Graduate
School
of Law
Inter-
national
Legal Studies
Kyushu
University6-19-1 Hakozaki,
Higashi-ku
Fukuoka, JAPAN
Prof. Dr. Kittisak PROKATI
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Professor of Law Since November 2001 he is holding a Professor Chair in International Legal Studies at Graduate School of Law, Kyushu University, Japan. He is also Director (in leave) of Institute of Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, Thammasat University. His main activities are teaching and researches at Kyushu University in Japan. Responsibilities Teaching in Comparative Law and Economic Law at Graduate School of Law, Kyushu University, Japan Department/Workgroup Department of International Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan |
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THAILAND JAPAN
Commentary of the Civil and Commercial Code of Thailand / Book I: General Principles and Book VI: Succession Research on fundamental rights of Indigenous Community according to the Thai Constitution 1997 Research on Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection
Born in 1956 in Chumphon Province, Thailand, he attended his high school in Bangkok at Suankularb Wittayalai and went to study law at Thammasat University, where he was very active in student activities and got graduated (LL.B) in 1978. He was recruited as a lecturer of Law at Thammasat University in 1980. After he finished his LL.M. at Thammasat university he went to further his study at Bonn University in Germany. For his doctorate study he got a scholarship from Friedrich-Ebert Foundation and completed his Doctor iuris with "summa cum laude" from Bonn University. At Thammasat University he gives lectures in private law, philosophy of law and integrated studies in law. In 1997 he was nominated as a commission member of the Official Information Commission of Thailand. He was awarded with a Alexander-von-Humboldt Scholarship in 1998-1999 and was nominated as a corresponding member of the German Association for Comparative Law (die Gesellschaft fuer Rechtsvergleichung) in 2001. In November 2001 he was nominated as a Professor of Law at Kyushu University, Japan and will serve as a Professor at Kyushu University until October 2002. |
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I. PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND since 11/2001 since 1983 since1993 since 1997 since 1996 since 1995 Member of Legal Advisory Sub-Committee in the Committee for Land Reform, Ministry of Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperation, Bangkok since 2000 Judge at the Central Court for Intellectual Property and International Trade, Bangkok 1993 - 2001 Head of the Department for Socio- Historical and Philosophical Studies of Law, Faculty of Law, Thammasat University 2000 - 2001 Assistant to the Rector for Legal Affairs, Thammasat University 2000/06 Guest Lecturer at the University of Greifswald, Germany 1999 Guest Lecturer at the University of Bonn, Munich, Germany 1997-1998 Member of Extraordinary Commission of the House of Representatives for Political Reform, The National Assembly, Bangkok Member of Working Group for Foreign Legal Studies in Economic Law, Law Reform Committee, Council of State, Office of the Prime Minister, Bangkok1994-1997 Associate Dean of the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand Chairman of the Committee for Legal Information Technology, Faculty of Law, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand Chairman of the Committee for Social and Academic Services at the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand 1993/1994 Guest Lecturer in Civil Law and Philosophy of Law at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok |
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International Constitutional Law at U. of Wuerzburg Germany Rome Center for Comparative Law World Bank on Law, Legal Reform and Development German Association for Comparative Law |
A) Books Problems of Concurrent Claims on the Same Movable Property, LL.M. Diss., Thammasat University, Bangkok, 1984, 132 pages (in Thai). Die Regelung der Uebertragung von Eigentum an beweglichen Sachen einschliesslich des gutglaeubigen Erwerbs im deutschen BGB unter Beruecksichtigung der Gesetzesmaterialien und in Vergleichung zum englischen und thailaendischen Recht, M. iur. Diss., Bonn 1987, 86 pages, (in German). Liability for Defects in Sale of Goods, Thammasat University Research Publications, Bangkok 1989, 50 pages (in Thai). Sachmaengelhaftung nach deutschem und thailaendischem Recht, Arbeiten zur Rechtsvergleichung, Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden, 1993, 213 pages (in German). Freedom of Information Act 1997, Winyoochon Publishing House, Bangkok 1998 135 pages (in Thai).
B) Articles in journals/contributions to books: "Homosexuality: Legal and Historical Background", in: TU-Law Journal, Vol. 13/2 (1983), pp. 85-95 (in Thai). "Copyright in Thailand", in: TU-Law Journal, Vol. 13/4 (1983), pp. 1-38 (in Thai). "The Swiss Civil Code: Its Backgrounds and Characteristics", in: TU-Law Journal, Vol. 16/3 (1986), pp.83-99 (in Thai). "The UN-Convention on the International Sale of Goods", in: TU-Law Journal, Vol. 17/4 (1987), pp. 91-110 (in Thai). "The Abstract Real Contract in the German Civil Law", in: TU-Law Journal, Vol. 19/2 (1989), pp. 78-102 (in Thai). "Liability for Defective Goods", Research Paper, Faculty of Law, 1989, 65p. (in Thai). - "Product Liability: Some Reflections in Comparative Aspects" in TU-Law Journal, Vol. 20/1 (1990), pp. 155-194 (in Thai). "The 1992-Amnesty for Murder in Uniform and Its Validity" in Commemorative Volume for Prof. Chitti Tingsabadh, Bangkok 1993, pp. 93-102 (in Thai). "Offer and Acceptance in Comparative Aspects", in TU-Law Journal, Vol. 24/1 (1994), pp. 69-86 (in Thai). "Juristic Methods in Civil Law and Common Law", in Dula-Baha, Vol. 41/1 (1994), pp. 50-74, Vol 41/2 (1994), pp. 59-85 (in Thai). "Reflections on Right of Corporal Integrity", in Commemorative Volume for Prof. Pairoj Jayanam, Bangkok 1995, pp. 47-54 (in Thai). "Legal Science in Thailand: Vision 2000", in RabiSara (Journal of the Thammasat Lawyers’s Society), Vol. 14 (1996), pp. 7-26 (in Thai). "Introduction to Internet for Lawyers", in RabiSara (Journal of the Thammasat Lawyers’s Society), Vol. 14 (1996), pp. 71-84, (in Thai). "Fundamental Right to Life and State Responsibility in Case of Disaster", in: The Rule of Law in Application, Commemorative for Prof. Dr. Kanit Na-Nakorn, Bangkok, Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation and Faculty of Law, Thammasat University, 1997, pp.147-169 (in Thai) "Introduction to Y2K Liabilities in Civil and Commercial Code" in "TU-Law Journal, Vol.29/1 (March 1999), p.1-15 (in Thai). "Reflections on the Role of Official Information Commission and the Disclosure Tribunal, in TU-Law Journal, Vol.30/2 (June 2000), p.195-222. "Doctrine of Exhaustion of Rights in Intellectual Property: German and European Experiences, in: Review for Intellectual Property and International Trade, Vol.3 (December 2000), pp.111-135 (in Thai). "Legal Education Reform – A German Aspect", in TU-Law Journal, Vol.31/1 (March 2001), pp.1-30 (in Thai). |
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C) Published contributions to academic conferences "Consumer Protection in Thailand", paper presented at the Asian Conference on Consumer Protection, Kuala-Lumpur, August 1993, 10 pages (in English). "Validity of Amnesty Law", in Conference on Validity of the May 1992 Amnesty Ordinance, May 1995, organized by the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University, Bangkok, 23 pages (in Thai). "Thai Law and its Cultural Dimension", in: Conference on Social Crisis in Thailand, April 1995, organized by the National Culture Commission, Bangkok, 37 pages (in Thai). "Basic Knowledge on Copy Right Law 1994", in Conference on Academic Publications, January 1996, organized by Chiangmai University, Chiangmai, Thailand, 26 pages (in Thai). "German and European Influences on the Thai Law of Person", in Conference on Influences of the German and the European Legal Systems on the Thai Legal System", May 1996, organized by the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, 33 pages (in Thai). "Death Penalty and Reflections in Respect of the Fundamental Right to Life", in Conference on Violence in Thai Society, October 1996, organized by Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, 19 pages (in Thai). "Public Health Service: Duty or just a State-Policy?", in Conference on Law and Public Policy on Public Health, April 1997, organized by Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, 22 pages (in Thai). "Introduction to the Access to Information Act 1997", in Conference on the Right to Know, May 1998, organized by the Office of Access to Information, Office of the Prime Minister, Bangkok, Thailand, 30 pages (in Thai). Consumer Protection in Thailand, paper presented in the Conference in Honor of Prof. Wolfgang Freiherr von Marschall, 11. Dec. 1998, Faculty of Law, Rheinisch Friedrich-Wilhelm University, Bonn, 15pages (in German) |
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"Transfer of Risk in the Sales of Goods - a comparative study with respect to the Thai legal system" paper presented in the annual Kyushu/Thammasat University Conference, 4-5 March 1999, Kyushu University, Bangkok (15 p.). The Reception of Western Law and the Doctrine of Legal Family in Thailand, paper presented in the Conference of the Society of Comparative Law, 24-26 September 1999, Freiburg i.Br., Germany, 25 pages (in German) "Thailand's Corporate Governance", paper presented in the annual Kyushu/Thammasat University Conference, "Economic Law Reform in the Aftermath of the Asian Crisis: Experiences of Japan and Thailand", 20-21 March 2000, Thammasat University, Bangkok (8 p.) "Information Access and Privacy Protection in Thailand", paper presented in Conference on Freedom of Information and Civil Society in Asia, 13. Apr. 2001, Aoyama University, Tokyo (17 pages). |
Last Revised: 10.04.2002