Biography

大村敦志 (Atsushi OMURA), a leading Japanese civil law scholar, is the author of a Treatise on Fundamental Civil Law, several textbooks and some twenty monographs and essays. Professor OMURA also chairs the Japanese Family Law Reform Commission, the Franco-Japanese Society of Legal Science and the Japanese group of the Henri CAPITANT Association of Friends of French Legal Culture.

His knowledge of the French language has enabled him to publish numerous articles in journals and collective works in France to promote Japanese law, and to publish several works in Japan to share his knowledge of French law. Professor Atsushi OMURA has taught at universities all over the world, and in particular at the Paris-Panthéon-Assas University.

Collaboration with the Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies (IAO)

Professor Omura's visit is in line with the work carried out at the Lyon Institute of East Asian Studies on institutions and contemporary society in Asia. His visit to Lyon is also part of the partnership between ENS de Lyon and the University of Tokyo.

His presence at the IAO will enable further research into Franco-Japanese comparative law, with a legal history dimension. In particular, he will contribute to the research being carried out on the history of legal relations between France and Japan, a subject on which several of the laboratory's researchers are working, including Akihiko Tsujimura, a long-term visiting professor at the IAO.

Lecture topics include intellectual history and Franco-Japanese academic exchanges in the early 20th century.