Voices for our Times: The Status Quo of Women Law Professors in Japan

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This talk presents data relating to women in legal education in Japan circa 2019 - 2020 as a counterpart to another presentation looking at history and a comparison with the U.S. In this project, we sought to ascertain the numerical count of women law professors in Japan, data which ought to be easily accessible and well-known, but in fact was neither. The work then draws upon certain proxies in legal scholarship to assess the voice of women law scholars in Japan in recent decades, acknowledging that while some progress has been made, there is still much room for improvement.

Speaker:

Mark Levin is a Professor of Law and the inaugural Director of the Pacific and Asian Legal Studies Program at the William S. Richardson School of Law, and is concurrently serving as the Director of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Center for Japanese Studies. Mark came to Hawaiʻi in January 1997 from the Law Department of Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan after a career as a practicing lawyer with work experience in Tokyo and Seattle, Washington.