Professor, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University
Conflict of Laws (Private International Law)
Dai YOKOMIZO is Professor of Law at Nagoya University, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya, Japan, where he has taught since 2008. A graduate of The University of Tokyo Graduate School for Law and Politics (LL.B., LL.M.), Professor Yokomizo’s main research and teaching interests include Conflict of Laws (Private International Law), Comparative Law and Private Law Theory. He is a member at the Committee on Intellectual Property and Private International Law of International Law Association, Associate Editor of the Japanese Yearbook of International Law, member of the Advisory Board of the Italian Law Journal, and Member of the International Committee of Rivista di Diritto Sportivo.
His research is exploring the transformation of conflict of laws (private international law) in the era of globalization and the appropriate relation between states and non-state actors in emerging normative spaces such as internet law and sports law. His recent articles include, “Transnational Law and Conflict of Laws: A Japanese Perspective”, in Peer Zumbansen (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law (Oxford, 2021), pp. 479-492, “Cross-Border Trade Secret Disputes – Analysis by Conflict of Laws”, Nagoya University Journal of Law and Politics, No. 287 (2020), pp. 47-58, “Internet Intermediaries and Conflict of Laws with Regard to IP Infringement”, Nagoya University Journal of Law and Politics, No. 285 (2020) , pp. 145-163, “Japan”, in Catherine Kessedjian/Humberto Cantú Rivera (eds.), Private International Law Aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility (Springer, 2020), pp. 469-493, “Droit des affaires internationales” in Pascale Bloch/Naoki Kanayama/Ayako Kanezuka/Isabelle Giraudou (eds.), Droit japonais des affaires (Larcier, 2019), pp. 319-332, “Public Policy (Ordre Public) in Japanese Conflict of Laws” in Alexander Bruns/Masabumi Suzuki (eds.), Reactive Instruments of Social Governance (Mohr Siebeck, 2019), pp. 169-186, and “FDI and Investment Arbitration in Japan”, in Carlos Esplunges (ed.), Foreign Investment and Investment Arbitration in Asia (intersentia, 2019), pp. 125-138.
