Yoh Matsuo (松尾陽), Nagoya University

 Matsuo

Professor Matsuo’s research field belongs to philosophy of “law”. Here “law” mainly refers to the laws which lawyers use, not to the laws of nature which scientists seek for.

Philosophy of law consists of three questions: (1) What is law? (2) What law should be? (What is justice?) (3) How we approach to law and justice. By asking these questions, legal philosophy tries to find out what is the order of human society.

Yoh’s special interest is in comparison between legal regulations and other ones. Other regulations include social (or moral) norms, architectures, markets, and so on. Recently, architectural regulations have received particular attention as a kind of regulation and be used in place of legal regulation. Today, the word “architecture” is used not only by architects but also by computer engineers, by business people, and by public policy makers. For example, policy makers try to reduce numbers of crimes by designing urban environment.

Legal regulation is not the only tool to regulate human behaviors. Comparing with other or non-legal regulations, I ask for ‘what is law’ question. 

 

Education

B.A. 03/2001    Faculty of Law, Ritsumeikan University

M.A. 03/2003   Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University

M.A. 03/2005   Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University

Ph.D 03/2009   Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University

 

Academic Positions

04/2008-03/2009            Program-Specific Researcher (Creative Scientific Research), Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University

04/2009-03/2011            Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University

04/2011-03/2014            Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Kindai University (then Kinki University)

04/2014-03/2016            Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Kindai University

04/2016-03/2017            Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University

04/2017-present             Professor, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University

 

Books

  • Yoh Matsuo ed., Architecture and Law: Architectural Turn in Legal Theory? (Kobundo, 2017) (in Japanese)
  • Naoto Katagiri, Jun Okada, Yoh Matsuo eds., The Future of Constitution (Nihonhyoronsha, 2017) (in Japanese)