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Judges & Jurisprudence
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J. Mark Ramseyer, 17 J. Japanese Stud. 176 (1991) (reviewing Hiroshi Itoh, The Japanese Supreme Court: Constitutional Policies (1990)).
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Judges
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, Judges, in Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives 840 (David Scott Clark ed., 2007).
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J. Mark Ramseyer, Reluctant Litigant Revisited: Rationality and Disputes in Japan, 14 J. Japanese Stud. 111 (1988).
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Who Hangs Whom for What? The Death Penalty in Japan
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, Who Hangs Whom for What? The Death Penalty in Japan, 4 J. Legal Analysis 365 (2012).
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J. Mark Ramseyer, The Puzzling (In)Dependence of Courts: A Comparative Approach, 23 J. Legal Stud. 721 (1994).
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The Japanese Judiciary
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, The Japanese Judiciary, in The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics (Robert Pekkanen & Saadia Pekkanen, eds., 2020).
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J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, Measuring Judicial Independence: The Political Economy of Judging in Japan (Univ. of Chi. Press 2003).
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Managed Courts Under Unstable Political Environments: Recruitments and Resignations in the 1990s Japanese Judiciary
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric Bennett Rasmusen, Managed Courts Under Unstable Political Environments: Recruitments and Resignations in the 1990s Japanese Judiciary (Harv. L. Sch. L.
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Eric Bennett Rasmusen & J. Mark Ramseyer, Judicial Independence in Civil Law Regimes: Econometrics from Japan, 13 J.L. Econ. & Org. 259 (1997).
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Do School Cliques Dominate Japanese Bureaucracies? Evidence from Supreme Court Appointments
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, Do School Cliques Dominate Japanese Bureaucracies? Evidence from Supreme Court Appointments, 88 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1681 (2011).
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Skewed Incentives: Paying for Politics as a Japanese Judge
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, Skewed Incentives: Paying for Politics as a Japanese Judge, 83 Judicature 190 (2000).
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J. Mark Ramseyer, Not-So-Ordinary Judges in Ordinary Courts: Teaching Jordan v. Duff & Phelps, Inc., 120 Harv. L. Rev. 1199 (2007).
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Eric Bennett Rasmusen & J. Mark Ramseyer, Why Are Japanese Judges So Conservative in Politically Charged Cases?, 95 Am. Pol. Sci. Rev. 331 (2001).
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Talent Matters: Judicial Productivity and Speed in Japan
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, Talent Matters: Judicial Productivity and Speed in Japan, 32 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 38 (2012).
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Political Uncertainty’s Effect on Judicial Recruitment and Retention: Japan in the 1990s
April 10, 2026
J. Mary Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, Political Uncertainty’s Effect on Judicial Recruitment and Retention: Japan in the 1990s, 35 J. Comp. Econ. 329 (2007).
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Why the Japanese Taxpayer Always Loses
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, Why the Japanese Taxpayer Always Loses, 72 S. Cal. L. Rev. 571 (1999).
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Why is the Japanese Conviction Rate so High?
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, Why is the Japanese Conviction Rate so High?, 30 J. Legal Stud. 53 (2001).
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The Case for Managed Judges: Learning from Japan after the Political Upheaval of 1993
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, The Case for Managed Judges: Learning from Japan after the Political Upheaval of 1993, 154 U.. Pa. L.
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When are Judges and Bureaucrats Left Independent? Theory and History from Imperial Japan, Postwar Japan, and the United States
April 10, 2026
Eric Bennett Rasmusen & J. Mark Ramseyer, When are Judges and Bureaucrats Left Independent? Theory and History from Imperial Japan, Postwar Japan, and the United…
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Cardozo and the Nature of the Equitable Process
April 10, 2026
Henry E. Smith, Cardozo and the Nature of the Equitable Process, 34 Yale J. L. & Humanities 166 (2023).
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Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later: Edited Work, Select Personal Papers, and Original Commentaries
April 10, 2026
Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later: Edited Work, Select Personal Papers, and Original Commentaries (Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Ted M. Sichelman & Henry E. Smith eds., 2022).