Preface
Preface (the original Japanese version)

■Part I　 INTRODUCTION: POLITICS, ECONOMY AND LAW IN DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 1--POLITICIZATION OF LAW OR LEGALIZATION OF POLITICS IN EGYPT

Chapter 2--REPEATED CONSTITUTIONS OVERTURNED BY COUP D’ ……

松尾 弘（Hiroshi Matsuo　まつお ひろし）
慶應義塾大学大学院法務研究科教授。慶應義塾大学大学院法務研究科・グローバル法研究所（Keio Institute for Global Law and Development： KEIGLAD） Director。
1962年長野県生まれ。慶應義塾大学法学部卒業。一橋大学大学院法学研究科博士後期課程単位取得。横浜市立大学商学部助教授，横浜国立大学大学院国際社会科学研究科教授を経て，現職。この間，シドニー大学客員教授，オックスフォード大学客員研究員，社会資本整備審議会（公共用地分科会）委員，国土審議会（土地政策分科会）特別委員，法制審議会（民法・不動産登記法部会）幹事，財政制度等審議会（国有財産分科会）臨時委員などを務める。
主要著作として，ヘルムート・コーイング『法解釈学入門』（訳，慶應義塾大学出版会，2016），ジョセフ・ラズ『法体系の概念―法体系論序説（第2版）』（訳，慶應義塾大学出版会，2011），『民法の体系―市民法の基礎（第6版）』（慶應義塾大学出版会，2016），『民法改正を読む―改正論から学ぶ民法』（慶應義塾大学出版会，2012），『債権法改正を読む―改正論から学ぶ新民法』（慶應義塾大学出版会，2017），『家族法改正を読む―親族・相続法改正のポイントとトレンド』（慶應義塾大学出版会，2019），『物権法改正を読む―令和3年民法・不動産登記法改正等のポイント』（慶應義塾大学出版会，2021），『開発法学の基礎理論―良い統治のための法律学』（勁草書房，2012），『発展するアジアの政治・経済・法―法は政治・経済のために何ができるか』（日本評論社，2016），『財産権保障と損失補償の法理』（大成出版社，2011），『基本事例から考える損失補償法』（大成出版社，2015），Property and Trust Law: Japan, International Encyclopedia of Laws, Kluwer International, 2021 ほか。

About the Author Hiroshi Matsuo,
Professor, Keio University Law School, was born in Nagano, Japan, in 1962. He graduated from Keio University in 1985 and completed courses in the master program at Keio University in 1987 and in doctor program at Hitotsubashi University in 1990.
He was employed by Yokohama City University as a Lecturer in 1990 and by Yokohama National University as an Associate Professor in 1994. He moved to Keio University as a Professor of Law in 2003. Since 2017 he is the Director of Keio Institute for Global Law and Development (KEIGLAD).
He lectures separate courses on Civil Law, and Law and Development. In addition, since 2002, he has been participating in Legal Cooperation Programs arranged by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Asian countries including Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Nepal, Myanmar, etc. He has lectured Japanese Legal System at the University of Sydney and the University of Jena as a Visiting Professor from 1997 to 2005.

His publications include books by single author:
Property and Trust Law in Japan, Wolters Kluwer, 2021; Yoi-tochi-to-ho-no-shihai [Good Governance and the Rule of Law], Nippon-Hyoron-sha, 2009; Minpo-no-taikei [A System of the Civil Law], 6th ed., Keio University Press, 2016; Zaisanken-no-hosho-to-sonshitu-hosho-no-hori [Guarantee of Property Rights and Compensation for Takings] , Taisei-shuppan, 2011; Minpo-kaisei-wo-yomu [Reading the Civil Law Reform], Keio University Press, 2012; Kaihatsu-hogaku-no-kisoriron [A Basic Theory of Law and Development], Keiso-shobo, 2012; Hatten-suru-Asia-no-seiji-keizai-ho [Politics, Economy and Law in Developing Asia], Nippon-Hyoron-sha, 2016; Saiken-ho-kaisei-wo-yomu [Reading the Obligation Law Reform], Keio University Press, 2017; Kazoku-ho-kaisei-wo-yomu [Reading the Family and Succession Law Reform], Keio University Press, 2019; Bukken-ho-kaisei-wo-yomu [Reading the Property Law Reform], Keio University Press, 2021;
and articles:
“The Rule of Law and Economic Development: A Cause or a Result?” in: Yoshiharu Matsuura (ed.), The Role of Law in Development: Past, Present and Future, CALE Books 2, Nagoya University, 2005, pp. 59-70; “Let the Rule of Law Be Flexible to Attain Good Governance,” in: Per Bergling, Jenny Ederlöf and Veronica L. Taylor (eds.), Rule of Law Promotion: Global Perspectives, Local Applications, Iustus, Uppsala, 2009, pp. 41-56; “Access to Justice in Indochinese Countries”, in: Michèle and Henrik Schmiegelow (eds.), Institutional Competition between Common Law and Civil Law: Theory and Policy, Springer, 2014, pp. 249-277; “The Rule of Law Promotion in Asian Dynamics: Toward the Rule of Law Ubiquitous World”, in: KEIGLAD (ed.), Promoting the Rule of Law in Asian Dynamics, Keio University Press, 2021, pp. 3-32 ; etc.