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Description
Over the past fifteen years there has been a remarkable growth in the study of Japanese law in the United States. The foundation was laid during the late 1950's when the Harvard-Michigan-Stanford program brought together Japanese legal specialists and their American counterparts for study and research. At the end of this program a major conference was held, and the resulting publication, Law in Japan, continues to serve as a point of departure in descriptive studies of Japanese law.
During the 1960's interest in Japan continued to develop among law faculty members, but an even more important development was the increase in the number of students coming to the law school who already had some Japanese language and area training. With these students as a nucleus, a few law schools have begun to offer work in Japanese law. Some of these courses have been taught by visiting Japanese professors, and a few are taught regularly by Americans trained in Japanese law.
At the same time, the Japanese legal system has been studied by many non-lawyers, such as political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists. Constitutional law, family law, and criminal law have been analyzed as political and social phenomena in studies which have gone beyond legal rules to origins and practices.
The four papers in this volume represent these various developments. One is by a visiting scholar, two were written by students in a course dealing with Japanese law, and one is part of a doctoral thesis in anthropology.
Publication Date
1979
Publisher
Center for Japanese Studies
City
Ann Arbor, MI
Keywords
Japan, Japanese law, strikes and lockouts, police, courts, law
Disciplines
Comparative and Foreign Law
Recommended Citation
Gray, Whitmore; Sugeno, Kazuo; Ames, Walter L.; Brown, Ronald G.; and Briggs, Richard O., "Current Studies in Japanese Law" (1979). Books. 106.
https://repository.law.umich.edu/books/106
Comments
This work is either in the public domain or copyright is held by the Regents of the University of Michigan except when indicated as used with permission of a copyright holder. Some images may have been removed due to rights considerations. Also available from Michigan Publishing at http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.bbw2327.0001.001