Professor of Law, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics
University of Tokyo
Hideki Kanda is Professor of Law at the University of Tokyo. His main areas of specialization include commercial law, corporate law, banking regulation and securities regulation. Mr. Kanda served as Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School in 1989, 1991 and 1993, and Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School in 1996. He is a member of the Financial Council at the Financial Services Agency of Japan, and also serves as Chairman of the Self-Regulatory Board at the Japan Securities Dealers Association. Mr. Kanda's recent publications include Reinier Kraakman et al, "The Anatomy of Corporate Law" (2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 2009). He also wrote many articles in English in the areas of commercial law, corporate law, banking regulation and securities regulation.