Research on the Role of Private International Law for building the trustworthy Global Value Chain
The current state of concurrent public law
The Global Value Chain (GVC) is now a crucial infrastructure in the world economy. With increasing concern for environmental and human rights protection, public regulations applicable to the entire GVC have been introduced in major countries, making a state of concurrent public laws inevitable.
The limitations of conventional interpretations
Until now, public law has been understood to be applied individually and territorially according to the laws of each country. However, for GVCs that encompass companies operating across multiple countries, such an approach could lead to significant confusion.
Inspired by international private law
In this research, we aim to develop a methodology for public law selection with the goal of establishing appropriate governance for GVCs. Drawing inspiration from the ideas of international private law and the use of AI, we seek to present this methodology as international guidelines.
Given the premise of concurrent public laws for environmental and human rights protection, there is a need for the development of a methodology for public law selection with the aim of establishing appropriate governance for Global Value Chains
Recent Seminars
- Hybrid seminar19 March 2024 Conference Room of Acros Fukuoka+online: Kazuaki Kagami (tbc)
- Joint Seminar with the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam13 to 17 March 2024 Conference room of the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam: Toshiyuki Kono “Introduction to the current state of the EU law, German law, and French law: focus on the content of Draft Directive on corporate sustainability monitoring of EU; Law on inspection obligations of businesses in the supply chain of Germany… Read more: Joint Seminar with the Ministry of Justice of Vietnam
- Hybrid seminar28 February 2024 Conference Room of Acros Fukuoka+online: Toshiyuki Kono “Developments of a Binding Treaty regarding Business and Human Rights”
- LSGL Winter Academic Conference7 February 2024 Kyushu University: Mark Fenwick, Toshiyuki Kono, Ren Yatsunami, “Situating Network Responsibility”
- Hybrid Seminar30 January 2024 Conference Room of Acros Fukuoka +Online: Emeric Prevost “GVC from a Perspective of French Law and Cases in Europe“
- Kansai PIL Research Seminar27 January 2024 Kansai PIL Research Seminar: Toshiyuki Kono “GVC from a new Perspective”
- Online seminar18 January 2024 Online: Izaki Yasuhide, Executive of Honey Coffee Limited Corporation “Coffee Supply Chain”
- Seminar9 and 10 December 2023 Kyushu University and Fukuoka City Redbrick House for Cultures: Toshiyuki Kono “GVC from a new Perspective“, Dialogues with Prof. Seki, CEO of aiESG Corporation, Hisashi Harata “Multinational Corporations and GVC“
- Online seminar25 November 2023 Online: Practice of Law and Global Value Chain: Dialogues with practitioners
- Seminar at University of Paris II4 October 2023 University of Paris II: Kono Toshiyuki “Global Value Chain from a viewpoint of Conflict of laws”
Research Member
| Toshiyuki Kono | Professor Emeritus, Kyushu University Specially appointed researcher at the Graduate School of Law, Kyushu University Principal Investigator (PI) of this Research Project |
| Mark Fenwick | Professor at the Graduate School of Law, Kyushu University |
| Steven van Uytsel | Professor at the Graduate School of Law, Kyushu University |
| Ren Yatsunami | Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Law, Kyushu University |
| Kazuaki Kagami | Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Toyo University |
| Takashi Shimizu | Professor at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Tokyo University |
| Yuriko Haga | Professor at Faculty of law, Seikei University |
This research is conducted with the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKEN) in the period from the FY2023 to FY2025