Sex, Sexuality, and the Constitution

Sex, Sexuality, and the Constitution persuasively demonstrates the need to entrench protections for individual sexual autonomy within constitutional law.

Shigenori Matsui is a professor in the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia and an internationally renowned expert in Japanese constitutional law, mass media law, and internet law. He has served as a member of Japan’s National Freedom of Information Review Board and as an examiner for its National Bar Examination Commission. Dr. Matsui has published more than forty books in Japan and is the author of Law and Disaster: Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Meltdown in Japan and The Constitution of Japan: A Contextual Analysis. He lives in Vancouver.

This is the first book to undertake such a comprehensive examination of the legal and constitutional treatment of sexual autonomy in Japan.

David S. Law, School of Law, University of Virginia:

Sensible as well as highly readable, Sex, Sexuality, and the Constitution is a must-have for scholars and students interested in privacy and sexual autonomy from a comparative perspective. The Japanese experience is a rich source of fascinating and thought-provoking material, and no one knows it better than Professor Matsui