Cory Evans

Cory Alexander Evans is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. His research focuses on Japanese law, trade law, the philosophical foundations of private law and on comparative commercial law. His most recent research project studies the use of emergency powers to modify trade and national security policy. In addition to his legal research, Evans has published first translations of major Japanese legal cases, as well as of significant texts in Japanese intellectual history. Prior to attending law school, Evans worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan for more than a decade, focusing on U.S.-Japan diplomacy. Then, following law school, Evans worked for the law firm of Nagashima, Ohno and Tsunematsu in Tokyo; served for one year as a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo; and clerked, first, for Judge M. Miller Baker on the United States Court of International Trade and then, second, for Judge Steven J. Menashi on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Evans is also a National Master of Chess and has published academic articles on chess theory and on the mathematics of infinite chess.