Professor of Law
New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
TEL: (212) 998-6243
FAX: (212) 995-4590
E-MAIL: frank_upham@nyu.edu
CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV
INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: Chinese (Mandarin), English, Japanese
SPECIALIZATIONS:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1982-83, 1988-89; Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Visiting Scholar of the Faculty of Law, Sophia University, 1986-87; Mitsubishi Visiting Professor and Associate Director, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School, 1981-82; Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Ohio State University College of Law, 1978-82; Assistant Attorney General, Consumer Protection Division, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, 1975-77; Law Clerk, Justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court, 1974-75; Freelance Journalist, Republic of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, 1969-70; Instructor, Department of Western Languages, Tunghai University, 1967-69.
IN JAPAN: 1971-72, 1977-78, 1986-87 - research; repeated brief trips.
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
"Negotiating Public and Private Interests in Contemporary Japan: The Case of Retail Regulation," Negotiating Public and Private Interests in Contemporary Japan (ed. Allinson) (forthcoming); Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan (Harvard University Press, 1987); The Legal Framework of US-Japan Economics Relations (ed.) (Harvard Law School, 1986); "Japan: A Different Vision of Law and Justice?," The Responsive Community (Summer, 1991).