Accepted and Published Articles and Book Chapters
Pitfalls of Measuring the Rule of Law, __ Hague J. Rule of Law __ (2012).
Power or Neutrality? In Jon Elster, ed. Third Party Dispute Resolution (2012) (with John Ferejohn and Richard Holden).
Deciding Not to Decide: Deferral in Constitutional Design, __ I-Con: International Journal of Constitutional Law __ (2012) (with Rosalind Dixon) Download
Hybrid Judicial Career Structures: Reputation vs. Legal Tradition __ J. Legal Analysis __ (2012) (with Nuno Garoupa)
An Economic Analysis of the Pashtunwali, __ U. Chicago Legal Forum __ (2011). Download
Constitutionalism: East Asian Antecedents, __ Chi-Kent L. Rev. __ (2011).
Empiricism and the Rising Incidence of Co-authorship in Law, __ U. Ill. L. Rev. __ (2011) (with Tom Miles). Download
Constitutional Endurance, in Comparative Constitutional Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011) . Download
Constitutional Law and Courts, in Research Handbook on Comparative Law and Society, ed. David Clark, Edward Elgar Publishing 2012.
In Defense of Imperialism: The Rule of Law and the State-Building Project, in Nomos: Getting to the Rule of Law (James Fleming, ed. 2011) Download
Latin American Presidentialism in Comparative and Historical Perspective, 89 Texas L. Rev. 1707-31 (2011) (with Jose Cheibub and Zachary Elkins) Download
The Politics of Courts in Democratization, in Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law (edited by James J. Heckman, Robert L. Nelson and Lee Cabatingan) (2011). Download
Eastphalia and East Asian Regionalism, 44 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 859-77 (2010) Download
Reputation, Information and the Organization of the Judiciary, 4:2 Journal of Comparative Law 226-54 (2011). Download
On the Evasion of Executive Term Limits, 52 Wm and Mary L. Rev. 1807-72 (2011) (with James Melton and Zachary Elkins). Download
Lawrence Friedman’s Comparative Law in Law, Society and History: Essays on Themes in the Legal History and Legal Sociology of Lawrence M. Friedman 52-64 (Robert Gordon and Morton J. Horwitz, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2011). Download
The Politics of Constitutional Courts: Four Moments in Asia, Proceedings of Thammasat University Conference on Law in a Changing World, 2011.
Constitutional Specificity: Some Preliminary Investigations in Future of Comparative Study of Law (Chuo University Press, 2011).
Written Constitutions and the Administrative State: On the Constitutional Character of Administrative Law, in Comparative Administrative Law 117-27 (Susan Rose-Ackerman and Peter Lindseth, eds., Edward Elgar, 2010). Download
Constitutional Specificity, Unwritten Understandings and Constitutional Agreement, pp 66-93 in Andras Sajo and Renata Utz, eds., Constitutional Topography: Values and Constitutions (2010). Download
How Does International Law Work? In Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research (Peter Cane and Herbert Kritzer, eds., 2010) 753 -82 (with Gregory Shaffer).
Subconstitutionalism, 62 Stanfurd L. Rev. 1583 (2010) (with Eric Posner). Download
National Courts, Domestic Democracy, and the Evolution of International Law: A Reply to Eyal Benvenisti and George Downs , 20:4 European Journal of International Law 1021-26 (2010). Download
Studying Japanese Law Because it’s There, 58 American Journal of Comparative Law 15-25 (2010). Download
Public Choice and Constitutional Design, Handbook of Public Choice (edited by Daniel Farber and Anne Joseph O’Connell, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010).
The Arbitrator as Agent: Why Deferential Review is not Always Pro-Arbitration, 77 U. Chicago L. Rev. 1013-26 (2010) Download
Eastphalia as a Return to Westphalia, 17 Indiana J. Global Leg. Studies 27-45 (2010). Download
Economic Analysis and Comparative Law, in Cambridge Companion to Comparative Law (Mauro Bussani, ed. 2009) (with Nuno Garoupa).
Judicial Audiences and Reputation: Perspectives from Comparative Law 47 Colum. J. Transnat’l L. 451-90 (2009) (with Nuno Garoupa). Download
Ancillary Powers of Constitutional Courts, 87(7) Texas L. Rev.1432-61 (2009) (with Zachary Elkins). Download
Judicial Independence in East Asia: Implications for China, in Judicial Independence in China (Randall Peerenboom, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2010). Download
The Constitutional Court and the Judicialization of Korean Politics, in New Courts in Asia (in Andrew Harding, et al eds., Routledge 2009). Download
The Relationship between Constitutional and International Devices to Protect Minority Rights, Journal of the Center for Minority Studies, Kansai University (2009)
Constitutional Afterlife: The Continuing Impact of Thailand’s Post-Political Constitution, 7(1) International Journal of Constitutional Law 83-105 (2009) Download
Does the Process of Constitution-Making Matter? in 5 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 201-24 (2009) (with Zachary Elkins and Justin Blount). Download
Guarding the Guardians: Judicial Councils and Judicial Independence, 57 American Journal of Comparative Law 201-32 (2009) (with Nuno Garoupa). Download
International Delegation and State Disaggregation, 20(3) Constitutional Political Economy 323-40 (2009) Download
The Clash of Commitments at the International Criminal Court, 9 Chicago Journal of International Law 499-514 (2009). Download
Constitutional Courts in East Asia: Understanding Variation, Journal of Comparative Law 3(2): 80-100 (2008)(reprinted in Constitutional Courts: A Comparative Study, edited by Andrew Harding and Peter Leyland, Wildy, Simmons and Hill Publishing, 2009) Download
The Effects of Liberalization on Litigation: Notes Toward a Theory in the Context of Japan, 8 Wash U. Global Stud. L. Rev. 303-15 (2009).
Citizen as Founder: Public Participation in Constitutional Approval, 81 Temple U. L. Rev. 361-82 (2009) (published in Spanish in 1 Rivista Latinoamerica de Politica Comparada 119-53 (2008). Download
Military Occupations and their Constitutional Residue, 19-2 APSA-CP Newsletter, 7-10 (2008). Download
The Comparative Law and Economics of Judicial Councils, 27(1) Berkeley Journal of International Law 53-83 (2008) (with Nuno Garoupa). Download
Administrative Law and the Judicial Control of Agents in Authoritarian Regimes, in Rule By Law: The Politics of Courts in Authoritarian Regimes (edited by Tom Ginsburg and Tamir Moustafa, Cambridge University Press, 2008). Download
Introduction: The Politics of Courts in Authoritarian Regimes, in Rule By Law: The Politics of Courts in Authoritarian Regimes (edited by Tom Ginsburg and Tamir Moustafa, Cambridge University Press, 2008) (co-authored with Tamir Moustafa). Download
The Judicialization of Administrative Governance: Causes, Consequences and Limits, in, Administrative Law and Governance in Asia: Comparative Perspectives 1-20 (edited by Tom Ginsburg and Albert Chen, Routledge University Press, 2009) Download
The Politics of Transparency in Japanese Administrative Law, in Japanese Law in Transition (Daniel Foote, ed., University of Washington Press, 2008).
Symposium Introduction: Public International Law and Economics 2008 U. Ill. L. Rev. 101-37 (2008) (with Anne van Aaken and Christoph Engel).
Commitment and Diffusion: Why Constitutions Incorporate International Law, 2008 U. Ill. L. Rev. 201-38 (2008).
Baghdad, Tokyo, Kabul: Constitution-making in Occupied States 49 William and Mary Law Review 1139-78 (2008) (with Zachary Elkins and James Melton). Download
The Global Spread of Judicial Review in Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics (Keith Whittington and Daniel Keleman, eds., 2008). Download
Lessons for Democratic Transitions: Case Studies from Asia, Orbis (Dec. 2007).
Odious Debt and Democratization, 70 Law and Contemporary Problems 115-36 (2007) (with Thomas Ulen). Download
Gobierno Judicial y Consejo Judiciales: una Mirada desde el Derecho y law Economía, in Reforma Al Poder Judicial: Gobierno Judicial, Corte Suprema y Gestión 41-75 (José Francisco García, et al., eds. 2007). (with Nuno Garoupa).
Law and the Liberal Transformation of the Northeast Asian Legal Complex in Korea and Taiwan, in Fighting for Political Freedom: Comparative Studies of the Legal Complex and Political Liberalism 43- 63 (Terrence Halliday, Lucien Karpik and Malcolm Feeley, eds., Hart Publishing, 2007). Download
What We Know and What We Don’t Know About Law and Economic Development, in Shao-an Huang, ed. Research in Institutional Economics (Beijing: Economic Science Press, 2007) (in Chinese).
Irrational War and Constitutional Design: A Reply to Professors Nzelibe and Yoo, 27 Mich. J. Int’l L. 1239-59 (2006) (with Paul Diehl) (excerpted in Thomas M. Franck, Michael J. Glennon and Sean Murphy, Foreign Relations and National Security Law (3d edition). Download
Locking in Democracy: Constitutions, Commitment and International Law, 38 NYU J. Int’l L. and Politics 707-59 (2006). Download
Takao Tanase, Japanese Litigiousness and “Taking Kawashima Seriously,” Proceedings from the 2005 Sho Sato Conference in Honor of Takao Tanase, available at http://www.law.berkeley.edu/centers/ilr/pub_sho_sato_2005/ (2006).
The Unreluctant Litigant? Japan’s Turn toward Litigation, 35 Journal of Legal Studies 31-62 (2006) (with Glenn Hoetker) (excerpted in The Japanese Legal System, edited by Curtis Milhaupt, Mark Ramseyer and Mark West (2006) and republished in Emerging Concepts of Rights in Japanese Law, edited by Laurent Mayali and Harry Scheiber, Berkeley, 2007). Download
The Warren Court in East Asia: An Essay in Comparative Law, in The Warren Court: A Retrospective (Harry Scheiber, ed., University of California Institute of Governmental Studies, 2006). Download
The Regulation of Regulation, in Corporate Governance in Context: Corporations, States and Markets in Europe, Japan and the U.S. 321-38 (Eddy Wymersch, Hideki Kanda, Harald Baum and Klaus Hopt., eds., Oxford University Press, 2006)
International Judicial Lawmaking, in International Conflict Resolution 155-82 (Stefan Voigt, Max Albert, and Dieter Schmitchen, eds. Mohr Siebeck, 2005)
Constitutional Engineering in Taiwan: The Implications of Global Trends, Taiwan Law Society, 2005.
Beyond Judicial Review: Ancillary Powers of Constitutional Courts, in Institutions and Public Law: Comparative Approaches 225-44 (Peter Lang Publishing, 2005). Download
The State of Sovereignty in Southeast Asia, 99 American Society of International Law Proceedings 419 (2005). Download
Bounded Discretion in International Judicial Lawmaking, 45 Virginia Journal of International Law 631-73 (2005). Download
International Substitutes for Domestic Institutions, 25 International Review of Law and Economics 107 (2005).
Constitutional Courts, in Encyclopedia of Law and Society (David S. Clark, ed., Sage Publications, 2005).
Mongolia, in Handbook of Politics (ed. Neal Tate) (2005).
Adjudicating in Anarchy: An Expressive Theory of International Dispute Resolution 45 William and Mary Law Review 1229 (2004) (with Richard McAdams).
The Market for Entry-Level Associates, 31 Florida State Law Review 909 (2004) (with Jeffrey A Wolf). Download
Democracy, Markets and Doomsaying: Review Essay on Amy Chua’s World on Fire, 22 Berkeley Journal of International Law 310 (2004). Download
Transforming Legal Education in Japan and Korea, 22 Pennsylvania State International Law Review 433 (2004). Download
The Culture of Arbitration, 36 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1335 (2003). Download
East Asian Regulatory Informalism: Implications for Post-Communist Countries, in Law and Informal Practices: The Post-Communist Experience) (Marina Kurkchiyan and Denis Galligan, eds., Oxford University Press, 2003).
System Change? A New Perspective on Japan’s Administrative Procedures Law, in The Multiple Worlds of Japanese Law, supra, reprinted in Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht, Heft 13, 2002.
Becoming an International Arbitrator: Qualifications, Disclosures, Conduct and Removal, in The Practitioners Handbook of International Arbitration and Mediation (Rufus V. Rhoades, et al., ed., 2002, Juris Publishing) (with Richard M. Mosk). Download
Ways of Criticizing Public Choice: Empiricism and the Use of Theory in Legal Scholarship, 2002 University of Illinois Law Review 1139 (2002) (reprinted in Public Choice and Public Law, edited by Daniel Farber, 2007 and Foundations of Law and Economics, edited by Robert Cooter and Francesco Parisi, 2009). Download
Confucian Constitutionalism? Globalization and Judicial Review in Korea and Taiwan, 27:4 Law and Social Inquiry 763-800 (2002). Download
Comparative Administrative Procedure: Evidence from Northeast Asia, 13:3 Constitutional Political Economy 247-64 (September 2002).
Constitutional Courts in New Democracies: Understanding Variation in East Asia, 2:1 Global Jurist Advances, Article 4, at http://www.bepress.com/gj/advances/vol2/iss1/art4. (2002) Download
Economic Analysis and the Design of Constitutional Courts, 3 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 49 (Jan. 2002) (translated into Rumanian and published in Cluj, 2004).
Dismantling the Developmental State? Administrative Procedure Reform in Japan and Korea, in 49 American Journal of Comparative Law 585 (Fall 2001). Download
When Courts and Politics Collide: Mongolia’s Constitutional Crisis, 14 Columbia Journal of Asian Law 309 (Spring 2001) (with G. Ganzorig). Download
Evidentiary Privileges in International Arbitration, 50 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 345 (April 2001) (with Richard M. Mosk). Download
In Defense of Japanese Law, in The Multiple Worlds of Japanese Law, supra, reprinted in Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht, Heft 12, 2001.
Does Law Matter for Economic Development? Evidence from East Asia (Review Essay), 34: 3 Law and Society Review 829-56 (2000) (translated into Chinese). Download
Nationalism, Elites and Mongolia’s Rapid Transformation, in Mongolia in the Twentieth Century: Landlocked Cosmopolitan (Stephen Kotkin and Bruce A. Elleman, eds., 1999).
Dissents in International Arbitration in Liber Amicorum Bengt Broms (Helsinki: Finnish International Law Association, 1999) (with Richard M. Mosk). Download
Division of Powers in the European Union Constitution, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Law and Economics (P. Newman,ed., 1998) (with Robert Cooter).
Comparing Judicial Discretion in Industrial Democracies, in European Constitutional Law and Economics, (K. Schmidtgen and R. Cooter, eds., 1997) (with Robert Cooter).
Constitutionalism and Human Rights in Mongolia in Mongolia in Transition (O. Bruun and O. Odgaard, eds.1996) (with G. Ganzorig).
Comparing Judicial Discretion: An Empirical Test of Economic Models, 16 International Review of Law and Economics 295 (1996) (with Robert Cooter), reprinted in Constitutional Political Economy (Stefan Voigt, ed., 2003).
Between Russia and China: Political Reform in Mongolia, 35 Asian Survey 459 (1995).
The Transformation of Legal Institutions in Mongolia 1990-1993, 12 Issues & Studies: A Journal of Chinese and International Affairs 77 (1994.)
Book Reviews, Policy Papers, and other Publications:
Book Review: Legal Education in Asia, edited by Stacey Steele and Kathryn Taylor, Pacific Affairs 338-39 (2010). Download
Book Review: East Asian Regionalism from a Legal Perspective: Current Features and a Vision for the Future, edited by Tamio Nakamura, Social Science Japan Journal (2010) Download
Book Review: Judicial System Transformation in the Globalizing World: Korea and Japan, 20:5 Law and Politics Book Review 162-63 (May, 2010)
Book Review: Judges Beyond Politics in Democracy and Dictatorship: Lessons from Chile. By Lisa Hilbink. 43:2 Law and Society Review __ (2009). Download
Book Review: The Meiji Constitution: The Japanese Experience of the West and the Shaping of the Modern State by Kazuhiro Takii, 34:2 Journal of Japanese Studies (2008). Download
Book Review: Courts and Social Transformation in New Democracies: An Institutional Voice for the Poor? 14 Democratization 743 (2007) Download
Book Review: Law and Justice in Korea: North and South, by Chongko Choi, 30 Journal of Korean Studies 126-28 (2006).
Book Review: The Japanese Adversary System in Context: Controversies and Comparisons (edited by Malcolm M. Feeley and Setsuo Miyazawa), 30:2 Journal of Japanese Studies 572-78 (2004). Download
Book Review: Rethinking the Masters of Comparative Law (edited by Annelise Riles), 12:4 Law and Politics Book Review 204 (2002) [available at http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/lpbr/.]
The Law and Policy of Earthquake Hazard in the Central United States, University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs Working Paper #104, 2002 (with Timothy Stark). Download
Property Rights and Economic Development, lecture in Teaching about Japan in Japan (Richard Bowring and Noel J. Pinnington eds., Fukuoka: Kyushu University Press, 2001)
Book Review: East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia (by Daniel Bell), 10:10 Law and Politics Book Review 577 (2000) [available at http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/lpbr/.]
Iran-US Claims Tribunal: Case No. A27, 24a Y.B. Int’l Commercial Arbitration 512-14(1999).
Book Review: Modern Mongolia—A Concise History (by Ts. Batbayar), 28 Journal of Contemporary Asia 572 (1998).
Deepening Democracy: Mongolia in 1997, 38 Asian Survey 64 (1998).
Book Review: Shaping Constitutional Values (by Neal Devins), 85 California Law Review 749 (1997).
Fighting Fire and Ice: Mongolia in 1996, 37 Asian Survey 60 (1997).
In the Shadows of Giants: Small States in Asia, Center for Asian Pacific Affairs, Report No. 21 (1995.)
Mongolia's Draft Media Law, Post-Soviet Media Law and Policy Report (Nov. 1994).
Editor, Seeds of Peace, by Sulak Sivaraksa (1992).
A Colder Peace? Issues in the U.S.-Japan Security Relationship, in R. Scalapino, S. Sato, and T. Ginsburg: The Future of the U.S.-Japan Security Alliance (1991).
Buddhism and Revolution in Southeast Asia, Undergraduate Journal of Asian Studies (1989).
