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Dan Fenno Henderson was a leading scholar in Japanese law. "Few, if any
American legal scholars have individually achieved so much for a single area
of comparative and foreign law." John Haley,
Tribute to Dan Fenno Henderson.
He taught in the Law School from 1962 to 1991 and was a professor emeritus
until his death in 2001. He founded and built the Asian and Comparative Law
Program (now known as the
Asian Law Center). He also taught at the University of California, Hastings College of
the Law, joining its "65 Club" (retired professors from other faculties) in
1992.
Prof. Henderson practiced law in California and Japan. He held a JD from
Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in Politics from Berkeley. He was the author
or editor or more than a dozen books, including Conciliation and Japanese
Law, Tokugawa and Modern (1965), Foreign Enterprise in Japan: Law and
Politics (1973), Civil Procedure in Japan (with Takaaki Hattori)
(1985 and 2000).
For many years, Prof. Henderson supported the development of the law
library’s collections in East Asian Law. After his death, his widow, Carol
Henderson, donated part of his personal collection to the Gallagher Law Library.
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