History of Design and Design Law

Asia:Japan.- History of Japanese Design.- History of Design Protection in Japan.- History and Current Status of Design in South Korea.- History of Design Protection in South Korea.- The Factors, Perplexity and Future of China's Design Development After the 'Reform and Opening Up' Policy.- History of Design Protection in China.- History and Current Status of Design in Singapore.- History of Design Protection in Singapore.- Europe:United Kingdom.- British Design.- History of Design Protection in the United Kingdom.- Design Made in Germany.- History of Design Protection in Germany.- History and Current Status of Design in France.- History and Current Status of Design Protection in France.- Italian Design.- History of Design Protection in Italy.- History and Current Status of Design in Scandinavia.- Design Protection in the Nordic Countries: The Past, the Present and Maybe the Future.- History of Design in Russia: 1917-2021.- History of Design Protection in Russia.- North America: United States of America.- American Design, A Cultural History.- History of Design Protection in the United States of America.- Soth America:Brazil.- History and Current Status of Design in Brazil.- History and Current Status of Design Protection in Brazil.- Oceania:Australia.- A Chronological History of Australian Design.- A History of Australian Design Law.- Summary.- History of Design and Design Law: Connections, Influences and Observations.

Tsukasa Aso is an associate professor of law (with tenure) at Kyushu University School of Design in Fukuoka, where he teaches intellectual property (IP) and design law courses at the graduate and undergraduate level. His research focuses on patent law, design law and copyright law as well as the intersection of civil and IP law. His recent publications include the interdisciplinary volumes Japanese Design Law and Practice (Wolters Kluwer, 2021) (in English) and The Legal System of Design Protection: Current Situation and Issues from the Perspective of Jurists and Designers (Nippon Hyoron Sha, 2016) (in Japanese) with Professor Christoph Rademacher; and The System of Design Protection in Different Countries (published as a Special Issue in 2017 (Vol. 25-2) of the Journal of the Science of Design by the Japanese Society for the Science of Design) (in Japanese). Professor Aso also writes about Japanese IP Law in French - for example, 'Droits de propriété industrielle et intellectuelle au Japon' in Pascale Bloch et al. (eds) Droit japonais des affaires (Larcier, 2019) pp. 121-171. He obtained his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in law from Keio University in Tokyo and has recently been a visiting scholar at the Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI), University of Strasbourg and Visiting Professor, Le Centre d'Etudes et de Coopération Juridique Interdisciplinaire (CECOJI), University of Poitiers.

Christoph Rademacher is a professor at Waseda University School of Law in Tokyo. He teaches graduate and undergraduate level courses in the field of business law and IP law, in both Japanese and English. Professor Rademacher's research focuses on the protection of technical innovation by means of patents and other rights. He is a regular speaker at IP law conferences in Asia, Europe and the US and has hosted over twenty international law conferences at Waseda. His publications include the treatise Patent Enforcement in the