Itsuko Yamaguchi: Toward "International Information Law" amidst the Pluriverse: Empowering Individuals for Global Privacy Protection

A Guest Lecture in cooperation with the German-Japanese Jurists' Association.

About the Speaker
Itsuko Yamaguchi was appointed as Research Associate, the University of Tokyo in 1994. Promoted to Associate Professor (with tenure) in 1998. Professor of Information Law and Policy, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies (III), the University of Tokyo in 2012. Assistant to the University President in 2015-2016. Vice Dean of III, in 2016-2020. Conducted visiting research at Harvard Law School for one year in 1999-2000, and at Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre for another year in 2007-2008. Visiting Professor, Duke University School of Law, in February-March 2013. Senior Michigan Grotius Research Scholar, the University of Michigan Law School in Fall 2016. She has a Ph.D. in Socio-Information Studies from the University of Tokyo.

To find out more about the Speaker:
https://researchmap.jp/itsukoyamaguchi/works/50767397?lang=en
https://www.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/faculty/yamaguchi_itsuko

Abstract
Professor Itsuko Yamaguchi speaks on "Toward 'International Information Law' amidst the Pluriverse: Empowering Individuals for Global Privacy Protection." She starts with asking how local domestic laws (including Japanese law) can contribute to solving global problems of not only privacy but also broader issues regarding digital platforms and AI (artificial intelligence). For example, Japanese privacy case law proactively empowers individuals to seek tough remedial measures (such as extraterritorial injunctions) based on a right of personality, even against U.S.-located digital platform service providers under certain conditions. She argues for the need to co-create a new framework of international information law, pluriversally designed with a bundle of bottom-up, parallel domestic remedial effect, upon which all countries and regions can work together.

The Lecture will take place on site at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Mittelweg 187, 20148 Hamburg in the Gerhard Kegel Hall (5th floor).

Please register for the lecture no later than Wednesday, 24 Juni 2026 using this LINK.