Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 2532
E-Mail:	e.d.herber@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, SAS Japan
Office Address:	Arsenaal Arsenaalstraat 1 2311 CT Leiden Room number 0.22
Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 2532
E-Mail:	e.d.herber@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, SAS Japan
Office Address:	Arsenaal Arsenaalstraat 1 2311 CT Leiden Room number 0.22

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Fields of interest

• Sociological Perspectives on Crime and Deviance in Japan.
• Japanese (criminal/criminal procedure) Law and Society.

Research

Impact of the introducion of a lay-juror (saiban'in) system in Japan on processes of social reality construction in court in general, and sentencing practices in particular.

Teaching activities

• Japanese language courses (BA1 "Texts" + Grammar, BA2 "Texts").
• BA3 Seminar "Sociological Perspectives on Crime and Deviance in Japan"
• BA2 Seminar "Japanese Law and Society"
  

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• 2004 – PhD in Sociology at Tsukuba University, Japan.
• 2001 – MA in Sociology at Tsukuba University, Japan.
• 1997-1999 Research Student at the Faculty of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, Tsukuba University, Japan, after being awarded a two-year Monbushō Japanese Government Scholarship (1996).
• 1996 - MA in Japanese Studies at Leiden University (Rijksuniversiteit Leiden), Holland.
  

Working Experience

• August 2007 – January 2008: Lecturer Japanese at Leiden University, The Netherlands
• August 2004 - August 2007: Free-lance translator/interpreter for various clients (Tonbo, NOS, Bosch, etc.), in various types of settings (legal, medical, scientific, media, etc.).

Key publications

Articles in international “peer reviewed” journals

• “The (Japanese) Administration of Justice and the Will to Truth.” International Journal of the Sociology of Law, 31 (2003) 107-114.
• “Motive and the Identity of the Legal Subject.” Japanese Journal of Sociological Criminology, 28 (2003) 132-140.
• “Japanese Sentencing Practices: Creating an Opportunity for “Formal” Paternalism.” International Journal of Criminology and Sociological Theory, Vol. 2, No 2. (2009) 303-313.
• "Change and Continuity in Japanese Criminal Justice" Journal of Japanese Law (Forthcoming, Spring Issue 2010)