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Mr. Akifumi Gotoh

1980

Established Gotoh Law Office

1973-1980

Associate at Nagashima & Ohno (now Nagashima, Ohno & Tsunematsu), Tokyo

1973

Admitted to Japan Bar (First Tokyo Bar Association)

1971-1973

Tokyo University (LL.M.)

1969-1971

Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan

1968

Passed the Japan Bar Examination

1965-1969

Tokyo University (LL.B.)

Experience Overseas

1978-1979

Associate (trainee) at Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Tunney, Los Angeles, USA

1977-1978

Fulbright Scholar at University of Washington Law School (LL.M.), USA

Associations and Professional Activities

1996-1999

Director of the Legal Aid Association

1981-1984

Staff Committee Member of the Legislative Advisory Committee to the Minister of Justice (Subcommittee on the Law of Nationality)

1979-1981

Special Member of Section One of the Legal System Study Committee of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations

1971-Present

Member of the Private International Law Association of Japan

Major Publications and Works

"Products Liability Litigation," Case No. 118 in Issues in the Conflict of Laws (New Edition), a special issue of Jurist, July, 1996.

"Currencies Used in Payment," Case No. 51 in Shogai Hanrei Hyakusen (100 Selected International Cases), 3rd edition, 1995.
"International Judicial Jurisdiction in Damage Claims Based on Product Liability," Case No. 99 in Shogai Hanrei Hyakusen (100 Selected International Cases), 3rd edition, 1995.

"Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (2)," Topic 10 in Saiban Jitsumu Taikei (Total Series of Books on Court Practice) Vol. 10 (Law of International Civil Procedure), Seirin Shoin, 1989.

Anglo-American Commercial Law Dictionary (Contributing Author), Shoji Homu Kenkyukai, 1986.

"The Meaning of the Phrase 'neither father nor mother is known' in the First Clause of Article 4 of the Former Law of Nationality," Important Cases of 1983, a special issue of Jurist, June, 1984.

"Concerning the Interim Draft for the Revision of the Law of Nationality," Jurist, no. 788, 1983.

"The Malaysia Airlines Case," Important Cases of 1981, a special issue of Jurist, June, 1982.

"Business Form of Legal Aid," History and Prospects for Legal Aid, in the 30th Anniversary special publication of the Legal Aid Association, 1982.

"Notice of Intention; and Acquisition, Production and Use of Various Documents in International Matters," Liberty and Justice, no. 6, 1980.

"Products Liability and International Jurisdiction," The Japanese Annual of International Law, v. 21, 1977 (in English).

"Reciprocity and Unrecognized States under the Patent Law," Shogai Hanrei Hyakusen, Zoho-Ban (100 Selected International Cases, enlarged ed.), 1976.

"International Judicial Jurisdiction in Cases of Products Liability," Jurist, no. 580, 1975.

"International Judicial Jurisdiction in Cases of Breach of Contract," Jurist, no. 543, 1973.

"The 'Buzumi Ryodate' System (partial reservation by a lending bank) and Antitrust Laws," Jurist, no. 539, 1973.

"Judicial Jurisdiction in Cases of International Adoption," Jurist, no. 506, 1972.