The Center for Japanese Legal Studies is truly one of a kind. Founded in 1980, it is the first and only center focused on Japanese law in the United States.The Center actively promotes research on Japanese law, aided by the country’s premier collection of Japanese legal materials. The Center also strives to be the principal source of intellectual exchange between the legal professions of the United States and Japan.
Columbia, the first law school in the United States to offer courses in Japanese law, now has over 400 graduates – both Japanese and American – working in Japan as lawyers, academics, judges, and government officials. These Columbia graduates have been instrumental in reforming the judicial system and modernizing the practice of corporate law in Japan, reforms that are shaping the future of Japanese society.
Publications from 2022
Article: Doctrinal Conflict in Foreign Investment Regulation in India: NTT Docomo vs. Tata Sons and the Case for “Downside Protection”, M. P. Ram Mohan, Nobuhisa Ishizuka, and Sidharth Sharma
Publications from 2020
Report: Strengthening the U.S.-Japan Alliance: Pathways for Bridging Law and Policy, Columbia Law School, 2020, Nobuhisa Ishizuka, Masahiro Kurosaki, and Matthew C. Waxman
Publications from 2019
Article: Constitutional Reform in Japan, Nobuhisa Ishizuka
Article: Constitutional Reform in Japan: Prospects, Process, and Implications, Nobuhisa Ishizuka
Article: Implications of Revision of Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan on the Defense Policy of Japan, Hideshi Tokuchi
Article: Japan's Constitution Across Time and Space, Carol Gluck
Article: Rhetoric and Realism: The First Diet Debates on Japan's Military Power, Sheila A. Smith
Publications from 2014
Report: M&A in Japan: Reenergized, Center for Japanese Legal Studies
Publications from 2013
Report: State Intervention and Private Enterprise: Japan, the U.S., and China, Center for Japanese Legal Studies
Publications from 2012
Article: Japan’s Experience with a New Jury (Saiban-in) System, Hironobu Takesaki