Professor Etsuko Sugiyama
Etsuko Sugiyama is a Professor of Law at Faculty of Law, Graduate School of Law and Law School at Hitotsubashi University in Japan.
Prof. Sugiyama specializes in civil procedural laws, civil execution laws, insolvency laws and alternative dispute resolutions. She started her academic career at the Graduate School of Law and Politics of the University of Tokyo as a research associate after obtaining a Bachelor of Law degree there. She has a Master of Law degree at Yale Law School in the U.S. She passed the bar exams both in Japan and New York State and is qualified as an attorney in New York State. Her current academic interests are in the introduction of Information Technologies (IT) and handling of digital assets in those civil proceedings.
Prof. Sugiyama currently is the director of Japan Association of the Law of Civil Procedure and Japan Association of the Law of Mediation and ADR. She has been a member of various legislative councils for civil procedural laws and family law at the Ministry of Justice, and a member of the committee for telecommunications dispute resolution at the Ministry of International Affairs and Communications. She also represents the Government of Japan at Working Group V (Insolvency) of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).
Select publications
- “Law and Practice; Civil Procedure (5th ed.)” (Co-Author), Shojihomu, 2024
- “Digitalization of non-contentious case procedure, civil concilation, labor tribunal, personal status litigation and domestic relations case procedure, Jurist 1590-72, 2023
- “Recent works of UNCITRL WG V and new Model Laws and Legislative Guide”, Hitotsbashi Hogaku, 21-3-281, 2022
- “Electronic contracts, digital signature and civil procedure”, Jurist1560-42, 2022
- “Present and Future Issues Regarding New Types of Evidence, Electronic and Digital Evidence In Particular”, Koichi Miki (ed.) Technology, the Global Economy and Other New Challenges for Civil Justice, at 431, Intersentia, 2021
- “Current Situations and Future Issues of Japanese Insolvency Law”, Lucio Ghia, International Business Law (2nd ed.), at 115, Wolters Kluwer, 2019
- “Civil Procedure; Critical issues and their solution”, Nihonhyoronsha , 2014.
- “Civil Procedure and Experts”, Yuhikaku, 2007
