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Faculty Bio

Mark D. West, Nippon Life Professor of Law and Director, Center for Japanese Studies

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

    Japanese law; comparative corporate governance; and organized, corporate, and white-collar crime

EDUCATION:

  • J.D. with Multiple Honors, Columbia University School of Law, 1993
  • BA, International Studies, Rhodes College, 1989

SELECT GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

  • Fulbright Scholar, Kyoto University, 2002
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship, 2001
  • Abe Fellow at the Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, 1998
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
  • Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
  • Kashiwagi Fellowship in Japanese Law
  • Shapiro Fellowship in Japanese Law

SELECT PUBLICATIONS:

  • Law in Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and Statutes, University of Chicago Press, 2005.
  • "The Tragedy of the Condominiums: Legal Responses to Collective Action Problems After the Kobe Earthquake," 53 American Journal of Comparative Law (with Emily M. Morris), 2003.
  • "Losers: Recovering Lost Property in Japan and the United States," 37:2 Law & Society Review 369, 2003.
  • "The Puzzling Divergence of Corporate Law: Evidence and Explanations from Japan and the United States," 150 University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2002.
  • "The Resolution of Karaoke Disputes: The Calculus of Institutions and Social Capital," 28 Journal of Japanese Studies 301, Summer 2002.
  • "Why Shareholders Sue: The Evidence from Japan,"' 30 Journal of Legal Studies 351, 2001.
  • "Private Ordering at the World's First Futures Exchange," 98 Michigan Law Review 2574, 2000.
  • "The Dark Side of Private Ordering: An Institutional and Empirical Analysis of Organized Crime" (with Curtis Milhaupt), 67 University of Chicago Law Review 41, Winter 2000.
  • "Information, Institutions, and Extortion in Japan and the United States: Making Sense of Sokaiya Racketeers," 93 Northwestern University Law Review, 1999. An excerpt, "Making Sense of Japan's Sokaiya Racketeers," appeared in 42.2 Law Quadrangle Notes 72, Summer 1999.
  • "Naze sokaiya ha nakunaranainoka? Yusuri to kabunushi sokai no ho to keizaigaku" ("Why Don't Sokaiya Go Away: The Law and Economics of Blackmail and Shareholders' Meetings") (with Kenichi Osugi), in three parts: 1145 Jurisuto 60; 1146 Jurisuto 114; and 1147 Jurisuto 97, 1998.
  • "Legal Rules and Social Norms in Japan's Secret World of Sumo," 26 The Journal of Legal Studies 165. The University of Chicago Law School, 1997.
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