CEALS Appoints Professor Hiroshi Fukurai as Affiliated Scholar
CEALS is honored to announce the appointment of Hiroshi Fukurai, Professor Sociology & Legal Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz and former President of the Asian Law & Society Association, as an Affiliated Scholar. Professor Fukurai is a longtime friend and supporter of East Asian legal studies at the law school and has presented at numerous law school symposia and events focused on the Japanese legal system.聽 He specializes in lay adjudication, Asian law and politics, Original Nation Approaches to Inter-National Law (ONAIL), private international law, and race and law. He is a co-founder of the Collaborative Research Network (CRN) 鈥淓ast Asian Law and Society鈥 and the International Research Collaborative (IRC) 鈥淭he State and the Corporation as Legal Fictions: Original Nation and Dissent鈥 at the Law and Society Association (LSA).
Professor Fukurai鈥檚 books include People鈥檚 Prosecution Review Commissions & Japan鈥檚 Prosecution (2022); Original Nation Approaches to Inter-National Law: The Quest for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Nature in the Age of Anthropocene (2021); Civil Jury Trials will Democratize Japan (2020); East Asia鈥檚 Renewed Respect for the Rule of Law in the 21st Century (2015); Japan and Civil Jury Trials: The Convergence of Forces (2015); Nuclear Tsunami (2015); Race in the Jury Box: Affirmative Action in Jury Selection (2003); Anatomy of the McMartin Child Molestation Case (2001); Race and the Jury: Racial Disenfranchisement and the Search for Justice (1993, Gustavus Meyers Human Rights Award); & Common Destiny: Japan and the U.S. in the Global Age (1990).
His recent articles include 鈥淭he 鈥榁accine Genocide鈥 of Indigenous Nations and Peoples: The Intellectual Property (IP) Rights, 鈥榁accine Apartheid鈥 ;聽 鈥榁accine Untouchables鈥欌 in the Fourth World Journal (2023); 鈥淭he Prevention of the Sixth Mass Extinction: Socio-Legal Responses to Mitigate the Anthropogenic Crises in Asia and Beyond鈥 (2022); 鈥淭he Decoupling of the Nation and the State: Constitutionalizing Transnational Nationhood, Cross Border Connectivity, Diaspora and 鈥楴ation鈥 Identity-Affiliations in Asia and Beyond鈥 (2020); 鈥淧resident鈥檚 Farewell Message; The Anthropocene, Earth Jurisprudence and the Rights of Nature鈥 (2020);and聽 鈥淔ourth World Approaches to International Law (FWAIL) and Asia鈥檚 Indigenous Struggles and Quests for Recognition under International Law鈥 (2018).