As part of a research project funded by University Brunei Darussalam (UBD), the Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) and the School of Business and Economics (SBE) at UBD co-hosted an international symposium on “Academic Perspectives on Corruption and Foreign Direct Investment in the Asia-Pacific Region” at ILIA Conference Room on 29 May 2023. The invited […]
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Nobumichi TERAMURA
Assistant Professor
PhD (University of New South Wales)
About
Dr. Nobumichi Teramura is Assistant Professor of the Institute of Asian Studies, University of Brunei Darussalam (UBD) and an Associate at the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney (CAPLUS).
He is the author of Ex Aequo et Bono as a Response to the Over-Judicialisation of International Commercial Arbitration (Wolters Kluwer, 2020), based on his doctoral thesis from the University of New South Wales in Australia, which received a PhD Excellence Award when completed in 2018.
Specialising in commercial law, Dr. Teramura’s current research interests include legal integration in Asia and legal development for South-East Asian nations severely affected by colonisation and the Cold War, including Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar.
Dr. Teramura has teaching and research experience in Asia-Pacific jurisdictions including the Philippines, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Cambodia and Brunei.
Research Interests
• ASEAN and Asia-wide integration
• International Business Law
• International Commercial Arbitration
• Foreign investment and Investor-State Dispute Settlement in Asia
• Asian Law
• Comparative Law
Select Publications
Monograph
Nobumichi Teramura (2020). Ex Aequo et Bono as a Response to the ‘Over-Judicialisation’ of International Commercial Arbitration. Wolters Kluwer. [Access]
Edited Book
Luke Nottage, Shahla Ali, Bruno Jetin and Nobumichi Teramura (eds.) (2020). New Frontiers in Asia-Pacific International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution. Wolters Kluwer.
Journal Articles
Nobumichi Teramura (2020). Ex Aequo et Bono and Arbitration Theories: An Arbitrator’s Subjective Perspective of Fairness as the final ‘Gap-Filler’. ASA Bulletin 38(2), 350-374. [Access]
Nobumichi Teramura (2019). The Strengths and Weakness of Arguments Pertaining to Ex Aequo et Bono. Asian International Arbitration Journal 17(2), pp. 63-86. [Access]
James Claxton, Luke R Nottage and Nobumichi Teramura (2018). Developing Japan as a Regional Hub for International Dispute Resolution: Dream Come True or Daydream? Journal of Japanese Law 47, pp. 109-131. [Access]
Nobumichi Teramura (2018). Australian Perspectives on International Commercial Dispute Resolution for the 21st Century: A Symposium. ACICA Review 38.
Nobumichi Teramura (2016). Case Note: Indirect Compulsory Execution for Conflicting Obligations [in Japanese]. Doshisha Law Review 68(5).
Nobumichi Teramura (2015). Case Note: Indirect Grounds of Jurisdiction and a Legal Action Relating to a Tort [in Japanese]. Doshisha Law Review 67(6).
Nobumichi Teramura (2014). Recognisability and Enforceability of Annulled Foreign Arbitral Awards: Practical Perspectives of Enforcing Countries. Doshisha Law Review 66(4). [Access]
Nobumichi Teramura (2014). Doshisha University Private International Law Research Group: The Annulment of an International Arbitral Award for Violation of Procedural Public Policy [in Japanese]. Doshisha Law Review 66(3).
Book Chapters
Nobumichi Teramura and Salim Farrar (2023). Online Legal Education in Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam and Singapore: Comparing the Members of the Commonwealth in Southeast Asia, in Luke Nottage and Makoto Ibusuki (eds.), Comparing Online Legal Education: Past, Present and Future. Intersentia, pp 91-127
Luke Nottage, Nobumichi Teramura and James Tanna (2022). Developing Diversity within Diversity Discourse: Remembering Non-lawyers in Arbitration, in Shahla F Ali, Filip Balcerzak, Giorgio Fabio Colombo and Joshua Karton (eds.), Diversity in International Arbitration: Why It Matters and How to Sustain It. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp 101-118.
Nobumichi Teramura, Challenging the Arbitrariness Perception of Ex Aequo et Bono to (Re-)discover Procedural Diversity, in Shahla F Ali, Filip Balcerzak, Giorgio Fabio Colombo and Joshua Karton (eds.), Diversity in International Arbitration: Why It Matters and How to Sustain It. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp 229-241.
Albert Monichino and Nobumichi Teramura (2021). New Frontiers for International Commercial Arbitration in Australia: Beyond the ‘Lucky Country,’ in Luke Nottage, Shahla Ali, Bruno Jetin and Nobumichi Teramura (eds), New Frontiers in Asia-Pacific International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution. Wolters Kluwer.
James Claxton, Luke Nottage and Nobumichi Teramura (2021). Disruption as a Catalyst for International Dispute Services in Japan: No Longer Business as Usual?, in Luke Nottage, Shahla Ali, Bruno Jetin and Nobumichi Teramura (eds), New Frontiers in Asia-Pacific International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution. Wolters Kluwer.
Nobumichi Teramura, Shahla Ali & Anselmo Reyes (2021). Expanding Asia-Pacific Frontiers for International Dispute Resolution: Conclusions and Recommendations, in Luke Nottage, Shahla Ali, Bruno Jetin and Nobumichi Teramura (eds), New Frontiers in Asia-Pacific International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution. Wolters Kluwer.
Nobumichi Teramura, Luke Nottage and James Morrison (2020). International Commercial Arbitration in Australia: Judicial Control over Arbitral Awards, in Larry A. Di Matteo, Marta Infantino and Nathalie Potin (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Judicial Control of Arbitral Awards. Cambridge University Press, pp. 175-197. [https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316998250.016]
Nobumichi Teramura and Luke Nottage (2018). Arbitration Reform in Japan: Reluctant Legislature and Institutional Challenges, in Weixia Gu and Anselmo Reyes (eds), Arbitration Reform in Asia. Hart Publishing, pp. 83-108. [Access]
News
Seminar on Exporting Japanese Legal Ideas to the Mekong Subregion of ASEAN
The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) held a seminar on “Exporting Japanese Legal Ideas to the Mekong Subregion of ASEAN” by Assistant Professor Nobumichi Teramura (IAS). For more information, please see the flyer below.
Read MoreWorking Paper on Japan’s Soft Power in Mainland Southeast Asia through Legal and Judicial Development Projects
The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam is pleased to announce the publication of IAS Working Paper No 69: JICA and Regional Soft Power: Japan’s Legal and Judicial Development Project in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos since 1996 by Nobumichi Teramura. Please see below for details. Download the Working Paper Abstract: Due to geopolitical […]
Read MoreSeminar on Expanding Asia-Pacific Frontiers for Dispute Resolution
Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday 31 March 2021 for a talk by Dr. Nobumichi Teramura (IAS) on “Expanding Asia-Pacific Frontiers for International Dispute Resolution.” For more information, please see the flyer below.
Read MoreVideo of a Webinar on the Repercussions of COVID-19 on FTAs and International Investment in the Asia-Pacific
The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) is pleased to share a video of a webinar and book launch entitled: “New Frontiers in Asia-Pacific International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution: Webinar & Book Launch.” On 25 February 2021, a panel of experts discussed, in roundtable format, the current and potential repercussions […]
Read MoreNew Volume on International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in the Asia-Pacific Region
The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) is pleased to announce the publication of a new book co-edited by two IAS staff members. The book is entitled New Frontiers in Asia-Pacific International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution and is published by Wolters Kluwer, It is edited by IAS Director, Associate Professor […]
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