Common Law Constitutionalism and Its Counterpart in Japan
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* Associate Professor of Law, Sojo University; LL.M., University of California, Los Angeles; J.D., University of Tokyo; B.A., Waseda University. This paper is based on my LL.M. thesis, and I thank Clyde S. Spillenger for his supervision and advice. Without him, this Article would not exist. I also would like to thank Daniel Rosen and Lieba Faier for their thoughtful comments, and I thank Kazunori Shirono and Fumiaki Kobayashi for their help. I am grateful for all the comments and questions about my draft at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Florida State University. Finally, I also would like to show my thanks to the editors of Suffolk Transnational Law Review. 1. The phrase “common law constitutionalism” is used in various ways. As Robert Leckey says, “scholars differ when defining common-law constitutionalism and classifying the research done under its banner.” ROBERT LECKEY, BILLS OF RIGHTS
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