Biography
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Daniel H. Foote
Visiting Professor
B.A., Harvard, 1976
J.D., Harvard, 1981
foote@law.ucla.edu |
Daniel Foote is a Visiting Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law and Professor of Law at the University of Tokyo, where he holds the Chair in Sociology of Law. Prior to moving to the University of Tokyo in 2000, he taught for twelve years at the University of Washington, School of Law in Seattle. An expert on Japanese law and on legal education, Professor Foote has been heavily involved in the legal education reform process in Japan. In addition to serving on various internal law school planning and implementation committees at the University of Tokyo, he has served on advisory committees attached to the Headquarters for Promotion of Justice System Reform (Cabinet-level), the Ministry of Education, the Japanese Association of Law Schools and one of the major law school accreditation bodies.
Professor Foote is the editor of a monograph entitled Law in Japan: A Turning Point, a collection of more than 25 essays by leading scholars on major fields of Japanese law, which was published in 2008.
He earned his A.B. from Harvard College magna cum laude and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. After law school, Foote conducted research as a Fulbright fellow at the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law. Professor Foote clerked for the Honorable Edward T. Gignoux, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court, District of Maine and for the Honorable Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He worked in the Legal Department at Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. in Tokyo and as an associate at O’Melveny & Myers in New York.
