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Hiroharu Saito

Division Department of Comparative Contemporary Law
Research Fields Law and Society, Empirical Legal Studies
E-mail hsaitoiss.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Homepage https://www.hiroharusaito.com/en

Teaching and Research Appointments

April 2021 − Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo

Topics of Research

1Empirical Studies on Law and Society
See his personal website (https://www.hiroharusaito.com/en) for full CV and details of his research.
2Children and the Law
3Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
4Lawyer Behaviors and Professional Ethics

Selected Publications

  • Children and the Law: A Socio-Legal Study of the Boundary between Children and Adults, University of Tokyo Press, February 2022 (in Japanese).
  • “Loss Aversion for the Value of Voting Rights: WTA/WTP Ratios for a Ballot,” International Review of Law and Economics, 69, 106041, 2022.
  • Takeshi Asamizuya, Hiroharu Saito, Ryosuke Higuchi, Go Naruse, Shozo Ota, & Junko Kato, “Effective Connectivity and Criminal Sentencing Decisions: Dynamic Causal Models in Laypersons and Legal Experts,” Cerebral Cortex bhab484, 2022.
  • “The Impact of Lawyer Fees on Lawyer Partisanship: The Reciprocity Norm May Matter,” International Journal of the Legal Profession, 28, 319–334, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/09695958.2020.1859378
  • “Equal Protection for Children: Toward the Childist Legal Studies,” New Mexico Law Review, 50(2), 2020, pp. 235–286.
  • “Japanese Divorce Lawyers: Their Success After Their Own Divorce,” Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal, 20(1), 2018, pp. 1–49.
  • “Do Professional Ethics Make Negotiators Unethical? An Empirical Study with Scenarios of Divorce Settlement,” Harvard Negotiation Law Review, 22(2), 2017, pp. 325–373.
  • “Bargaining in the Shadow of Children’s Voices in Divorce Custody Disputes: Comparative Analysis of Japan and the U.S.,” Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, 17(3), 2016, pp. 937–988.

Educational Activities

Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo Perspectives on Law
Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo Negotiation and Dispute Resolution I, Negotiation and Dispute Resolution II
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