
Takashi Katsumata
Research field:European legal history

Takashi Katsumata
Research field:European legal history
●What are your current research interests?
Relationship between different laws and validity of local law in the Middle Ages and the early modern period.
●What do you enjoy most about research?
Finding a topic that hasn’t been noticed in previous research in historical materials.
● What does research mean to you?(In a nutshell)
Adding a piece of findings to the accumulated body of studies.
●What inspired you to become a researcher?
Interest in “ius commune” from a European legal history class.
●What are your future goals as a researcher?
To learn to use clear language.

Akimune Yoshida
Research field:Comparative Law and Animal Law

Akimune Yoshida
Research field:Comparative Law and Animal Law
●What are your current research interests?
Comparative Legal Culture, Animal’s Legal Status, and Education and Research of Japanese Law in English
●What do you enjoy most about research?
Finding out the relevance between things that seem unrelated.
● What does research mean to you?(In a nutshell)
Improvement of arguments through discussion across time and space.
●What inspired you to become a researcher?
My respectful mentors and Seminaristen changed my life.
●What are your future goals as a researcher?
My future goal is to contribute to academia and society.