Taisuke Matsumoto – Field-R Law Offices

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Admitted in Japan
(Daini Tokyo Bar Association), October 2005

LEGAL EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION

October 2005 -present	Field-R Law Offices, Tokyo
September 2013	Overseas training (sponsored by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) at the DIS Deutsches Sportschiedsgericht (German Court of Arbitration for Sport)
September 2005	The Legal Training and Research Institute of Japan
March 2003	Kyoto University - Faculty of Law, Kyoto LL.B.

MEMBERSHIPS & ACTIVITIES

Doshisha University Graduate School of Policy and Management, Sports Management School - Graduate (2005)

MPA Musical Copyright Administrator Training Course (2006)

11th Cologne Academy on International Commercial Arbitration 2013 (2013)

External/Non-Executive Director of Hachimenroppi Inc. (since 2013)

Arbitrator of the Japan Basketball Association (since 2014)

Director of the Japan Professional Baseball Players Association (since 2013)

Expert Ambassador on Promoting Understanding of the Japan Sports Arbitration Agency (since 2013)

Member of the Japan Sports Arbitration Agency Committee on Sports Governance (2014)

Secretary of the Japan Sports Law Association

Secretary of the Japan Sports Support Organization

Part Time Lecturer at the Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo (in charge of "Debate on Sports Law" since 2009)

Part Time Lecturer at Chuo University, Tokyo (in charge of "Sports Law" since 2012)

PUBLICATIONS

PUBLICATIONS (All titles translated into English for convenience)

"Governance Guidebook for the Trouble Free Management of Sports Associations" (co-authored publication) published by Japan Sports Arbitration Agency

"Discussions on Japan's Basic Act on Sport", [Sports Organisations & Japan's Basic Act on Sport part II (in charge of Chapter 3 "Sports Organisations")] (co-authored publication) published by Seibundo

"Professional Sports Athletes/Players as Workers under the Labour Union Act", (Japan Sports Law Association)

"The Real Victory in Sports – Violence/Corporal Punishment Free Instruction" (co-authored publication) published by Edel Research Institute (Eideru Kenkyujo)

"Practical Guidebook on Sports Governance – From Basic Knowledge to Formulating Know How" (co-authored publication) published by Minjiho Kenkyu Publishing Co., Ltd.

PAPER / JOURNAL(All titles translated into English for convenience)

"The Professional Baseball Player Doping Issue and Human Rights", Issue 16 - "Sports and Human Rights", published in the Japan Sports Law Association Annual Review, 2009

"The Systems that Restrain Player Transfers in Professional Sports and the Legal Theory on Restraints of Trade", issue 16 of the Japan Sports Law Association Annual Review - "Sports and Human Rights", (2009), published by the Japan Sports Law Association

"Compliance in Sports Associations Through Case Studies (inc. the CAS Ganaha Arbitration)", (co-authored publication) August issue of "Liberty and Justice", published by the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, 2009.

"A Consideration of the Worker Characteristics of Professional Athletes ? Professional Footballers also have a "Subordinate Relationship" in terms of Employment"September/October Issue of "Forward-thinking Labour Management" published by the Labour Research Committee (Roudou Chousakai)

"Labour Negotiations by Japan's Professional Sports Players' Unions and their Significance" February issue of "Labour Law Junpo (Roudou Houritsu Junpo), published by Junposha Co., Ltd., 2013. (Roudou Chousakai)

"A New Level of Athlete Selection Problems", first edition of the 2014 International Sport Lawyers Association newsletter, published by the International Sport Lawyers Association

"Players' Legal Risk in Japan", first edition of the 2014 International Sport Lawyers Association newsletter, published by the International Sport Lawyers Association

"LINN Legal Column", since 2014 for Shin Nippon Houki Publishing Co., Ltd.

LECTURES (All titles translated into English for convenience)

2014

"Handling Risk for Famous People/Celebrities" ('Special Lecture on Handling Risk' - Sunny Side Up Inc.)

2013

"Why do you pitch so many?" (UNI Global Union Health & Safety Exchange)
"Standards in National Team Selections" (Japan Sports Law Association; joint talk/lecture)
"Violence in Sports Organisations – Survey Results" (Japan Sports Law Association; joint talk/lecture)

2012

"Towards Realising Integrity – the Current Activities Undertaken to Eliminate Anti Social Forces from Professional Sports in Japan" (Event Symposium of the Japan Sports Law Association)

2011

"Sports Law" (Waseda Law School- in charge of "Publicity Rights")
"Professional Sports Athletes/Players as Workers under the Labour Union Act" (Japan Sports Law Association)

2010

"The Transformation of the J-League Domestic Transfer System in 2009" (Japan Sports Law Association)
"The Business of Professional Baseball Agents and Player Contracts" (Tokyo Daini Bar Association Sports Law Policy Research Committee)
"Special Lectures on Event(s) Management" (Biwako Seikei Sport College, Otsu - in charge of "Sports Law in Event(s) Management")
"Special Lectures on Sports Management" (Biwako Seikei Sport College, Otsu - in charge of "Sports Law in Sports Management")
"The Issues Concerning the Governance of Sport Associations in Japan" (16th Congress of the International Association of Sports Law (IASL), Seoul, South Korea)

2009

"Special Lectures on Sports Management" (Biwako Seikei Sport College, Otsu - in charge of "Sports Management in Practice - ‘What is Sports Business Law?'")
"The Professional Baseball Player Image & Publicity Rights Lawsuits in Japan and Korea (Judicial Precedents Research)" (Asia Sports Law Association)

2008

"Professional Sports and Doping - the Present Situation and Issues Concerning Doping Sanctions in Professional Sports" (Japan Sports Law Association)
"The Systems that Restrain Player Transfers in Professional Sports and the Legal Theory on Restraints of Trade" (Japan Sports Law Association)
"The Professional Baseball Player Doping Issue and Human Rights" (Event Symposium of the Japan Sports Law Association)

Plus, numerous training courses/programmes both inhouse and for sports organisations.