Professor Kent Anderson
Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University
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Director of the Faculty; Professor, Japan Centre |
Kent Anderson is a comparative lawyer specialising in Japan. He is Director of the Faculty of Asian Studies in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and holds a joint appointment with the ANU College of Law.
Kent has an eclectic background, having completed tertiary studies in Japan, US, and UK, and working first as a marketing manager with a US regional airline, then as a practicing commercial lawyer in Hawaii, and, before joining ANU, as associate professor at Hokkaido University School of Law. He has also been a visiting professor at Waseda, Nagoya, and Chuo Universities in Japan.
In addition to private international law and insolvency, he teaches a variety of Japanese law courses including a cross-listed introductory course, an advanced seminar, a language course on reading Japanese legal materials, a moot arbitration and negotiation in Japan course, and an intensive graduate course in Kyoto.
His research has focused on Japanese insolvency, conflict of laws, and recently the introduction of Japan’s new quasi-jury system (saiban-in seido).
Outside of work, Kent enjoys brewing Ales, listening to the Blues, and playing with his Child — the ABCs of life.