General Bio

Professor Taniguchi served as a member of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body from 2000-2007. Currently a Professor of law at Senshu University Law School, and Attorney at Law in Tokyo, in 1957 he graduated with a degree in law from Kyoto University and in 1959 was fully qualified as a jurist. Subsequent graduate degrees include a LL.M. from University of California at Berkeley (1963) and a J.S.D. from Cornell University (1964).

Teaching principally at Kyoto University for 39 years, subsequently appointed Professor Emeritus in 1998, his teaching engagements have also included: Visiting Professor of Law in the United States at University of Michigan, University of California at Berkeley, Duke University, Stanford University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, New York University, and University of Richmond; in Australia at Murdoch University and University of Melbourne, and at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Paris XII.

Currently president of the Japan Association of Arbitrators, Professor Taniguchi is also former president of the Japanese Association of Civil Procedure and until 2007 was vice-president of the International Association of Procedural Law.