Academic profile
Dr Konatsu Nishigai is currently Associate Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. She specialises in law, with a particular forcus on legal philosophy and public law. Her current research investigates how judges apply and make law, particularly within common law systems. This project draws on the late Cambridge pragmatism, examining the interplay between intra-linguistinc and inter-linguistic functions of law-appliers’ take-true assertions in legal reasoning. She holds PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge, as well as Juris Doctor (magna cum laude: U-Tokyo) and BA in Law (Keio). She lectures and supervises in ‘The Public Sector, Institutional and Legal Frameworks’ (Paper 2) at the Department of Land Economy. |
Teaching
| ‘The Public Sector, Institutional and Legal Frameworks’ (Paper 2) |
Publications
Konatsu Nishigai, ‘Two Types of Formalism of the Rule of Law’ (2022) 42 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 495-520. https://academic.oup.com/ojls/article/42/2/495/6420390
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Category/Classification
| Law, public policy, jurisprudence |