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As tenured Professor of Anglo-American Law at the University of Tokyo, cross-appointed with the University of Sydney Law School, I am happy to attend the 63rd annual Symposium of the Japanese-American Society for Legal Studies, a venerable association led by my uTOkyo colleague sharing the same Chair – Prof Masayuki Tamaruya. The conference will be …

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From April 2026 I begin my first semester teaching (until July) at the University of Tokyo as the senior tenured Professor of Anglo-American Law, succeeding Professor Kichimoto Asaka (whom I met first as visiting professor to VUW in the mid-1990s) and working closely with Professor Masayuki Tamaruya in the same Chair (specialising in comparative trusts …

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[Editor’s note: This is a speech kindly given by my late father‘s colleague Maarten Wevers, who also later became New Zealand’s Ambassador to Japan and a senior civil servant helping to build Asia-Pacific relationships, at a public funeral held at Old St Paul’s, Mulgrave Street, Wellington, on 5 November 2025. It draws on Maarten’s personal …

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1985–2025: 40 Years of Research on Japanese Law at the MPI – Time to Add New Voices Dates: 13–15 November 2025Location: Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, HamburgRegistration link and (below) current program: https://www.mpipriv.de/1986946/13-to-15-november-2025-1985-2025-40-years-of-research-on-japanese-law-at-the-mpi-time-to-add-new-v...

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