Keisuke Abe is a Professor of Law and former Head of the Department of Law at Seikei University. A graduate of the University of Tokyo (LL.B., LL.M., Ph.D.) and of Harvard Law School (LL.M.), he teaches Constitutional Law, Comparative Law, and Bioethics and Law. Professor Abe has been one of the directors of the Japan Society of Comparative Law.

One of his most recent articles, “Towards a More Inclusive Society: The Future of LGBT Rights in Japan,” was published in Oxford’s St Antony’s International Review in 2021. His research interests include the issues of equality and diversity, especially the right of married couples to use separate surnames, the right of same-sex couples to marry, and the right of unregistered children to have their status registered in “koseki” (civil registry records).