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Shintaro Osawa is Professor of Civil Law at Waseda University Faculty of Law (2020–) and holds concurrent teaching posts in the Graduate School of Law and the School of Political Science and Economics. After obtaining LL.B. (2003), LL.M. (2006) and Ph.D. in Law (2012) all from Waseda, he served as research associate and lecturer at Waseda, Niigata and Chiba universities before returning to Waseda as Associate Professor (2019–2020).
Education:
- Ph.D. in Law, Waseda University, 2012
- M.A. in Law, Waseda University, 2006
- B.A. in Law, Waseda University, 2003
Research interests: Professor Osawa’s scholarship focuses on the Japanese and comparative law of obligations, with particular emphasis on guarantee contracts, security rights, bankruptcy, consumer-credit protection, and traffic-accident compensation. His comparative lens draws heavily on French civil law, reflecting his long-standing participation in the Franco-Japanese Law Association and frequent translation and commentary of French doctrinal works.
Recent publications analyse over-collateralisation in an ageing society, the reform of Japan’s security-rights registration system, and Supreme-Court precedents on guarantee liability and prescription. He is principal investigator of a JSPS Grant-in-Aid project (2022-2026) entitled “A study of the legal principles regarding excess in the real security system”.
Scientific awards & honours: While no competitive academic prizes are listed, Osawa has been an editorial committee member of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism’s Traffic Accident Counselor Handbook since 2015 and serves as conflict-of-interest management advisor to the Kazusa DNA Research Institute.
Teaching & advising: At Waseda he offers introductory and advanced civil-law lectures, specialised seminars on obligations and security rights, and clinical legal-practice courses. The supplied data do not enumerate individual student names.
Laboratories & teams: He leads the civil-law group within the Faculty of Law and participates in university-wide research units on secured-transactions reform and consumer-law policy.
