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Continuities of Legal Consciousness: Professor John Haley's Writings on Twelve Hundred Years of Japanese Legal History

Author: Mark Levin (University of Hawai'i)

Abstract

Working from Professor Haley’s division of the historical process into four major temporal components—Nara, Kamakura, Tokugawa, and Meiji, I hope to suggest how pieces of the historical puzzle are evident in Japanese legal dynamics at work since the publication of Authority Without Power nearly twenty years ago. Then, I will conclude by trying to assess what we may be able to imagine coming soon in Japan’s future.

Keywords: Law -- History -- Japan, Authority without power [Treatise]: John Owen Haley, Japanese history, Legal history, Japan, John Owen Haley

How to Cite: Levin, M. (2009) “Continuities of Legal Consciousness: Professor John Haley's Writings on Twelve Hundred Years of Japanese Legal History”, Washington University Global Studies Law Review. 8(2).