HIGA Yoshihide
Faculty of Law Department of Law
Associate Professor
Last Updated :2025/06/15

Researcher Profile and Settings

      Research funding number

      30756630

    Research Experience

    • Doshisha University, Faculty of Law Department of Law, Associate Professor, 2024/04 - Today
    • Doshisha University, Faculty of Law Department of Law, Assistant Professor, 2021/04 - 2024/03
    • The University of Tokyo, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, Research Associate, 2020/03 - 2021/03
    • The University of Tokyo, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, Research Associate, 2015/04 - 2017/02

    Education

    • University of Delhi, Faculty of Law, 2017/03 - 2023/02
    • The University of Tokyo, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, 2013/04 - 2015/03
    • The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law, 2009/04 - 2013/03

    Degree

    • Ph.D. in Law, University of Delhi
    • Master of Laws, The University of Tokyo

    Committee Memberships

    • director, 2022/06 - Today, Japanese Association of Asian Law

    Awards

    • Award of the Japanese Association of Asian Law 2017
      Jun. 2017, アジア法学会, "A Study on Section 63 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 (1-2)" 132(8)(10) Journal of the Jurisprudence Association 1511-1576, 1929-1985(2015)

    Published Papers

    • Metamorphosis of Consideration in the Indian Contract Act: A Study on Good Consideration
      Yoshihide Higa
      Hōgaku, The Journal of law and political science, 87(4) 117 - 138, Mar. 2024, Research institution
    • Legal Education and Roman Law in Modern Indian Universities
      Yoshihide Higa
      The Doshisha Hogaku, 75(4) 589 - 618, Sep. 2023, Research institution
    • The Indian Contract Act as a Footstep of the Development of English Contract Law: An Analysis of the Provisions Concerning the Doctrine of Consideration
      Yoshihide Higa
      Doshisha Law Review, 75(2) 75 - 134, Jul. 2023
    • Consideration and Registered Writing in the Indian Contract Act
      Yoshihide Higa
      Delhi Law Review (Student Edition), 7 186 - 199, Sep. 2020, Research institution
    • Privy Council and the Development of the Indian Judiciary
      Yoshihide Higa
      Journal of the Japanese Association of Asian Law, (13) 1 - 24, Sep. 2020, Scientific journal
    • Decriminalization of Adultery and the Promise Made in Consideration of Past Illicit Cohabitation in India
      Yoshihide Higa
      NUALS Law Journal, 14(2) 70 - 84, May 2020, Research institution
    • A Study on Section 63 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 : Discharge of Promise and Consideration(2)
      比嘉 義秀
      Journal of the Jurisprudence Association, 東京大学大学院法学政治学研究科, 132(10) 1929 - 1985, Oct. 2015, Research institution
    • A Study on Section 63 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 : Discharge of Promise and Consideration(1)
      比嘉 義秀
      Journal of the Jurisprudence Association, 東京大学大学院法学政治学研究科, 132(8) 1511 - 1576, Aug. 2015, Research institution

    MISC

    • Moral Consideration and the Indian Contract Act: A Historical Context of English Contract Law
      Yoshihide HIga
      Comparative Law Journal, (83) 209 , Mar. 2023
    • 現代インド司法の危機について
      比嘉 義秀
      南アジア 民主政治と国際政治のダイナミズム（南アジア地域研究 京都大学中心拠点 研究グループ2 最終成果報告書 ）, 123 - 135, Mar. 2022
    • [Book Review] Tirthankar Roy & Anand V. Swamy, Law and the Economy in Colonial India (The University of Chicago Press, 2016, xii+240pp.)
      比嘉 義秀
      Kokka Gakkai Zasshi : the Journal of the Association of Political and Social Science, 130(11・12) 900 - 903, Dec. 2017, Book review

    Books etc

    • The Dictionary of Law (6th edition)
      Yuhikaku, Jan. 2025, Contributor

    Research Projects

    • イギリス枢密院司法委員会へのインド人裁判官任用の研究－最初の事例Syed Ameer Ali
      比嘉 義秀
      日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 2024/04 -2029/03, 若手研究, 同志社大学
    • comparative jurisprudence of the legal humanism
      葛西 康徳; 日向 太郎; 吉原 達也; 小川 浩三; 新田 一郎; 吉村 朋代; 松本 英実; 西村 安博; 守矢 健一; 水野 浩二; 吉川 斉; 比嘉 義秀
      Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2021/04 -2025/03, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), The University of Tokyo
    • Comparative Jurisprudence of the Institutes
      葛西 康徳; 守矢 健一; 小川 浩三; 芹澤 悟; 橋場 弦; 新田 一郎; 松本 英実; 吉川 斉; 吉村 朋代; 溜箭 将之; 吉原 達也; 西村 安博; 比嘉 義秀; 吉田 俊一郎; 板持 研吾
      2019年度は、昨年度に引き続き各研究分担者との研究会や個別の面談を頻繁に実施した。実施した研究会等は以下の通りである。 第１回・5月12日(日)15時-17時、東京大学法文1号館215教室：報告者・テーマ：Professor Michael Gagarin (Austin, TX), Democratic Law in Classical Athens; 第２回・7月4日（木）17－19時、東京大学文学部3号館7階西洋古典学研究室：報告者・テーマ：Professor Adele Scafuro (Brown), on Greek law, evolution of public justice；第３回・8月26日（月）10－16時、St John’s College (Cambridge), Cambridge-Tokyo Law and Humanities Seminar, 松本英実,Bogisic and Common Law, 溜箭将之, The Japanese Law of Fiduciaries from the comparative and transnational perspective,葛西康徳 Hubris, Iniuria and Harassment；第４回・9月4日(水),SHIDA(Internationa Conference on Roman Law, Edinburgh)吉村朋代, The restitution and the isposition of‘res extra dotem’～Scaev. 21 dig. D.35,2,95pr., 第5回・9日5日（木）, SIHDA (InternationalConference on Roman Law、Edinburgh),葛西康徳,Hubris, Iniuria and Harassment 第６回・11月19日(火)10－18時、Podgoricia(Montenegro),松本英実、Bogisic and Japanese Connection, 葛西康徳、Bogisic and Ancient Law. 第7回・2020年2月11日(火)、「法学提要研究会」出席者及び報告者吉原達也 小川浩三 松本英実 吉村朋代 葛西康徳。2020年6月7日(日)同志社大学にて開催予定の法制史学会総会にてミニシンポジウムを計画しているため、その準備会として開催した。 第8回法学提要研究会を3月に予定していたが、コロナウイルス対策のために中止。尚、6月開催予定の法制史学会(同志社大学)は2021年秋に延期。, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2017/04 -2021/03, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), The University of Tokyo