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 Affiliate 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

Nobumichi Teramura, Luke Nottage and Bruno Jetin (eds.) (2024). Corruption and Illegality in Asian Investment Arbitration. Springer. [Access]

Luke Nottage, Shahla Ali, Bruno Jetin and Nobumichi Teramura (eds.) (2020). New Frontiers in Asia-Pacific International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution. Wolters Kluwer. [Access]

Journal Articles

Nobumichi Teramura and Leon Trakman, “Confidentiality and Privacy of Arbitration in the Digital Era: Pies in the Sky” (2024) Arbitration International. [Access]

Nobumichi Teramura, “Giorgio Fabio Colombo: Justice and International Law in Meiji Japan: The María Luz Incident and the Dawn of Modernity” (2023)  Journal of Japanese Law 28(56) 289.

Luke Nottage and Nobumichi Teramura, “Japan’s International Investment, Evolving Treaty Practice and Arbitration Related to Corruption and Illegality” (2023) Journal of Japanese Law 28(55) 63. 

Nobumichi Teramura (2022). “Developing Brunei Darussalam as an ASEAN Hub for International Islamic Finance Dispute Resolution: Opportunity or Over-ambition?” SMU ASEAN Perspectives 1(3). [Access]

Nobumichi Teramura, Luke Nottage and James Tanna (2022). “Declining Professional Diversity in International Arbitration.” ACICA Review (June 31).

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]

Working Paper

Nobumichi Teramura (2022). JICA and Regional Soft Power: Japan’s Legal and Judicial Development Project in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos since 1996. IAS Working Paper No. 69. Gadong: Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam.

News

Seminar on Efficient Dispute Resolution

On 29 May 2024, Brunei Darussalam Arbitration Centre held a seminar entitled “Towards A More Efficient Dispute Resolution: Best Practice in Asia and Beyond”. In this event, IAS Eminent Visiting Professor Dr Michael Hwang SC delivered a keynote lecture on “Guerilla Warfare in International Arbitration”. The lecture was followed by a panel session by Dr […]

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Corruption and Illegality in Asian Investment Arbitration: Book Launch and Symposium

On 28 May 2024, the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) co-organised a conference, “Corruption and Illegality in Asian Investment Arbitration: Book Launch and Symposium” with UBD School of Business and Economics (SBE) and the Attorney General’s Chambers (AGC) at the Golden Jubilee Hall in the Law and Courts Building […]

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New Article on Arbitration and the Internet by Dr Nobumichi Teramura

Assistant Professor Dr Nobumichi Teramura, with Professor Leon Trakman (UNSW Law & Justice, Australia), published an open access journal article entitled “Confidentiality and privacy of arbitration in the digital era: pies in the sky?” in Arbitration International.  “Abstract: Confidentiality and privacy are essential components of arbitration, preceding the digital data era. This article discusses how […]

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Symposium on Corruption and Foreign Direct Investment in the Asia-Pacific Region

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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Working 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 […]

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Video 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 […]

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