Ko Hasegawa

Visiting Professor

Ko Hasegawa is Emeritus Professor of Legal Philosophy in the Graduate School of Law at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. While making research stays at University of California at Berkeley, New York University, University College London, he taught legal philosophy with related moral theory and gave lectures at the law schools in Hokkaido University, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Swansea University, and Cornell University, as well as at various conferences overseas. He also served the Director of the Advanced Institute for Law & Politics, Dean of the Graduate School of Law, and Executive Director & Vice President at Hokkaido University. He has been writing extensively on the fundamental problems of legal philosophy such as the structure of legal thinking, the concept of rights, theory of justice and equality, the dynamic conception of law in global context, and theory of human rights. His perspective in legal philosophy is based on philosophical hermeneutics, particularly on the idea of hermeneutic circle on societal scale, and substantively on a version of egalitarian liberalism in domestic and global contexts. His recent works include the nature of the translational adaptation in law, the transformative significance of the idea of human rights, and the global significance of the idea of human dignity. He is currently working on the jurisprudential potential of the interpretivist conception of law.

Webpage:  https://lex.juris.hokudai.ac.jp/~hasegawa/works.htm