Colin Jones

Japan Program Visitor, Fall 2010

With CAPI from September, 2010 - December, 2010

Accreditations: BA (Berkeley), LLM (Tohoku), LLM (Duke) and JD (Duke)

Colin P.A. Jones was CAPI's Japan Program Visitor for the Fall of 2010. He is a Professor at Doshisha University Law School in Kyoto, Japan and prior to entering academia, he practiced as a lawyer in New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo with a focus on commerce, finance and telecommunications. He is admitted to the bars of New York and Guam, and is also qualified to practice in the Republic of Palau. He has a Bachelorʼs degree in Oriental Languages and Literature from U.C. Berkeley, an LL.M from the Tohoku University Graduate School of Law, and a J.D. and LL.M. from Duke Law School.

As a scholar, Professor Jones has published extensively in both English and Japanese on a wide variety of subjects, focusing primarily on Japanese law. He has been closely involved in the problems of international child abduction and post-divorce/separation parental access in Japan. He has been a speaker at a wide variety of events including symposia sponsored by the Canadian and U.S. embassies in Tokyo, as well as study sessions for the Japanese Diet. From May to August of 2011 he was a member of the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communicationsʼ Policy Evaluation Bureau law school system study group.

During his time with CAPI, Professor Jones taught a course in the UVic Faculty of Law, and convened a workshop, Legal System Reform in Japan: A Brave New World?, in November 2010.

Email: cjones@mail.doshisha.ac.jp