Special Advisor
松下 淳一 Junichi Matsushita
Professor, Faculty of Law, Gakushuin University / Emeritus Professor, The University of Tokyo
Career
Career
1986
Graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law
1986
Research Assistant, Faculty of Law, The University of Tokyo
1989
Research Associate, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan
1990
Full-time Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Gakushuin University
1991
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Gakushuin University
1996-1998
Visiting Scholar, The University of Texas School of Law
1998
Professor, Faculty of Law, Gakushuin University
2004
Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo
2024
Emeritus Professor, The University of Tokyo
2024
Professor, Faculty of Law, Gakushuin University
2024
Joined Abe, Ikubo & Katayama
Memberships
Memberships
- Japan Association of the Law of Civil Procedure
- Japan Association of the Law of Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Japan Association of Private Law
- Financial Law Association of Japan
Practice Areas
Practice Areas
Supreme Court
- Member, Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Civil Rules (2022-present)
- Legal Training Committee, Secretary (2018-2021) Member (2021-present)
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
- Public Member, Central Labor Relations Commission (2017-2025)
Ministry of Justice
- Secretary, Insolvency Law Subcommittee, Legislative Council of the Ministry of Justice (1998-2005)
- Secretary, Collateral and Enforcement Legislation Subcommittee, Legislative Council of the Ministry of Justice (2001-2003)
- Secretary, Subcommittee on Civil Procedure and Civil Execution Law, Legislative Council of the Ministry of Justice (2003-2004)
- Secretary, Trust Law Subcommittee, Legislative Council of the Ministry of Justice (2003-2009, 2016-2019)
- Secretary, International Jurisdiction Legislation Subcommittee, Legislative Council of the Ministry of Justice (2008-2010)
- Expert Member, Civil Enforcement Law Subcommittee, Legislative Council of the Ministry of Justice (2016-2018)
- Expert Member, Collateral Law Subcommittee, Legislative Council of the Ministry of Justice (2021-2025)
- Member of the Bar Examination Committee (Insolvency Law) (2005-2008, 2009, 2013)
- Secretary of the Bar Examination Committee (Member of this Subcommittee for the Selection of Candidates for the Bar Examination Examiner) (2016-2019)
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- Member of the University Subcommittee, Central Council for Education (2013-present)
- Expert Member, Council for University Establishment and School Corporation (Subcommittee for the Establishment of Universities) (2017-2019)
Financial Services Agency
- Member of the Financial Enhancement Review Board (2022-present)
Others
- Member, Advisory Board, National Headquarters for Small Business Revitalization Support (2019-present)
- Research Grant Selection Committee Members (currently in office)
- Nomura Foundation for Social Sciences Grant, National Bank Academic Research Foundation, Judicial Association of Japan and Research Incentive Paper on Insolvency and Rehabilitation Legislation.
- President, Association of Law Schools (2023-2026)
- Director, Legal Training Network, General Incorporated Association (2020-present)
- Director, Shinanotsuzoku College Foundation (2019-present)
Major books and papers
<Single Author>
- An Introduction to Civil Rehabilitation Law [2nd ed.] (Yuhikaku, 2014).
<Co-author>
- Makoto Ito = Masaaki Oka = Mutsuo Tahara = Yasuyuki Nakai = Michiharu Hayashi = Junichi Matsushita = Koji Mori, “Jokai Hasan-Hou [3rd Edition]” (Kobundo, 2020)
<Major publications>
- “Studies on Insolvency Law of Corporate Groups (1)-(4, Complete),” Hogaku Kyokai Zasshi (Journal of the Jurisprudence Association), Vol. 107, No. 11, pp. 1761-1848, Vol. 107, No. 12, pp. 2022-2077 (1990), Vol. 110, No. 3, pp. 295-334, Vol. 110, No. 4, pp. 419-472 (1993).
- “PRESENT AND FUTURE STATUS OF JAPANESE INTERNATIONAL INSOLVENCY LAW,” Texas International Law Journal vol. 33 no. 1 pp. 71-100 (1998) (based on a report presented at a symposium on “International Bankruptcy Law: Comparative and Transnational Approaches” held by the Texas International Law Journal in Austin on March 20, 1997).
- “UNCITRAL MODEL LAW AND THE COMPREHENSIVE REFORM OF JAPANESE INSOLVENCY LAW,” in Juergen Basedow and Toshiyuki Kono (eds.), Legal Aspects of Globalization pp. 151-164 (2000).
- “Current Japanese Insolvency Law and the Comprehensive Reform Project,” in Timothy Lindsey (ed.), Indonesia: Bankruptcy, Law Reform & the Commercial Court” (2000) pp. 125-133
- “Adjustment of Interests between Creditors and Shareholders through Rehabilitation and Reorganization Plans,” in New Construction of Civil Litigation Theory, Vol. 2, Dr. Koji Shindo’s 70th Birthday Celebration (Yuhikaku, 2001), pp. 749-773.
- “Comprehensive Reform of Japanese Insolvency Law and Civil Rehabilitation Law,” Zeitschrift fuer Zivilprozess International 2001 (6. Band) pp. 277-94 (2002)
- “New Corporate Reorganization Law in Japan,” INSOL WORLD, First Quarter 2003, pp. 18-19 (2003).
- “An Outline of the 2005 Amendments to Consumer Bankruptcy Legislation in the Federal Bankruptcy Code (1) (2, Complete),” NBL No. 819, pp. 42-48, 820, 71-76 (2005).
- “Recent Supreme Court Decisions on Bankruptcy Law and the Principle of Good Faith,” Issues and Expectations for Bankruptcy Proceedings, Essays in Honor of Dr. Makoto Tahira (Shoji Homu, 2019), pp. 51-64.