Litigation & Settlement

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, Suing over Ostracism in Japan: The Informational Logic (Aug. 29, 2020).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Correspondence, 43 Monumenta Nipponica 231 (1988) (Reply to Professor Carl Steenstrup regarding his paper on litigation in Kamakura bakufu courts).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Japan’s Myth of Non-Litigiousness: The Real Reasons Behind the Country’s Legal Image, Nat’l L.J., July 4, 1983, at 14.

J. Mark Ramseyer, John Haley and the American Discovery of Japanese Law, 8 Wash. U. Global Stud. L. Rev. 213 (2009).

J. Mark Ramseyer, The Costs of the Consensual Myth: Antitrust Enforcement and Institutional Barriers to Litigation in Japan, 94 Yale L.J. 604 (1985).

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

J. Mark Ramseyer & Minoru Nakazato, The Rational Litigant: Settlement Amounts and Verdict Rates in Japan, 18 J. Legal Stud. 263 (1989).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Second-Best Justice: The Virtues of Japanese Private Law (2015).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Minoru Nakazato, Japanese Law: An Economic Approach (Univ. of Chi. Press 1999).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Social Capital and the Formal Legal System: Evidence from Prefecture-Level Data in Japan, 7 J. Legal Analysis 421 (2015).

Lisa Bernstein, Alan Morrison & J. Mark Ramseyer, Private Orderings, 7 J. Legal Analysis 247 (2015).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Litigation and Social Capital: Divorces and Traffic Accidents in Japan, 11 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 39 (2014).

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

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, Are Americans More Litigious? Some Quantitative Evidence, in The American Illness: Essays on the Rule of Law 69…

Henry E. Smith, Structured Settlements as Structures of Rights, 88 Va. L. Rev. 1953 (2002).

Steven Shavell, Settlement of Litigation May Increase or Decrease Deterrence and Social Welfare (National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 34878, 2026).

Albert H. Choi & Kathryn E. Spier, Liability for Non-Disclosure in IPOs, 42 The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization 281 (2025).