Courts

Alexandra Natapoff, The High Stakes of Low-Level Criminal Justice, 128 Yale L.J. 1648 (2019) (reviewing Issa Kohler-Haussmann, Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an…

J. Mark Ramseyer, 17 J. Japanese Stud. 176 (1991) (reviewing Hiroshi Itoh, The Japanese Supreme Court: Constitutional Policies (1990)).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Judges, in Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives 840 (David Scott Clark ed., 2007).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Reluctant Litigant Revisited: Rationality and Disputes in Japan, 14 J. Japanese Stud. 111 (1988).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Who Hangs Whom for What? The Death Penalty in Japan, 4 J. Legal Analysis 365 (2012).

J. Mark Ramseyer, The Puzzling (In)Dependence of Courts: A Comparative Approach, 23 J. Legal Stud. 721 (1994).

J. Mark Ramseyer, The Japanese Judiciary, in The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics (Robert Pekkanen & Saadia Pekkanen, eds., 2020).

Eric Bennett Rasmusen & J. Mark Ramseyer, Judicial Independence in Civil Law Regimes: Econometrics from Japan, 13 J.L. Econ. & Org. 259 (1997).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Sex Bias in the Japanese Courts, in Empirical Studies of Judicial Systems 197 (Kuo-Chang Huang ed., 2009).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Predicting Court Outcomes through Political Preferences: The Japanese Supreme Court and the Chaos of 1993, 58 Duke L.J. 1557 (2009).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, Why the Japanese Taxpayer Always Loses, 72 S. Cal. L. Rev. 571 (1999).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, Why is the Japanese Conviction Rate so High?, 30 J. Legal Stud. 53 (2001).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, Are Americans More Litigious? Some Quantitative Evidence, in The American Illness: Essays on the Rule of Law 69…

Henry Smith, Preventing the Misuse of Preventive Adjudication: A Response to Bray (The Legal Workshop, U. Chi. L. Rev., Apr. 4, 2011).

Alma Cohen & Crystal S. Yang, Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions, 11 Am. Econ. J.: Econ. Pol’y 160 (2019).

Alexandra Natapoff, Criminal Municipal Courts, 134 Harv. L. Rev. 964 (2021).

Amna A. Akbar & Ryan D. Doerfler, Imperfect Guardians, 113 California Law Review 2225 (2026).

Jared A. Ellias & Elisabeth de Fontenay, Law and Courts in an Age of Debt, 171 U. Pa. L. Rev 2025 (2023).