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Mark D. West is an American legal scholar. He is widely published on the subject of Japanese law and the Japanese legal system, and is regarded as a leading American authority in these areas. He is presently the Nippon Life Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and Director of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan.

Publications

West is the author or co-author of four books:

Economic Organizations and Corporate Governance in Japan: The Impact of Formal and Informal Rules. C. J. Milhaupt, co-author. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004.
Law in Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and Statutes. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2005.
Secrets, Sex and Spectacle: The Rules of Scandal in Japan and the United States. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2006.
The Japanese Legal System: Cases, Codes, and Commentary. C.J. Milhaupt & J.M. Ramseyer, co-authors . University Casebook Series. New York: Foundation Press, 2006.

He has published articles in English and Japanese in the Journal of Japanese Studies, Hōritsu Jihō, American Journal of Comparative Law, Law and Society Review, Journal of Comparative Economics, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, and Northwestern University Law Review among others. He is a frequent lecturer at universities in the United States and Japan, and an editor of the Journal of Japanese Law.

Education

West earned his B.A., magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Rhodes College, and his J.D. with multiple honors from Columbia University School of Law, where he was notes and comments editor for the Columbia Law Review. He clerked for the Hon. Eugene H. Nickerson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He has been a Fulbright Research Scholar, an Abe Fellow, and a fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

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