| Name | Tokuyasu KAKUTA |
| Academic post | Associate Professor |
| Faculty of appointment | GSL |
| Office | 315 |
| Phone | 2332 |
| Degrees | Ph.D., Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1997 |
| Office hours | Generally available. |
| Publications |
A Goal-Dependent Abstraction for Legal Reasoning by Analogy, Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Law (Kluwer Academic Publishers), vol.5, pp.97-118, 1997 (with Y. Okubo and M. Haraguchi) |
| Research interests | Legal reasoning by teleological analogy, Computational argumentation systems, Knowledge representation |
| Readings recommended to prospective applicants | Anne vonder Lieth Gardner, An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Legal Reasoning (Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning), MIT Press, 1987 Thomas F. Gordon, The Pleadings Game, Springer, 2001 |
| Preparation suggestions for prospective applicants | The basic qualities required in this research field are to have ICT (Information and Communication Technology) knowledge and skills, to consider legal problems logically or mathematically, and to try to understand new issues and multiple cultures. |