Yasutomo Morigiwa


Nagoya University. He teaches legal theory, legal ethics and anti-corruption in English, as well as in Japanese. After beginning his career at the University of Tokyo, he worked on theories of law and language at Oxford with Profs. H. L. A. Hart, R. Dworkin, and J. Raz. He is now active in work on interpretation, and in promoting the practical import of legal philosophy explaining to the practicing jurist the nature of professional responsibility.

He was the Acting President of the IVR (International Association of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy) from 2009 to 2011, and a member of its Executive Committee since 2003. He is also a Director of IAOLE (International Association for Legal Ethics) and JALP (Japan Association of Legal Philosophy).

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Publications by Yasutomo Morigiwa

Proceedings of the 9th Kobe Lectures. Tokyo, Nagoya, and Kyoto, June 2008
Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie – Beihefte, Volume 132
Proceedings of the 5th Kobe Lectures. Tokyo and Kyoto, December 1998
Proceedings of the 4th Kobe Lectures being the first Asia Symposium in Jurisprudence. Tokyo and Kyoto, 10th and 12th October 1996
Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie – Beihefte, Volume 72