J. Mark Ramseyer

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…

Prerequisites: There is no formal prerequisite for the course. Students without a basic familiarity – not necessarily expertise – with rudimentary accounting and finance concepts,…

Prerequisite: There is no formal prerequisite for the course. Students without a basic familiarity – not necessarily expertise – with rudimentary accounting and finance concepts,…

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…

Prerequisites: There is no formal prerequisite for the course. Students without a basic familiarity – not necessarily expertise – with rudimentary accounting and finance concepts,…

Prerequisites: There is no formal prerequisite for the course. Students without a basic familiarity – not necessarily expertise – with rudimentary accounting and finance concepts,…

Tetsuo Arima & J. Mark Ramseyer, Comfort Women: The North Korean Connection (Harvard Law Sch. John M. Olin Ctr. for Law, Econ. & Bus., Discussion…

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.

J. Mark Ramseyer, Correction to: Social Capital and the Problem of Opportunistic Leadership: the Example of Koreans in Japan, Eur. J. L. & Econ. (2021).

C. D. A. Evans & J. Mark Ramseyer, Japan v. Shimizu, 26 Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht 313 (2021).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Privatizing Police: On Privatizing Police, with Examples from Japan, in The Cambridge Handbook on Privatization (Avihay Dorfman & Alon Harel eds., 2021).

Mark Ramseyer, Recovering the Truth about the Comfort Women, JAPAN Forward (Jan. 12, 2021)…

J. Mark Ramseyer, Comfort Women: The Economics of the Contracts and the Politics of the Dispute (Feb. 3, 2020).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War, 65 Int’l Rev. of L. & Econ. 105971 (2021).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Contracting for Geothermal in Japan (Harv. L. Sch. John M. Olin Ctr. Discussion Paper No. 1048, 2020).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric Bennett Rasmusen, Ostracism in Japan
(Harv. L. Sch. John M. Olin Ctr. Discussion Paper No. 1045, Oct. 6, 2020).

J. Mark Ramseyer, A Monitoring Theory of the Underclass: With Examples from Outcastes, Koreans, and Okinawans in Japan (Jan. 24, 2020).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Social Capital and the Problem of Opportunistic Leadership: The Example of Koreans in Japan, 52 Eur. J.L. & Econ. 1 (2021).

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…

J. Mark Ramseyer, Contracting for Compassion in Japanese Buddhism (Harv. L. Sch., John M. Olin Ctr. Discussion Paper No. 1039, Sept. 10, 2020).

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

J. Mark Ramseyer, Contracting for Terroir in Sake, 46 Law & Soc. Inquiry 666 (2021)…

Minoru Nakazato & J. Mark Ramseyer, General Description: Japan, in Comparative Income Taxation: A Structural Analysis 71 (Hugh J. Ault, Brian J. Arnold et al.,…

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…

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…

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)).

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…

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…

J. Mark Ramseyer, Junichiro Wada, the Japanese election system: Three analytical perspectives, Pub. Choice, Oct. 1997, at 213 (book review).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 69 Pac. Aff. 412 (1996) (reviewing Peter F. Cowhey & Mathew D. McCubbins, Structure and Policy in Japan and the…

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)).

William A. Klein, J. Mark Ramseyer & Stephen M. Bainbridge, Business Associations: Agency, Partnerships, LLCs, and Corporations, 2020 Statutes and Rules (2020).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 21 J. Japanese Stud. 483 (1995) (reviewing Japanese Constitutional Law, Percy R. Luney, Jr. & Kazuyuki Takahashi eds., 1993).

J. Mark Ramseyer, 17 J. Japanese Stud. 176 (1991) (reviewing Hiroshi Itoh, The Japanese Supreme Court: Constitutional Policies (1990)).

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, Book Review, 94 Am. J. Soc. 447 (1988) (reviewing Ronald Dore, Taking Japan Seriously: A Confucian Perspective on Leading Economic Issues (1987)).

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, Book Review, 42 Monumenta Nipponica 502 (1987)(reviewing Law and the State in Traditional East Asia: Six Studies on the Sources of East…

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.

J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 45 J. Asian Stud. 398 (1986) (reviewing Elliott J. Hahn, Japanese Business Law and the Legal System (1984)).

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. &…

J, Mark Ramseyer, Japanese Taxation: The Shoup Mission in Retrospect: An Interview, 16 Japan Found. Newsl., Mar. 1989, at 1.

J. Mark Ramseyer, Foreword, 5 UCLA Pac. Basin L.J., Spring & Fall 1986, at viii.

J. Mark Ramseyer, Learning to Love Japan: Social Norms and Market Incentives, 31 San Diego L. Rev. 263 (1994).

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, Toward Contractual Choice in Marriage, 73 Ind. L.J. 511 (1998).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Judges, in Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives 840 (David Scott Clark ed., 2007).