Noboru Yanase

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CSLS Visiting Scholar
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Noboru Yanase is a Professor at College of Law, Nihon University, Japan. He received his L.L.M. and Ph.D. from Keio University. He is an author of many articles and books, including two single-authored books on Japanese saiban-in (lay judge) system and the theory of deliberative democracy. His main area of research and teaching is constitutional law. Recently, he has actively advanced the international community’s understanding of Japanese constitutional theory through publishing peer-reviewed articles in both Japanese and English. This research is supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He has primarily focused his research on public participation in justice. and on this topic he was selected as a presenter at the Annual Meeting in 2016 by one of the most prestigious academic societies in Japan. He is also one of the few active researchers on the impeachment system in Japan, conducting comparative studies with the federal impeachment system in the U.S. As one of the leading experts in deliberative polling in Japan, he has managed most of the authorized deliberative polls in Japan and his work in this regard has garnered him awards from the Japanese Association of Comparative Constitutional Law.