Contributors


Contributors


Maiko Tagusari is a lawyer and Secretary-General of the Center for Prisoners’ Rights Japan (CPR). She has been working in the area of human rights in penal institutions, including legal representation of death row inmates. She also serves as Vice Chair of Japan Federation of Bar Associations’ Death Penalty Abolition Committee (since 2009) and Vice Secretary-General of Committee on Prison Law Reform (since 2005).


David T Johnson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawaii and Co-Editor of Law & Society Review. He is author of Te Japanese Way of Justice: Prosecuting Crime in Japan (Oxford University Press, 2002), Te Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia (Oxford University Press, 2009, with Franklin E. Zimring), and Koritsu Suru Nihon no Shikei [Japan’s Isolated Death Penalty] (Gendai Jinbunsha, 2012, with Maiko Tagusari).


Dr Mai Sato is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, and a Research Associate at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. Mai’s book – Measuring Tolerance for the Abolition of the Death Penalty: public opinion and the death penalty in Japan – will be published by Springer in 2013.


Saul Lehrfreund MBE and Parvais Jabbar MBE are the co-founders and co-Executive Directors of Te Death Penalty Project. Tey specialise in constitutional and international human rights law and for more than 20 years they have represented prisoners under sentence of death before domestic courts and international tribunals. Tey are members of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Expert Group on the Death Penalty and have participated in a number of international delegations on the death penalty in China, Japan and Taiwan.


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