Civil Practice & Procedure

Mark Tushnet, Constitutional Law, Private Law, and Economic and Social Rights, in The Oxford Handbook of Economic and Social Rights (Malcolm Langford & Katharine Young…

Robert Niles-Weed & Robert H. Sitkoff, It’s 10 PM, Do You Know Where Your Trust Is Sited?, SSRN (Mar. 4, 2026).

Joseph William Singer, Choice of Law: Patterns, Arguments, Practices (2d ed., 2025).

John C.P. Goldberg, The Rights and Wrongs of Constitutional Torts, Jotwell (March 27, 2025) (reviewing Matteo Godi, Section 1983: A Strict Liability Statutory Tort, 113…

Joseph William Singer & Seth Davis, Misappropriating Private Law for Public Law Questions, Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2026).

Ellen M. Bublick & John C.P. Goldberg, The Unexplored: A Research Agenda for Tort Law (Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law Paper…

Duncan Kennedy, Continental and American Critical Legal Studies: A Close Reading of an Article by Giovanni Marini, SSRN (Jan. 6, 2026).

C. Alexander Evans & J. Mark Ramseyer, What Makes Private Law Transitions Succeed: Lessons from Japan and from Around the World, 33 J. Transnat’l L.

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric Bennett Rasmusen, Ostracism in Japan, 19 Asian Journal of Comparative Law 326 (2024).

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

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:…

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, Liability for Defective Products: Comparative Hypotheses and Evidence from Japan, in Products Liability: Problems and Process 550 (James Henderson, Aaron Twerski &…

J. Mark Ramseyer, The Effect of Universal Health Insurance on Malpractice Claims: The Japanese Experience, 2 J. Legal Analysis 621 (2010).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Why Power Companies Build Nuclear Reactors on Fault Lines: The Case of Japan, 13 Theoretical Inquiries L. 457 (2012).

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…