Japanese Law

Community and the law: A critical reassessment of American liberalism and Japanese modernity (2010)

This book comprises translations of seven landmark essays by one of Japan's most respected and...

 

Lifelong employment, labour law and the lost decade in Japan: The end of a job for life?, Innovation in management and technology in Japan (2010)

This chapter discusses on the most prominent topics in Japanese management: lifelong employment. It sketches...

 

Chance to add some spice (Australia-Japan relations), Canberra Times (2009)
 

Lost in translation: Japan wants its identity back, Courier Mail (2009)
 

Corporate governance in the 21st century: Japan's gradual transformation (2008)

The 'lost' decade of economic stagnation in Japan during the 1990s has become a 'found...

 

The death of lifelong employment in Japan?, Corporate governance in the 21st Century: Japan’s gradual transformation (2008)

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Lifelong employment in Japan is more trope than literal fact. As a synecdoche,...

 

Gender, justice and the Japanese judiciary, The Tohoku annual review on gender law and policy (2007)

Women are considerably under-represented on the Japanese judiciary. Yet despite the enormous scholarly attention devoted...

 

The corporate regulation of gender harassment in Japan, Employment, social security and gender (2007)

This chapter outlines the process by which equal employment legislation has transformed sexual harassment from...

 

Corporate governance and law reform in Japan: From the lost decade to the end of history? (with Luke Nottage), Japanese management: The search for a new balance between continuity and change (2005)

This chapter argues that Japan’s sluggish economic performance contrasts starkly with the eruption of activity...

 

Japanese women and the ‘new’ administrative state, Japanese governance: Beyond Japan Inc (2003)

This chapter questions whether Japanese administrative law reform agenda aimed at promoting greater transparency in...

 

Comparative Corporate Governance

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The dark side to Australia's equity revolution: Credit crunch, creditor protection and corporate law, Ritsumeikan law review (2009)

This paper takes a fresh approach to the recent global credit crisis. Rather than interrogating...

 

Corporate governance in the 21st century: Japan's gradual transformation (2008)

The 'lost' decade of economic stagnation in Japan during the 1990s has become a 'found...

 

Introduction: Japan’s gradual transformation in corporate governance (with Luke Nottage and Kent Anderson), Corporate governance in the 21st Century: Japan’s gradual transformation (2008)

Like other major post-industrial democracies around the turn of the 21st century, Japan is undergoing...

 

The death of lifelong employment in Japan?, Corporate governance in the 21st Century: Japan’s gradual transformation (2008)

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Lifelong employment in Japan is more trope than literal fact. As a synecdoche,...

 

Corporate governance and law reform in Japan: From the lost decade to the end of history? (with Luke Nottage), Japanese management: The search for a new balance between continuity and change (2005)

This chapter argues that Japan’s sluggish economic performance contrasts starkly with the eruption of activity...

 

Comparative Employment Law

Lifelong employment, labour law and the lost decade in Japan: The end of a job for life?, Innovation in management and technology in Japan (2010)

This chapter discusses on the most prominent topics in Japanese management: lifelong employment. It sketches...

 

Corporate governance in the 21st century: Japan's gradual transformation (2008)

The 'lost' decade of economic stagnation in Japan during the 1990s has become a 'found...

 

The death of lifelong employment in Japan?, Corporate governance in the 21st Century: Japan’s gradual transformation (2008)

Extract:

Lifelong employment in Japan is more trope than literal fact. As a synecdoche,...

 

Japanese women and the ‘new’ administrative state, Japanese governance: Beyond Japan Inc (2003)

This chapter questions whether Japanese administrative law reform agenda aimed at promoting greater transparency in...

 

Legal Education

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'Learned' in the law versus 'learning' the law: The induction program for sessional teachers in the UNSW school of law, UNSW compendium of good practice in learning and teaching (2007)

In 2003, the School of Law introduced an induction program for new teachers, both sessional...

 

No subject area

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Learning through writing: Reconceptualizing the research supervision process, International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (2011)

This paper seeks to re-conceptualize the research supervision relationship. The literature has tended to view...

 

Legal translation, The Oxford handbook of translation studies (2011)

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Legal translation theory brooks little interference with the source legal text. With few exceptions (Joseph...

 

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Review of the book Imposing Peace and Prosperity: Australia, Social Justice and Labour Reform in Occupied Japan by C. De Matos, Australian journal of politics and history (2011)

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Christine de Matos finds little evidence of an Australia imprint on Occupation policy on...

 

Translators' preface: The legal sociology of Takao Tanase (with Luke Nottage), Community and the law: A critical reassessment of American liberalism and Japanese modernity (2010)

‘Takao Tanase seamlessly combines sociolegal and philosophical analysis as he explores the tensions between individual...

 

Australian law online, A guide to law on the Internet (2004)

This is a guide to publicly available internet sources for Japanese legal researchers interested in...