Cory Alexander Evans
Assistant Professor of Law
Professor C. Alexander Evans is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. His research focuses on Japanese law, trade law, the philosophical foundations of private law and on comparative commercial law. His most recent research project studies the use of emergency powers to modify trade and national security policy. In addition to his legal research, Evans has published first translations of major Japanese legal cases as well as of significant texts in Japanese intellectual history. Prior to attending law school, Evans worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan for more than a decade, focusing on U.S.-Japan diplomacy. Then, following law school, Evans worked for the law firm of Nagashima, Ohno and Tsunematsu in Tokyo; served for one year as a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo; and clerked, first, for Judge M. Miller Baker on the United States Court of International Trade and then, second, for Judge Steven J. Menashi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Evans is also a National Master of Chess and has published academic articles on chess theory and on the mathematics of infinite chess.
C・アレクサンダー・エバンス教授は、フロリダ大学レビン法科大学院の法学助教授です。教授の研究分野は、日本法、通商法、民法の基礎、比較商法です。民法の基礎理論に関わる主要な日本訴訟事件の初訳を掲載しています。日本に関する研究に加え、エバンス教授は関税政策を修正するための緊急権限の行使についても積極的に研究しています。大学院法学部に入学する前は、外務省に10年以上勤務し、日米外交に重点を置いていました。また、東京の長島・大野・常松法律事務所に勤務し、東京大学の客員教授を務め、米国第二巡回控訴裁判所のスティーブン・J・メナシ判事および米国国際貿易裁判所のM・ミラー・ベイカー判事の書記官を務めました。
Education
J.D., Yale Law School
Ph.D., The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
M. Phil., The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
M.A., The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
B.A., University of California, San Diego
Expertise
Foundations of Private Law, International Trade, Japanese Law, Law and Diplomacy, Philosophy of Law
Teaching & Scholarship
International Trade Law
Publications
Law Review Articles
- What Makes Private Law Transitions Succeed: Lessons from Japan and from Around the World, 33 J. TRANSNAT’L L. & POL’Y. 1 (2023) (with J. Mark Ramseyer)
- Multiple Choice: Instant Runoff Voting and Redistricting under the Voting Rights Act, 38 TOURO L. REV. 805 (2022) (with Aviel Menter)
- Taking National Security Seriously: Navigating Japan’s New Restrictions on Foreign Investment, 15 J. BUS., ENTREPRENEURSHIP & L. 81 (2022) (with Aviel Menter)
- Reinterpreting the Reinterpretation: Collective Self-Defense as Constitutional Fidelity, 9 PENN. STATE J.L. & INT’L AFF. 3 (2021) (with Aviel Menter)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Japan v. Shimizu: Negligence and Abuse of Rights Law in Early Modern Japan, 51 J. JAPANESE L. 313 (2021) (with J. Mark Ramseyer)
- A New Translation of Yoshida Shoin’s Taisaku Ichido, 8 J. JAPANESE PHIL. (forthcoming 2025) (with Ishikawa Hanako)
- A Position in Infinite Chess with Game Value ω4, INTEGERS, Aug. 7, 2017 (with Joel Hamkins & Norman Perlmutter)
- Transfinite Game Values in Infinite Chess, INTEGERS, Feb. 24, 2014 (with Joel Hamkins)
- A New Translation of Vanini’s Dialogues, PHIL. FORUM, Sep. 10, 2011
- Intuitions without Concepts Lose the Game: Mindedness in the Art of Chess, 10 PHENOMENOLOGY & COGNITIVE SCI. 175 (2011) (with Barbara Montero)
- Assessing Irwin’s The Development of Ethics, PHIL. FORUM, Aug. 1, 2011 [book review]
Book Chapters
- Property Law at the Transition to Exponential Growth: Examples from Japan, in PEOPLE, MARKETS, GOODS: ECONOMIES AND SOCIETIES IN HISTORY: CAPITALISM, HISTORIES (forthcoming 2025) (Robert Ingram, ed.) (with J. Mark Ramseyer)
- Suarez: Law and Obligation, PHIL. FORUM, Sep. 2, 2011