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Member
WTO Appellate Body
Born in Japan on 26 December 1934, Yasuhei Taniguchi
is currently Professor of law at Tokyo Keizai University, and Attorney
at Law in Tokyo. He obtained a law degree from Kyoto University in 1957
and was fully qualified as a jurist in 1959. His graduate degrees include
LL.M., University of California at Berkeley (1963) and J.S.D., Cornell
University (1964). He taught at Kyoto University for 39 years and has
been Professor Emeritus since 1998. He also has taught as Visiting Professor
of Law in the United States (University of Michigan, University of California
at Berkeley, Duke University, Stanford University, Georgetown University,
Harvard University, New York University, and University of Richmond),
in Australia (Murdoch University and University of Melbourne), at the
University of Hong Kong and at the University of Paris XII.
Professor Taniguchi is former president of the Japanese Association
of Civil Procedure and currently vice-president of the International
Association of Procedural Law. He is affiliated with various academic
societies and arbitral organizations as arbitrator, including the International
Council for Commercial Arbitration; the International Law Association;
the American Law Institute; the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association;
the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; the American Arbitration Association;
the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre; the Chinese International
Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission; the Korean Commercial Arbitration
Board; and the Cairo Regional Centre of Commercial Arbitration. He has
also been an active arbitrator in the International Chamber of Commerce
(ICC) Court of International Arbitration.
Professor Taniguchi has written numerous books and articles in the fields
of civil procedure, arbitration, insolvency, the judicial system and
legal profession, as well as comparative and international law related
to these fields. His publications have been published in Japanese, Chinese,
English, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese.