Kenta Tsuda

Bio:

Summary

Kenta Tsuda is a doctoral researcher completing a thesis in administrative and environmental law. His project examines how theories of bureaucratic motivation are integrated within the law, using case studies in administrative decision making to evaluate the plausibility of leading candidate theories. Administrative law scholars recognise that such theories are unavoidable, already implicit in doctrine. Kenta’s project begins from the premise that it matters immensely for a democratic polity which among this wide array of theories we embrace, both because a theory’s accuracy bears on whether legal arrangements function as the law maker intended, but also because theories are inextricably tied up with our normative commitments to reform or preserve the legal status quo.

Kenta teaches undergraduate Public Law and Company Law tutorials at UCL, and has led seminar sessions in LLM modules in environmental law. Before coming to UCL, Kenta was a public-interest environmental litigator in Alaska and New England, and, prior to that, a corporate lawyer in New York.

Education

• JD, Harvard Law School
• MPhil, Political Thought & Intellectual History, University of Cambridge
• BA, Political Science, Brown University

Representative publications: 

Kenta Tsuda, ‘Calibrating Agnosticism in Administrative Law: Qualitative Bayesian Reasoning on Bureaucratic Motivation,’ 76 Case Western Reserve L Rev __ (forthcoming)

Richard Moorhead, Steven Vaughan, and Kenta Tsuda, ‘What Does It Mean for Lawyers to Uphold the Rule of Law? A Report for the Legal Services Board’ (Legal Services Board 2023)

Kenta Tsuda, ‘Administrative Bulkheads’ (2021) 51 Environmental Law 1