Hideki Kanda

Hideki Kanda is Emeritus Professor at the University of Tokyo. He specialises in commercial law, corporate law, banking regulation and securities regulation. Mr Kanda served as Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Law School (1989, 1991, 1993 and 2006), Harvard Law School (1996) and University of Pennsylvania Law School (2012). Mr Kanda's publications include "The Anatomy of Corporate Law" (co-authored, 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 2017). Mr Kanda is a member of the Governing Council of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UINIDROIT) and Chairman of the Working Group on Digital Assets and Private Law at UNIDROIT.  In addition, he is a member of the European Law Institute, a member of the American Law Institute, a fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute, a councilor of the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies at the Bank of Japan, and an advisor to Nishimura & Asahi in Tokyo.