Kentaro 

MATSUBARA

Kentaro Matsubara is a Professor of Law at the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics at The University of Tokyo. He has an LL.B. from the University of Tokyo and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. He specialises in oriental legal history and his research interest is in the historical study of the property regime and social structures in China. His recent publications include: “East, East, and West: Comparative Law and the Historical Processes of Legal Interaction in China and Japan” (American Journal of Comparative Law, 2019) and “Institutions of Credit and the Land Market in the New Territories of Hong Kong: Local Social Structuring and Colonization” in Sui-wai Cheung, ed. Colonial Administration a nd Land Reform in East Asia (Routledge, 2017). He is currently preparing a book manuscript on Law of the Ancestors: Lineage Property – Holding and Social Structures in 19th Century South China . He has held visiting appointments at Colombia Law School, The University of Hong Kong and Yale University