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Faculty Members Higuchi, Norio (Mr.) Professor of Law The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-0033 JAPAN Tel: 81-3-5841-3264 ; E-mail: nhiguchi@j.u-tokyo.ac.jp Born in Niigata, Japan on December 8, 1951 Education and Career 1974: LL.B., The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law 1974-77: Research Assistant, The University of Tokyo 1978-79: Lecturer, Gakushuin University 1979-86: Associate Professor, Gakushuin University 1986-92: Professor of Law, Gakushuin University Aug. 1992 to date: Professor of Law, The University of Tokyo Specialty Anglo-American Law: contract, torts, family law and medical law Research and other relevant overseas activities 1981-83: Researching at the University of Michigan Law School and at the College of Law, University of Arizona, as a fellow from the International House of Japan (Nitobe Fellow) 1995: Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan Law School teaching a course on Current Legal Issues in Japan 1999: Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School Public lectures or presentations at academic societies (The following presentations were made in Japanese) 1) On the Freedom to Breach the Contract, at the regular meeting of the Japanese American Society for Legal Studies (1983) 2) A Comparative Look at Comparative Negligence, at the annual meeting of the Japan Association of Private Law 3) Information and Privacy Law in American Adoption Law, at the annual meeting of the Society for Socio-Legal Studies on Family Law (1989) 4) Tort Reform or Tort Replacement?---Malpractice Reform in U.S.A., at the annual meeting of the Academic Society for Law and Social Science (1991) 5) Fiduciary relationship: Its American meaning and Japanese thinking, at the Trust Companies Association (1992) 6) Child abuses under Japanese Law, at the research conference of psychiatrist, obstetricians and other physicians (1992) 7) Children's Rights in U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, at the annual meeting of the Society for Socio-Legal Studies on Family Law (1993) 8) Physician assited suicide in Japan, at a staff seminar at the Univ. of Michigan Law School (1995) 9) Trust and Contract, at Trust Law Society (1996) 10) Fiduciary Model and Contractarian Model, at Kyoto conference on modern contract law (1997) 11) Telemedicine in Japan from a legal perspective, International conference on telemedicine (1997) 12) Patients' access to their own medical records in common law countries, at Medical Law Society Symposium (1998) 13) Patient-Physician Relation: Contractual or Fiduciary?, at the Prvate Law Society Annual Meeting (1999) Major Publications Books 1) Oyako to Ho (Laws of Parent and Child: A Comparison of Japan and the United States) pp. 250 (Kobundo 1988)(1989 U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission Best Book Prize) 2) Dictionary of Anglo-American Law (Co-editor, The University of Tokyo Press 1991) 3) American Contract Law pp. 350 (Kobundo 1994) 4) Japanese Law in an International Context (S. Ishii & N. Higuchi eds. pp. 466 The University of Tokyo Press 1995) 5) Gendai Amerika Ho no Rekishi, translation of Morton J. Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law 1870-1960, pp. 385 (Kobundo 1996) 6) Selected cases on Anglo-American law (coeditor, Yuhikaku 1997) 7) The Age of Fiduciaries pp.261 (Yuhikaku 1999) Major Articles: written in Japanese unless otherwise specified 1) Specific Performance of Contract in Anglo-American Law, in Eibei-Ho no Shosou 601-35 (H.Tanaka ed. 1980) 2) Freedom to Breach the Contract, [1983-2] Amerika-Ho 217-40 (1984) 3) A Japanese Scholar Looks at Liquidated Damages, 19 Gakushuin Review of Law & Politics 1-34 (1984)(Written in English) 4) Collateral Source Rule in American Tort Law, 20 Gakushuin Review of Law & Politics 171-259 (1985) 5) Tort of Bad Faith Breach of Contract: An Exception to the Freedom to Breach the Contract, 21 Gakushuin Review of Law & Politics 25-67 (1986) 6) Children's Torts: U.S. Law and Japanese Law, in Eibei-Ho Ronshu 405-42 (K. Fujikura ed. 1987) 7) Law and Economics, and Contract Law: An Application in the Risk of Loss and Mistake Problems, in Hogaku Seminar 46-49 (Dec. 1987) 8) A Comparative Look at Comparative Negligence: American Law and Japanese Law (Summary written in English), 50 Shiho 110- 17 (1988) 9) Case Note: The Meaning of Baby M Judgment by the New Jersey Supreme Court, 96 Hogaku Kyousitu 76-81 (1988) 10) The Pros and Cons on Punitive Damages, 911 Jurist 19-25 (1988) 11) Children's Rights, in Horitu Jiho 19-25 (Nov. 1989) 12) Information and Privacy in American Adoption Law, 6 Socio-Legal Studies on Family Issues 99-124 (1990) 13) Legal Issues on Foster Parents in the United States, 17 Studies of Adoption and Foster Care 2-16 (1990) 14) Legal Issues of Surrogate Motherhood, 747 Hanrei Times 184-89 (1991) 15) The Patient's Right to Know of a Cancer Diagnosis: A Comparison of Japanese Paternalism and American Self- Determination (Written in English), 31 Washburn L.J. 455-73 (1992) 16) American Legal System for Child Protective Services, 227 Case Kenkyu 2-22 (1991) 17) Children's Rights: A development in the United States, 3 Gendai-Kazoku-Ho-Koza (1992) 18) Fiduciary Relationship and the Duty of the Trustee, 170 Shintaku (Trust) 99-115 (1992) 19) Parenthood under Japanese Law (Written in English, in Bainham & Pearl eds., Frontiers of Family Law 95-106, John Wiley & Sons 2d ed. 1995) 20) Child Abuse and the U.S. Supreme Court (1993) 21) Minor's Contract: U.S. and Japan, 432 Minji Kenshu 10-26 (1993) 22) Child, Parent and the State under the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, 10 The Socio-Legal Studies on Family Law 124-39 (English Summary at 275-80)(1994) 23) The Good Samaritan and the Law: A Comparison of U.S. law and Japanese law on the duty to rescue, in Japanese Law in an International Context 243-74, (S. Ishii & N. Higuchi eds. The University of Tokyo Press 1995) 24) Assisted Conception and Parent-Child Relationship, 1059 Jurist 129-36 (1995) 25) Children and Elders under the Japanese Civil Code, 1126 Jurist 29-35 (1998) 26) Patients' Autonomy under Japanese Law, in vol. 14 of the Iwanami Koza, Contemporary Law and Legal Theory 63-99 (1998) 27) In Vitro Fertilization by Nonspousal Egg: A Legal Analysis, Horitsu no Hiroba 1998 Sept. Issue 39-43 (1998) 28) A Comment on Individual Information and its Legal Protection in Japan, 1145 Jurist 52-59, 1146 Jurist 108-113 (1998) 29) Patient-Physician Relation: Contractual or Fiduciary?, in Takao Tanase ed., Contract and its Related Practices (Kobundo, 1999) Back to List