Law in Japan : a turning point / / edited by Daniel H. Foote.

• Superior document: Asian law series ; no. 19
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Foote, Daniel H. 1954-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Asian law series ; no. 19.
• Physical Description: xxxix, 667 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

New knowledge concerning Japan's legal system before 1868, acquired from Japanese sources by Western writers since 1963 / Carl Steenstrup -- Criminal trials in the early Meiji-era-- with particular reference to the ukagai/shirei system / Nobuhiko Kasumi -- Law, culture, and conflict : dispute resolution in postwar Japan / Eric A. Feldman -- Development of an adversary system in Japanese civil procedure / Yasuhei Taniguchi -- Japanese judiciary : maintaining integrity, autonomy, and the public trust / John O. Haley -- Rise of the large Japanese business law firm and its prospects for the future / Yasuharu Nagashima and E. Anthony Zaloom -- Legislative dynamic : evidence from the deregulation of financial services in Japan / Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer -- Legal education / Kahei Rokumoto -- Ongoing changes in the infrastructure of a constitutional system from "bureaucracy" to democracy / Kazuyuki Takahashi -- Constitution of Japan : "pacifism" and mass media freedom / Lawrence W. Beer --

Development of the concepts of transparency and accountability in Japanese administrative law / Katsuya Uga -- Politics of transparency in Japanese administrative law / Tom Ginsburg -- Development of criminal law in Japan since 1961/ Koya Matsuo -- Globalization and Japanese criminal law / Joseph L. Hoffmann -- Criminal Justice in Japan / David T. Johnson -- Litigation, administrative relief, and political settlement for pollution victim compensation : Minamata mercury poisoning after fifty years / Koichiro Fujikura -- Medical error, deception, self-critical analysis, and law's impact : a comparative examination / Robert B. Leflar -- Reexamining legal transplants : the director's fiduciary duty in Japanese corporate law / Hideki Kanda and Curtis J. Milhaupt -- Japan's "era of contract" / Takashi Uchida and Veronica L. Taylor -- From security to mobility? : changing aspects of Japanese dismissal law / Ryuichi Yamakawa -- Concentrated power : the paradox of antitrust in Japan / Harry First and Tadashi Shiraishi -- Changing roles of the patent office and the courts after Fujitsu/TI / Naoki Koizumi and Toshiko Takenaka -- Reform of the Japanese tax system in the latter half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century / Hiroshi Kaneko -- Some observations on the Japanese tax system at the beginning of the the twenty-first century / Christopher H. Hanna -- Insolvency law for a new century : Japan's revised framework for economic failures / Kent Anderson and Makoto Ito.