Daniel H. Foote

Daniel H. Foote is Dan Fenno Henderson Professor Emeritus and Senior Advisor to the Asian Law Center. He is Professor of Law at The University of Tokyo, where he holds the post in Sociology of Law.

Foote is a leading scholar on Japanese law. Individually or jointly, he has written or edited eight books and over seventy articles and book chapters in the fields of Japanese and comparative law, including many works in Japanese. Major research interests include legal education, the legal profession, the judiciary, criminal justice, dispute resolution, justice system reform, labor and employment, legal implications of the 2011 disaster, and the interrelationship between Japanese law and law elsewhere in Asia. His research involves a heavy focus on the relationship between law and society, with a strong empirical focus.

In addition to UW and UTokyo, Foote has taught as visiting professor at Harvard Law School, UCLA, and Kagoshima University; and he has lectured widely. Foote also has an extensive record of public service. He has served on numerous government, professional and academic councils and committees.

Peer Reviewed Journals & Law Reviews

• Daniel H. Foote, [Keynote Speech for the 19th General Meeting of the Association of Corporate Legal Departments: The Environment for Corporate Legal Departments–Prospects for the Future], 1100 NBL 2026 (June 2017).
• Daniel H. Foote, The Advent of Lawyers in Japanese Government, 5 Asian J. Law & Soc’y 135-73 (2018).
• Daniel H. Foote, [Changes in the Composition and Position of Legal Departments?: A Comparison of the Latest Trends for Legal Departments in the United States with Japan], Bijinesu Hmu, Sept. 2018, at 15-19.
• Daniel H. Foote, Diversification of the Japanese Judiciary, 27 Wash. Int'l L.J. 7-73 (2017).
• Daniel H. Foote, Japan’s ADR System for Resolving Nuclear Power-Related Damage Disputes,12 U. Tokyo L. Rev. 102-26 (2017).
• Daniel H. Foote, [East Asian Court Reform on Trial] Diversification of the Japanese Judiciary, 27 Wash. Int’l L. J. 7-73 (2017).
• Daniel H. Foote, Citizen Participation: Appraising the Saiban’in System, 22 Mich. St. Int’l L. Rev. 755-75 (2014).
• Daniel H. Foote, The Trials and Tribulations of Japan’s Legal Education Reforms, 36 Hastings Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 369-442 (2013).
• Daniel H. Foote, Saiban’in seido no seika [Achievements of the Saiban’in System], 36 Keijiho janaru 56-62 (2013) (reprinted in English at 22 Mich. St. Int’l L. Rev. 755-75 (2014).
• Soritsu rokujushunen kinen shinpojiumu “Saikenho no miraizo,” Paneru diskasshon [Symposium Celebrating the 60th Year of the Founding [of the Japan Bar Association], The Future Image of the Law of Obligations, Panel Discussion] (participant in panel discussion; full transcript), 166 Ho no shihai [The Rule of Law] 61-101 (2012).
• Daniel H. Foote, The Future of Legal Education: Global Views, 3 UT Soft L. Rev. 48-61 (2011), also published as Harvard Law School Program on the Legal Profession Blue Paper, available at http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/plp/pdf/Foote_Blue_Paper_for_Web.pdf.
• Daniel H. Foote, Student-Edited Law Reviews and Their Role in U.S. Legal Education, 6 U. Tokyo L. Rev. 257-75 (2011).
• Daniel H. Foote, Internationalization and Integration of Doctrine, Skills and Ethics in Legal Education: The Contrasting Situations of the United States and Japan, 75 H?shakaigaku 8-70 (2011).
• Daniel H. Foote, The Supreme Court and the Push for Transparency in Lower Court Appointments in Japan, 88 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1745-63 (2011).
• Daniel H. Foote, Policymaking by the Japanese Judiciary in the Criminal Justice Field, 72 H?shakaigaku 6-47 (2010).
• Daniel H. Foote, Restrictions on Political Activity by Judges in Japan and the United States: The Cases of Judge Teranishi and Justice Sanders, 8 Wash. U. Global Stud. L. Rev. 285-302 (2009).
• Nihonkoku kenpo kenkyu, Dai1kai: Saiban’in seido, Zadankai [Research on the Japanese Constitution, Session No. 1: The Saiban’in System, Panel Discussion], 1363 Jurisuto 88-111 (Sept. 2008) (panel discussion participant).
• Daniel H. Foote, Nationwide Survey of Civil Litigation Behavior: Introduction and Overview, 58 Meij? H?gaku, no. 3, 2008 at 2-11.
• Daniel H. Foote, Soto kara mita Nihon no hoso jinko, hoso y?sei--shiho e no akusesu wa honto ni kojo suru ka [Japan’s Legal Profession and Legal Training as Seen from Abroad: Will Access to Justice Really Improve?], 80 Horitsu jiho, no. 4 at 24-34 (2008).
• Daniel H. Foote, Recent Reforms to the Japanese Judiciary: Real Change or Mere Appearance?, 66 Hoshakaigaku 128-61 (2007).
• Daniel H. Foote, Forces Driving and Shaping Legal Training Reform in Japan, 7 Austl’n J. Asian L. 215-40 (2006).
• Daniel H. Foote, International Contracting Meets Information Technology: Tales from a Transpacific Seminar, 10 Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht/J. Japanese L., no. 19, 2005 at 69-100.
• Daniel H. Foote, Deta de miru Amerika no ro sukuru kyoiku [American Law School Education as Revealed by Data], 1297 Jurisuto 97-103 (2005).
• Daniel H. Foote, Beikoku ro sukuru no uchigawa: kyoin no gakureki/shokureki o? no tokei bunseki wo tsujite [An Inside View of U.S. Law Schools: Based on an Empirical Profile of Law Professors], 121 Hogaku kyokai zasshi 1285-377 (2004).
• Daniel H. Foote, Japanese Justice System Reform in Comparative Perspective,58 H?shakaigaku 204-34 (2003).
• Daniel H. Foote, Hogaku kyoiku ni okeru tayosei: sono igi to gan’i [Diversity in Legal Education: Its Significance and Implications], 2002 Horitsu jiho zokan, Shiho kaikakut 41-44 (2002).
• Daniel H. Foote, Zadankai: Senkyosen o toshite mita Amerika daitoryosei no tokucho [Panel Discussion: Characteristics of the American Presidential System as Seen in the Campaign Battle], 1196 Jurisuto 44-72 (2001).
• Daniel H. Foote, (Shiho seido kaikaku shingikai no) Ch?kan hokoku ni okeru hogaku kyoiku kaikaku: jikko katei de rinen wo miushinawanai tame ni [Legal Education Reform as Seen in the Interim Report (of the Justice System Reform Council): So as Not to Lose Sight of the Ideals in the Implementation Process], 1198 Jurisuto 97-104 (2001).
• Daniel Foote, Report of Session Three (of the Fifth Anniversary Comparative Law and Politics Symposium): 'udicial Activism' in the United States and Japan, 2 ICCLP Rev., No. 1 at 11 (1999).
• Daniel Foote, ICCLP Report: Law Clerking in the United States, 2 ICCLP Rev., No. 2 at 21 (1999).
• Daniel Foote, "Labor-Management Cooperation in the United States: Reflections on Boeing," 15 International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 431 (1999).
• Daniel Foote, The Roles of Comparative Law: Inaugural Lecture for the Dan Fenno Henderson Professorship in East Asian Legal Studies, 73 Wash. L. Rev. 25 (1998).
• Daniel H. Foote, Judicial Creation of Norms in Japanese Labor Law: Activism in the Service of — Stability?, 43 UCLA L. Rev. 635-709 (1996).
• Daniel H. Foote, The Benevolent Paternalism of Japanese Criminal Justice, 80 Cal. L. Rev. 317-90 (1992).

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Books or Treatises

• [Toward Empirical Social Science of Law: The Festschrift for Professor Masayuki MURAYAMA’s 70th Birthday] (Daniel H. Foote & Ryu Hamano eds., Shinzansha 2019). 570 pp.
• Yukio Yanagida & Daniel H. Foote, Habado: Takuetsu no himitsu -- Habado ro sukuru no eichi ni manabu [Harvard: Secrets to Its Preeminence--Learning from the Wisdom of Harvard Law School] (Y?hikaku, 2010). 266 pages.
• Gendai Nihon no funso shori to minji shiho 3: Saiban keiken to sosho kodo [Civil Justice and Dispute Resolution in Contemporary Japan 3: Litigation Experience and Litigation Behavior] (Daniel H. Foote & Shozo Ota eds., University of Tokyo Press, 2010). 265 pages.
• Hoshakaigaku no shinsedai [A New Generation for Sociology of Law] (Shozo Ota, Ryo Hamano, Daniel H. Foote & Masayuki Murayama eds., Y?hikaku, 2009). 371 pages.
• Law in Japan: A Turning Point (Daniel H. Foote ed., University of Washington Press, 2007). 667 pages.
• Daniel H. Foote, Na mo nai kao mo nai shiho: Nihon no saiban wa kawaru no ka [Nameless Faceless Justice: Will Japan’s Courts Change?] (Masayuki Tamaruya trans., NTT Shuppan, 2007), 356 pages.
• Daniel H. Foote, Saiban to shakai: shiho no “joshiki” saiko" [The Courts and Society: Reconsidering “Common Knowledge” Regarding Justice] (Masayuki Tamaruya trans., NTT Shuppan, 2006). 328 pages.
• Tokeru sakai koeru ho (4): media to seido [Dissolving Borders, Transcending Law (4): Media and Systems] (Daniel H. Foote & Yasuo Hasebe eds., University of Tokyo Press, 2005). 179 pages.
• Yukio Yanagida, Daniel H. Foote, Edward S. Johnson, Jr., J. Mark Ramseyer & Hugh T. Scogin, Jr., Law and Investment in Japan: Cases and Materials (2d ed. Harvard University Press, 2000). 557 pages.
• Yukio Yanagida, Daniel H. Foote, Edward S. Johnson, Jr., J. Mark Ramseyer & Hugh T. Scogin, Jr., Law and Investment in Japan: Cases and Materials (Harvard University Press, 1994). 734 pages.

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Book Chapters

• Daniel H. Foote, A Passion for Wakai, in Wakai wa Mirai wo Tsukuru: Kusano Yoshir? Sensei Koki Kinen [Conciliation Will Build the Future: Essays in Honor of Kusano Yoshir Sensei for His Seventieth Birthday] 515-22 (Yoshinaka Toyoda et al. eds., Shinzansha 2018).
• Daniel H. Foote, Achievements of the Justice System Reform Council, in [Essays in Honor of Professor Masahito Inouye for His Seventieth Birthday] 862(1)-842(21) (Tadashi Sakamaki, Yutaka Ysawa & Toshihiro Kawaide eds., Yhikaku 2019).
• Daniel H. Foote, “Lawyers in Every Corner of Society”: A Progress Report, in [Toward Empirical Social Science of Law: The Festschrift for Professor Masayuki Murayama’s 70th Birthday] 153-74 (Daniel H. Foote & Ryu Hamano eds., Shinzansha 2019).
• Daniel H. Foote, Saiban’in seido ni taisuru ishiki chosa; kenkyu no igi to kongo no kadai [Attitude Survey Regarding the Saiban’in System: Significance of the Research and Future Tasks], in Nihonhin kara mita saiban’in seido [The Lay Participation (Saiban’in) System, as Viewed by the Japanese] (Matsumura Yoshiyuki, Ota Shozo & Kinoshita Manako eds., Keiso Shobo, 2015).
• Daniel H. Foote, Horitsuka no yakuwari: Gasshukoku to no hikaku o chushin ni [The Roles of Jurists: Centered on Comparisons with the United States], in Ho no hendo no ninaite [The Bearers of Legal Change] (Atsushi Omura ed., Iwanami Shoten, 2015) (Gendaiho no dotai, vol. 5).
• Daniel H. Foote, Cause Lawyering in Japan: Reflections on the Case Studies and Justice Reform, in Going to Court to Change Japan: Social Movements and the Law in Contemporary Japan 165-80 (Patricia O. Steinhoff ed., University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2014).
• John O. Haley & Daniel H. Foote, Judicial Law-making and the Creation of Legal Norms in Japan: A Dialogue, in Legal Innovations in Asia: Judicial Lawmaking and the Influence of Comparative Law 77-122 (John O. Haley & Toshiko Takenaka eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014).
• Daniel H. Foote, Introduction and Overview, in Law in Japan: A Turning Point xix-xxxix (Daniel H. Foote ed., University of Washington Press, 2007). 667 pages.
• Daniel H. Foote, Keiken, tayosei, soshite ho [Experience, Diversity, and the Law], in Ayako Nozaki, Seigi, kazoku, ho no kozo tenkan: riberaru feminizumu no saiteii [The Structural Transformation of Justice, the Family, and Law: A Repositioning of Liberal Feminism] 227-37 (Kei Yoshinaga trans., Keiso Shobo, 2003).
• Daniel H. Foote, Amerikajin wa Nihonjin yori Nihonteki na no ka? [Are Americans More Japanese Than the Japanese?], in Ningen no kokoro to ho [People’s Souls and the Law] 212-42 ((Hayao Kawai & Masunobu Kat? eds., Y?hikaku, 2003).
• Daniel H. Foote, Reflections on Japan’s Cooperative Adversary Process, in The Japanese Adversary System in Context: Controversies and Comparisons 29-41 (Malcolm Feeley & Setsuo Miyazawa eds., Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).
• Daniel H. Foote, Deregulation and Labor Law: The United States, in Deregulation and Labour Law: In Search of a Labour Concept for the 21st Century 147-68 (Roger Blanplain ed., Kluwer, 2000), reprinted in Il diritto del lavoro statunitense: un sistema deregolamento? (Michele Tiraboschi tr.), Diritto delle Relazioni Industriali, no. 2, 1999 at 125-37.
• Daniel Foote, Reflections of a Former Law Clerk, in 2 Matsuo Koya Sensei Koki Shukuga Ronbunshu Gekan [Essays in Honor of Professor Koya Matsuo on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday] 796(1)-751(46) (Kuniji Shibahara, Noriyuki Nishida & Masahito Inouye eds., Yuhikaku, 1998).

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Book Reviews

• Daniel H. Foote, Legal Scholarship in Japan, 5 Asian J. L.& Soc’y 205-8 (2018) (reviewing The Legal Process in Contemporary Japan: A Festschrift in Honor of Professor Setsuo Miyazawa’s 70th Birthday (Keiichi Ageishi, Hiroshi tsuka, Katsuhiro Musashi & Mari Hirayama eds.).
• Daniel H. Foote, Book Reviews, 42 J. Japanese Stud. 230-36 (2017) (reviewing Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Juries in the Japanese Legal System: The Continuing Struggle for Citizen Participation and Democracy and Matthew J. Wilson, Hiroshi Fukurai & Takashi Maruta, Japan and Civil Jury Trials: The Convergence of Forces).
• Daniel H. Foote, Book Review, Who Rules Japan?: Popular Participation in the Japanese Legal Process (Leon Wolff, Luke Nottage & Kent Anderson eds. 2015), 26 Wash. Int’l L. J. 137-45 (2017).
• Daniel H. Foote, Book Review, 26 Wash. Int'l L.J. 137-45 (2017) (reviewing Who Rules Japan?: Popular Participation in the Japanese Legal Process (Leon Wolff, Luke Nottage & Kent Anderson eds., 2015).

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News Media

• Daniel Foote, Shihp ni nani o nozomu ka (What I Desire for the Justice System), 1170 Jurisuto 146 (2000).
• Daniel Foote, Nichibei hikaku keiji shiho no kogi o furikaette (Perspectives from Teaching Comparative US-Japan Criminal Justice), 1148 Jurisuto 165 (1999).
• Daniel Foote, Nihon ni okeru keiji shiho--keizokusei to henka (Continuity and Change in Japanese Criminal Justice), 36 Hikakuho 69 (1999).
• Daniel Foote, Nihon no kyochoteki tojishashugi’ no kosatsu, 115 Ho no shihai 92 (1999). (Japanese translation of above article, “Reflections on Japan’s Cooperative ‘Adversary’ System.”).

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• Speaker, "The Japan Civil Litigation Research Project: Examination of Lawyer-Related Findings, in Comparison to Ten Years Earlier", Research Committee on Sociology of Law International Congress, (June 19, 2019)
• Discussant, [The First 10 Years of the Saiban’in System and the System for Mandatory Indictment by Prosecution Review Committees — With Foreign Perspectives], Hakuoh University (May 18, 2019)
• Speaker, "Mini-Syposium 1 Related to the Conference Main Theme: Justice System Reform as Viewed Internationally]", Annual Meeting, Japanese Association for Sociology of Law (May 11, 2019)
• Panelist, "Transparency & Privacy in Cyberspace", Keio University Law School-University of Washington School of Law Annual Conference, (March 20, 2019)
• Speaker, "Carlos Ghosn and Japanese Criminal Justice", Asian Law Lecture, University of Washington School of Law (February 20, 2019)
• Speaker, "The Advent of AI and Implications for the Legal Profession and Legal Education", Lunchbox Session, Queensland University of Technology, School of Law (December 4, 2018)
• Speaker, ""Lawyers in Every Corner of Society": A Progress Report", Twilight Seminar, Bond University Law School (December 3, 2018)
• Keynote, "Revisiting "The Benevolent Paternalism of Japanese Criminal Justice"", Annual Meeting, Asian Law and Society Association (November 30, 2018)
• Panelist, "Professional Development and Career Strategies", 2018 Annual Meeting, Early Career Workshop, Asian Law and Society Association (November 29, 2018)
• Speaker, "Legal Education in the United States", 14th Myanmar Training in Japan, (November 15, 2018)
• Discussant, New Perspectives in Japanese Law, Harvard Law School East Asian Legal Studies Program (September 28, 2018)
• Speaker, "Lawyers in Every Corner of Society?: Recent Trends for the Japanese Legal Profession", EALS Lunchtime Talk, Harvard Law School East Asian Legal Studies Program, Cambridge (September 27, 2018)
• Speaker, "Japanese Law from the 1800s: Still Relevant Today?", Summer School: Japanese Law in the XXI Century, University of Turin (September 13, 2018)
• Speaker, "Legal Education in Japan: Concerns, Reforms, Future Prospects", Summer School: Japanese Law in the XXI Century, Collegio Carlo Alberto (September 11, 2018)
• Speaker, "The Japanese Legal Profession: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t", Summer School: Japanese Law in the XXI Century, Collegio Carlo Alberto (September 11, 2018)