Tamio NAKAMURA

• Position: Professor (Faculty of Law, Waseda University)
• Degree: MA in Law, The University of Tokyo; LL.M., University of London; Ph.D., University of Tokyo
• Background:
  Professor of Law, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo (2006 – 2010)
  Associate Professor of Law, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo (1996 – 2006)
  Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Seikei University, Tokyo (1999 – 1999)
  Associate Professor of Law, Seikei University, Tokyo (1991 – 1999)

Field of Specialization / Research Theme / Research Projects

Comparative Law / English Law / European Union Law 

[Research Grants]

Regulating corporate global supply chains by private peremptory rules – EU Law as a reference point, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research) 2024 – 2027

Major Works/ Publications

[Books]

• Tamio Nakamura (ed), Reference Value of EU Law in Japan (Shinzansha, 2025)
• Tamio Nakamura, What is the EU? (4th ed., Shinzansha 2025)
• Tamio Nakamura, Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: challenges and potentials in the ASEAN context, in Multinationals and Human Rights in Asia (Jason Ho Ching Cheung, Kazuaki Nishoka, eds.) (Hart Publishing, 2025)

[Articles]

• Tamio Nakamura, Legal Implications of the Japan-EU Strategic Partnership Agreement, EU Studies in Japan 1 (2021)
• Tamio Nakamura, Sovereignty of the State, the Parliament and the People in the UK in the context of its accession to and withdrawal from the European Union: the structural deficiencies of British unwritten Constitution revealed in the Brexit process, 95 (2) Waseda Law Review 51 (2020)
• Tamio Nakamura, Brexit and the Possible Future UK-EU Partnership Agreements, 27 International Economic Law 54 (2018)

Academic Societies/ Service to Society

Academic Societies

• European Union Studies Association Japan
• Japanese American Society for Legal Studies
• Japan Society of Comparative Law

Service to Society

• Japan Society of Comparative Law President (2025 – present), Director (2010 – 2025)
• Japanese American Society for Legal Studies Director (1996 – present)
• European Union Studies Association Japan President (2019 – 21), Director (1996 – present)

Web Page / Researcher DB / Course List

[Waseda University Researchers Database]
Details of a Researcher – NAKAMURA, Tamio

Faculty Spotlights

Message to Prospective Students

I am a professor of law at the Graduate School of Law, Waseda University. After obtaining my Master’s degree at the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo, I studied at the London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, for two years and obtained an LL.M. degree. Then I returned to Tokyo to complete my doctorate and acquired my Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1991.
I have taught European Union law, British Constitutional and Administrative law, Comparative law, Introduction Associate Professor of Law, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo (1996 – 2006) Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Seikei University, Tokyo (1999 – 1999) Associate Professor of Law, Seikei University, Tokyo (1991 – 1999) to Japanese law, and International Environmental law as a tenured professor in various universities, including Seikei University (1991 – 1999), the University of Tokyo (1999 – 2010), and currently Waseda University (2010 – present). In addition, I have been invited to teach abroad, including Oxford University (UK), KU Leuven (Belgium), Venice International University (Italy), and Tsinghua University (China).
Currently at Waseda Graduate School of Law, I am teaching mainly comparative law subjects, including comparative regionalism and transnational regulation of global markets.
I like teaching, especially in the form of discussion, and am currently keen on researching the theme of sustainability and law. In my spare time, I sing in a choir, wishing to go to heaven eventually in peace!