2025/02/05
Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Studies(HIAS) is honored to welcome Professor Simon Deakin from the University of Cambridge starting January 14. In addition to his stay this year, Professor Deakin will be appointed as a HIAS Visiting Researcher during January 2025 through December 2027 as a part of the HIAS Bridges Distinguished program. His stay this year will be from January 14 to February 28, during which he will be giving seminars and actively interacting with researchers of the University.
On January 24, he was welcomed by President Satoshi Nakano, Professor Yasuhiro Otsuki, Executive Vice President to the University and Director of Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, and Vice President Yasuyuki Shimotsuma. President Nakano expressed his gratitude to Professor Deakin, also stating his high expectations towards strengthening the university’s research capabilities in the field of legal innovation during his appointment at Hitotsubashi University.
Professor Deakin is professor of law and director of the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge. He specialises in labour law and private law, and conducts research in the fields of empirical legal studies and the economics of law. He is currently exploring the implications of machine learning for law. His books include Is Law Computable? Critical Perspectives on Law and Artificial Intelligence (ed. with Chris Markou, Hart, 2021).
*HIAS Bridges Distinguished program
The HIAS Bridges Distinguished program started in 2022 as a part of the HIAS Bridges, which aims to strengthen HIAS into a “base of social science” where top-level researchers form a multi-layered research network. The HIAS Bridges Distinguished program aims to further deepen and sophisticate research at HIAS by inviting world-class researchers to HIAS internationally and conducting joint research with HIAS researchers.