Nobumichi TERAMURA

Associate Professor of Keio University Law School

Nobumichi TERAMURA joined Keio University Law School as an Associate Professor in September 2025, after serving as an assistant professor at the University of Brunei Darussalam (UBD; 2021-2025), a legal consultant at Bun & Associates in Cambodia (2020) and a lecturer at Adelaide Law School in Australia (2019). He has also been an affiliate at the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law within the University of Sydney since 2019.

He is an expert in international business law, with a particular interest in arbitration, private international law and Asian law. He has a strong interest in Southeast Asia, as demonstrated by his visiting scholar appointments in the following institutions: University of Malaya Faculty of Law in Malaysia (2025-2026), Brawijaya University in Indonesia (2018) and De La Salle University College of Law in the Philippines (2016, 2017, 2019).

He is a graduate of Doshisha University (LL.B., 2012; LL.M., 2014) and the University of Sheffield in England (M.A., 2014). He received his doctorate degree (Ph.D. in Law, 2018) from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia, with a UNSW PhD Excellence Award. He was awarded scholarships from the Japanese government and the Suenobu Foundation to pursue that degree.

At the Law School, he teaches arbitration and international dispute resolution.

◆Fields of Expertise

Arbitration, Private International Law and Asian Law

◆Selected Publications 　　　

- Research Monographs

• Nobumichi Teramura, Cambodian Private International Law (Hart Publishing, 2025)

• Nobumichi Teramura, Ex Aequo et Bono as a Response to the 'Over-Judicialisation' of International Commercial Arbitration (Wolters Kluwer, 2020)

- Edited Volumes

• Nobumichi Teramura, Luke Nottage and Bruno Jetin (eds), Corruption and Illegality in Asian Investment Arbitration (Springer, 2024)

• Luke Nottage, Shahla Ali, Bruno Jetin and Nobumichi Teramura (eds), New Frontiers in Asia-Pacific International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution (Wolters Kluwer, 2021)

- Book Chapters

• Nobumichi Teramura, 'Private International Law in Brunei Darussalam' in Béligh Elbalti (ed), Islam and Private International Law in Asia (Hart Publishing, 2025) [forthcoming]

• Nobumichi Teramura, 'Recognition and Enforcement of Chinese Judgments in Cambodia: Uncertain Foundations of the Rigid Reciprocity Standard in Cambodian Law' in Poomintr Sooksripaisarnkit and Sai Ramani Garimella (eds), Legal Challenges of China's One Belt One Road Initiative: Private International Law Considerations (2nd edn, Routledge 2025) 170-190 [forthcoming]

• Luke Nottage and Nobumichi Teramura, 'History of Arbitration in Japan' in John Ribeiro and Lars Markert (eds), Arbitration Law in Japan (Wolters Kluwer, 2025) [forthcoming]

• Nobumichi Teramura, 'Execution of Small Claims Orders' and 'Compulsory Execution of Child Return Orders' in Shiro Kawashima (ed), Introduction to Civil Execution Law and Civil Provisional Remedies Law (Nippon Hyoronsha Publishing, 2024) 169-171, 189-193 [in Japanese]

• Nobumichi Teramura, 'JICA's Legal Technical Assistance Projects in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos since the 1990s' in Liam Kelly and Gerard Sasges (eds), Vietnam Over the Long Twentieth Century: Becoming Modern, Going Global (Springer, 2024) 185-204

• Nobumichi Teramura, Luke Nottage and Bruno Jetin, 'Bribery and Other Serious Investor Misconduct in Asian International Arbitration' in Nobumichi Teramura, Luke Nottage and Bruno Jetin (eds), Corruption and Illegality in Asian Investment Arbitration (Springer, 2024) 1-36

• Luke Nottage and Nobumichi Teramura, 'Foreign Investment, Treaties, Arbitration and Corruption: Comparing Japan' in Nobumichi Teramura, Luke Nottage and Bruno Jetin (eds), Corruption and Illegality in Asian Investment Arbitration (Springer, 2024) 285-310

• Nobumichi Teramura, Luke Nottage and Bruno Jetin, 'Towards a More Harmonised Asian Approach to Corruption and Illegality in Investment Arbitration' in Nobumichi Teramura, Luke Nottage and Bruno Jetin (eds), Corruption and Illegality in Asian Investment Arbitration (Springer, 2024) 423-446

• Nobumichi Teramura, 'Cambodia' in Anselmo Reyes, Wilson Lui and Kazuaki Nishioka (eds), Choice of Law and Recognition in Asian Family Law (Hart Publishing, 2023) 219-240

• Nobumichi Teramura, 'Cambodia' in Kazuaki Nishioka (ed), Treatment of Foreign Law in Asia (Hart Publishing, 2023) 171-191

• Nobumichi Teramura and Salim Farrar, '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, 2023) 91-127

• Luke Nottage, Nobumichi Teramura and James Tanna, '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, 2022) 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, 2022) 229-242

• Shiro Kawashima and Nobumichi Teramura, 'Summary Proceedings' in Shiro Kawashima (ed), Introduction to Civil Procedure with Leading Cases (Nippon Hyoronsha Publishing, 2021) 287-295 [in Japanese]

• Nobumichi Teramura, 'Cambodia' in Anselmo Reyes and Wilson Rui (eds), Direct Jurisdiction: Asian Perspectives (Hart Publishing, 2021) 201-219

• Albert Monichino and Nobumichi Teramura, '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, 2021) 71-94

• James Claxton, Luke Nottage and Nobumichi Teramura, '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, 2021) 237-260

• Nobumichi Teramura, Shahla Ali & Anselmo Reyes, '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, 2021) 355-368

• Nobumichi Teramura, Luke Nottage and James Morrison, '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, 2020) 175-197

• Nobumichi Teramura and Luke Nottage, 'Arbitration Reform in Japan: Reluctant Legislature and Institutional Challenges' in Weixia Gu and Anselmo Reyes (eds), Arbitration Reform in Asia (Hart Publishing, 2018) 83-108

- Journal Articles

• Nobumichi Teramura and Luke Nottage, 'Corruption-related Provisions in East and South Asian Investment Agreements: An Empirical Analysis' (2025) 28(2) Journal of International Economic Law 157

• Eszter Papp and Nobumichi Teramura, 'Enforcing Singapore Judgments in Cambodia: Reciprocity Under the Loupe' (2025) 15(2) Asian Journal of International Law 252

• Nobumichi Teramura and Leon Trakman, 'Confidentiality and Privacy of Arbitration in the Digital Era: Pies in the Sky?' (2024) 40(3) Arbitration International 277

• Luke Nottage, Nobumichi Teramura and James Tanna, 'Lawyers and Non-Lawyers in International Arbitration: Discovering Diminishing Diversity' (2024) 47(2) Loyola of Los Angeles International & Comparative Law Review 139-171

• Nobumichi Teramura, 'Giorgio Fabio Colombo: Justice and International Law in Meiji Japan: The María Luz Incident and the Dawn of Modernity' (2023) 28(56) Journal of Japanese Law / Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht 289

• Luke Nottage and Nobumichi Teramura, 'Japan's International Investment, Evolving Treaty Practice and Arbitration Related to Corruption and Illegality' (2023) 28(55) Journal of Japanese Law / Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht 63

• Nobumichi Teramura, Luke Nottage and James Tanna, 'Declining Professional Diversity in International Arbitration' (2022) ACICA Review-June 31

• Nobumichi Teramura, 'Developing Brunei Darussalam as an ASEAN Hub for International Islamic Finance Dispute Resolution: Opportunity or Over-ambition?' (2022) 1(3) SMU ASEAN Perspectives 1

• Nobumichi Teramura, 'Japan as a Source of Legal Ideas: A View from the Mekong Subregion of ASEAN' (2021) 13 New Voices in Japanese Studies 19

• Nobumichi Teramura, 'Ex Aequo et Bono and Arbitration Theories: An Arbitrator's Subjective Perspective of Fairness as the final 'Gap-Filler'' (2020) 38(2) ASA Bulletin 350

• Nobumichi Teramura, 'The Strengths and Weakness of Arguments pertaining to Ex Aequo et Bono' (2019) 17(2) Asian International Arbitration Journal 63

• James Claxton, Luke R Nottage and Nobumichi Teramura, 'Developing Japan as a Regional Hub for International Dispute Resolution: Dream Come True or Daydream?' (2019) 47 Journal of Japanese Law / Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht 109

• Nobumichi Teramura, 'Australian Perspectives on International Commercial Dispute Resolution for the 21st Century: A Symposium' (2018) ACICA Review-June 38

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