Yoshida Kunihiko
吉田邦彦

Professor Yoshida has earned a PhD in Civil Law from Tokyo University, Japan (1996), and has visiting academic career at Northwestern Law School (1989-1991), Stanford Law School (1994-1995), Harvard Law School /Harvard Yenching Institute (2002-2003), University of Miami Law School (2012-2013), and University of Colorado Law School (2018-2019) in the U.S. He has written more than 100 articles and case reports and has published seven monographs widely on contracts, torts, health law, critical legal studies, including critical race theories, and more recently on property theories, especially on housing, city making, environment, and reparations. The relational perspective under the influence of late Professor Ian Macneil at Northwestern is the common threads across the fields.

After educating many graduate students from China and Korea, he has visited the East Asian countries number of times in recent years to advise the recovery plan from the perspective of housing and urban welfare at Chengdu for the earthquake disaster in Sichuan province, to investigate the environmental damage due to asbestos in Korea, and to do some collaborate work on reparations issues regarding comfort women, Nanjing massacre, Chongqing bombings, Jeju tragedies etc. and has held visiting appointments at various universities in Korea, Taiwan and China.

He is also an expert of reparations regarding the Ainu people, the indigenous people in Hokkaido, from civil law perspectives and is also working on the protection of the traditional indigenous knowledge and the reparations for racial/ethnic minorities, with regard to intellectual property law regime.

He has recently published Civil Law Lecture Books (Textbooks) on various fields from Contracts, Torts, Property, through Family Law consecutively for the last several years.