Hiroo Sono
- Last Updated: August 15, 2006
Hiroo Sono joined the Faculty of Law, Hokkaido University in 2004 after teaching at Kyushu University (1998-2004) and Kanazawa University (1994-1998). He is a graduate of Hokkaido University (Bachelor of Law 1987, Master of Law 1989) and the University of Michigan Law School (LL.M. 1990). In college, he was awarded the Inoue Ikueikai Scholarship and the Diesel Kiki Scholarship [now known as the Zexel Scholarship], and while at graduate school, he received the Japan Scholarship Foundation (Nihon Ikueikai) Scholarship and the Murata Overseas Scholarship. During 1993-1994, he was a Research Fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). In 2000-2001 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia School of Law.
His primary research interests include (i) the Tension between Private Ordering and Law; (ii) International Developments in Contract Law (CISG, UNIDROIT Principles, etc); (iii) The Logic of Private Law in Ordering Competition; and (iv) Technological Change and the Transformation of Law. For a list of pubications, click here (Japanese font required).
He is a member of the CISG Advisory Council (CISG-AC) and the general editor for CISG-Japan Database.
In addition to various lectures/seminars on the Japanese "Civil Code (Mimpo) ", he teaches courses on "International Developments in Contract Law". He is a regular visitor at Kyushu University where he teaches a course on "International Developments in Contract Law" for their LLM/YLP program.