I’ve posted two two working papers up on the Social Science Research Network. The first, developed with one of my students, Kallista Hiraoka, aims to present a comprehensive bibliography of English language scholarship on the subject. The bibliography contains approximately 140 publications including monographs, book chapters, textbook materials, and journal articles from 1962 to 2018.
We’ve posted the bibliography as a working paper and invite advice of any omissions or errors before we submit this for print journal publication. We hope this will be a valuable tool for gender equality advocates anywhere in the present draft and its later final publication.
In the meanwhile, perhaps of interest are some of my tentative explorations on the theme, including herstory of Japan’s first women lawyers and its first cohort of women judges, and a critical eye on how improvements in gender balance within the nation’s bar appear to be flatlining. One update from that paper is that the Japan Federation of Bar Associations has taken note of this issue and begun actively working to find mechanisms to address it.
The bibliography is here. The paper is here.
If anyone wishes a deeper dive, the University of Washington Law School team kindly recorded my lecture on this paper there last Fall and posted it online here.
Mark Levin
