John Owen Haley
William R. Orthwein Distinguished
Professor of Law
Office: Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 465
Phone: (314) 935-8231
E-mail: johaley@wulaw.wustl.edu
Assistant: Nancy Cummings - (314) 935-7967
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Courses Taught
Comparative Law: Europe, Latin America and East Asia
Contracts; Japanese Law
Transnational Litigation
Education
A.B., 1964, Princeton University
LL.B., 1969, Yale University
LL.M., 1971, University of Washington
Profile
Professor Haley is one of the nation's outstanding international and comparative law scholars and is widely credited with having popularized Japanese legal studies. His numerous scholarly works span issues ranging from international trade policy and comparative law to Japanese land-use law, Japanese and East Asian business transactions and Japanese law and contemporary society.
He has taught and lectured internationally including Aoyama Gakuin University, Kobe University and Tohoku University in Japan and Tuebigen University in Germany. The author or editor of nine books and monographs, Professor Haley's book on Authority Without Power: Law and the Japanese Paradox and his article on "The Myth of the Reluctant Litigant" are considered leading works in the field. His most recent book , "Antitrust in Germany and Japan: The First Fifty Years, 1947-1998" is the first comparative study of German and Japanese antitrust law in English.
