East Asian Legal Studies

William P. Alford, Law? Law? What Law? Why Western Scholars of Chinese History and Society Have Not Had More to Say about Its Law, 23…

J. Mark Ramseyer, Social Capital and the Problem of Opportunistic Leadership: The Example of Koreans in Japan, 52 Eur. J.L. & Econ. 1 (2021).

J. Mark Ramseyer, When Economic Performance Turns on the Colonized Rather than the Colonizer: The Ainu Example (John M. Olin Center Discussion Paper No. 1122,…

J. Mark Ramseyer, Katayama Tetsu (1887-1978), SSRN (Mar. 7, 2025).

Mark Ramseyer & Jason M. Morgan, The Comfort Women Hoax: A Fake Memoir, North Korean Spies, and Hit Squads in the Academic Swamp (2023).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Contracting in Japan: The Bargains People Make When Information is Costly, Commitment is Hard, Friendships are Unstable, and Suing is Not Worth…

C. Alexander Evans & J. Mark Ramseyer, Property Law at the Transition to Exponential Growth: Examples from Japan (John M. Olin Center L., Econ. &…

J. Mark Ramseyer, For Koreans Fighting to Protect Academic Freedom and Free Speech (Comfort Women) (Mar. 16, 2022).

Tetsuo Arima & J. Mark Ramseyer, Comfort Women: The North Korean Connection (Harvard Law Sch. John M. Olin Ctr. for Law, Econ. & Bus., Discussion…

J. Mark Ramseyer, Discrimination in Modern Japan: Case Studies in Identity Politics (2022).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War: A Response to My Critics (Harvard Law Sch. John M. Olin Ctr. for Law, Econ.

J. Mark Ramseyer, Privatizing Police: On Privatizing Police, with Examples from Japan, in The Cambridge Handbook on Privatization (Avihay Dorfman & Alon Harel eds., 2021).

C. D. A. Evans & J. Mark Ramseyer, Japan v. Shimizu, 26 Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht 313 (2021).

Mark Ramseyer, Recovering the Truth about the Comfort Women, JAPAN Forward (Jan. 12, 2021)…

J. Mark Ramseyer, Comfort Women: The Economics of the Contracts and the Politics of the Dispute (Feb. 3, 2020).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War, 65 Int’l Rev. of L. & Econ. 105971 (2021).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Contracting for Geothermal in Japan (Harv. L. Sch. John M. Olin Ctr. Discussion Paper No. 1048, 2020).

J. Mark Ramseyer, A Monitoring Theory of the Underclass: With Examples from Outcastes, Koreans, and Okinawans in Japan (Jan. 24, 2020).