Kentaro Matsubara

Spring 2026 University of Tokyo (Todai) Exchange Visitor

Kentaro Matsubara (LL.B. Tokyo, D.Phil. Oxford) is Professor of Law at the University of Tokyo. His works include: “East, East, and West: Comparative Law and the Historical Processes of Legal Interaction in China and Japan” (American Journal of Comparative Law, 2019) and Legal Radicalism: Foundational Approaches to Law and its Limits (co-edited volume: Yuhikaku, 2023 (in Japanese). He has held visiting appointments at Columbia Law School, The University of Hong Kong, The National University of Singapore, The University of Bordeaux, and Yale University.