Tomoumi Nishimura specializes in Philosophy of Law and Legal Informatics. Due to his experience as an programmer, he also has an expertise in the practice of computer engineering. Completing the doctoral course at the Graduate School of Law, Keio University, he subsequently worked as a specially appointed assitant professor at Research Center on Ethical, Legal, Social Issues, Osaka University. Since 2022, finishing to work at that center, he started to work as an associate professor of Legal Informatics at the Faculty of Law, Kyushu University. Currently, he focuses on the following research topics: philosophycal analysis of legal interpretation and legal argumentation, fundamentals of interdesciplinary studies in law, computational methodology applied into jurisprudence, ELSI on emerging technology and the methodology of RRI, etc.