Photo Gallery

 Participants in this panel to celebrate the Weatherhead East Asian Institute's 60th Anniversary included Gerald Curtis, Burgess Professor of Political Science; Director,Toyota Research Program Columbia University; Koichi Kato, Former Secretary General of the LDP and Member of the Lower House of the Japanese Diet; Xiaobo Lü, Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, Director of the Columbia Global Center, Beijing, Columbia University; Curtis Milhaupt; Kay Shimizu, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University

A reflection of the rich academic community in Japanese law at Columbia Law School, the participants of this roundtable were all in residence at the Law School on the eve of this historic change in the Japanese court system. Download pamphlet here.

Participants in the roundtable on the saiban-in system included (L-R) Reiko Kaihatsu ’08 LL.M., a judge in the Saitama District Court; Nanae McIlroy ’08 LL.M., a public prosecutor with the Ministry of Justice; Jeffrey A. Fagan, Professor of Law and Public Health and co-director of the Center for Crime, Community and Law at Columbia Law School; Curtis J. Milhaupt; and Takashi Maruta, professor of law at Kwansei Gakuin University Law School.

Photo credit: David Wentworth

Audience member U.S. Federal Judge Gerard E. Lynch

Japan's Emerging M&A Market: Defensive Measures, Judicial Review, and Insider Trading

A conference organized by Mori Hamada & Matsumoto. Co-sponsors were the Center for Japanese Legal Studies and the Center on Japanese Economy and Business

Presenters included Satoshi Kawai, partner, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto; Yuto Matsumura, partner, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto; John C. Coffee, Jr., Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, director, Center on Corporate Governance, Columbia Law School; Ronald J. Gilson, Marc and Eva Stern Professor of Law and Business, Columbia Law School;  Katsumasa Suzuki, associate, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto; Jeffrey N. Gordon, Alfred W. Bressler Professor of Law, co-director, Center for Law and Economic Studies, Columbia Law School. Curtis Milhaupt was the moderator.

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Photo credit: David Wentworth

Harvey Goldschmid, Ken Tsunematsu, David Schizer, Shuji Yanase, Jack Coffee, Curtis Milhaupt

Jack Coffee, Harvey Goldschmid, Daniel Goelzer (Board Member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board), David Sneider (Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett)

Havey Goldschmid, his wife Mary, and a conference attendee

A conference attendee with Daniel Goelzer

Professor Milhaupt with alumni Ken Tsunematsu and Shuji Yanase

Harvey Goldsmidt, David Schizer, Shuji Yanase, Jack Coffee, Curtis Milhaupt

Conference organizers with Harvey Goldschmid and Jack Coffee

Harvey Goldschmid, Shuji Yanase, Jack Coffee

Curtis Milhaupt and Shuji Yanase addressing the alumni reception