Souichirou Kozuka (PhD, Tokyo) is Professor of Law at Gakushuin University, Tokyo. He specialises in commercial law, corporate law and maritime, air and space law and has taught at Chiba University (Chiba), Sophia University (Tokyo), Keio University (Tokyo) as well as at Tokyo seminar sponsored by Ritsumeikan University & ANJeL (Australian Network for Japanese Law).
His recent publications in English include: “A governance framework for the development and use of artificial intelligence: lessons from the comparison of Japanese and European initiatives” in Uniform Law Review Vol. 24, Issue 2, pp.315-329 (2019), “The avatar law and (cyber) transnational contracts”, in Uniform Law Review Vol. 28, Issue 3/4, pp.281–292 (2024), “Corporate Governance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” (with Takuya Izumi, Kiyotaka Sasaki, Felix Steffek and Mihoko Sumida) in: Felix Steffek and Mihoko Sumida (eds), Legal Innovation: Conversations about Technology, the Legal Profession and Societal Change (Cambridge University Press 2025) and “Japan’s Initiatives in Exploring the Law of the Digital and Virtual World” in: Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht No.58 (2025), forthcoming.
Prof. Kozuka has served on several governmental committees in Japan, including as chair of the Study Group on the Utilization of Metaverse toward Web3 Era and the Study Group on the Realization of Safe and Secure Metaverse. He is correspondent of UNIDROIT (the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law) and Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL).