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ANJeL Research Publications

 

A variety of research papers, both abstracted and in full-text, by ANJeL members and associates are listed below.

 

2009

 

Luke Nottage, "Law, Public Policy and Economics in Japan and Australia: Reviewing Bilateral Relations and Commercial Regulation in 2009" (forthcoming as Sydney Law School Research Paper via www.ssrn.com and SCIL Working Paper via www.law.usyd.edu.au/scil in preparation for the Ritsumeikan Law Review)

 

Takao Tanase (Nottage/Wolff trans & ed), Community and the Law: A Critical Reassessment of American Liberalism and Japanese Modernity, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, forthcoming Dec 2009.

 

Stacey Steele and Kathryn Taylor (eds), Legal Education in Asia:Globalisation, Change and Contexts, Routledge, London, forthcoming October 2009.

 

David T. Johnson and Franklin E. Zimring, The Next Frontier:National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009.

 

2008

 

Kenneth L. Port, Trademark Law and Policy, 2nd edn, Carolina Academic Press, Durham, 2008.

 

Curtis J. Milhaupt and Katharina Pistor, Law and Capitalism: What Corporate Crises Reveal About Legal Systems and Economic Development around the World, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008.

 

Jürgen Basedow, Harald Baum and Yuko Nishitani (eds), Japanese and European Private International Law in Comparative Perspective, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2008

 

Luke Nottage, "Economics, Politics, Public Policy and Law in Japan, Australasia and the Pacific: Corporate Governance, Financial Crisis, and Consumer Product Safety in 2008"

 

ANJeL Co-Directors Luke Nottage, Leon Wolff and Kent Anderson have co-edited Corporate Governance in the 21st Century: Japan’s Gradual Transformation (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham et al., 2008), which is expected to be the first book in a series emerging from ANJeL conferences and research interests. Click here for a flier, here for an abstract and the introductory chapter and here for a summary of the introductory chapter published in the March 2008 APEC Economies Newsletter.

 

Souichiro Kozuka and Naoe Fujisawa, "Old Ideas Die Hard? Reform of Secured Transactions Law in Japan and its Impact on Banking Practice"

 

Luke Nottage and Kate Miles, "‘Back to the Future’ for Investor-State Arbitrations: Revising Rules in Australia and Japan to Meet Public Interests" (paper given at the ANZSIL conference in Canberra, 28 June 2008).

 

Yuichiro Nakaya, "Japanese Patent Examiners Efforts Toward Expeditious and Efficient Patent Examination" (paper and prepared by Visiting Fellow at University of Wollongong from Japan Patent Office with appendix entitled "Courts with Jurisdiction over IP Cases in Japan": the paper represents the author’s own views)

 

Luke Nottage, "Corporate Governance and M&A in Australia: An Overview for Assessing Japan and the ‘Americanisation’ Thesis" (paper given at Doshisha University conference in December 2007)

 

2007

 

Trevor Ryan, Dear Judge Ichiro (Zeus Publications: Burleigh Qld, 2007). A review of the book is available in Japanese Studies Vol. 28, 2008, 131-32 (click here for the review and see www.informaworld.com/js for Japanese Studies). A review in Japanese by Souichiro Kozuka is available in NBL No. 868, November 2007

 

Luke Nottage

For the rest of Luke Nottage's PhD in Law thesis from which the three papers above have been edited and updated, click here.

 

2006

 

Luke Nottage, "Interpreting the Results of Japan’s first National Legal Examination for the New Postgraduate ‘Law School’ Programs" (draft of 18 October 2006). Click here for the 2007 results (in Japanese).

 

Hon J.J. Spigelman A.C., Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, "Judicial Exchange between Australia and Japan" (Speech given at February 2006 ANJeL Conference held at UNSW).

 

Dr Harald Baum, "Takeover Law in the EU and Germany: Comparative Analysis of a Regulatory Model" (University of Tokyo Journal of Law and Politics, Vol. 3, Spring 2006, 60-72).

 

2005

 

Colin P.A. Jones, "Marbury v. Madison and The Matrix: What Child Custody and Visitation in Japan Show us about the Japanese Court System" (based on a paper originally prepared for presentation at the October 2005 Japan Law Workshop at the University of Washington School of Law).

 

Book Review, "Japan's Quiet Transformation: Social Change and Civil Society in the Twenty- First Century" (by Jeff Kingston) in the Japan Foundation Newsletter Vol XXX/No 6 (September 2005)

 

Jeff Kingston, "Information Disclosure in Japan" (paper presented at the biennial conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA), Adelaide, 3-6 July 2005).

 

Mayumi Saegusa and Julian Dierkes, "Integrating Alternative Dispute Resolution into Japanese Legal Education" (abstract only, presented at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, 25 May 2005).

 

Kent Anderson and Emma Saint, "Japan's Quasi-Jury (Saiban-In) Law: An Annotated Translation of the Act Concerning Participation of Lay Assessors in Criminal Trials" (2005) 6(1) Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 233-283.

 

2004

 

David Johnson, "Justice System Reform in Japan: Where are the Police and Why Does It Matter" (a draft in English for "Nihon ni okeru Shiho Seido Kaikaku", published in 76(2) Horitsu Jiho 8-15 [February 2004])

 

Luke Nottage, "Americanisation of Australian Law and Legal Education? Implications for Japan" (a draft in English for "Nihon no Hoso Yosei Seido Kaikaku e no Teigen - O-sutoraria ho no Shiten kara", published in 76(2) Horitsu Jiho 30-6 [February 2004]).

 

Luke Nottage, "Comparing Product Safety & Liability Law in Japan" (presented at the staff seminar, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, 30 October 2003), based on his new book, Product Safety and Liability Law in Japan: From Minamata to Mad Cow (London: Routledge Curzon, 2004).

 

2003

 

Makoto Ibusuki, "Fields of Dreams for Justice: The Ongoing (R)evolution of Information Technology and Judicial Reform in Japan" (presented at Faculty of Law, UNSW, 26 November 2003).

 

Judge Keisuke Hosoda, "Popular Participation in the Judicial System: Japanese Judicial System Reform" (2003).

 


Last updated: 24 August 2009