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Civil Practice & Procedure
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Together Duped: How Japanese and Americans Negotiated a Constitution without Communicating
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, Together Duped: How Japanese and Americans Negotiated a Constitution without Communicating, 23 Law Japan 123 (1990) (reviewing Kyoko Inoue, MacArthur’s Japanese Constitution:…
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Correspondence: Reply to Professor Carl Steenstrup
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, Correspondence, 43 Monumenta Nipponica 231 (1988) (Reply to Professor Carl Steenstrup regarding his paper on litigation in Kamakura bakufu courts).
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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.
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John Haley and the American Discovery of Japanese Law
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, John Haley and the American Discovery of Japanese Law, 8 Wash. U. Global Stud. L. Rev. 213 (2009).
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The Costs of the Consensual Myth: Antitrust Enforcement and Institutional Barriers to Litigation in Japan
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, The Costs of the Consensual Myth: Antitrust Enforcement and Institutional Barriers to Litigation in Japan, 94 Yale L.J. 604 (1985).
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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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J. Mark Ramseyer & Minoru Nakazato, The Rational Litigant: Settlement Amounts and Verdict Rates in Japan, 18 J. Legal Stud. 263 (1989).
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J. Mark Ramseyer, Liability for Defective Products: Comparative Hypotheses and Evidence from Japan, in Products Liability: Problems and Process 550 (James Henderson, Aaron Twerski &…
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The Effect of Universal Health Insurance on Malpractice Claims: The Japanese Experience
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, The Effect of Universal Health Insurance on Malpractice Claims: The Japanese Experience, 2 J. Legal Analysis 621 (2010).
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J. Mark Ramseyer, Why Power Companies Build Nuclear Reactors on Fault Lines: The Case of Japan, 13 Theoretical Inquiries L. 457 (2012).
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Products Liability and Product Safety: Japan and the U.S.
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, Products Liability and Product Safety: Japan and the U.S. (Harv. L. Sch. Pub. L. & Legal Theory Res. Paper Series, Working Paper…
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J. Mark Ramseyer, Products Liability through Private Ordering: Notes on a Japanese Experiment, 144 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1823 (1996).
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Second-Best Justice: The Virtues of Japanese Private Law
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, Second-Best Justice: The Virtues of Japanese Private Law (2015).
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Odd Markets in Japanese History: Law and Economic Growth
April 10, 2026
J. Mark. Ramseyer, Odd Markets in Japanese History: Law and Economic Growth (Cambridge Univ. Press 1996).
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Japanese Law: An Economic Approach
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer & Minoru Nakazato, Japanese Law: An Economic Approach (Univ. of Chi. Press 1999).
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J. Mark Ramseyer, Liability for Defective Products: Comparative Hypotheses and Evidence from Japan, 61 Am. J. Comp. L. 617 (2013).
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Social Capital and the Formal Legal System: Evidence from Prefecture-Level Data in Japan
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, Social Capital and the Formal Legal System: Evidence from Prefecture-Level Data in Japan, 7 J. Legal Analysis 421 (2015).
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Private Orderings
April 10, 2026
Lisa Bernstein, Alan Morrison & J. Mark Ramseyer, Private Orderings, 7 J. Legal Analysis 247 (2015).
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J. Mark Ramseyer, Litigation and Social Capital: Divorces and Traffic Accidents in Japan, 11 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 39 (2014).
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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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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).