Parent Categories
Government & Politics
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Ross E. Cheit & Jacob Gersen, When Businesses Sue Each Other: An empirical study of state court litigation, 25 Law & Soc. Inquiry 789 (2000).
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On Privatizing Police, with Examples from Japan
July 14, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, Privatizing Police: On Privatizing Police, with Examples from Japan, in The Cambridge Handbook on Privatization (Avihay Dorfman & Alon Harel eds., 2021).
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Book Review: Laying Down the Law: The American Legal Revolutions in Occupied Germany and Japan
July 14, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 40 Japanese Stud. 361 (Oct. 23, 2020) (reviewing R.W. Kostal, Laying Down the Law: The American Legal Revolutions in Occupied…
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Book Review: Junichiro Wada, the Japanese election system: Three analytical perspectives
July 14, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, Junichiro Wada, the Japanese election system: Three analytical perspectives, Pub. Choice, Oct. 1997, at 213 (book review).
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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
July 14, 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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J. Mark Ramseyer & Minoru Nakazato, Tax Transitions and the Protection Racket: A Reply to Professors Graetz and Kaplow, 75 Va. L. Rev. 1155 (1989).
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Who Hangs Whom for What? The Death Penalty in Japan
July 14, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, Who Hangs Whom for What? The Death Penalty in Japan, 4 J. Legal Analysis 365 (2012).
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Eric Rasmusen & J. Mark Ramseyer, Cheap Bribes and the Corruption Ban: A Coordination Game Among Rational Legislators, 78 Pub. Choice 305 (1994).
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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
July 14, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, The Japanese Judiciary, in The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Politics (Robert Pekkanen & Saadia Pekkanen, eds., 2020).
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Party Organization
July 14, 2026
Mark Ramseyer & Frances M. Rosenbluth, Party Organization, in Critical Readings on the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan 205 (Robert Pekkanen ed., 2018).
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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
July 14, 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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Sex Bias in the Japanese Courts
July 14, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, Sex Bias in the Japanese Courts, in Empirical Studies of Judicial Systems 197 (Kuo-Chang Huang ed., 2009).
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Do School Cliques Dominate Japanese Bureaucracies? Evidence from Supreme Court Appointments
July 14, 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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Measuring Voter Ideology: Descriptive Regression Measurement of the Left-Right Spectrum
July 14, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, Measuring Voter Ideology: Descriptive Regression Measurement of the Left-Right Spectrum (June 9, 2015).
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Japan’s Political Marketplace
July 14, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer & Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Japan’s Political Marketplace (Harvard Univ. Press 1993).
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Japanese Law: An Economic Approach
July 14, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer & Minoru Nakazato, Japanese Law: An Economic Approach (Univ. of Chi. Press 1999).