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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2019
It is now thirty years since I commenced research work and teaching in the field of Asian Law, focussing mainly on Japanese Law. Over those three decades, there has been a substantial change in the resources available, the uses made of those resources, and the feasibility of establishing any sort of substantive collection. I thought it would be most useful if I attempt in the discussion today to outline some of the key policy issues and choices which seem to me to face Law librarians when they are subjected to the demands of a growing body of Asian Law specialists to focus on building an Asian legal materials collection. I have called in aid the experiences of three of my colleagues, one in the field of Japanese Law, one in the field of Indonesian Law, and the third in the area of Chinese Law, to highlight some of the challenges involved.
1. The first overview text on modern Japanese law had been published in 1964, as the proceedings of a 1963 Conference at Harvard Law School: von Mehren, A.T. (ed), Law In Japan: The Legal Order in a Changing Society (Harvard University Press).Google Scholar
2. These materials were subsequently published in mimeograph form by the University of Washington Law School, and have been updated since, but did not receive wide circulation. Early versions included: Kitagawa, Z., US-Japan Sales Transactions; Henderson, D.F., Introduction to Japanese Law; and Tatsuta, M. and Henderson, D.F., Japanese Business Corporation Law.Google Scholar
3. Stevens, C.R. & Takahashi, K., Materials on Modern Japanese Law (Mimeograph, Columbia Law Library, 1971).Google Scholar
4. The Japanese Annual of International Law and Law in Japan: An Annual.Google Scholar
5. The earliest comprehensive bibliography was Coleman, R. and Haley, J., An Index to Japanese Law: A Bibliography of Western language materials 1867-1973, published by Law in Japan: An Annual in 1975. The most recent collection is Baum, H. and Nottage, L., Japanese Business Law in Western Languages: An Annotated Selective Bibliography (Rothmam, 1998).Google Scholar
6. Indeed the best way to build a collection in the 1970s was to acquire a copy of the catalogue of the University of Washington Japanese law collection. A small number of copies of the catalogue was produced and sold by the Law Library. A detailed catalogue of sources in Western languages was prepared by the Asian Law Librarian at UW in the 1980s, but has not been widely published.Google Scholar
7. The University of Washington and The University of Melbourne.Google Scholar
8. Known variously as DEET Mechanism C funding and DEETYA Research Infrastructure funding.Google Scholar