Judges & Jurisprudence

Randall L. Kennedy & Martha L. Minow, Thurgood Marshall and Procedural Law: Lawyer’s Lawyer, Judge’s Judge, 6 Harv. BlackLetter L.J. 95 (1989).

Stephen E. Sachs, Originalism as a Theory of Legal Change, 38 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 817 (2015).

Anna Lvovsky, The Judicial Presumption of Police Expertise, 130 Harv. L. Rev. 1995 (2017).

Yoav Paz-Priel & Richard M. Re, The Standing Realignment, Supreme Court Review (forthcoming 2026).

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).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, Measuring Judicial Independence: The Political Economy of Judging in Japan (Univ. of Chi. Press 2003).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric Bennett Rasmusen, Managed Courts Under Unstable Political Environments: Recruitments and Resignations in the 1990s Japanese Judiciary (Harv. L. Sch. L.

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, Do School Cliques Dominate Japanese Bureaucracies? Evidence from Supreme Court Appointments, 88 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1681 (2011).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, Skewed Incentives: Paying for Politics as a Japanese Judge, 83 Judicature 190 (2000).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Not-So-Ordinary Judges in Ordinary Courts: Teaching Jordan v. Duff & Phelps, Inc., 120 Harv. L. Rev. 1199 (2007).

Eric Bennett Rasmusen & J. Mark Ramseyer, Why Are Japanese Judges So Conservative in Politically Charged Cases?, 95 Am. Pol. Sci. Rev. 331 (2001).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Talent Matters: Judicial Productivity and Speed in Japan, 32 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 38 (2012).