[CANCELLED] The Tokyo Olympics and Sports Governance in Japan
Masayuki Tamaruya is a professor of law at the University of Tokyo, where he teaches and researches comparative law, trusts and estates, and the law of nonprofit organizations. His publications in English include several book chapters: “Charity Governance in Japan: Past Reforms and Current Debates,” in Governance and Regulation of Charities: International and Comparative Perspectives (Edward Elgar: 2023); and “Fiduciary Law and Japanese Nonprofits: A Historical and Comparative Synthesis” in Fiduciary Obligations in Business (CUP: 2021). He received an LL.B from the University of Tokyo, an LL.M. from New York University, and a diploma in legal studies from Cambridge University. He previously taught at Rikkyo University and has been a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, the Harvard Yenching Institute, the Faculty of Law at Magdalene College, Cambridge University, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
About the moderator:
Bruce Aronson is senior advisor at the Japan Center of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute and an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law. He has been a tenured professor of law at universities in the United States (Creighton University) and Japan (Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo). Before beginning his academic career, he was a corporate partner at the law firm of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in New York. He also served as an independent director at Eisai Co., Ltd., a listed Japanese pharmaceutical company. Professor Aronson twice received Fulbright grants to be a senior research scholar at the University of Tokyo and at Waseda University, and was a visiting scholar at the Bank of Japan. His main area of research is comparative corporate governance with a focus on Japan and Asia. Publications include a textbook, Corporate Governance in Asia: A Comparative Approach (with J. Kim, Cambridge University Press, 2019)