ANJeL Research Publications

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

2013

• Harald Baum, Luke Nottage, Joel Rheuben & Markus Thier, Japanese Business Law in Western Languages: An Annotated Selective Bibliography (2nd ed forthcoming early 2013, NY: Hein)
• Simon Butt, Luke Nottage & Hitoshi Nasu (eds) Asia-Pacific Disaster Management: Comparative and Socio-Legal Perspectives (forthcoming mid-2013, Berlin: Springer) [16 chapters]
• Leon Wolff, Luke Nottage and Kent Anderson (eds) Who Governs Japan? Popular Participation in the Japanese Legal Process (forthcoming end-2012, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar) [11 chapters]

2012

• Moritz Baelz, Marc Dernauer et al (eds), Business Law in Japan: Cases and Comments (Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer)
• Luke Nottage, “Japan” (with former ANJeL Visitor, Tatsuya Nakamura) in Tom Ginsburg & Shahla Ali (eds) Arbitration in Asia (New York: Juris, 3rd ed) forthcoming; also Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 12/38
• Luke Nottage and Souichirou Kozuka, “Lessons from Product Safety Regulation for Reforming Consumer Credit Markets in Japan and Beyond” 34(1) Sydney Law Review 129-61; also Sydney Law School
  Research Paper No. 11/39

2011

• Harald Baum and Moritz Bälz, Handbuch Japanisches Wirtschafts- und Handelsrecht (Encyclopedia of Japanese Commercial and Business Law), Carl Heymanns Verlag, 2011.
  Preface (English)
• Vivienne Bath and Luke Nottage (eds) Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia (November 2011, London: Routledge, London) [12 chapters (including two co-authored) plus Preface from the IBA President & ANJeL Advisor, Mr Akira Kawamura, 296pp]
• Luke Nottage, “Japan” in Jean du Plessis et al, Principles of Contemporary Corporate Governance (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed 2011) 352-86

2010

• Patrick Parkinson (trans: Nagata), ‘Parenting after Separation: The Process of Dispute Resolution in Australia’, Ritsumeikan Law Review (2010) Vol. 330,110-134
• “ANJeL Visiting Academic, Professor Tatsuya Nakamura of the Faculty of Law at Kokushikan University in Tokyo and General Manager of the Arbitration and Mediation Departments of the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association has produced a series of short articles in Japanese on Arbitration and ADR in Australia.”  
• Stacey Steele, 'Book Review: Corporate Governance in the 21st Century: Japan's Gradual Transformation' (2010) 24(2) Aust Jnl of Corp Law 207.
• Colin Jones, ‘Review of Corporate Governance in the 2st Century: Japan’s Gradual Transformation’ (2010) 5(1) Asian Journal of Comparative Law Article 3.

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 http://ssrn.com/abstract=1446523 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, 2009.
• Stacey Steele and Kathryn Taylor (eds), Legal Education in Asia:Globalisation, Change and Contexts, Routledge, London, 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.
• Moritz Balz, “Book Review of Nottage, Wolff and Anderson, Corporate Governance in the 21st Century – Japan’s Gradual Transformation”, Journal of Japanese Law, No 28, 2009.
• John Farrar, ‘Notes and Comment: The Gradual Transformation of Japanese Corporate Governance’ (2009) 15 New Zealand Business Law Quarterly 149.

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.

• 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

• "PL Law filings (1995~2005)" and Case Notes on PL Law judgments (1995-2008)
• "Tracing Trajectories in Contract Law Theory: Form in Anglo-New Zealand Law, Substance in Japan and the US"
• "The Japanisation of American Law? Substantive Similarities, Compared to Formal Anglo-New Zealand Law"
• "Changing Contract Lenses: Renegotiations in English, New Zealand, Japanese, US and International Sales Law and Practice".

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: 21 August 2012