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International, Foreign & Comparative Law
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Talent and Expertise under Universal Health Insurance: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery in Japan
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, Talent and Expertise under Universal Health Insurance: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery in Japan (Harv. L. Sch. L. & Econ. Res. Paper…
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J. Mark Ramseyer, Bottom-Feeding at the Bar: Usury Law and Value-Dissipating Attorneys in Japan, in Festschrift zu Ehren von Christian Kirchner [Festschrift in Honor of…
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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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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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The Sins of Their Fathers: Illegitimacy in Japan and Surrogate Punishment across Generations
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, The Sins of Their Fathers: Illegitimacy in Japan and Surrogate Punishment across Generations (Harvard Law School John M. Olin Ctr. for Law,…
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Nuclear Power and the Mob: Extortion in Japan
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, Nuclear Power and the Mob: Extortion in Japan, 13 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 487 (2016).
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J. Mark Ramseyer & Frances McCall Rosenbluth, The Politics of Oligarchy: Institutional Choice in Imperial Japan (Cambridge Univ. Press 1995).
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Japan’s Political Marketplace
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer & Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Japan’s Political Marketplace (Harvard Univ. Press 1993).
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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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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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Yoshiro Miwa & J. Mark Ramseyer, The Fable of the Keiretsu: Urban Legends of the Japanese Economy (Univ. of Chi. Press 2006).
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Predicting Court Outcomes through Political Preferences: The Japanese Supreme Court and the Chaos of 1993
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, Predicting Court Outcomes through Political Preferences: The Japanese Supreme Court and the Chaos of 1993, 58 Duke L.J. 1557 (2009).
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The Competitive Enforcement of Property Rights in Medieval Japan: The Role of Temples and Monasteries
April 10, 2026
Mikael Adolphson & J. Mark Ramseyer, The Competitive Enforcement of Property Rights in Medieval Japan: The Role of Temples and Monasteries, 71 J. Econ. Behav.
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Universal Health Insurance and the Effect of Cost Containment on Mortality Rates: Strokes and Heart Attacks in Japan
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, Universal Health Insurance and the Effect of Cost Containment on Mortality Rates: Strokes and Heart Attacks in Japan, 6 J. Empirical Legal…
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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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Japanese Industrial Finance at the Close of the 19th Century: Trade Credit and Financial Intermediation
April 10, 2026
Yoshiro Miwa & J. Mark Ramseyer, Japanese Industrial Finance at the Close of the 19th Century: Trade Credit and Financial Intermediation, 43 Explorations Econ. Hist.
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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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Book review: Justice in Japan: the Notorious Teijin Scandal
April 10, 2026
J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 108 Am. Hist. Rev. 811 (2003) (Reviewing Richard H. Mitchell, Justice in Japan: the Notorious Teijin Scandal (2002)).
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J. Mark Ramseyer, The Effect of Cost Suppression Under Universal Health Insurance on the Allocation of Talent and the Development of Expertise: Cosmetic Surgery in…