{"id":22,"date":"2020-04-10T07:08:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T07:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamescfisher.com\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2022-02-02T05:08:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T05:08:00","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jamescfisher.com\/?page_id=22","title":{"rendered":"research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:45% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"511\" height=\"511\" src=\"https:\/\/jamescfisher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-from-2019-07-02-12-28-21.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamescfisher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-from-2019-07-02-12-28-21.png 511w, https:\/\/jamescfisher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-from-2019-07-02-12-28-21-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jamescfisher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-from-2019-07-02-12-28-21-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"interests\">interests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My interests lie at the intersection of doctrinal private law, comparative law theory, jurisprudence and critical legal studies: namely, the necessary and contingent interactions between legal logic and material social conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I work primarily on the English and Japanese laws of obligations and property (especially contract and trusts), and secondarily on public law and socio-legal topics (principally in Japan).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"output\">output<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"sole-authored-monographs\">sole-authored monographs<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Contract Law in England &amp; Wales<\/em> (Kluwer, 2018)<\/li><li><em>Making Trusts Civilised<\/em> [in preparation]<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"peer-reviewed-chapters-in-edited-collections\">peer-reviewed chapters in edited collections<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8216;Trusts as legal transplants: Lessons from Japan&#8217; in Ben McFarlane and Sin\u00e9ad Agnew (eds),<em> Modern Studies in Property Law: Volume 10<\/em> (2019, Hart Publishing)<\/li><li>&#8216;The quasi-Constitutionality of non-statutory norms: executive Constitutional interpretation in Japanese law&#8217; in Richard Albert and Joel Colon-Rios (eds), <em>Quasi-Constitutionality and Constitutional Statutes: Forms, Functions, Applications <\/em>(2019, Routledge)<\/li><li>&#8216;Pirates, Giants and the State: Legal Authority in Manga and Anime&#8217; in Ashley Pearson et al. (eds), <em>Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture<\/em> (2018, Routledge)<\/li><li>&#8216;Rethinking the rules for the proprietary effect of freehold covenants&#8217; in Robin Hickey and Heather Conway (eds),<em> Modern Studies in Property Law: Volume 9<\/em> (2017, Hart Publishing)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"articles-in-academic-journals\">articles in academic journals<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8216;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/1468-2230.12637\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/1468-2230.12637\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Gray<\/em> Areas in Tort: Illegality and Authority after <em>Patel v Mirza<\/em><\/a>&#8216; (2021) 84 Modern Law Review 1122<\/li><li>&#8216;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cal.library.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/cal\/article\/view\/37857\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cal.library.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/cal\/article\/view\/37857\" target=\"_blank\">Charting the Skies from a Moving Earth: Relativity and Position in Comparative Law<\/a>&#8216; (2021) 8 Critical Analysis of Law 127<\/li><li>&#8216;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nilq.qub.ac.uk\/index.php\/nilq\/article\/view\/891\/725\" target=\"_blank\">The &#8220;one-man company&#8221; after <em>Patel v Mirza<\/em>: attribution and illegality in <em>Singularis Holdings v Daiwa Capital Markets<\/em><\/a>&#8216; (2020) 71 Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 387 [<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nilq.qub.ac.uk\/index.php\/nilq\/issue714-article3\" target=\"_blank\">Summary<\/a>]<\/li><li>&#8216;&#8221;No Politics Please, We\u2019re British&#8221;: <em>R (Miller) v The Prime Minister &amp; Cherry v The Prime Minister<\/em>&#8216;  (2020) 19 Hibernian Law Journal 140<\/li><li>&#8216;A Critical Re-analysis of <em>Whaling in the Antarctic<\/em>: Formalism, Realism, and How Not to do International Law&#8217; (2018) 16 New Zealand Yearbook of International Law 174<\/li><li>&#8216;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.se\/https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1473779518792471\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.se\/https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1473779518792471\" target=\"_blank\">Contract variation in the common law: A critical response to<em> Rock Advertising v MWB Business Exchange<\/em><\/a>&#8216; (2018) 47 Common Law World Review 196<\/li><li>&#8216;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ilr.law.uiowa.edu\/assets\/Uploads\/ILR-103-5-Fisher.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The trust as Trojan Horse: A comparative perspective on trusts\u2019 role in Japanese succession law<\/a>&#8216; (2018) 103 Iowa Law Review 1945<\/li><li>&#8216;The Curious Case of the Criminal Tattooist: Japanese Criminal Law in Action&#8217; (2017) 44 Journal of Japanese Law 277<\/li><li>&#8216;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sci-hub.se\/https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1473779516657709\" target=\"_blank\">Implied terms again, or how Lord Hoffmann got treated in <em>Marks &amp; Spencer<\/em><\/a>&#8216; (2016) 45 Common Law World Review 236<\/li><li>&#8216;The making and breaking of contractual licences&#8217; (2016) 80 The Conveyancer &amp; Property Lawyer 403<\/li><li>&#8216;The latest word on illegality&#8217; [2016] Lloyd\u2019s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 483<\/li><li>&#8216;Rearticulating the rule against penalty clauses&#8217; [2016] Lloyd\u2019s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 169<\/li><li>&#8216;Article 9, the rise of China and the US-Japan security alliance&#8217; (2016) 39 Journal of Japanese Law 165<\/li><li>&#8216;The <em>ex turpi causa <\/em>principle in <em>Hounga<\/em> and <em>Servier<\/em>&#8216; (2015) 78 Modern Law Review 854<\/li><li>&#8216;The Constitution, international law and the rights of foreigners in Japan&#8217; (2015) 39 Journal of Japanese Law 109<\/li><li>&#8216;Uncertainty, opportunism and the intermediate term: The <em>Hong Kong Fir<\/em> principle in English and Irish contract law&#8217; (2015) 14 Hibernian Law Journal 96<\/li><li>&#8216;<em>Kettel v Bloomfold<\/em> and the ouster principle in the law of easements&#8217; (2014) 3(2) Westminster Law Review<\/li><li>&#8216;Morality in cultural defence cases: Insights from a Dworkinian analysis&#8217; (2013) 1(2) Birkbeck Law Review 281<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"book-reviews\">book reviews<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Colin P.A. Jones and Frank S. Ravitch, <em>The Japanese Legal System<\/em> (2021) 51 Journal of Japanese Law 329<\/li><li>Douglas Howland,<em> International Law and Japanese Sovereignty: The Emerging Global Order in the 19th Century<\/em> (2017) 44 Journal of Japanese Law 308<\/li><li>Alastair Hudson, <em>Equity and Trusts<\/em> (2017) 51 The Law Teacher 104<\/li><li>Hiroyuki Kihara, <em>Tort Law in Japan<\/em> (2016) 41 Journal of Japanese Law 260<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"presentations-at-international-academic-conferences\">presentations at international academic conferences<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"before-now\">before now<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cThe civilisation of English law: Illegality as a defence in tort\u201d<ul><li>Obligations Group Conference, Melbourne Law School (Australia), 2018<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>\u201cPublic policy in private law: The \u2018Civilisation\u2019 of English law\u201d<ul><li>Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Ky\u016bsh\u016b University, 2018<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>\u201cAgainst rights? Navigating the Left critique of human rights law for the 21 st Century\u201d<ul><li>Building a 21 st Century Bill of Rights, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 2018<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>\u201cTrusts as legal transplants: Lessons from the trust in Japan\u201d<ul><li>Modern Studies in Property Law, University College London, 2018<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>\u201cThe Trust as Trojan Horse: Quiet Revolution in the Japanese Law of Property and Succession\u201d<ul><li>Wealth Transfer Law in International and Comparative Perspective, University of Iowa, 2017<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>\u201cAdministrative Law in Japan: Politics, Culture and the Rule of Virtuous Men\u201d<ul><li>Law, Society and Administration in a Changing World, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 2017<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>\u201cEngland\u2019s experiments in the attribution of illegal acts\u201d<ul><li>Recent Developments in Corporate and Financial Law, University of Tokyo, 2016<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>\u201cMaking trusts civilised: War, revolution and the English trust in Japan\u201d<ul><li>Obligations XIII, University of Cambridge, 2016<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>\u201cTwo Quasi-Constitutional Norms in Japan\u201d<ul><li>International Symposium on Quasi-Constitutionality, Victoria University Wellington, 2016<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>\u201cNew rules for the \u2018in rem\u2019 effect of freehold covenants\u201d<ul><li>Modern Studies in Property Law, Queen\u2019s University Belfast, 2016<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>\u201cChanging criminal justice: the &#8216;cultural defence&#8217; and the jurisprudence of multiculturalism\u201d<ul><li>Law and Culture Conference , St Mary&#8217;s University, 2015<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>\u201cThe rights of foreigners in Japan\u201d<ul><li>East Asian Law &amp; Society Conference, Waseda University, 2015<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>\u201cMorality in cultural defence cases: Insights from a Dworkinian analysis\u201d<ul><li>Law Student Colloquium, Trinity College Dublin, 2013<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"still-to-come\">still to come<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u201cThe (incomplete) civilisation of English law: the illegality rule, inside and out\u201d<ul><li><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Obligations X, Harvard Law School [Cancelled due to COVID-19]<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>\u201cTrusting in Ideals? 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