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Volume 19law in Japan - A Turning Point

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Informationen zum Autor Daniel H. Foote is professor of law at the University of Tokyo. Klappentext Daniel H. Foote is professor of law at the University of Tokyo. Zusammenfassung Explores various developments in Japanese law over the latter half of the twentieth century. This book features the work of thirty-five legal experts on various fields of Japanese law! with attention to the areas of environmental law! health law! intellectual property! and insolvency. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction and Overview: Japanese Law at a Turning Point / Daniel H. Foote Part I. The Legal System and the Law's Processes 1. New Knowledge Concerning Japan's Legal System before 1868, Acquired from Japanese Sources by Western Writers since 1963 / Carl Steenstrup 2. Criminal Trials in the Early Meiji Era - with Particular Reference to Ukagai / Shirei System / Nobuhiko Kasumi 3. Law, Culture, and Conflict: Dispute Resolution in Postwar Japan / Eric A. Feldman 4. The Development of an Adversary System in Japanese Civil Procedure / Yasuhei Taniguchi 5. The Japanese Judiciary: Maintaining Integrity, Autonomy, and the Public Trust / John O. Haley 6. The Rise of the Large Japanese Business Law Firm and Its Prospects for the Future / Yasuharu Nagashima and E. Anthony Zaloom 7. The Legislative Dynamic: Evidence from the Deregulation of Financial Services in Japan / Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer 8. Legal Education / Kahei Rokumoto Part II. The Individual, the State, and the Law 9. Ongoing Changes in the Infrastructure of a Constitutional System: From "Bureaucracy" to Democracy / Kazuyuki Takahashi 10. The Constitution of Japan: "Pacifism" and Mass Media Freedom / Lawrence W. Beer 11. Development of the Concepts of Transparency and Accountability in Japanese Administrative Law / Katsuya Uga 12. The Politics of Transparency in Japanese Administrative Law / Tom Ginsburg 13. The Development of Criminal Law in Japan since 1961 / Koya Matsuo 14. Globalization and Japanese Criminal Law / Joseph L. Hoffmann 15. Criminal Justice in Japan / David T. Johnson 16. Litigation, Administrative Relief, and Political Settlement for Pollution Victime Compensation: Minamata Mercury Poisoning after Fifty Years / Koichiro Kujikura 17. Medical Error, Deception, Self-Critical Analysis, and Law's Impact: A Comparative Examination / Robert B. Leflar Part III. The Law and the Economy 18. Reexamining Legal Transplants: The Director's Fiduciary Duty in Japanese Corporate Law / Hideki Kanda and Curtis J. Milhaupt 19. Japan's "Era of Contract" / Takashi Uchida and Veronica L. Taylor 20. From Security to Mobility? Changing Aspects of Japanese Dismissal Law / Ryuichi Yamakawa 21. Concentrated Power: The Paradox of Antitrust in Japan / Harry First and Tadashi Shiraishi 22. The Changing Roles of the Patent Office and the Courts after Fijitsu / TI / Naoki Koizumi and Toshiko Takenaka 23. The Reform of the Japanese Tax System in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century and into the Twenty-first Century / Hiroshi Kaneko 24. Some Observations on the Japanese Tax System at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century / Christopher H. Hanna 25. Insolvency Law for a New Century: Japan's Revised Framework for Economic Failures / Kent Anderson and Makoto Ito Appendix A Dan Fenno Henderson: A Tribute / Daniel H. Foote Appendix B Selected Writings of Dan Fenno Henderson / Robert Britt Contributors Index ...

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Authors Daniel H. Foote, FOOTE DANIEL H
Assisted by Daniel H. Foote (Editor)
Publisher University Of Washington Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.02.2008
 
EAN 9780295987316
ISBN 978-0-295-98731-6
No. of pages 704
Dimensions 159 mm x 241 mm x 44 mm
Series Asian Law
Asian Law Series
Asian Law Series
Asian Law
Law in Japan
Asian Law SeriesAsian Law SeriesAsian Law SeriesLaw in Japan
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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