Lawrence Repeta
Lawrence Repeta has worked as lawyer, law professor, and business executive in Japan and the United States. He has also served as a director of the Japan Civil Liberties Union (自由人権協会) (http://jclu.org/) and Information Access Clearinghouse Japan (情報公開クリリングハウス) (https://clearing-house.org), civil society organizations devoted to protecting individual rights in Japan. He is the author of numerous works on Japanese law, including Japan’s Prisoners of Conscience: Protest and Law During the Iraq War, (Routledge, 2023), “The Struggle to Protect Individual Rights in Postwar Japan: Seven Decades of Progress,” in Laura Hein (ed.) The New Cambridge History of Japan (vol. 3) (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and “The Fight for Open Government in the Heisei Era,” in Jeffrey Kingston (ed.), Japan in the Heisei Era (1989—2019) (Routledge, 2022).