"List of contributors" [2014] ELECD 473; in Vanoverbeke, Dimitri; Maesschalck, Jeroen; Nelken, David; Parmentier, Stephan (eds), "The Changing Role of Law in Japan" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014) ix

Book Title: The Changing Role of Law in Japan

Editor(s): Vanoverbeke, Dimitri; Maesschalck, Jeroen; Nelken, David; Parmentier, Stephan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781783475643

Section Title: List of contributors

Number of pages: 6

Extract:

Contributors
Volkmar Gessner is Emeritus Professor of Law and Sociology of Law in
the Faculty of Law, the University of Bremen. After serving as a judge
and empirical socio-legal researcher in Mexico, his academic career started
as head of the socio-legal department at the Max Planck Institute for
Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg (1969­81) and
continued (1982­92) as one of the directors of the Centre for European
Legal Policy at the University of Bremen. He was Visiting Professor at
the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain, the
University of California, Santa Barbara, Law & Society, and other universi-
ties. For a two-year period (2003­05) he was Scientific Director of the Oñati
International Institute for the Sociology of Law. His research interests are
both empirical (administration of justice, international commercial dispute
resolution) and theoretical (sociology of global law and of comparative law).
Ryo Hamano studied Law at the Faculty of Law, Tokyo University and
holds a master's degree from the Graduate School of Law and Politics,
Tokyo University. He is currently professor at the Faculty of Law and
Politics, Rikkyo University. His research interests include sociology of the
legal profession, access to justice, alternative dispute resolution and citi-
zens' participation in the criminal justice system. He was a visiting scholar
at Queen Mary University of London.
Erik Herber is lecturer at the School of Asian Studies, Leiden University
Institute of Area Studies, as well as at the Van ...