Download Takeo KOSUGI

Takeo Kosugi
Stockholder, Matsuo & Kosugi
Education & Legal Training:
March 1966:
The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law
April 1968:
Graduated from the Legal Training and Research Institute
June 1972:
Harvard Law School, LL.M.
September 1974:
Visiting scholar at the Harvard Law School, East Asian
Studies Program
Professional Carriers:
April 1968:
Osaka District Court, Assistant Judge
September 1972:
Kushiro District & Family Court, Assistant Judge
March 1974:
Left judicial office to enter private practic e
April 1974:
Registered as an attorney-at-law with the Tokyo Bar
Association
June 1974:
Joined the Matsuo Law Offices (currently, Matsuo & Kosugi)
August 1975:
Trainee at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP in New
York
From August to October 1976:
Trainee at S.G. Archibald in Paris
Official Positions:
From 1980 to 1985:
Instructor, Transnational Legal Cases, Legal Training and
Research Institute
1982:
Member, Council for Basic Issues regarding Oil Development
under the auspices of the Resources and Energy Agency,
Ministry of International Trade and Industry
1982:
Member, Council for Basic Issues regarding Construction
Project in Foreign Countries, Ministry of Construction
From 1986 to 1990:
Executive Member, Conflict of Laws Division, Legislative
Council of the Ministry of Justice
From 1993 to 2000:
Instructor, University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of
Management Science and Public Policy Studies in the study
of international economic law
From 1996:
Executive Auditor, Japan Association of Financial Law
From 1996:
Director, International Civil and Commercial Centre (ICCLC)
1996:
Instructor, Waseda University, Graduate School of Law, in
the study of United States civil procedure
From 1997 to 1999:
President, LAWASIA (The Law Association for Asia and the
Pacific)
From 1997:
Vice-president, Friends of LAWASIA Association in Japan
From September 2001:
Director, Japanese American Society for Legal Studies
From 1999 to September 2008:
Public Interest Member, Central Labour Relations
Commission for Seafarers
From January 2007 to September 2008:
President, Central Labour Relations Commission for Seafarers
From March 13, 2009:
Member, Council for Transport Policy, Ministry of Land,
Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Major Books and Articles:
Collected Works Vol. I: “American Society and Law” (Commercial Law Center, Inc.,
1995)
Collected Works Vol. II: “Internationalization of Legal Services” (Commercial Law
Center, Inc., 1995)
Collected Works Vol. III: “Laws in the Era of Asia” (Commercial Law Center, Inc.,
1999)
Co-editor: “Reading People’s Daily Articles – China’s eighteen years to build new
legislations” (Shinzansha, December 2004)
Co-editor: “The Decision Making of the United States Supreme Court 1993 -2005”
(University of Tokyo Press, 2007)
Joint-translation: David G. Epstein’s “Debtor-Creditor Law in a Nutshell 2nd edition”
(Commercial Law Center, Inc., 1984)
Major Areas of Practice:
Corporate, International Business Transactions, Domestic & International Bankruptcy,
Litigation, Arbitration
Attachment: CV in Japanese