Prof. dr Masaji CHIBA

CHIBA Masaji

LL.M., 1943; LL.D, 1962. Emeritus Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. Born on Sep. 17, 1919. address: 15-12 Hamada-cho, Ebina 243-0412, Japan Tel & Fax: 81-46-233-5747; E-mail: RXM03216@nifty.ne.jp Married to Mieko, born in 1924, in 1947; no children

Education

1943 Graduated from Dept. of Law, Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan

1948 Completed Graduate Course in Jurisprudence, Tohoku Univ.

1965-66 Studied with E. Adamson Hoebel at Graduate School of Anthropology, Univ. of Minnesota

Profession

1949-83 Lecturer, Associate Professor, and Professor of Jurisprudence, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Tokyo

1983-93 Professor of the Sociology of Law, Tokai Univ., Hiratsuka, Japan

Academic activities

President of Japanese Association of Sociology of Law; 1988-91, Japan Sports Law Association, 1992-1995.

Member of International Sociological Association, Research Committee on Sociology of Law (ISA RCSL); Law & Society Association; IVR; IUAES; Commission on Folk Law & Legal Pluralism; etc.

Organizer of ISA RCSL 1975 Meeting in Japan; a 1991 Workshop of International Institute of the Sociology of Law at Onati (Spain); etc.

Editorial Advisor to Law & Society Review, Sociologia del diritto, Droit et Société

Main Publications (* in Japanese)

1962 * A Socio-Legal Study of School Distrist System in Japan, Tokyo: Keiso Shobo

1969 * Modern Anthropology of Law, Tokyo: Hokubosha

1970 * A Socio-Legal Study of Japanese Village Shrines, Tokyo: Kobundo

1986 Editor and co-author, Asian Indigenous Law: In Interaction with Received Law, London: Kegan Paul Internatinal

1989 Legal Pluralism: Toward a General Theory through Japanese Legal Culture, Tokyo: Tokai U. P., Chinese version, 1997

1993 Editor and co-author, Sociology of Law in Non-Western Countries, Onati, Spain: IISL

1998 * Asian Law in Pluralism, Tokyo: Seibundo

2001 *Introduction to the Study of Sports Law, Tokyo: Shinzansha