Transformative Constitutionalism and the Common and Customary Law

Common Law Constitutionalism and Its Counterpart in Japan

* Associate Professor of Law, Sojo University; LL.M., University of California, Los Angeles; J.D., University of Tokyo; B.A., Waseda University. This paper is based on my LL.M. thesis, and I thank Clyde S. Spillenger for his supervision and advice. Without him, this Article would not exist. I also would like to thank Daniel Rosen and Lieba Faier for their thoughtful comments, and I thank Kazuno...

New Governance , Law and Constitutionalism

The Formation of Customary Law

Progressive Constitutionalism and Alternative Movements in Law

On Law, Politics and Contemporary Constitutionalism

Is the political process, with all its difficulties, merely reflective of contemporary constitutionalism? Are the problems an aspect of ongoing inter-communal dialogue? To what extent are existing difficulties exacerbated by a general failure to grasp the difference between the logic of law and political theory and practice? These questions are addressed here in three basic stages: first, the r...