Research Staff
Iwao Sato
update at 12 May 2015
Division | Department of Comparative Contemporary Law |
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Research fields | Sociology of Law |
iwsato@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
Teaching and Research Appointments
October 2000 − September 2005 | Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo |
September 2002 − March 2003 | Visiting Professor, Free University of Berlin, Germany |
January 2005 − September 2005 | Senior Visiting Researcher, Leiden University, The Netherlands |
October 2005 − | Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo |
April 2014 − | Vice Director, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo |
Publications (2014- )
Books
- Japanese Lawyers in Transition, co-edited with R. Hamano, Tokyo: Nippon Hyoron-sha, February 2015, 250pp. (in Japanese)
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
- “Legal Consciousness and Behavior of the Employers at the Small and Medium Enterprises: Some Findings from the Labor Tribunal Survey 2011,” The Central Labor Review, No.1178, July 2014, pp.4-12. (in Japanese)
- “Measuring the Performance and the Problems of the Legal Assistance Measures to Victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake: Major Findings from the Survey on the Legal Assistance Measures to Victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake,” Comprehensive Legal Support Review, No.5, September 2014, pp.73-100.(in Japanese)
- “Foreword: Some Problems of the Gender Equality and the Research Ethics in the Socio-legal Studies,” The Newsletter of The Japanese Association of Sociology of Law, No.99, January 2015, p.1. (in Japanese)
- “Towards Sustainable Reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake: From the Viewpoint of the Governance of Reconstruction,” the Sociology of Law, No.81, February 2015, pp.152-165. (in Japanese)
- “Exploring the Functions and Problems of the Japanese Labor Tribunal System,” Quarterly Labor Law, No.248, Spring 2015, pp.74-81. (in Japanese)
Selected Publications ( -2013)
- Modern State and the General Clause: A Comparative Socio-legal Study of the Rent Acts and Housing Policy, Tokyo: Sobun-sha, February 1999, 338pp. (in Japanese)
- Environmental Protection and Law, co-edited with H. Matsumoto and S. Nishitani, Tokyo: Shinzan-sha, March 1999, 602pp. (in Japanese)
- Judicial Statistics in Europe, Vol. I & II (ISS Research Series, No. 38 and No. 39), co-edited with T. Hatano, Y. Misaka, H. Takahashi, M. Kotani and M. Hayashi, March 2010, 126+146pp. (in Japanese)
- Evaluation of the Practice of Civil Litigation System from the Users Perspective, co-edited with I. Sugawara and K. Yamamoto, Tokyo: Nippon Hyoron-sha, 321pp. (in Japanese)
- The Governance of Reconstruction from the Great East Earthquake (ISS Research Series, No.51), August 2012, 124pp. (edited volume with keynote speech) (in Japanese)
- Research on User Experience of the Labor Tribunal System in Japan, co-edited with K. Sugeno, M. Nitta and Y. Mizumachi, Tokyo: Yuhikaku, pp.288. (in Japanese)
- “Rechtssoziologische Aspekte der Mobilisierung des Rechts im Bereich des Umweltrechts in Japan,” D. Leipold (Hrsg.), Umweltschutz und Recht in Deutschland und Japan, Heidelberg: C.F.Mueller, 2000, S.103-115. (in German)
- “Judicial Reform in Japan in the 1990s: Increase of the Legal Profession, Reinforcement of Judicial Functions and Expansion of the Rule of Law,” Social Science Japan Journal, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Vol.5 No.1, April 2002, pp.71-83.
- “Development of Modern Judicial Statistics in the 19th Century in Europe,” Y. Wada et al. (eds.), Potentialities of the Sociology of Law, Kyoto: Houritsu Bunka-sha, August 2004, pp.334-353. (in Japanese)
- “The Cabinet Legislation Bureau and the Restricted Judicial Review in Japan: A Comparative Socio-Legal Study,” Journal of Social Science, Vol.56 No. 5&6, March 2005, pp.81-108. (in Japanese)
- “Autonomy and Mobilization: Two Faces of Japan's Civil Society,” Journal of Social Science, Vol.56 No. 5&6, March 2005, pp.197-210. (in Japanese)
- “Welfare Regime Theories and the Japanese Housing System,” Y. Hirayama et al. (eds.), Housing and Social Transition in Japan, London: Routledge, December 2006, pp.73-93.
- “‘Psychologicalized Reality’ and the Publicness of Law,” Trends in the Sciences, Vol. 12 No.8, August 2007, pp.30-34. (in Japanese)
- “Sociology of Law on Publicness,” The Sociology of Law, No.68, March 2008, pp.1-11. (in Japanese)
- “Development of Data Archives and Its Significance for Socio-legal Studies,” The Sociology of Law, No.72, March 2010, pp.284-299. (in Japanese)
- “Emergence of Citizen Participation in Trials in Japan,” Social Science Japan, No. 43, September 2010, pp.3-7.
- “Exploring the Determining Factor of Advice Seeking Behavior in Everyday Life,” S. Kashimura et al. (eds.), Trouble Experience and Advice Seeking Behavior, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, October 2010, pp.47-72. (in Japanese)
- “Expanding Access to Justice for Labor Disputes: The Impact of the Labor Tribunal System,” Social Science Japan, No.46, March 2012, pp.6-10.
- “Current Status and Issues of the Nonprofit Law in Japan,” S. Hirowatari et al. (eds.), Japanese Society and Civil Society Jurisprudence, Tokyo: Nippon Hyoron-sha, August 2013, pp. 529-547. (in Japanese)
- “Towards the Everyday-life based Legal Support for Fukushima Nuclear Plant Accident Evacuees,” Trends in the Sciences, Vol. 19 No.2, February 2014, pp. 54-58. (in Japanese)
- Final Report of the Survey on the Legal Assistance to Victims and Evacuees of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tokyo: Nihon Shiho Shien Center, 337pp. (co-edit and advice) (in Japanese)
- “How Users Evaluate the Labor Tribunal System in Japan: Key findings of the 2010 Labor Tribunal Survey,” Paper presented at Annual Conference of RCSL, August 5th, 2013, in Toulouse, France.
Topics of research
- (1) Legalization of Modern Society
- (2) Comparative socio-legal Study on Judicial System
- (3) Survey on Access to Justice
- (4) Law of Nonprofit and Cooperative
- (5) Welfare Regime Theory and the Japanese Housing System
Educational Activities in 2015
Graduate School of Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo | Sociology of Law |
Law School, The University of Tokyo | Socio-legal Perspective on Law |
Law School, Keio University | Sociology of Law |
Facluty Of Law, Tohoku University | Sociology of Law |