OF COUNSEL
Practice Areas
– Corporate and Commercial
– Employment
– EU and International
Languages
– Italian (native speaker)
– English
– Japanese
Education
– Kobe University, Graduate School of Cooperation Studies (GSICS), Kobe, Japan (PhD candidate in Law)
– Bocconi University, Milan (Combined Bachelor and Master of Science in Law)
– Cà Foscari University, Venice (First Cycle Degree Programme in Languages and Economic and Legal Institutions of Eastern Asia)
Michela is a member of the Japan Desk team and divides her time between Japan and Italy. She is based in Kobe, Japan, since 2013. She advises Italian and Japanese companies, prevalently, on corporate and commercial law, employment and EU law.
Michela is Associate Professor at Kobe University where she taught European Union law, anti-discrimination law, comparative law and legal English, and now teaches comparative labor law and economics in Japanese while working as Coordinator of the Kobe University Center for Interdisciplinary Programs. She is author of various articles and book chapters in Italian, English and Japanese on Japanese law, comparative labor law and EU law.
She is a member, inter alia, of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) as well as the Italian Association for Japanese Studies (AISTUGIA) and the Italo-Japanese Association for Comparative Law (AIGDC).
PUBLICATIONS
– Diritto del lavoro, in Introduzione al Diritto giapponese, VVAA. Torino: Giappichelli (2021)
– Telework and Equal Pay in Japan: A Comparison with the EU, in Modern Forms of Work: A European Comparative Study, Stefano Bellomo and Fabrizio Ferraro, Roma: Sapienza Università Editrice (2020)
– Indirect Discrimination in Japanese Law: A European Perspective, in The Italian Law Journal, Special Issue (2018): 55-68
– EU no kaifukuryoku, in EU no yuragi, Noriyuki Inoue, Masahiko Yoshii. Tokyo: Keiso Shobo, 2018
– Industry 4.0 and Human Resources Development: A View from Japan, E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies 7 (2018): 1-15
– Il diritto del lavoro e le riforme possibili: due esempi dal Giappone, Atti del XL convegno di studi sul Giappone, in corso di pubblicazione 2018
– L’introduzione del diritto del lavoro in Giappone: profili storici e giuridici, Atti del XXXIX convegno di studi sul Giappone, Paolo Villani, Luca Capponcelli, Naomi Hayashi, 2017
– Resilient Japan: Legal Adaptability and Migration, in Biopolitica dell’immigrazione, Marco Calabrò, Luigi Ferrara, Matthias, Theodor Vogt. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2016
– A New Path to Integration: Re-thinking Citizenship in the European Union, Kobe University Law Review International Edition 49 (2015): 209-218
MICHELA
RiMINUCCI
OF COUNSEL
Practice Areas
– Corporate and Commercial
– Employment
– EU and International
Languages
– Italian (native speaker)
– English
– Japanese
Education
– Kobe University, Graduate School of Cooperation Studies (GSICS), Kobe, Japan (PhD candidate in Law)
– Bocconi University, Milan (Combined Bachelor and Master of Science in Law)
– Cà Foscari University, Venice (First Cycle Degree Programme in Languages and Economic and Legal Institutions of Eastern Asia)
Michela is a member of the Japan Desk team and divides her time between Japan and Italy. She is based in Kobe, Japan, since 2013. She advises Italian and Japanese companies, prevalently, on corporate and commercial law, employment and EU law.
Michela is Associate Professor at Kobe University where she taught European Union law, anti-discrimination law, comparative law and legal English, and now teaches comparative labor law and economics in Japanese while working as Coordinator of the Kobe University Center for Interdisciplinary Programs. She is author of various articles and book chapters in Italian, English and Japanese on Japanese law, comparative labor law and EU law.
She is a member, inter alia, of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) as well as the Italian Association for Japanese Studies (AISTUGIA) and the Italo-Japanese Association for Comparative Law (AIGDC).
PUBLICATIONS
– Diritto del lavoro, in Introduzione al Diritto giapponese, VVAA. Torino: Giappichelli (2021)
– Telework and Equal Pay in Japan: A Comparison with the EU, in Modern Forms of Work: A European Comparative Study, Stefano Bellomo and Fabrizio Ferraro, Roma: Sapienza Università Editrice (2020)
– Indirect Discrimination in Japanese Law: A European Perspective, in The Italian Law Journal, Special Issue (2018): 55-68
– EU no kaifukuryoku, in EU no yuragi, Noriyuki Inoue, Masahiko Yoshii. Tokyo: Keiso Shobo, 2018
– Industry 4.0 and Human Resources Development: A View from Japan, E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies 7 (2018): 1-15
– Il diritto del lavoro e le riforme possibili: due esempi dal Giappone, Atti del XL convegno di studi sul Giappone, in corso di pubblicazione 2018
– L’introduzione del diritto del lavoro in Giappone: profili storici e giuridici, Atti del XXXIX convegno di studi sul Giappone, Paolo Villani, Luca Capponcelli, Naomi Hayashi, 2017
– Resilient Japan: Legal Adaptability and Migration, in Biopolitica dell’immigrazione, Marco Calabrò, Luigi Ferrara, Matthias, Theodor Vogt. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2016
– A New Path to Integration: Re-thinking Citizenship in the European Union, Kobe University Law Review International Edition 49 (2015): 209-218