Masaki Iwasaki ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3569-2425
Associate Professor, Seoul National University School of Law
Editor-in-Chief (2026-), Asian Journal of Law and Economics
Doctor of Juridical Science, Harvard University
Master of the Science of Law, Stanford University
Prior to turning to academia, I worked in the private sector and practiced business law.
Recent Publications
Iwasaki, M. (2026). Human-Like Epistemic Trust Without Human-Like Legal Accountability? Conversational AI in Mental Healthcare. The American Journal of Bioethics, 26(5), 125–127. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2645591
Iwasaki, M. (2025). Leveraging Third-Party Litigation Funding for Environmental Litigation. Nature Sustainability (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-025-01678-7
Iwasaki, M. (2025). Proxy Advisors under Artificial Intelligence: Unverified Reasoning in Shareholder Voting Recommendations. Asian Journal of Law and Economics. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1515/ajle-2025-0069
As featured in Columbia Law School's Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets (Blue Sky Blog)!
Iwasaki, M. (2025). Digital Clones of the Deceased in Mental Health Care: Promises and Perils. Digital Health. (Open Access) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20552076251332839
Iwasaki, M. (2025). Environmental Governance and Whistleblower Rewards: Balancing Prosocial Motivations with Monetary Incentives. Law & Social Inquiry. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1017/lsi.2025.13
As featured in National Law Review and Whistleblower Network News!
Iwasaki, M. (2025). The Power of Empirical Evidence: Assessing Changes in Public Opinion on Constitutional Emergency Provisions. Public Choice. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-024-01252-3
Iwasaki, M. (2025). Banning Ransomware Payments: Unintended Effects on Cybersecurity Investment and Incident Reporting, International Cybersecurity Law Review. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1365/s43439-025-00137-5
Iwasaki, M. (2025). When Laws Succeed and Fail: Interplay with Social Norms, Research Handbook on Social Norms, forthcoming.
Iwasaki, M. (2024). Reward Whistleblowers Who Expose Environmental Crimes. Nature Human Behaviour. https://rdcu.be/dxpGk
As featured in Whistleblower Network News!
Iwasaki, M. (2023). Digital Cloning of the Dead: Exploring the Optimal Default Rule. Asian Journal of Law and Economics (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1515/ajle-2023-0125
As featured in De Gruyter Conversations!
Iwasaki, M. (2023). Fortifying the Weakest Link: Cybersecurity Coordination in Supply Chains and Competition Rules. International Cybersecurity Law Review. (SSRN) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4637024
Iwasaki, M. (2023). Social Preferences and Well-being: Theory and Evidence. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10, 342. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01782-z
Cited in the United Nations Development Programme's 2023/2024 Human Development Report!
Iwasaki, M. (2023). Whistleblowers as Defenders of Human Rights: The Whistleblower Protection Act in Japan. Business and Human Rights Journal, 8(1), 103-109. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1017/bhj.2022.41
Tanaka, W., Iwasaki, M. (2023). Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in How Institutional Investors Perceive Corporate and Securities Regulations. European Business Organization Law Review, 24, 507–554. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1007/s40804-022-00260-4
Iwasaki, M. (2022). Segmentation of Social Norms and Emergence of Social Conflicts Through COVID-19 Laws. Asian Journal of Law and Economics, 13(1), 1-36. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1515/ajle-2022-0010
Iwasaki, M. (2020). Are In-Person Shareholder Meetings Outdated? The Value of Implicit Communication. Asian Journal of Law and Economics, 11(3), 20200045. (SSRN) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3734803
Iwasaki, M. (2020). A Model of Corporate Self-Policing and Self-Reporting, 63 International Review of Law and Economics, 105910. (SSRN) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3449512
Iwasaki, M. (2020). Relative Impacts of Monetary and Non-Monetary Factors on Whistleblowing Intention: the Case of Securities Fraud. 22 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law 591. (Open Access) https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/jbl/vol22/iss3/3/
Iwasaki, M. (2020). Facts and Fictions of Corporate Executive Accountability, 88 Fordham Law Review Online 170. (Open Access) https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flro/vol88/iss1/14/