Empirical Study: Disaster Victims

Email: jfww2@cam.ac.uk

RESEARCH  |  VITA  |  PUBLICATIONS & TALKS

RESEARCH

Julius Weitzdoerfer conducts research on the legal protection of disaster victims in Japan from a comparative perspective, particularly on nuclear liability law. He is generally interested in EU and Japanese energy and financial law, and his special interests lie in environmental torts and regulatory capture.

VITA

Julius Weitzdoerfer is the Charles & Katharine Darwin Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. He studied journalism and Japanese in Tokyo and Leipzig as well as law in Hamburg, Shanghai, Kyoto and Cambridge. He was an editor and co-host on national radio and television (NHK) in Japan and is currently completing a monograph on financial crimes in Japan. His work covers vibrant aspects of Japanese law, including organized crime, criminal trials, consumer protection, disaster response and the Fukushima liability case.

PUBLICATIONS & TALKS

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