Harvard East Asian Legal Studies

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Law and Investment in Japan: Cases and Materials, Second Edition

Yanagida, Yukio
Foote, Daniel H.
Johnson, Edward Stokes
Ramseyer, J. Mark
Scogin, Hugh T.

Law and Investment in Japan introduces both Japanese law and the strategic issues that arise in cross-border transactions. Centered around the details of an actual joint venture between the U.S. and Japan, the book combines materials from the transaction itself with cases, statutes, and background data.

Raising the Bar: The Emerging Legal Profession in East Asia

Alford, William P.

Over the past two decades, China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and Indonesia have been engaged in unprecedented efforts to recast and rapidly expand the legal profession—with profound implications not only for law, but also for politics, international relations, and society itself. Raising the Bar is the first book-length study in English of this phenomenon.

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