Instructors
J. Mark Ramseyer
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Advanced Readings in Japanese Law
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: By permission of instructor. Because the readings are in Japanese, students should have the equivalent of at least two years’ language instruction, but the…
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Corporations
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: There is no formal prerequisite for the course. Students without a basic familiarity – not necessarily expertise – with rudimentary accounting and finance concepts,…
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Corporations
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: There is no formal prerequisite for the course. Students without a basic familiarity – not necessarily expertise – with rudimentary accounting and finance concepts,…
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Advanced Readings in Japanese Human Rights
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: By permission of instructor. Because the readings are in Japanese, students should have the equivalent of at least two years’ language instruction, but the…
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Introduction to Japanese Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This course is designed to introduce the non-specialist law student to major features of the Japanese legal system. The…
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Corporations
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: There is no formal prerequisite for the course. Students without a basic familiarity – not necessarily expertise – with rudimentary accounting and finance concepts,…
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Book Review: Cultural Norms and National Security: Police and Military in Postwar Japan
January 13, 2023
J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 57 J. Asian Stud. 883 (1998) (reviewing Peter J. Katzenstein, Cultural Norms and National Security: Police and Military in Postwar…
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Book Review: Japanese Business Law and the Legal System
January 4, 2023
J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 45 J. Asian Stud. 398 (1986) (reviewing Elliott J. Hahn, Japanese Business Law and the Legal System (1984)).
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J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 41 J. Asian Stud. 142 (1981) (reviewing Japan’s Commission on the Constitution: The Final Report (John M. Maki, ed. &…
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Comfort Women: The North Korean Connection
October 19, 2022
Tetsuo Arima & J. Mark Ramseyer, Comfort Women: The North Korean Connection (Harvard Law Sch. John M. Olin Ctr. for Law, Econ. & Bus., Discussion…
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Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War: A Response to My Critics
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer, Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War: A Response to My Critics (Harvard Law Sch. John M. Olin Ctr. for Law, Econ.
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Correction to: Social capital and the problem of opportunistic leadership: the example of Koreans in Japan
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer, Correction to: Social Capital and the Problem of Opportunistic Leadership: the Example of Koreans in Japan, Eur. J. L. & Econ. (2021).
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Japan v. Shimizu
October 19, 2022
C. D. A. Evans & J. Mark Ramseyer, Japan v. Shimizu, 26 Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht 313 (2021).
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On Privatizing Police, with Examples from Japan
October 19, 2022
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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Recovering the Truth about the Comfort Women textbar JAPAN Forward
October 19, 2022
Mark Ramseyer, Recovering the Truth about the Comfort Women, JAPAN Forward (Jan. 12, 2021)…
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J. Mark Ramseyer, Comfort Women: The Economics of the Contracts and the Politics of the Dispute (Feb. 3, 2020).
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Contracting for sex in the Pacific War
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer, Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War, 65 Int’l Rev. of L. & Econ. 105971 (2021).
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Contracting for Geothermal in Japan
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer, Contracting for Geothermal in Japan (Harv. L. Sch. John M. Olin Ctr. Discussion Paper No. 1048, 2020).
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Ostracism in Japan
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric Bennett Rasmusen, Ostracism in Japan
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A Monitoring Theory of the Underclass: With Examples from Outcastes, Koreans, and Okinawans in Japan
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer, A Monitoring Theory of the Underclass: With Examples from Outcastes, Koreans, and Okinawans in Japan (Jan. 24, 2020).
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Social Capital and the Problem of Opportunistic Leadership: The Example of Koreans in Japan
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer, Social Capital and the Problem of Opportunistic Leadership: The Example of Koreans in Japan, 52 Eur. J.L. & Econ. 1 (2021).
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Book Review: Laying Down the Law: The American Legal Revolutions in Occupied Germany and Japan
October 19, 2022
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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Contracting for Compassion in Japanese Buddhism
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer, Contracting for Compassion in Japanese Buddhism (Harv. L. Sch., John M. Olin Ctr. Discussion Paper No. 1039, Sept. 10, 2020).
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Suing over Ostracism in Japan: The Informational Logic
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, Suing over Ostracism in Japan: The Informational Logic (Aug. 29, 2020).
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Contracting for Terroir in Sake
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer, Contracting for Terroir in Sake, 46 Law & Soc. Inquiry 666 (2021)…
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General Description: Japan
October 19, 2022
Minoru Nakazato & J. Mark Ramseyer, General Description: Japan, in Comparative Income Taxation: A Structural Analysis 71 (Hugh J. Ault, Brian J. Arnold et al.,…
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Book Review: Public Law, Private Practice: Politics, Profit and the Legal Profession in 19th Century Japan
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 24 Law & Pol. Book Rev. 23 (2014)(reviewing Darryl E. Flaherty, Public Law, Private Practice: Politics, Profit and the Legal…
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Book Review: The Courts and the Colonies: The Litigation of Hutterite Church Disputes
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 80 Mennonite Q. Rev. 106 (2006)(reviewing Alvin J. Esau, The Courts and the Colonies: The Litigation of Hutterite Church Disputes…
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Book Review: Economic Ideology and Japanese Industrial Policy: Developmentalism from 1931 to 1965
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 104 Am. J. Soc. 952 (1998)(reviewing Bai Gao, Economic Ideology and Japanese Industrial Policy: Developmentalism from 1931 to 1965 (1997)).
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J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 103 Am. Hist. Rev. 569 (1998) (reviewing Steven J. Ericson, The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in…
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Book Review: Junichiro Wada, the Japanese election system: Three analytical perspectives
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer, Junichiro Wada, the Japanese election system: Three analytical perspectives, Pub. Choice, Oct. 1997, at 213 (book review).
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Book review: Structure and Policy in Japan and the United States.
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 69 Pac. Aff. 412 (1996) (reviewing Peter F. Cowhey & Mathew D. McCubbins, Structure and Policy in Japan and the…
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J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 70 Mennonite Q. Rev. 349 (1996) (reviewing Susan Fisher Miller, Culture for Service: A History of Goshen College, 1894-1994 (1994)).
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Business Associations: Agency, Partnerships, LLCs, and Corporations, 2020 Statutes and Rules
October 19, 2022
William A. Klein, J. Mark Ramseyer & Stephen M. Bainbridge, Business Associations: Agency, Partnerships, LLCs, and Corporations, 2020 Statutes and Rules (2020).
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Book Review: Japanese Constitutional Law
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 21 J. Japanese Stud. 483 (1995) (reviewing Japanese Constitutional Law, Percy R. Luney, Jr. & Kazuyuki Takahashi eds., 1993).
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Book Review: The Japanese Supreme Court: Constitutional Policies
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer, 17 J. Japanese Stud. 176 (1991) (reviewing Hiroshi Itoh, The Japanese Supreme Court: Constitutional Policies (1990)).
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Together Duped: How Japanese and Americans Negotiated a Constitution without Communicating
October 19, 2022
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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Book Review: Taking Japan Seriously: A Confucian Perspective on Leading Economic Issues
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 94 Am. J. Soc. 447 (1988) (reviewing Ronald Dore, Taking Japan Seriously: A Confucian Perspective on Leading Economic Issues (1987)).
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Correspondence: Reply to Professor Carl Steenstrup
October 19, 2022
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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Book Review: Law and the State in Traditional East Asia: Six Studies on the Sources of East Asian Law
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 42 Monumenta Nipponica 502 (1987)(reviewing Law and the State in Traditional East Asia: Six Studies on the Sources of East…
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Book Review: Law and Trade Issues of the Japanese Economy: American and Japanese Perspectives
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 20 L. Japan 223 (1987) (reviewing Law and Trade Issues of the Japanese Economy: American and Japanese Perspectives (Gary R.
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Japanese Taxation: The Shoup Mission in Retrospect: An Interview
October 19, 2022
J, Mark Ramseyer, Japanese Taxation: The Shoup Mission in Retrospect: An Interview, 16 Japan Found. Newsl., Mar. 1989, at 1.
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Foreword
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer, Foreword, 5 UCLA Pac. Basin L.J., Spring & Fall 1986, at viii.
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Learning to Love Japan: Social Norms and Market Incentives
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer, Learning to Love Japan: Social Norms and Market Incentives, 31 San Diego L. Rev. 263 (1994).
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Japan’s Myth of Non-Litigiousness: The Real Reasons Behind the Country’s Legal Image
October 19, 2022
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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Toward Contractual Choice in Marriage
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer, Toward Contractual Choice in Marriage, 73 Ind. L.J. 511 (1998).
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Judges
October 19, 2022
J. Mark Ramseyer, Judges, in Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives 840 (David Scott Clark ed., 2007).