Tomoya Sano
Collaborator
Associate Professor, School of Law, Meiji University
Ph.D. in Law from Nagoya University. He specializes in legal informatics, focusing on the structuring and infrastructure of legal information and the development of legislative databases. His work also extends to historical information infrastructure, including the study of Meiji-era civil code legislative history and the digitization of the Who's Who in Japan (Jinji Kōshinroku). Within the Humanitext project, he contributes to the Digital Digesta project on Roman legal texts.
Legal InformaticsLegislative DatabasesDigital Archives
Within the Humanitext project, he is involved in the following research:
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Digital Digesta
- Digital Digesta is a project to digitize the Mommsen edition of Justinian’s Digesta using AI-based OCR. As a specialist in legal informatics, he contributes to the structuring and curation of the digitized Roman legal texts. At a Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory online seminar in March 2026, he co-presented “From Roman Jurisprudence to Modern Japanese Statutes: Tracing the Reception of Law via LLMs and Generative AI,” examining how AI can trace the reception of Roman law into modern Japanese statutes. He is also working on research to elucidate how Roman law was received into modern Japanese civil law.