Eri Kasagi is research fellow at CNRS, member of Centre for Comparative Labour and Social Security Law (COMPTRASEC UMR 5114) at Bordeaux University from 2015. Before coming to France, she worked more than 10 years in Japan, first as research assistant at University of Tokyo, faculty of law (2003-2006) and as associate professor at Kyushu University, faculty of law (2006-2015). She specializes in social law and particularly in social security law, working on divers issues as health insurance law, welfare law, poverty, pension law, etc., in relying mainly on comparative law approach and focusing principally on Japanese and French laws.