履历：太田胜造（OTA Shozo），毕业于东京大学，1997年起任东京大学法学教授，期间曾任密歇根大学法学院客座教授。
学术（社会）兼职：
日本法社会学协会会员；
日本法社会学协会会员；
日本民事诉讼协会会员；
日本仲裁 & ADR协会会员；
日本Law & Computer协会会员等职。
代表著作：
"The Lawyer-Client Relationship in Civil Litigation: Mutual Understanding or Misunderstanding", Meijo Hogaku [Meijo Law Journal], Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 93-111 [104-86](March 2009)
"Japanese Attitudes Toward the Lay Judge System and Criminal Justice",(with Profs. MATSUMURA Yoshiyuki, KINOSHITA Manako, & Ms. YAMADA Hiroko) Hogaku Ronshu [Chiba Journal of Law and Politics], Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 204-284 (December 2008)
"Choice of Law and Economic Analysis: A Methodological Introduction",BASEDOW, Juergen & Toshiyuki KONO (eds.), An Economic Analysis of Private International Law, 3-14 (Mohr Siebeck, 2006)
"Reform of Civil Procedure in Japan", 49 The American Journal of Comparative Law 561-583 (2002)
"Traffic Accident in Japan: Law and Civil Dispute Resolution", in Ewoud Hondius (ed.), Modern Trends in Tort Law: Dutch and Japanese Law Compared, Kluwer Law International, 1999, pp. 79-93 (Dutch-Janese Law Symposium, August 29, 1996 at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
"Lawyers in Japan: An Economic Analysis," in A. J. de Roo & R. W. Jagtenberg (eds.),Yearbook: Law & Legal Practice in East Asia, Vol.3, 1997/1998, Kluwer Law International, pp.177-198 (1998)
"Case Evaluation by Judges in Japan: Structure of Professional Legal Perception", Paper Presented at RCSL 1996 (July 12, 1996 in Glasgow, U.K.) and at the Comparative Law & Economics Forum (August 22, 1996 in Chicago, U.S.A.) (1996)
"Issues of the Lawyer Population", (with Prof. ROKUMOTO Kahei) Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 315-332 (1993)
"Law and Economics in Japan: Hatching Stage", International Review of Law and Economics, vol. 11, No. 3, pp.301-308 (1992)
"The Fairness and the Efficiency of the Compensation System: An Economic Analysis of the Tort Theories," International Review of Law and Economics, vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 229-238 (1987)