Sho Sato Program in Japanese and US Law
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Harry N. Scheiber
360 Boalt Hall
Phone: 510-643-9788/643-3595
Email: hscheiber@law.berkeley.edu
The Sho Sato Program in Japanese and U.S. Law is dedicated to researching and teaching about Japanese law and Japanese-U.S. legal relationships, as well as the historical and contemporary comparative study of the Japanese and American legal systems. The program is named in honor of the late Professor Sho Sato, a distinguished Boalt faculty member for many years and a scholar of environmental, state, and local law.
One of the principal features of the program is the Sho Sato Conference Series, which invites scholars from Japan—and often from other nations as well—to Boalt Hall to present research on common themes. Members of the Berkeley Law faculty who are conducting studies of Japanese law and the Japanese legal system or comparative analyses involving Japanese legal and social data also present their work at these conferences. The conference papers have been published either in the form of symposia in leading journals or in books edited by Berkeley Law faculty.
Frequently, Berkeley Law offers courses on aspects of Japanese law taught by distinguished senior professors from Japanese university law faculties. Visiting research scholars from Japan are invited to be in residence and are available to interested law students . The program also seeks to facilitate student and faculty exchanges. Numerous Berkeley Law faculty members and students have done research and lectured in Japanese sister institutions. Professors Harry Scheiber and Robert Cooter recently have held Japan Society for Promotion of Science invitational fellowships for lectures at Japanese universities, including Tokyo (Todai), Kyoto, Kobe, Yamagata, and Waseda. Senior advisers to the Sho Sato Program include: Professor Kahei Rokumoto, University of Tokyo (emeritus) and University of the Air, Japan; Professor Takao Tanase, University of Kyoto (also president of the Japan Society for Sociology of Law); Professor Setsuo Miyazawa, Waseda University; and Sanford Kadish, dean emeritus of Boalt Hall and a founder of the program.
RECENT SHO SATO CONFERENCES
"Tax Law, Social Policy, and the Economy," March 9-10, 2009, Berkeley, CA
"Japanese Family Law in Comparative Perspective,” March 7-8, 2008, Berkeley, CA
“Clinical Legal Education in Japan and the United States” (co-sponsored with the Center for Clinical Education, UC Berkeley), March 10-12, 2006, Berkeley, CA
“Emerging Concepts of Rights in Japanese Law” and “A Symposium Honoring Professor Takao Tanase,” February 12-13, 2005, Berkeley, CA
Sho Sato Program Lectures
"Why Japanese Entrepreneurs Don't Give Up Control to VC's"
(co-sponsored with the Berkeley Center for Law, Business, and the Economy)
Professor Zenichi Shishido, Seikei University
August 26, 2008
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Emerging Concepts of Rights in Japanese Law, edited by Harry N. Scheiber and Laurent Mayali, The Robbins Collection, School of Law, UC Berkeley (2007)
Proceedings from the 2005 Sho Sato Conference in Honor of Takao Tanase
Bringing New Law to Ocean Waters, edited by David D. Caron and Harry N. Scheiber, Brill Academic Publishers (2004)
The Japanese Adversary System in Context, edited by Malcolm M. Feeley and Setsuo Miyazawa, International Political Science Association and Palgrave Macmillan (2002)
Law of the Sea: The Common Heritage and Emerging Challenges, edited by Harry N. Scheiber, Publications on Ocean Development, Volume 34, Kluwer Law International (2000)
Symposium Issue on Japanese Law, American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 49, Number 4 (Fall 2001)
Symposium Issue on Regulation in Japan and the United States, Law and Policy, Volume 22, Numbers 3-4 (October 2000)
Symposium Issue on the Sho Sato Memorial Conference on Japan, the United States, and Pacific Ocean Resources, Ecology Law Quarterly, Volume 16, Number 1 (1989)