrick, Foucault's Law, Routledge, 2009) (in charge of Chapter 2, "Another Law of Foucault").
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):
“Why is the New “Mobility” a matter of JUSTICE?,” at the 2nd Fukuoka Sky Mobility Lecture series, 02/2024, at Across Fukuoka and on Zoom Online Meeting.
"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.