J. Mark Ramseyer is the Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at Harvard University Law School.
"Replete with facts, figures, and statistical analyses, Second-Best
Justice is a richly detailed examination of Japan's 'second-best'
system for handling personal injury cases--a system that, Ramseyer
argues, puts the United States to shame."-- "Daniel H. Foote,
University of Washington and University of Tokyo"
"In predictably insightful and lucid fashion, Ramseyer shows how
the Japanese legal system 'makes do' with relatively simple,
predictable rules to resolve a variety of common disputes. The
result, it turns out, is a legal system that functions just
fine--perhaps much better than one aspiring to perfect,
individualized justice. Second-Best Justice is an astute commentary
on the Japanese legal system, and by implication, the US system to
which it is often compared."-- "Curtis J. Milhaupt, Columbia Law
School"
"Ramseyer--often unorthodox, rebellious, paradigm-subverting--has
occasionally found himself cast as the enfant terrible of Japanese
law, economics, and politics. With this marvelous book, Second-Best
Justice, he again takes aim at conventional wisdom with a
brilliant, measured, and highly contextualized takedown of the
common belief that low litigation rates in Japan indicate that the
Japanese legal system is fundamentally flawed. Ramseyer offers an
alternative, ingeniously nuanced explanation for why Japanese don't
sue: The system aims for good, not perfection. Ramseyer's argument
is so compelling that it's difficult to imagine his ideas won't
form the next conventional wisdom. With a cavalcade of evidence
that powerfully challenges dominant counterarguments, Second-Best
Justice is essential reading that is sure to spark controversy, as
well as change minds."-- "Mark D. West, University of Michigan Law
School"
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