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【Professor】 David Wａｔｅｒｓ

United States

English Japanese

waseda, International Law, Public Law, Basic Science of Law

【Research Career】

Shortly after my graduation from Yale Law School in 1976, I began practicing law in the United States. I practiced law continuously on a full time basis from 1976 through 1995. During my time as a practicing attorney my research was directed to the legal issues presented by the lawsuits I was handling. These legal issues dealt with property law, contract law, administrative law, constitutional law, environmental law, regulatory law, tort law, and the full gamut of other legal issues. I practiced law first with the United States Justice Department in Washington, D.C., from 1976 through 1980, then moved to Hawaii in 1980. In Hawaii I practiced law full-time from 1980 through 1995 – working both in private practice and as a deputy attorney general for the State of Hawaii. Although I began my teaching career in 1996, I continue to work on some legal matters on a part-time basis, and I have retained my license to practice law in Hawaii.

I secured my first teaching position starting April 1, 1996. On that date I began work as an associate professor at the Graduate School of International Management of the International University of Japan – located in Niigata-ken. This is a two-year MBA program, and I was the first full-time professor in the field of law in this program. I was required to research and design all the law courses in the program, as none existed prior to my arrival on the campus. I not only designed the content of the new courses but also developed for these courses a unique teaching methodology of my own design. This was a hybrid methodology which combined elements of the law school case method with elements of the Harvard Business School case method that is frequently used in MBA programs. This teaching methodology required that I research real world cases related to the field of international business and then distill this research into cases written by me in language understandable to MBA students -- to be used as teaching vehicles in my law courses. I generally researched and wrote approximately ten cases for each law course I taught in the MBA program at the International University of Japan, as students were usually assigned one case per week in these 10-week courses. The cases I researched and wrote concerned issues of international business law and foreign direct investment.

I joined Waseda’s new School of International Liberal Studies on April 1, 2004. In the months preceding the commencement of the school, I conducted research into undergraduate courses taught at universities in the United States and other countries, in order to incorporate the best materials and teaching practices into the courses I teach at SILS. This research is continuing and I try to improve each course in every term it is taught.

Research Achievement 【ResultArticle】

■"The Limits of Judicial Review Under the Clean Air Act：　Is Infeasibility A Political Question?"　Columbia Journal of Environmental Law; ２/１,１９３-２４４