Associate Professor
Faculty of Law, Kyushu University
Research Interests
- Competition Law
- Intenational Trade Law and Law and Culture
Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work
- Competition Law
- Natural Resources Law & Energy Law
- Product Liability
- Trade Law and Culture
Education
- LL.D., Kyushu University, Japan, (2005)
- M.A. Japanese Studies, Mercator Hogeschool, Belgium (2001)
- LL.M., Kyushu University, Japan (1998)
- LL.M., University of Antwerp (UIA), Belgium (1997)
- Erasmus Exchange Student, Faculty of Law, University of Uppsala, Sweden (9/1996-2/1997)
- LL.B., University of Antwerp (UFSIA), Belgium (1994)
Appointments
- Associate Professor, Kyushu University, Faculty of Law (April 2010 – present)
- Assistant Professor (koushi), Kyushu University, Faculty of Law (August 2007 – April 2010)
- Visiting Lecturer, Kyushu University, Faculty of Law (October 2006 – March 2006)
- Assitant Professor (joshu), Kyushu University, Faculty of Law (January 2005 – August 2007)
- Legal Intern, Daikin Europe N.V and Daikin Industries Ltd., Belgium and Japan (2000)
- Adjunct Secretary, Kamer voor Ambachten en Neringen, Branch of the Ministry of Economy, SMEs, and Self-Employed, Belgium(1999)
Representative Publications
- Competition Law
- The Effects Doctrine in Antitrust Law: A Public International Law Perspective, Steven Van Uytsel, 1-430 (2005) (LL.D thesis, available at the Law Library, Faculty of Law, Kyushu University)
- A Comparative US and EU Perspective on the Japanese Antimonopoly Law’s Leniency Program , 75 (3) Hosei Kenkyu F1-58 (2008)
- kokusai kyousouhou no gainenka [Conceptualizing International Competition Law], 75 (4) Hosei Kenkyu 75 (2009)
- Beyond the European Community Treaty Provisions: A Need to Question the Cassis the Dijon Rule of Reason in Wouters? , 76 (1) Hosei Kenkyu 248 (2009)
- Law and Culture
- A Diversity of Approaches to Cultural Rights, in International Forum on Cultural Rights and Diversity 224-227 (Korean National Commission for Unesco and Interarts eds., 2006)
- Inventory Making and Fairy Tales: Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in an Historical Perspective, in Intangible Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property Law: Communities, Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development (Toshiyuki Kono ed., Intersentia, 2009)
- Intangible Cultural Heritage Identified: Inventories as a Part of the Safeguarding Process, in Intangible Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property Law: Communities, Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development (Toshiyuki Kono ed., Intersentia, 2009) (co-authored)
- The Continuous Search for the Position of the Audiovisual Sector in the pre- and post-Uruguay Period, in The UNESCO Convention for the Promotion and Protection of Diversity of Cultural Expressions (Toshiyuki Kono, Jan Wouters and Steven Van Uytsel eds., Intersentia, forthcoming 2009)
Presentations
- Competition Law
- Dango in the Shadow of Collusion: Facilitating the Calculus to Cartelize, presented at the Workshop Corporate Crime, Fukuoka, August 3-4, 2007
- The Dango Cartelization Calculus through the Lens of a Leniency Program: Is Japan Whistling the Right Tune?, presented at the German-Japanese Symposium on Law and Behavior, Munich, March 8-14, 2008
- Competition Law in Developing and Transition Countries, presented at the Alumni Seminar, Yangon, December 20, 2008
- The Leniency Program in the Japanese Antimonopoly Law: A New Instrument in the Fight Against Cartels, Presented at Hanoi Law University, Hanoi, March 5, 2009
- Law and Culture
- Trade and Culture: The Cultural Exception Analyzed, presented at the Kyushu University’s Law Alumni Symposium, Fukuoka, February 8, 2006
- Cultural Rights and Diversity: Legal Perspectives, presented at the International Forum on Cultural Rights and Diversity, Seoul, November 14-15, 2006
- Inventory Making within the Duty to Safeguard Intangible Cultural Heritage, presented at the Conference on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property under the 2003 Convention, New Delhi, March 25-27, 2007