Biography
Dr. Yamanaka is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo Campus. He teaches graduate-level courses in Corporate Law, Financial Law and Corporate Governance from a comparative perspective, with a focus on the legal systems of the U.S., the UK, Germany and Japan. Previously, he was a Fellow at the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University and an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School. He was also a scholarship recipient at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and a Recognised Student at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law. He holds a Doctor of Laws (Ph.D. in Corporate Law) from the University of Tokyo.
His publications include: Harald Baum and Toshiaki Yamanaka, ‘Investment Services Regulation in Germany and Japan’ (2021) 18 ECFR 464 <https://ssrn.com/abstract=3902021>; Toshiaki Yamanaka, ‘Corporate Boards in Europe and Japan: Convergence and Divergence in Transition’ (2018) 19 EBOR 503 <https://doi.org/10.1007/s40804-018-0115-5>; Hideki Kanda and Toshiaki Yamanaka, ‘Central Banking in Japan’ in Peter Conti-Brown and Rosa Maria Lastra (eds), Research Handbook on Central Banking (Edward Elgar 2018) <https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784719227.00010>.