Prof. Hayato Hirata, Professor at Asahi University (Faculty of Law and Graduate School of Law), received BA from Chuo University (1980), MA from Hiroshima University (1983, Master of Laws), Dr. of Laws from Meiji Gakuin University (2016, by thesis only), and Dr. of Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School (2021). He had been the Dean of Asahi University School of Law (2013–2017) and Library Director of Asahi University (2019–2021). He is the President of the Japan Association of Business Management Law (2020–present). He has received the Award of the President of Nagoya District Court (2010, as a Civil Commissioner) and 2022 Award of the President of the Aichi Prefecture Civil Mediation Federation (2022, as a Civil Conciliation). He holds doctorates in two different fields, laws and engineering, and his research is an integration of arts and sciences.Prof. Katsumi Nitta, Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology, holds the degree of Dr. of Engineering. He graduated from the graduate school of Tokyo Institute of Technology and received MS and Dr. of Engineering in 1977 and 1980, respectively. He worked for Electro Technical Laboratory from 1980 to 1988 and engaged in the research of AI and law. In 1988, he moved to the Institute of New Generation Computer Technology and managed the development of AI application systems on the fifth-generation computer. From 1996 to 2016, he worked for Tokyo Institute of Technology and studied the argumentation theory, human agent interaction technology, multimodal communication technologies, and so on. He received the paper award from the Japan Society of Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) in 2013 and 2016 and JSAI Achievement Award in 2014 for the research of legal reasoning.
