Professor Masayuki Murayama, Ph.D.

Professor Masayuki Murayama, Ph.D.

EDUCATION

1979-81 Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley (1981 Ph.D. Candidate) 
1978-79 LL.M. Program, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
1973-81 Graduate Program in Law and Political Science, University of Tokyo
1973 LL.B., University of Tokyo

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2012-2014 Visiting Scholar,Columbia Law School
2005 Professor, School of Law, Meiji University
1997 Visiting Researcher, Institut fuer Rechtstatsachen Forschung und Rechtssoziologie, Freie Universitaet, Berlin 
Visiting Researcher, CNRS Centre de Sociologie des Organisations, Paris
1996 Visiting Researcher, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University
1993 Professor, Faculty of Law and Economics, Chiba University
1987 Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Economics, Chiba University
1981 Research Assistant, Faculty of Law and Economics, Chiba University
1987-2005 having taught at Sophia (Jochi) University, St. Paul (Rikkyo) University, Hokkaido University, Hosei University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo Metropolitan University,University of Tokyo and Yokohama National University

DEGREE

Ph.D. in Law (University of Tokyo, Sociology of Law) LL.M. (University of California, Berkeley)

PUBLICATIONS

In English

2015 Masayuki Murayama and Lloyd Burton, “Cassandra, Prometheus, and Hubris : The Epic Tragedy of Fukushima,” in Special Issue Cassandra’s Curse: The Law and Foreseeable Future Disasters, Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol.68 (2015), pp.125-153.
2014 “Culture, Situation and Behaviour,” in Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Jeroen Maesschalck, Stephan Parmentier and David Nelken (eds.), The Changing Role of Law in Japan, Edward Elgar Publications, 2014,pp.189-205.
2013 “Kawashima and the Changing Focus on Japanese Legal Consciousness: A Selective History of the Sociology of Law in Japan,” International Journal of Law in Context 9 (4), pp.565-589.
2012 “Reconsidering Japanese Dispute Resolution: What is it and Why,” in Tom Ginsburg and Harry N. Scheiber (eds.), The Japanese Legal System: An Era of Transition, Robbins Collection Publications, pp.67-87.
2010 “The Origins and Development of Family Conciliation in Japan: A Political Aspect,” Journal of Social Welfare & Family Law, Vol.32, No.2, pp.143-153.
“Convergence from Opposite Directions? Characteristics of Japanese Divorce Law in Comparative Perspective, ”Harry N. Scheiber and Laurent Mayali (eds.), Japanese Family Law in Comparative Perspective, Robbins Collection, University of California School of Law, pp.61-98.
2009 “Japanese Disputing Behavior Reconsidered, ”Kuo-chang Huang (ed.), Empirical studies of judicial systems 2008, Academia Sinica, pp.261-298.
“Expanding Access to Lawyers: The Role of Legal Advice Centers,” in Rebecca L. Sandefur (ed.), Access to Justice, Emerald,pp.167-201.
2007 “Experiences of Problems and Disputing Behaviour in Japan, Meiji Law Jounal Vol.14, pp.1-59.”
2001 “The Role of the Defense Lawyer in the Japanese Criminal Justice System, ”Malcolm Feeley and Setsuo Miyazawa (eds.), The Japanese Adversary in Context: Controversies and Comparisons, Palgrave, pp.42-66.
2000 (With Johannes Feest) “Protecting the Innocent Through Criminal Justice: A Case Study from Spain, Virtually Compared to Germany and Japan, ”David Nelken (ed.), Contrasting Criminal Justice: Getting from Here to There, Ashgate Publishing, 49-75.
1999 “Does a Lawyer Make a Difference? - Effects of a Lawyer on Mediation Outcome in Japan,” International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, Vol.13, pp.52-77.
1998 “The Penal Control of Traffic Accidents in Japan,” in Ewoud Hondius(ed.), Modern Trends in Tort Law, pp.113-133. Modern Trends in Tort Law, 113-133,
1994 “The Right to Counsel: Deficit and Opportunity for Criminal Justice in Japan,” in Precaire Waarden: Liber Amicorum voor Prof. mr. A.A.G. Peters, pp.325-333.
1993 “Patrol Police Activities in Changing Urban Conditions ? The Case of the Tokyo Police,” in Vincenzo Ferrari and Carla Faralli(ed.), Laws and Rights, Vol.2, pp.133-160.
1992 “Postwar Trends in the Administration of Japanese Criminal Justice: Lenient but Intolerant or Something Else?,” Journal of Japan-Netherlands Institute, No.4, pp.221-246.

In Japanese

2015 Kawashima, Takeyoshi (Transcribed by Masayuki Murayama), “Chapter 6 Consciousness of Crime and Punishment,” Horitsu Ronso, Vol.87, No.6, pp.271-288.
2012 (With Ryo Hamano) Hoshakaigaku [Sociology of Law], 2nd ed., Yuhikaku, 220 + xii pp.
2010 (With Yoshiyuki Matsumura, eds.), Hoishiki to Hunso Kodo [Legal Consciousness and Disputing Behavior], Gendai Nihon no Hunso Shori to Minji Shiho [Dispute Resolution and Civil Justice in Contemporary Japan], Vol. 1, The University of Tokyo Press.
General Editor, Gendai Nihon no Hunso Shori to Minji Shiho [Dispute Resolution and Civil Justice in Contemporary Japan], 3 Vols., The University of Tokyo Press.
(With Akira Moriya, Kyoko Ishida, Tomohiko Maeda, Tsuneo Miki, and Rie Ono) “Wagakuni ni okeru Horitsu Sodan Riyo no Jittai [Realities of the Use of Legal Consultation in Our Country],” Horitsu Ronso, Vol. 83 (1), pp.411-458.
“Rikon Mondai Tojisha no tameno Jichitai Sodan Network [Network of Municipal Consultation Service for Spouses with Divorce Problems],” Horitsu Ronso, Vol. 82 (2=3), pp.375-407.
2009 (With Tamaki, Teiko, Tomohiko Maeda, Isamu Sugino and Satoshi Minamikata), “Hunso Kodo Internet Chosa no Kihon Shukei [Basic Findings of an Internet Survey on Disputing Behavior] (1) (2),” Hosei Riron, 41(3=4), pp.205-240 and 42(1), pp.157-180.
(Eds. with Daniel Foote, Shozo Ota and Hamano Ryo), Hoshakigaku no Shin Sedai [New Generation of the Sociology of Law], Yuhikaku.
“Nihon ni okeru Bengoshi Riyo Patahn no Tokucho: Hoka Shakai ni okeru Hunso Shori to Minji Shiho [Characteristics of the Japanese Legal Service Market for Individuals: Civil Justice and Dispute Resolution in the Legalizing Society in a Comparative Perspective],” Hoshakaigaku [Sociology of Law], Vol.70, pp.23-46.
2008 “Mondai Keiken to Mondai Shori Kodo no Kokusai Hikaku ? Nichi Bei Ei no Data kara [International Comparison of Problem Experience and Problem Solving Behavior ? Based on Japanese, U.S. and England & Wales Data],” in Kojima Takeshi Sensei Koki Kinen: Minji Shiho no Hori to Seisaku [Festschrift for Professor Takeshi Kojima: Theories and Policies of the Civil Justice], Vol.2, pp.1119-1149.
2003 (With Ryo Hamano) Hoshakaigaku [Sociology of Law], Yuhikaku, 203 + xii pp.
2000 “Hoka Shakai no Rikon Chotei [Divorce Mediation in the Legalizing Society],”Kazoku Shakai to Ho [Family, Society and Law], No.16, pp.159-190.
1998 “Nihongata Keiji Shiho Katei no Tokucho ? Hikakuteki Kanten kara [Characteristics of the Japanese Criminal Justice Process ? From a Comparative Point of View],” in Matsuo Koya Sensei Koki Shukuga Ronbunshu [Festschrift for Professor Matsuo], Vol.2, Yuhikaku, pp.25-46.
1996 “Horitsu Gyomu no Shakai Soshiki to Keiji Bengo ? Sapporo/Aomori Chosa kara [The Social Organization of Lawyering and Criminal Defense Practice ? Research in Sapporo and Aomori],” Chiba Hogaku Ronshu [Chiba Journal of Law and Politics], Vol.10, No.3, pp.161-312.
“Hanzai no Ninchi/Kenkyo to Keisatsu Sairyo [Clearance of Crimes and Police Discretion],” in Ishimura Zensuke Sensei Koki Kinen Ronshu [Festschrift for Professor Zensuke Ishimura], Nihon Hyoronsha, pp.373-391.
1993 “Horitsuka to Seigi no Jitsugen [The Legal Profession and the Realization of Justice],” in Takao Tanase (ed.), Gendai Hoshakaigaku Nyumon [Introduction to Modern Sociology of Law], Horitsu Bunkasha, pp.207-236.
1990 Keira Keisatsu no Kenkyu [A Study of the Patrol Police], Seibundo, 482+v pp.