Časlav Pejović je redovni profesor na Pravnom fakultetu Kjušu Univerziteta (Fukuoka). Prije odlaska u Japan do 1997. godine bio je vanredni profesor na Pravnom fakultetu Univerziteta “Veljko Vlahović” u Titogradu. Te godine je izabran za vanrednog profesora Kjušu Univerziteta, dok je u zvanje redovnog profesora izabran 2002. godine.

Osnovne studije je završio na Pravnom fakultetu u Titogradu, dok je magistrirao najprije na Pravnom fakultetu Univerziteta u Beogradu, a zatim na Pravnom fakultetu Kjoto Univerziteta (na japanskom jeziku). Doktorirao je na Pravnom fakultetu Univerziteta u Zagrebu.

Oblasti istraživanja uključuju pomorsko pravo, međunarodno trgovačko pravo, uporedno pravo, pravo stranih ulaganja i japansko pravo (pravo koorporativnog upravljanja i radno pravo).

 Član je Međunarodne akademije za uporedno pravo (IACL), Međunarodne akademije za trgovačko pravo i pravo zaštite potrošača (IACCL), Udruženja za pravo i društvo (LSA), Azijskog udruženja za pravo i društvo (ALSA) i Japanskog udruženja za pomorsko pravo.

Od strane Ministarstva za prosvjetu Japana angažovan je u realizaciji Programa za mlade lidere (Young Leaders Program - YLR), a član je redakcija u nekoliko međunarodnih stručnih časopisa. Arbitar je Međunarodne trgovačke komore (MTK) u Parizu, Arbitražnog suda Tajlanda, Crnogorske trgovačke arbitraže i Spoljnotrgovinske arbitraže u Beogradu. Bio je član ekspertskog tima Crne Gore za razgraničenje na moru s Hrvatskom.

Objavio je veliki broj radova na više jezika. Jedan je od autora knjige “Transnational Commercial Law” koja je objavljena 2015. godine u izdanju Oxford University Press-a. Držao je predavanja na brojnim univerzitetima, kao što su Oxford University, Heidelberg University, Washington University (Seattle), Georgetown University (Washington), University of Toronto, Tilburg University, Max Planck Institute (Hamburg), Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok), National University of Singapore, Beijing University, Tokyo University, Hong Kong University, National University of Indonesia, University of Western Australia, Seoul National University, Korea University, Univerzitet u Beogradu, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Univerzitet u Zagrebu i mnogi drugi.

Publikacije:

Knjige

• Prevozne isprave u pomorskoj plovidbi (Cetinje, Obod 1992)
• Potvrda ukrcaja i teretnica (Bar, Prekookeanska plovidba 1993)
• Gerald McAlinn & Caslav Pejovic (eds.) Law and Development in Asia (Routledge, 2012)

https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/224897/mod_resource/content/1/Law%20and%20development%20in%20Asia.pdf

• Transport Documents in Carriage by Sea: International Law and Practice (Informa from Routledge, London/New York 2020)
• Borislav Ivošević, Časlav Pejović, Pomorsko pravo (Beograd, 2019)

Glave u knjigama

• Carriage of Goods by Sea, Chapter 9 in: Roy Goode, Herbert Kronke, Ewan McKendrick (eds.) “Transnational Commercial Law” (Oxford University Press, 2015) (radi se o u svijetu vodećoj knjizi u ovoj oblasti)
• Japanese Long-term Employment: Between Cultural Background and Economic Rationale, in: G. McAlinn & C. Pejovic (eds.) Law and Development in Asia, (Routledge, 2012);
• Delivery of the Goods under the Rotterdam Rules: Departure from the Fundamental Principles? in: E. Arcelia (ed.) The Evolution of Global Trade Over the Last Thirty Years (UNAM, Mexico, 2013) 293-309;
• Japanese Labor Law: Hurdles on the Road to Abenomics: Chapter in (eds. Jürgen Basedow and Toshiyuki Kono) “Special Economic Zones: Experiments in Local Deregulation” (Springer, 2016).
• Documentary Fraud under the UCP: Revisiting an ‘Exception from Exception’ Principle, In: Toshiyuki Kono, Mary Hiscock, Arie Reich (eds.), Transnational Commercial and Consumer Law (Springer 2018)
• Development of Carrier by Sea Liability: From Roman Law to the Rotterdam Rules: In Festschrift in Honor of Herbert Kronke (2021)

Članci (samo najvažniji)

• The Problem of Validity of Identity of Carrier Clause, (1995) European Transport Law no.30
• The Identity of Carrier under a Time Charter in Japanese Law – (1996) Bulletin of the Japan Shipping Exchange no.33
• Legal Challenges in the Implementation of Electronic Data Interchange in International Trade (1998) Vol. 65, No. 1 Hosei Kenkyu

https://catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/opac_download_md/2113/KJ00000724196-00001.pdf

• Main Legal Issues in the Implementation of EDI to Bills of Lading (1999) European Transport Law no.34
• Civil Law and Common Law: Two Different Paths Leading to the Same Goal Victoria University Wellington Law Review (2001); takođe objavljen u La Revue Juridique Polynesienne no.7 (2001);

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265244573_Civil_Law_and_Common_Law_Two_Different_Paths_Leading_to_the_Same_Goal

• The Identity of Carrier Problem Under Time Charter: Diversity Despite Unification of Law - (2000) Vol.31, No. 3 Journal Of Maritime Law and Commerce

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296721356_The_identity_of_carrier_problem_under_time_charters_Diversity_despite_unification_of_law

• Documents of Title in Carriage of Goods by Sea: Present Status and Possible Future Directions – (2001) the Journal of Business Law, 461-488 (translated into Chinese and published in Beijing University Law Review)

https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/65803

• Clean Bill of Lading in Contract of Carriage and Contract of Sale: Same name and Different Meanings, (2003) Journal of International Commercial Law 2(1)

https://elibrary.law.psu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1108&context=jlia

• Delivery of Good without a Bill of Lading: revival of an old problem in the Far East, (2003) Journal of International Maritime Law vol. 9(5) 448-460
• The Straight Bill of Lading: Do we really need it? Vol.XL(3) European Transport Law (2005) p.303-319;
• Stoppage in Transit and Right of Control: ‘Conflict of Rules’?, (2008) Pace International Law Review, p.129-159

https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&context=pilr

• The Legal Nature of a Time Charter under Japanese Law: To Be or Not To Be, (2009) Bulletin of the Japanese Shipping Exchange, No.54, p.10-19;

https://www.jseinc.org/en/bulletin/issues/Vol.54.pdf

• Japanese Corporate Governance: Behind Legal Norms, (2011) Penn State International Law Review, Vol. 29, No. 3, 483-521

https://elibrary.law.psu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1174&context=psilr

• La gouvernance d’entreprise japonaise et l’acculturation du modèle américain, (2012) Revue International De Droit Compare 415-48;

https://www.persee.fr/doc/ridc_0035-3337_2012_num_64_2_20082

• Article 47(2) of the Rotterdam Rules: solution of old problems or a new confusion?, (2012) Journal of International Maritime Law vol. 18, 348-363 (also published in the Hamburg Lectures on Maritime Affairs 2011-2012);

https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/172527

• Reforms of Japanese Corporate Governance: Convergence in the Eye of Beholder, (2013) J. Japan. L., No.35, 107-154.

https://www.zjapanr.de/index.php/zjapanr/article/view/26

• Changes in Long-term Employment and Their Impact on the Japanese Economic Model: Challenges and Dilemmas, (2014) J. Japan. L. No.37, 51-75

https://www.zjapanr.de/index.php/zjapanr/article/view/357

• Clean Bill of Lading in Contract of Carriage and Documentary Credit: When Clean Is Not Clean, (2015) Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs Vol.4(1)

https://elibrary.law.psu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1108&context=jlia

• Japanese Labor Law: Challenges Ahead (2016) 4 Aoyama Law Forum 51-87.
• Japanese Employment System in the 21st Century: Under reconstruction, (2016) J. Japan. L No.42. 233-264

https://develop.mpipriv.de/index.php/zjapanr/article/view/1100

• Fraudulent Transport Documents under the UCP: Controversies and Possible Solutions, (2017) Annual Review of International Banking Law

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321119488_Fraudulent_Transport_Documents_under_the_UCP_Controversies_and_Possible_Solutions

• The Basis of Carrier’s Liability: From Roman Law to the Rotterdam Rules. Asian Business Lawyer, 2018

https://kiss.kstudy.com/thesis/thesis-view.asp?key=3601965

• Revising Bilateral Investment Treaties as a New Tendency in Foreign Investment Law: India and Indonesia in the Focus (With Juliartha Nugrahaeny Pardede), Journal of Indonesian International Law Vol.17 No.2, 2020

https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1019&context=ijil

• UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records as a Potential Legal Regime for the Use of Electronic Bills of Lading (With Unho Lee)) European Transport Law (2022) Vol. 1