Dan Fenno Fenno Henderson

Background

Henderson, Dan Fenno was born on May 24, 1921 in Chelan, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Joe and Edna (Fenno) Henderson.

Education

Whitman College (Bachelor of Arts, 1944). University of Michigan (Bachelor of Arts, 1945). Harvard Law School (Juris Doctor, 1949).

University of California (Doctor of Philosophy, in Political Science. Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif. Research Fellow, American Society of International Law.

Japan Foundation Grant. Awarded Doctor of Laws, by Whitman College, 1983. Professor and Director, Asian Law Program, University of Washington, 1962-1983.

Visiting Professor, Monash University Australia, 1979. Law Faculty, University of Cambridge, England, 1980. Spoken languages: Japanese.

Career

Worked at Graham & James LLP/Riddell Williams P.S. (Seattle, Washington. Also Tokyo, Japan) specializing in International, Corporate, Finance, Admiralty, Japanese Law. Admitted to the bar, 1949, Washington.

1954, Japan; 1955, Korea. 1956, California; 1990, United States. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif. Research Fellow, American Society of International Law. Japan Foundation Grant.

Awarded Doctor of Laws by Whitman College, 1983. Professor and Director, Asian Law Program, University of Washington, 1962-1991. Visiting Professor, Monash University Australia, 1979.

Law Faculty, University of Cambridge, England, 1980. Visiting Professor, Beijing University, 1988. Erasmus University (Holland), 1989.

Duke University, 1990. University of California (Hastings), 1991. Author: "Conciliation and Japanese Law," 2 Volumes, 1965.

"The Constitution of Japan: First Twenty Year," 1969. "Foreign Enterprise in Japan," 1973. "Civil Procedure in Japan," 1983.

President, Japan-American Society of Legal Studies, 1980—. Trustee and Editor, American Society of Comparative Law, 1975—. Trustee, Society for Japanese Studies.

Member: State Bar of California. First Tokyo Bar Association. Licensing Executives Society.

Center for International Commercial Dispute (Honolulu). Military: With United States. Army, 1943-1946.

Works

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  • Foreign Enterprise in Japan: Laws and Policies (Enduring Editions)

    (Henderson surveys the amount of foreign business in Japan...)

  • Village "Contracts" in Tokugawa Japan: Fifty Specimens with English Translations and Comments (Americana Library (AL))

    (There are assembled here the Japanese (sorobun) originals...)

  • CONCILIATION AND JAPANESE LAW TOKUGAWA AND MODERN VOLUME I + VOLUME II MONOGRAPHS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES

    (2-volume set: Tokugawa and Modern.)

  • Conciliation and Japanese Law, Tokugawa and Modern, 2 Volume Set
  • The Constitution of Japan, Its First Twenty Years, 1947-67.
  • The Constitution of Japan: Its First Twenty Years, 1947-67.
  • Conciliation and Japanese Law: Tokugawa and Modern
  • Civil Procedure in Japan

Views

Quotations: "These works have had a tremendous impact on scholars and practitioners alike.".

Membership

Trustee Seattle Art Museum, 1975-1995, Blakemore Foundation, since 1998. Overseer Whitman College, since 1985. Served to Lieutenant Army of the United States, 1943-1946.

Member International Academy Comparative Law, International Academy Commercial and Consumer Law, American Chamber of Commerce Japan (past secretary, director), Japanese-American Society Legal Studies (president), American Association Comparative Study of Law (director), Hastings 65 Club, Bohemian Club (San Francisco), Rainier Club, University Club (Seattle), Tokyo Lawn Tennis Club.

Connections

Married Carol Drake Hardin, September 14, 1957. Children: Louis, Karen, Gail, Fenno.

Father:

Joe Henderson

Mother:

Edna (Fenno) Henderson

Spouse:

Carol Drake Hardin

child:

Karen Henderson

child:

Louis Henderson

child:

Fenno Henderson

child:

Gail Henderson