Professor Takehiro Ohya

Professor of Jurisprudence at Keio University Faculty of Law

Professor Takehiro Ohya is a professor of jurisprudence at Keio University Faculty of Law in Tokyo, Japan. His main fields of research are the philosophical basis of legal interpretation, and the effect of information technology on legal / political systems. After finishing undergraduate course of Law at the University of Tokyo, he served as a research fellow there for 4 years until when he moved to Nagoya University Graduate School of Law as an associate professor. After being promoted to full professor in Nagoya, he moved to Keio in October 2015. He is a member of the executive board of Japan Association of Legal Philosophy from 2009, and several government committees in relation with the legal / political influence of AI and technology.