Masayuki Murayama Masayuki Murayama has conducted a wide range of empirical research on law and legal institutions, from a field work on the uniformed police and studies of family conciliation based on court documents to survey and interview research of criminal justice process. He directed the first major nationwide surveys of civil disputing process from the occurrence of legal problems to litigation at the court. He has been the director of a research project of the legal profession. He is a leading researcher in empirical studies of law in Japan, and served as the president of the Japanese Association of the Sociology of Law and as the president of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Sociology of Law.