J. Mark Ramseyer Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies Harvard Law School 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, Hauser 204 Cambridge, MA 02138 ramseyer@law.harvard.edu

Education:

• Goshen College B.A. 1976, History
• University of Michigan A.M. 1978, Japanese Studies
• Harvard Law School J.D. 1982

Bio:

J. Mark Ramseyer is a graduate of Goshen College (B.A., History), the University of Michigan (M.A., Japanese Studies), and Harvard (J.D., magna cum laude), Professor Mark Ramseyer teaches courses in corporate law and Japanese law at the Law School. He has been a Fulbright fellow at the University of Tokyo (1985-86), and a member of the faculty of UCLA (1986-92) and the University of Chicago (1992-98). He has also taught courses at Hitotsubashi University (in Japanese), the University of Tokyo (in Japanese), Tohoku University (in Japanese), and the University of Virginia. At Chicago, he chaired the Committee on Japanese Studies for several years. Professor Ramseyer is the author of many articles, as well as author, co-author or editor of the following books: Ho to keizaigaku (1990; written in Japanese); Cases and Materials on Business Associations (4th edition, 2000, co-edited with Stephen M. Bainbridge); Japan's Political Marketplace (1993, with Frances Rosenbluth); Law and Investment in Japan (1994, co-edited with Yanagida, et al.); The Politics of Oligarchy (1995, with Frances Rosenbluth); Odd Markets in Japanese History (1996); Japanese Law (1998, with Nakazato); Nihon keizai ron no gokai (The Misunderstandings in the Theory of the Japanese Economy) (2001, with Yoshiro Miwa); Japanese Law: The Political Economy of Japanese Law (2001); Japanese Law in Context: Readings in Society, the Economy, and Politics (2001, with Curtis J. Milhaupt & Michael K. Young, eds); Agency, Partnerships, and Limited Liability Entities: Unincorporated Business Associations (2001, with William A. Klein & Stephen M. Bainbridge, eds.); Nihon sangyo ron no gokai (With Yoshiro Miwa, 2002), and Measuring Judicial Independence (with Eric Rasmusen, 2003).

Recent Books:

• Ramseyer, J. Mark & Minoru Nakazato. Japanese Law: An Economic Approach (University of Chicago Press 1998). (Paperback edition, with corrections, 2000. Awarded: Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award, for best book in law, Association of American Publishers, 1999)
• Ramseyer, J. Mark. Odd Markets in Japanese History: Law and Economic Growth (Cambridge University Press 1996).
• Ramseyer, J. Mark & Frances McCall Rosenbluth. The Politics of Oligarchy: Institutional Choice in Imperial Japan (Cambridge University Press 1995). (Awarded Luebbert Award, for best book in Comparative Politics, American Political Science Association)
• Ramseyer, J. Mark & Frances McCall Rosenbluth. Japan's Political Marketplace (Harvard University Press 1993). (Paperback edition, with a new Preface: 1997)