Noriyuki Aoki
Noriyuki AOKI is a Professor of Civil Law at Waseda University School of Law. He joined the faculty in 2005. He mainly focuses his research on property law with special interests in mortgage law and secured transactions law. He has written over 30 articles on topics in this field through the approach of comparative study. He currently serves on the Committee of Secured Transactions Law Reform in the Legislative Council of the Ministry of Justice Japan.
As is often the case with civil law professors working for academic institutions in their home countries, most of his publications have been for the internal academic and practical legal societies in Japan. However, he has plenty of experience, as a comparative law scholar, which allows him to contribute his opinions to global academic and practical legal societies. He has completed his research at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Columbia Law School as a visiting scholar. He teaches several topics concerning the comparative study of property law for overseas students at LL.M. at Asian Economic Integration and Law, Graduate School of Law Waseda University. Also, he has been a frequent lecturer on the topic of the comparative study of transactional laws, including lecturing at Venice International University.