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Institute of Comparative Law, Waseda University

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Contents

Greetings from the Directors ......................................................................................................... 2

Joint Research Projects .................................................................................................................. 6

Academic Exchange ........................................................................................................................ 8

Research Information ..................................................................................................................... 9

Comparative Law Study Series ................................................................................................... 10

Symposia and Lectures................................................................................................................. 12

Organization (as of 21 September, 2016) .................................................................................... 22

Members (as of 21 September, 2016)........................................................................................... 23

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Greetings from the Director

Welcome to Waseda University Institute of Comparative Law

KIKUCHI, Yoshimi

Professor of Law

Former Director of the Institute of Comparative Law

Waseda University

September 2014-September 2016

Waseda University Institute of Comparative Law was established in 1958 for the purposes

of conducting comparative research into Japan's legal system and those of other countries,

and to contribute to research and education in the field of Japanese jurisprudence.

Throughout its history the Institute has been systematically collating materials concerning

the legal systems of countries worldwide, accumulating collections of statutes, case law, and

law journals, and building one of Japan's preeminent law libraries.

The Institute's activities initially focused on research into legal systems, primarily of

Western countries, but with the development of Japan's social and economic systems and the

evolution of Japan's own legal system, steadily increasing importance has been given to

promulgating information about Japan's legal system to Western and other Asian countries.

The Institute's staff include 127 research members, all of whom are full-time Waseda

University faculty members, and 82 research affiliates selected from researchers outside the

university. In addition, agreements have been concluded with the Institute of Law, Chinese

Academy of Social Sciences; School of Law, Tsinghua University; Institute for Comparative

and International Law, University of Melbourne; School of Law, Duke University; , the Max

Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law; the Korea Legislation Research

Institute; and University College London (UCL), and exchange researchers are welcomed

from those institutions. Visiting scholars and researchers from abroad are also accepted

through such channels as the Waseda University International Affairs Division's

International Office.

The Institute is currently engaged in 18 joint research projects in which comparative-law

research is being actively conducted by its research members and research affiliates. In

addition, it holds public lectures on a semi-monthly basis for which it invites legal academics

from around the world who are at the forefront of research in various fields of law. The results

of these research activities are published regularly in our journal Hikaku Hogaku

(Comparative Law) and in our series of books grouped as Hikakuho Kenyujo Sosho

(Comparative Law Studies Series), and to provide information about the Japanese legal

system and jurisprudence internationally, we also publish the Waseda Bulletin of

Comparative Law annually in English. We have also recently been placing greater emphasis

on the use of websites for the dissemination of information in English, providing up-to-date

details of legislation and important case law and other topics such as recent developments in

the academic world. The articles are written by researchers conducting research activity at

the cutting edge of academia and posted in a timely manner.

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In addition to these research activities, since 2013 we have been conducting an

Institute-wide research project entitled "The Role of Law and Legal Studies in the Transition

to a Sustainable Society: From the Perspective of Regional Law in Asia" This research is

based upon the reflection that modern nations pursuing development premised on ceaseless

economic growth have accelerated the depletion of natural resources and given rise to

production and labor surpluses, and it aims to give consideration to the role of law and

jurisprudence in balancing three elements: the economy, society, and the environment, in

order to accomplish a transition to a sustainable society that also takes future generations

into account. As exemplified by the problems that are afflicting the natural environment,

there is a pressing need for research of this kind, not only with regard to the situation within

Japan, but also at supranational level.

Learning in part from the experiment embodied by the European Union as a model case,

this project is conceptualizing the development of regional law for the Asian region. The

project arose from a conception by my predecessor as Director of the Institute, Professor

Yoshiki Kurumisawa (currently Senior Dean, Waseda University Jurisprudence Academy),

and as his successor I shall carry on the task of developing it.

Through diverse research activities such as those referred to above, Waseda University

Institute of Comparative Law desires to serve as an "open door" that contributes actively to

strengthening ties between law researchers in countries throughout the world and Japanese

jurisprudence and law researchers. Please feel free to contact the Institute. All approaches

will be welcomed.

Professor KIKUCHI, Yoshimi

September 21, 2014

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Welcome to Waseda University Institute of Comparative Law

NAKAMURA, Tamio

Professor of Law

Director of the Institute of Comparative Law

Waseda University

September 2016-Present

The Institute of Comparative Law (ICL) at Waseda University was established in 1958. The

purpose of the Institute is to conduct comparative research on the legal systems of Japan and

other countries, and to contribute to research and education in the field of Japanese legal

studies. Working towards these goals, the Institute has been systematically collecting

material on the legal systems of other countries, including their statutes, case reports, and

law journals, to build one of Japan’s most impressive law libraries. With the development of

Japan’s social and economic systems and the evolution of its legal system, our mission has

expanded. We aim to disseminate information on the development of contemporary Japanese

law and its legal system, and to raise critical legal questions of universal importance for

discussion from a Japanese perspective.

At present, the Institute has 123 research members who are full-time faculty members at

Waseda University, and 111 research affiliates from elsewhere. In addition, agreements have

been concluded with the Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; School of Law,

Tsinghua University; Institute for Comparative and International Law, University of

Melbourne; School of Law, Duke University; Max Planck Institute for Foreign and

International Criminal Law; Korea Legislation Research Institute; and University College

London (UCL). Exchange researchers from these institutions are welcome to work with us at

the Institute. Scholars and researchers from other countries can visit the Institute through

such channels as the International Affairs Division of Waseda University.

The Institute conducts three different programs: specific or individual events, group research

projects, and multi-annual research that is carried out by the Institute as a whole.

1) In terms of specific events, the Institute holds public lectures on a semi-monthly basis for

which it invites legal academics from around the world who are at the forefront of research

in various fields of law. In addition, our research members contribute articles to our annual

journal, the Waseda Bulletin of Comparative Law, or to our online publication, Topics of

Japanese Law. Both publish articles in English for readers worldwide, and the topics are

related to the contemporary Japanese legal system, such as recent Japanese legislation and

important Japanese court judgments.

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2) Concerning group research, 20 joint research projects are being conducted by our research

members and research affiliates, who are working together on comparative legal studies.

3) Since 2013, we have been conducting an Institute-wide research project entitled ‘The Role

of Law and Legal Studies in the Transition to a Sustainable Society: From the Perspective of

Regional Law in Asia’. The research project is based on a critical view of modern states and

their societies, the rapid economic development of which is considered the premise of social

development. However, economic development has accelerated the depletion of natural

resources and environmental deterioration. Thus, the project aims to determine a new role

for law and legal studies that will be instrumental in bringing about a balance between the

economy, society, and the environment to achieve a transition to a sustainable society that

protects the interest of future generations. Economic activities go beyond nation-states, and

the social problems that result from these activities inevitably extend beyond national

borders. Thus, an effective legal response to the problem would require legal measures

and/or regimes at national, macro-regional, and global levels to work in a mutually

reinforcing and complementary manner. In this research project, we have tried to

conceptualize an Asian regional law/regime that will respond to some of the major

cross-border problems. Since there is a lack of research on macro-regional legal responses in

Asia, we have studied the experiences of the European Union for lessons and inspirations.

The results of our various research projects are published regularly, in print and online. The

print versions include our journal, Hikaku Hogaku (Comparative Law), our comparative law

book series, Hikakuho Kenkyujo Sosho, and our annual journal in English, the Waseda

Bulletin of Comparative Law. We also publish online articles in English in Topics of Japanese

Law. In addition, in 2016, we have started two new online publications, Waseda ICL Online

Journal and Waseda ICL Online Forum.

The Institute of Comparative Law aspires to be a unique forum that will strengthen ties

between legal scholars in Japan and other countries through its diverse research activities.

We welcome research proposals and initiatives, as well as academic professionals, from all

over the world.

Professor NAKAMURA, Tamio

21 September 2016

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Joint Research Projects

ICL has joint research projects conducted by our research members and research affiliates.

The followings shows the research activities in 2016.

Subject / Representation 2016 Research Activities

Research on Civil Procedure in OtherCountries

KATO, Tetsuo

Conducted comparative research on civil procedure of

Europe, the U.S., and Asian countries; research

outcomes have been published in Comparative Law

Review and other relevant academic journals.

Change and Development ofConstitutional Law toward the 21stCentury

TONAMI, Koji

Conducted comprehensive research on the change and

development of constitutional law towards the 21st

century from comparative perspectives, chiefly

focusing on Germany; conducted monthly research

seminars on case studies of the German Federal

Constitutional Court; published research outcomes.

Analysis of the Latest Developments inFrench Law for the Purpose of Making aDatabase

IMASEKI, Motonari

Weekly research seminars; translation of revised

Furansu Hōritsu Yōgo Jiten, [Dictionary of French

Legal Terms] 3rd ed. (Sanseidō, 2012 [1st ed., 1996; 2nd

ed., 2002]); research on recent important legislation in

France.

Comparative Studies of Intellectual

Property Law and International Trade

Law

EIZUMI, Yoshinobu

Six research seminars, including one joint research

meeting with Korea.

Studies on the United States Supreme

Court

MIYAGAWA, Shigeo

Thirteen research seminars and an open lecture;

published research outcomes in Comparative Law

Review.

Studies on Anglo-American Criminal LawOGAWA, Yoshiki

Published research outcomes in Comparative Law

Review.

Comparative Study of Asian

Constitutional Law

IMASEKI, Motonari

An open lecture by research members and their

attendance to two international symposia.

Research on Anglo-American Juvenile

Law

ISHIKAWA, Masaoki

Research seminars (every Saturday); translation of

“Balancing Juvenile Justice” (continuing since 2015).

Comparative Research on Economic

Administrative Law and Theory

OKADA, Masanori

Three research seminars; publication of research

outcomes, in relevant academic journals.

Study on recent court cases in China

KURUMISAWA, Yoshiki

Two open lectures; published research outcomes in

Comparative Law Review.

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Subject / Representation 2016 Research Activities

Comprehensive Study on Medical Law

KAI, Katsunori

An open lecture; publication of the lecture’s result in

Comparative Law Review; an international

symposium.

Studies on the Supreme Court of the

United Kingdom

NAKAMURA, Tamio

Published research outcomes in relevant academic

journals; two special seminars co-organized by ICL; a

symposium co-organized by ICL.

Study on International Law of

Responsibility

BANZAI, Hiroyuki

Determined translations of articles on State

Responsibility; collected relevant documents for the

translations.

Studies of Current Developments of

European Law

NAKAMURA Tamio

Two special seminars co-organized by ICL; a

symposium co-organized by ICL.

Study on Scandinavian Law

MATSUZAWA Shin

Published research outcomes in relevant academic

journals: presentation at academic conference.

Research on Law and Sustainability

KURUMISAWA Yoshiki

Three research seminars; a symposium; an open

lecture.

Comprehensive Research on Social Law in

Population Reduction Society

KIKUCHI Yoshimi

Studies on the most recent court cases representing

each relevant field of labor law.

Study on Fragmentation of International

Law

BANZAI Hiroyuki

Reading relevant publications: exchanging opinions.

Research on Illustrating Civil Law for

English Speakers

NISHIGUCHI Hajime

An international symposium.

Research on Reforming Tort Law

SEGAWA Nobuhisa

Research seminar with invited guest speaker.

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Academic Exchange

ICL signed academic exchange agreements with various institutions, including

Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Duke University’s School of Law;

University of Melbourne, Institute for Comparative and International Law, Max Planck

Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law; Tsinghua University, School of

Law; Korea Legislation Research Institute and University College of London.

Furthermore, ICL has regularly held joint symposia with Institute of Law, Chinese

Academy of Social Sciences, in Japan (Tokyo) and in China (Beijing).

▲2013 Japan-China Joint Symposium (Beijing, Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

▲2014 Japan-China Joint Symposium (Tokyo, Waseda University)

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Research Information

ICL has published various research

outcomes both in print and online.

In print format, Comparative Law Review,

Comparative Law Studies series and Waseda

Bulletin of Comparative Law have regularly

been published.

Publications in 2016 were as follows:

Comparative Law Review, Vol.50, No.1, 2 and

3; Waseda Bulletin of Comparative Law,

Vol.35 (2015).

As one of the Comparative Law Studies series, Law and Sustainability (series No.43)

was published in 2016 and the next in the series (No.44) is scheduled to be published in

2017.

▲ The ICL website top page ▲ Publications and E-library

In online format, our online journal and online forum have been published regularly since

2016, together with Topics of Japanese Law. In addition, ICL dispatched newsletters to

researchers overseas nine times in 2016.

▲ ICL’s news ▲ Online forum

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Comparative Law Studies Series (Those with ★ mark are out of print.)

1 Harold Cooke Gutteridge, trans. Yoshio Mizuta, Comparative Law, 1964.

★ 2 Teruzo Katsuragi, Igirisu Senpaku Hoken Keiyaku Ron, 1962.

★ 3 Masajiro Takigawa, Nijo Jinya Kenkyu: Kuji-yado no Kenkyu, 1962.

4 Helmut Rumpf, Ryokichi Arikura andChigetoshi Takeuchi, Regierungsakte im

Rechtsstaat, 1964.

5 Tatsuo Saito, Igirisu Gyosei Sosyo hou no Kenkyu, 1968.

6 Masao Fukushima et. al. (eds.), Ono Azusa’s "Kokken Ronkou: Roma Ritsuyou", 1974.

★ 7 Atsushi Saito, LEX XII TABULARUM, 1969.

8 Keishiro Irie, Kaihatsu Tojokoku ni okeru Kokuyuka, 1974.

★ 9 A.A.Tille trans. Seizo Tadagawa, Socialist Comparative Jurisprudence, 1979.

10 Karl Petels, trans. Ichiro Uchida, Collection of Articles on Contemporary West German

Law of Criminal Procedure, 1980.

11 Tatsuo Sato, Great Scholars who built up Contemporary German Public Laws, 1982.

12 trans. Kojiro Nishimura, Controversy on Continuity of Law in China, 1983.

13 Saburo Kuroki, Study of Comparative Sociology of Law, 1984.

14 Haruyasu Sugiyama et. al., The Japanese Penal Code Drafts Amended by the Review

Board (1877-1879), 1984.

15 trans. Teruaki Tayama, Neues Landpachtrecht in der Bundesrepublik Deutchland, 1986

★ 16 Allan Wilbur, trans. Ichiro Uchida, Supreme Court of the United States: Guarantee of Due

Process of Law, 1986.

17 Toshiya Yato, Studies of Anglo-American Tort Cases, 1988.

18 Haruyasu Sugiyama et. al., Keihou Kaisei Shinsa Iinkai Ketugiroku Keihou Souan, 1989.

19 Teruo Doi, Intellectual property protection and management: law and practice in Japan,

1992.

20 Toshiya Yato (ed.), English Law and European Community Law, 1992.

21 Atsushi Sato, LEX XII TABULARUM (2nd ed.), 1993.

★ 22 Stein Ekkehart, trans. Kenji Urata et. al., The German Constitution, 1993

23 Volker Jacobi, trans. Teruaki Tayama, Der Geistigbehinderte und sein Recht,

Lambertus-Verlag, 1996.

24 Teruo Doi, International business transactions: contract and dispute resolution, 1996.

25 Hikota Koguchi (ed.), Economic Development and Law in P.R.C., 1998.

26 Waseda University Study Group on Civil Procedure (ed.), Theories of Civil Procedure in

Europe, 1999..

27 John Burroughs, trans. Kenji Urata, Legality of Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, 2001.

28 Akira Osuka (ed.), State Legal Intervention and Freedom, 2001.

29 Minoru Nomura and Zhang Ling, China's Amended Criminal Law: Annotations. 2002.

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30 Waseda University Institute of Comparative Law (ed.), A Next Stage of Studies of

Comparative Law: For Theories of Reception of Law and Legal Transplants, 2003.

31 Kenji Urata, Reflections on global constitutionalism: perspectives based on the constitution

of Japan, 2005.

32 Waseda University Institute of Comparative Law (ed.), International Context of Japanese

Law: Index of Linkage with West and Asia, 2006.

33 Waseda University Institute of Comparative Law (ed.), Japanese Law in an International

Context: Law in its Origin and Law in its Global Context, 2006.

34 Waseda University Institute of Comparative Law (ed.), Japanese Legal Studies in

Comparative and Historical Context: from the Perspective of Comparative Law, 2008.

35 Shin Matsuzawa, The Danish Administration of Justice Act’s Historical Context: It's

Perspective of Comparative Law, 2008.

36 Shigeo Miyagawa (ed.), The Rehnquist Court and the American Judicial Tradition, 2009.

37 Institute of Comparative Law 50th Anniversary Lecture Series, Comparative Law and

Legal Science, 2010.

38 Hans-Joachim Koch (Hrsg.), Umweltrecht, Masanori Okada (Hrsg.), Japanische Auflage,

2012.

39 Ulrich Sieber, Die Herausforderungen an die Strafrechtswissenschft im 21.

Jahrhundert—Globalisierung, Informationgesellschaft und Risikogesellschaft, Katsunori

Kai and Morikazu Taguchi (Hrsg.), 2012.

40 Shoichi Kidana (ed.), Study on Principles of Private International Law on Intellectual

Property–The Joint Proposal by Japan and Korea as a Proposal from East Asia, 2012.

41 Katsumi Yoshida and Mathilde Boutonnet (eds.), L’environnement et le contrat: regards

croisés franco-japonais, sous la direction de 2014.

42 Institute of Comparative Law (ed.), Exploring Foreign Laws as a Part of Japanese Law:

Comparative Analysis of the Main Codes of Japan, 2014.

43 Yoshiki Kurumisawa (ed.), Law and Legal Studies for Sustainable Society, 2016.

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2016 Symposia: number of participants

Public / Faculty membersapprox. 240 (88.9%)

Studentsapprox. 30 (11.1%)

Total: more than 270 participants

Symposia and Lectures

ICL has conveyed its research results to the relevant researchers, and more broadly to

students and the general public through symposia and public lectures. ICL continues to

deepen it exchanges with interested parties both within and outside Waseda University.

In 2016 more than 270 people (including more than 30 students) participated in ICL’s

thirteen symposia; more than 457 people (including more than 123 students) participated

in its 22 public lectures. *

*The count of participants started in 2016. The total numbers attending ICL

events will therefore presumably have exceeded the recorded numbers.

ICL’s topics of study include those aiming at a profound understanding of

jurisprudence in various fields, in combination with interdisciplinary seminars in which

non-legal experts participate. Through these joint activities, ICL is able to approach

diverse issues from multiple perspectives.

Non-legal experts participated in seven of thirteen symposia in 2016.

2016 Public lectures: number of participants

Studentsapprox. 123 (26.9%)

Public / Faculty membersapprox. 334 (73.0%)

Total: more than 270 participants

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(1) Symposia (13 in total)(Those who with ★ mark are non-legal experts.)

2016 April 9‘The Present Situation, 5 years after the Fukushima Earthquake, and after establishing Welfare

Society and Community Planning’Hosts: Institute for Advanced Social Sciences (Waseda University) and Institute of Comparative

Law (Waseda University)Reporters:Yoshimi Kikuchi (Director, Institute of Comparative Law, Waseda University)

★Shigeyuki Honma (Deputy Mayor of Namiecho Town, Fukushima Prefecture)

Takao Suami (Professor, Waseda Law School)Masaharu Hioki (Leader of Legal Support Team for Namiecho; ex-Professor, Waseda University)Masanori Okada (Professor, Waseda Law School)Hiroshi Nishihara (Dean, School of Social sciences, Waseda University)

★Akihiko Sugawara (President, the Kesennuma Chamber of Commerce and Industry)

★Osamu Souda (Professor, School of Social sciences, Waseda University)

★Masao Hijikata (Professor, School of Social sciences, Waseda University)

*35 participants

April 10“Environmental Law and Litigation in France and Japan”Host: Aix Marseille Université, Faculty of Law, CERIC under the auspices of ICL (Waseda University)Reporters:Mathilde Boutonnet (Aix Marseille Université)Eve Truilhe-Marengo (Aix Marseille Université)Sandrine Maljean-Dubois (Aix Marseille Université)Marie Lamoureux (Aix Marseille Université)Yukari Takamura (Nagoya University)Hiroki Oikawa (Yokohama National University)Tadashi Otsuka (Waseda University)Eriko Futami (Graduate School of Law, Waseda University)

July 2“How does ‘Abenomics’ destroy “Economics and Law?” ─ the unprecedented economic policy by Prime

Minister Abe Shinzo’Host: ICL (Waseda University) Co-host: Waseda Institute for Corporation Law and SocietyReporters:

★Yukio Noguchi (Advisor, The Institute of Finance, Waseda University)

★Kazuo Mizuno (Professor, Hosei University, School of Law)

Tatsuo Uemura (Professor, Waseda University, School of Law)Yoshiki Kurumisawa (Professor, Waseda University, School of Law)

*168 participants (including 12 students)

▲”The Present Situation, 5 years after theFukushima Earthquake, and after establishing

Welfare Society and Community Planning”(2016.4.9)

▲”How does the ‘Abenomics’ destroy Economics and Law?─the unprecedented economic policy by Prime

Minister Abe Shinzo” (2016.7.2)

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August 26Joint Workshop held by the Institute of Comparative Law (Waseda University) and Association ofContent Property for Next Generation (Korea)Reporters:Gyoo Ho Lee (Professor, Law School, Chung Ang University and President, ACPNG)Eung Jun Jeon (Professor, Law School, Chung Ang University and Lawyer, You Me Patent & Law Firm),Inchul Kim (Sangmyung University, Department of Copyright Protection and Director of General

Affairs, ACPNG)Jinwon Choe (Department of Law, Daegu University and Director of Research, ACPNG)

November 23Criminal Law Symposium in China and Japan: Analysis of differences in Japanese and Chinese criminalcodesHost: ICL (Waseda University)Reporters:Gao Mingxuan (honorary doctorate, Waseda University, Professor, Renmin University of China Law

School and honorary President, Chinese Criminal Law Association)Haruo Nishihara (the 12th President, Waseda University)Fen Jun (Professor, Renmin University of China Law School)Norio Takahashi (Professor, Waseda University, School of Law)

*45 participants (including 12 students)

December 4Great East Japan Earthquake Reconstruction Symposium (Third Symposium) ‘Establishing the systemfor the security of life after return to the earthquake area’Host: ICL (Waseda University)Reporters:

★Mitsuo Yamakawa (Professor, Teikyo University, School of Economics)

Tsuyoshi Hitomi (Professor, Waseda Law School)Takao Suami (Professor, Waseda Law School)

*30 participants (including 3 students)

▲Criminal Law Symposium in China and Japan: ‘Analysis of differences in Japanese and Chinesecriminal codes’ (2016.11.23)

▲Great East Japan Earthquake Reconstruction Symposium Vol. 3, ‘Establishing the system for the security of lifeafter return to the earthquake area’ (2016.12.4)

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2017January 28‘Brexit and Politics; The Constitution in England, focusing on the gaps between constitutional rule andpolitical practice’Host: Studies on the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (ICL’s joint research project)Co-host: ICL (Waseda University)Reporters:Tamio Nakamura (Professor, Waseda University, Faculty of Law)Takashi Kuramochi (Professer, Nanzan School of Law)

★Kunihiro Wakamatsu (Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, the Graduate School of GlobalStudies)Ariyoshi Ogawa (Professor, Rikkyo University, Faculty of Law)

★Hidetoshi Nakamura (Associate Professor, Waseda University, School of Political Science and

Economics)*45 participants

February 4Symposium on Insolvency Proceedings Act, by the bilateral Japanese and Korean exchange projectHost: JSPS, NRF, ICL (Waseda University)Reporters:Hyung doo Kim (Chief Researcher, Judicial Policy Research Institute)Kazushi Sugimoto (Assistant Professor, Chiba Law School)Hiromasa Nakajima (Professor, Keio University, Law School)

Translators:Byong hak Kim (Research Affiliate, Institute of Comparative Law, Waseda University and AssistantProfessor, Faculty of Administration and Social sciences, Fukushima University)Jeong Im Choi (Student, Graduate School of Law, Waseda University)

Collaborator: Joint Research Project, “Research on Civil Procedure in Foreign Countries”

February 25Midterm research report: ‘The ideal compensation system for nuclear damage’Host: Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies (Cornell University), Cornell University Meridian180 joint projectCo-host: Waseda University Great East Japan Earthquake Reconstruction Support Legal Work ProjectReporters:

★Hirokazu Miyazaki (Professor, Cornell University)

Annelise Riles (Professor, Cornell University)Yuki Ashina (Lawyer)Takao Suami (Professor, Waseda Law School)

★Satsuki Takahashi (Associate Professor, Hosei University)

▲‘Brexit and Politics: The Constitution in England focusing on the gaps between constitutional rule and political practice’

(2017.1.28)

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March 5Workshop, ‘Multiple Relationships: Risk and Tort’Host: Kaken ‘Study of Diversification of Tort Law from Institutional and Legislative’ Viewpoints

(Principal Investigator, Segawa Nobuhisa, Professor, Waseda Law School)Co-host: ICL (Waseda University)Reporters:Tadashi Otsuka (Professor, Waseda University, School of Law)Nariaki Yamaguchi (Professor, Waseda University, School of Law)Makinori Goto (Professor, Waseda Law School)Nobuhisa Segawa (Professor, Waseda Law School)

March 18‘Corporate Governance Code and corporate law: focusing comparative legal studies on codes and

enthusiasm for corporate law’Host: ICL (Waseda University), Co-host: Research Institute of Business Administration, Institute for

Advanced Social Sciences (Waseda University)Reporters:

Izumi Kawashima (Professor, Waseda Univeristy, School of Social sciences)Shosaku Masai (Professor, Waseda University, School of Law)Mai Ishikawa (Research Associate, Waseda University, School of Law)Yasunobu Wakabayashi (Professor, Waseda University, School of Law)Hiroyuki Watanabe (Professor, Waseda University, School of Law)Yasuhiro Osaki (Professor, Waseda University, School of Law)

Commentators:

★Shinichi Hirota (Professor, Waseda University, School of Commerce)

Tatsuo Uemura (Professor, Waseda University, School of Law)*90 participants (including 6 students)

March 20‘“Well-being of children between the judiciary and child welfare” seeking the coordination with childwelfare and the judiciary in the case of child abuse- following recent extensive research in Germany’Host: ICL (Waseda University)Reporters:Johannes Münde (Professor, Technischen Universität Berlin)Barbara Seidenstücker (Professor, Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg)Tsuneo Yoshida (President, National Network for Prevention of Child Abuse, and Professor and

President, Surugadai University)

March 21‘Joint Tort Law Theory and Market-Share Liability’Host: Kaken ‘Study of Diversification of Tort Law from Institutional and Legislative Viewpoints’

(Principal Investigator, Segawa Nobuhisa, Professor, Waseda Law School)Co-host: ICL (Waseda University)Reporters: Allen Rostron (Professor, Law Department, University of Missouri-Kansas City)Commentator: Tadashi Otsuka (Professor, Faculty of Law, Waseda University)Nobuhisa Segawa (Professor, Waseda Law School)

▲‘Corporate Governance Code and corporate law: focusing comparative legal studies on codes and enthusiasm for corporate

law’ (2017.3.18)

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Symposium Report

Symposium ‘‘Brexit and Politics: The Constitution in England focusing on the gaps between

constitutional rule and political practice’’

1 January 2017 (Sat.) 15:00-17:30

Building No. 26, Multi-purpose Lecture Hall (45 participants)

Moderator: Hidetoshi Nakamura (Associate Professor, Waseda University)Report 1: Tamio Nakamura (Professor, Waseda University)Discussant 1: Takashi Kuramochi (Professor, Nanzan School of Law)Report 2: Kunihiro Wakamatsu (Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)Discussant 2: Ariyoshi Ogawa (Professor, Rikkyo University)

In this symposium, reports and discussions were made from the perspectives of law and politics, mainly on

litigation in the UK that began to advance the way toward Brexit (withdrawal of the UK from the EU) following the

2016 referendum.

▼Professor Tamio Nakamura

Professor Tamio Nakamura introduced the background of the Brexit litigation. (The UK

government assumed that the notification of withdrawal from the EU could be made

solely by the UK government itself. Some UK citizens raised a lawsuit claiming this as

illegal. Decisions of the High Court (3 November 2016) and the Supreme Court (24

January 2017) both ruled that the UK government could not withdraw from the EU

solely by the action of the UK government, and the government thus needed national

legislation in advance of Brexit. Mass media, citizens and politicians supporting Brexit

fiercely refuted the courts’ decisions. Among them, the backlash against the Supreme

Court’s decision was so fierce that some media criticized the judges as ‘Enemies of the

People.’) Nakamura explained that the Supreme Court’s reasoning and conclusion were

in fact appropriate; but, at the same time the judgment highlighted the gaps between law and politics. The logic of

parliamentary sovereignty does not correspond to the form of direct democracy’ such as referendum, the latter

being the form of popular sovereignty; the supreme court decision did not touch on this constitutional point.

Nakamura commented that adopting the ‘principle of popular sovereignty’ could lead to such a fundamental change

of the constitutional theory in Britain, which would be unlikely to emerge under the UK’s current political culture.

▼Professor Takashi Kuramochi

In response to Nakamura’s report, Professor Kuramochi asked some questions from a

directly opposite standpoint, and thereby pursued clarification of Nakamura’s report. For

example, Kuramochi asked Nakamura whether it was appropriate or not for the court to

have decided solely on legal criteria without taking into consideration the political aspects

relevant to Brexit. Kuramochi thought that the opinion that the UK government itself was

entitled to give notification of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU was more appropriate. The

reason for his argument was that the withdrawal notice was, in legal terms, merely the

notification of the commencement of the withdrawal procedure and its retraction might be

possible. The results could thus not be predicted.

▼Professor Kunihiro Wakamatsu

Professor Wakamatsu presented the following arguments from the perspective of political

science. The Brexit litigations were essentially oppositions against the political

“procedure” towards withdrawal. Before the referendum, two-thirds of the UK

Parliament’s members supported remaining in the EU. There had thus been a possibility

that the decision to withdraw from the EU might be overturned if a procedure requiring

Parliament’s legislation before notification of withdrawal were to be made. The

supporters of the withdrawal from the EU won by a hair, and they felt that their position

was vulnerable. For these reasons, some UK citizens and many MPs supporting Brexit objected fiercely to lawsuits

that questioned the legitimacy of the withdrawal process.

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▼Professor Ariyoshi Ogawa

Professor Ogawa shifted focus towards Europe, and he summarized how

referenda were politically utilized in European countries. Ogawa introduced the

example of the Swedish Parliament overturning the result of a referendum.

Ogawa pointed out that there were general trends to conduct referenda when the

ruling political party had the expectation of winning. Regardless of expectations,

there were increasing numbers of examples rejecting the ruling l party’s policies.

Ogawa introduced some perspectives to analyze such phenomena. He concluded

that, in the European countries beyond the UK, there was a lack of arguments how to position referenda in law and

politics.

The moderator invited questions from the audience and there were active exchanges of questions and answers.

The following suggests the variety of the questions that were posed:

- Does Brexit have any connection with the advent of the Trump

administration in the US?

- A referendum would be necessary for Japan to amend its Constitution. Is

there any lesson that Japan could learn from Brexit and other referenda in Europe?

- What position will Scotland take after the Brexit rulings?

- Is there any possibility that the Supreme Court is trying to strengthen

judicial power as opposed to the power of Parliament and the government by its

Brexit rulings?

- Is the appointment process for the Supreme Court’s judges democratically controlled?

The discussion was active and it ended after 30 minutes extension of the discussion time.

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(2) Public Lectures (22 in total)

2016 May 27, No.1‘Responding to the Crisis in International Refugee Protection’James C. Hathaway (Professor, University of Michigan Law School)

Translator:Shigeo MIYAGAWA (Research Member, Professor, Waseda Law School)

*107 participants (including 43 students)

June 27, No. 2‘Legal Basis of the Governmental Action- Based on the Discussion in Taiwan -’Xiankui Mu (Professor, Shandong University, School of Law)*14 participants

July 16, No. 3‘Judicial System and Lawyers in Russia’Kie Matsushima (Lawyer)*23 participants

August 3, No. 4‘The Right to Development and Building the New Global Legal System’Xigen Wang (Professor, Wuhan University, School of Law)*17 participants

August 31, No. 5‘Brexit, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and the European Economic Area (EEA)’Carl Baudenbacher (Professor, University of St. Gallen, and President, EFTA Court)*40 participants (including 8 students)

October 11, No. 6‘War Power and the Constitution of Germany’Fabian Duessel (Research Fellow, University of Tübingen)*10 participants (including 4 students)

October 13, No. 7‘What about “Global Constitutionalism: Crisis or Consolidation?”’Anne Peters (Professor & Director, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and PublicInternational Law)*24 participants

▲No.1 ‘Responding to the Crisis in International Refugee Protection’ (2016.5.27)

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November 1, No. 8‘Recent Developments in EU Environmental, Energy and Climate Change Law’Kurt Deketelaere (Professor, KU Leuven, School of Law)*25 participants (including 4 students)

November 7, No. 9‘Die Entwickelte Erfolge und die (reste und neue) Aufgabe der Netzwerke im öffentlichen Recht inDeutschland’Jan Ziekow (Professor, The German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer)Translator: Yuri Matsubara (Professor, School of Commerce, Meiji University)*17 participants (including 1 student)

November 16, No. 10‘The Harm Principle in Anglo-American Criminalisation Theory’Andreas von Hirsch (Professor, Honorary Professor of University of Frankfurt)Translator: Toshiya Takekawa (JSPS esearch ellow, Doctoral program, Graduate School of Law,Waseda University)*16 participants

December 1, No. 11‘The Vision of Obama Care’Heidi Allen (Assistant Professor, Columbia University, School of Social Work)Translator: Haruko Noguchi (Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, WasedaUniversity)*35 participants (including 20 students)

December 2, No. 12‘Competition Law in the Digital Age - The Emerging Focus on Platforms’Christopher Yoo (Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School)Commentator: Kazuhiro Tsuchida (Research Member, Professor, Faculty of Law, WasedaUniversity)*22 participants

December 14, No. 13‘The Fair Use Rule in U.S. Copyright Law: A Flexible (But Difficult to Predict) Alternative toJapanese Statutory Limitations’Seth Shelden (Adjunct Professor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University)*8 participant

▲No. 9 ‘Die Entwickelte Erfolge und die (reste und neue) Aufgabe der Netzwerke im öffentlichenRecht in Deutschland’ (2016.11.7)

▲ No. 12 ‘Competition Law in the Digital Age - The Emerging Focus on Platforms’ (2016.12.2)

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2017 January 10, No. 14‘Constitutional Dialogue under One-Country-Two Systems: Potential and Limits’Fu Hualing (Professor, The University of Hong Kong, School of Law)Translator: Makoto Tajimi (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University)*11 participants (including 3 students)

January 10, No. 15‘The Impacts of Brexit on Hong Kong: Some Institutionally Based Observations’Zhang Xianchu (Professor, The University of Hong Kong, School of Law)Translator: Makoto Tajimi (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University)*11 participants (including 3 students)

January 20, No. 16‘The New Generation of EU Trade and Investment Agreements’Anna De Luca (Professor, Università Bocconi, School of Law)Commentator: Tomoko Ishikawa (Associate Professor, Graduate School of InternationalDevelopment Department of International Development, Nagoya University)*10 participants (including 3 students)

January 20, No. 17‘Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis in the Netherlands - Some Legal and Moral Aspects -Peter J.P. Tak (Emeritus Professor, Nijmegen University, School of Law)Translator: Katsunori Kai (Research Member, Professor, Waseda Law School)*50 participants (including 30 students)

March 7, No. 18‘Reform of the Agricultural Land Law and Sustainable Development’Xiaojun Chen (Professor and Director, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Institute of LandLaw System)Translator: Yuan Chun Wen (Assistant Professor, Research Member, Waseda University, Faculty ofLaw)*13 participants (including 3 students)

March 21, No. 19‘International Law as a Belief System’Jean d’Aspremont (Professor, The University of Manchester, School of Law)*8 participants (including 4 students)

March 30, No. 20‘The Nature of Rights to Personal Information’Cheng Wang (Professor, Peking University, School of Law)Translator: Shuo Li (Doctoral program, Graduate School of Law, Waseda University)*7 participants

March 30, No. 21‘Legislation and Judicial Practice Concerning Civil Execution in China’Peibing Qi (Lawyer)Translator: Yuan Chun Wen (Assistant Professor, Research Member, Waseda University, Faculty ofLaw)*7 participants

March 30, No. 22‘Liquidator’s Liability for Infringing Rights under Chinese Corporate Law’Aijun Zhang (Lawyer)Translator: Yuanzhou Yang (Doctoral program, Graduate School of Law, Waseda University)*7 participants

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▲No.18 ‘Reform of the Agricultural Land Law and Sustainable Development’ (2017.3.7)

▲No. 19 ‘International Law as a Belief System’(2017.3.21)

Organization (as of 21 September, 2016)

Director Deputy Director

NAKAMURA, Tamio(Professor, Faculty of Law) WAKABAYASHI, Yasunobu(Professor, Faculty of Law)

Committee members

AKIYAMA, Yasuhiro AOKI, Noriyuki ASAKO, Hiroshi ASAKURA, Mutsuko

BANZAI, Hiroyuki EIZUMI, Yoshinobu HAKOI, Takashi HARADA, Toshihiko

HONMA, Yasunori IMASEKI, Motonari ISHIDA, Kyoko IWAHARA, Shinsaku

ISOMURA, Tamotsu KAI, Katsunori KAWANO, Mariko KIKUCHI, Yoshimi

KONISHI, Tokikazu KURONUMA, Etsuro KURUMISAWA, Yoshiki MATSUZAWA, Shin

MIYAGAWA, Shigeo NAKAMURA, Tamio OKADA, Toshihiro OSAKI, Yasuhiro

OTSUKA, Hideaki OTSUKA, Tadashi SAIGUSA, Kenji SUAMI, Takao

TAKABAYASHI, Ryu TAKEUCHI, Hisashi TAMURA, Tatsuhisa UCHIDA, Yoshiatsu

UENO, Tatsuhiro WAKABAYASHI, Yasunobu YAMAGUCHI, Nariaki

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Members (as of 21 September, 2016)

Research Members

Public Law Commercial Law

FacultyofSocialSciences GOTO, MitsuoConstitutional Law,

Administrative LawFaculty of Law EGASHIRA, Kenjiro Commercial Law

Faculty of Law HASEBE, Yasuo Constitutional Law Faculty of LawFUKUSHIMA,

Hironao

Commercial Law

Corporation Law

Faculty of Law HITOMI, Takeshi Administrative Law Faculty of Law HAKOI, Takashi Commercial Law

Faculty of Law IMASEKI, Motonari Constitutional Law

Comprehensive

Research Organization

Project Research

INUKAI, Shigehito Financial Law

Faculty of LawKANAZAWA,

TakashiConstitutional Law Faculty of Law IWAHARA, Shinsaku Commercial Law

Faculty of Political

Science and Economics

KAWAGISHI,

NorikazuConstitutional Law FacultyofSocialSciences

KAWASHIMA,

IzumiCommercial Law

FacultyofSocialSciencesKUROKAWA,

Satoshi

Administrative and

Environmental LawFaculty of Law KISHIDA, Masao Commercial Law

Faculty of LawMIZUSHIMA,

AsahoConstitutional Law Faculty of Law KURONUMA, Etsuro Commercial Law

Faculty of Law NAKAJIMA, Toru Constitutional Law Faculty of CommerceNAKAMURA,

NobuoCommercial Law

Faculty of LawNAKAYAMA,

YoshikoAdministrative Law Faculty of Law OTSUKA, Hideaki Commercial Law

FacultyofSocialSciencesNISHIHARA,

HiroshiConstitutional Law Faculty of Law OSAKI, Yasuhiro Commercial Law

Faculty of Law OKADA, Masanori Administrative Law Faculty of Commerce SHIBAZAKI, Satoru Commercial Law

Faculty of Law SUTO, ShigeyukiAdministrative Law、

Tax LawFaculty of Law

TORIYAMA,

KyoichiCommercial Law

Faculty of LawTAMURA,

TatsuhisaAdministrative Law Faculty of Law UEMURA, Tatsuo Commercial Law

Faculty of Law TONAMI, Koji, Constitutional Law Faculty of Commerce WADA, Munehisa Corporation Law

Faculty of LawWATANABE,

TetsuyaTax Law Faculty of Law

WAKABAYASHI,

YasunobuCommercial Law

Faculty of LawWATANABE,

Hiroyuki

Commercial and

Finance Law

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Civil Law Criminal Law

Faculty of Law AOKI, Noriyuki Civil Law Faculty of Law AMADA, Yu Criminal Law

Faculty of LawAKIYAMA,

YasuhiroCivil Law Faculty of Law INOUE, Masahito

Criminal

Procedure

Faculty of Law GOTO, Makinori Civil Law Faculty of Law ISHIKAWA, Masaoki Criminal Policy

Faculty of Law HASHIMOTO, Yuki Civil Law Faculty of Law KAI, Katsunori Criminal Law

Faculty of Law ISOMURA, amotsu Civil Law Faculty of Law KAWAKAMI, Takuichi Criminal Procedure

Faculty of Law IWASHI, Waichiro Civil Law Faculty of Law KITAGAWA, Kayoko Criminal Law

Faculty of Law KAMATA, Kaoru Civil Law Faculty of Law KONISHI, Tokikazu Criminal Policy

Faculty of Law KAMANO, Kuniki Civil Law Faculty of Law MATSUBARA, Yoshihiro Criminal Law

FacultyofEducationand

IntegratedArtsandSciences

KITAYAMA,

MasaakiCivil Law Faculty of Law MATSUZAWA, Shin Criminal Law

Faculty of Law OBA, Hiroyuki Civil Law FacultyofSocialSciences NAKAMICHI, Yuki Criminal Law

Faculty of Law OHMI, Koji Civil Law Faculty of Law OGAWA, Yoshiki Criminal rocedure

FacultyofSocialSciences ONISHI, Yasuhiro Civil Law; Land Law Faculty of Law SUGIMOTO, Kazutoshi Criminal Law

Faculty of Law SAIGUSA, Kenji Civil Law Faculty of Law TAKAHASHI, Norio Criminal Law

Faculty of Law SEGAWA, obuhisa Civil Law Faculty of Law TAYAMA, Satomi Criminal Law

Faculty of Law SHIRAISHI, Dai Civil Law Faculty of Law TERASAKI, Yoshihiro Criminal Procedure

Faculty of LawTANAMURA,

MasayukiCivil Law Faculty of Law YAMAGUCHI, Atsushi Criminal Law

Faculty of International

Research and Education,UCHIDA, Katsuichi Civil Law

Faculty of LawYAMAGUCHI,

Nariaki

Civil Law, Medical

LawLabor Law and Social Security Law

Faculty of LawYAMASHIRO,

KazumaCivil Law Faculty of Law ASAKURA, Mutsuko Gender

Faculty of Law YAMANOME, Akio Civil Law Faculty of Law ISHIDA, Makoto Labor Law

FacultyofSocialSciences YOSHIDA, Kazuo Civil Law Faculty of Law KIKUCHI, YoshimiSocial Security

Law

Faculty of Law YOSHIDA, Katsumi Civil Law Faculty of Law SHIMADA, Yoichi Labor Law

FacultyofSocialSciences SHIMIZU, Satoshi Labor Law

Faculty of Law TAKEUCHI, Hisashi L abor Law

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Civil Procedural Law Theories of Law

Faculty of Law HONMA, Yasunori Civil Procedural Law Faculty of Law ASAKO, Hiroshi History of Legislation

Faculty of Law KATO, Tetsuo Civil Procedural Law Faculty of Law HARADA, Toshihiko Roman Law

Faculty of Law MATSUMURA, Kazunori Civil Procedural Law Faculty of Law ISHIDA, KyokoLawandSociety,

ProfessionalResponsibility

Faculty of Law SUGAWARA, Ikuo Civil Procedural Law Faculty of LawKURUMISAWA,

Yoshiki

Sociology of Law・,

Agricultural law

Faculty of LawTESHIGAHARA,

KazuhikoCivil Procedural Law Faculty of Law MIYAGAWA, Shigeo Anglo-American Law

Faculty of Law UCHIDA, Yoshiatsu Civil Procedural Law Faculty of LawMIZUBAYASHI,

TakeshiHistory of Legislation

Faculty of Law UENO, Yasuo Civil Procedural Law Faculty of Law NAKAMURA, Tamio Anglo-American Law

Faculty of Law YAMAMOTO, Ken Civil Procedural Law Faculty of Law OHASHI, Asaya French Law

Faculty of Law SASAKURA, HideoHistory of Legal

Thought

International Law FacultyofSocialSciences TAGA, Hidetoshi International Relations

Faculty of Law BANZAI, Hiroyuki International Law Faculty of Commerce UNO, Kazuo Sociology

Faculty of Law DOGAUCHI, MasatoPrivate International

LawFaculty of Law WADA, Yoshitaka

Sociology of Law 、

LegalPractice

Faculty of Law EIZUMI, YoshinobuPrivateInternationalLaw

・InternationalTradeLawFaculty of Law WEN, Yuan Chun Chinese Law

Faculty of Law FURUYA, Shuichi International Law FacultyofSocialSciences YOKONO, Megumu Medical Law, Bio-ethics

Faculty of Law KAWANO, Mariko International Law

Faculty of Law KUBOTA, Takashi International Finance Law

Faculty of Law SHIMIZU, Akio International Law

Faculty of Law SUAMI, TakaoInternational Business

Transactions

Legal Practitioners Environmental Law and Economic Law

Faculty of Law KAMOTA, Tetsuo Law and Society Faculty of Law OKADA, Toshihiro Economic Law

Faculty of Law KOJIMA, Nobuo Administrative Law Faculty of Law OTSUKA, TadashiCivil Law ・

environmental law

Faculty of LawMATSUBARA,

MasaakiCivil Procedure Faculty of Law

RADEMACHER,

Christoph

Intellectual Property

Law

Faculty of LawMATSUMOTO,

ShinsukeCorporation Law Faculty of Law

TAKABAYASHI,

Ryu

Intellectual Property

Law

Faculty of Law NISHIGUCHI, Hajime Civil Procedure Faculty of LawTSUCHIDA,

KazuhiroEconomic Law

Faculty of Law OHTA, Shigeru Criminal Procedure Faculty of Law UENO, TatsuhiroIntellectual Property

Law

Faculty of Law OKUYAMA, Takeshi Corporation Law

Faculty of Law SHIMIZU, Yasuhiko Criminal Defense Other fields of social sciences

Faculty of Law Tanaka, Masato Civil Procedure Faculty of Commerce IWAMURA, Mitsuru Finance

Faculty of Political

Science and EconomicsNAKAUCHI, Eizo Western Political History

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Research Affiliates

Research on Civil Procedure in Other Countries Comparative Study of Asian Constitutional Law

Rikkyo University ADACHI, Eiji The University of Tokyo SHISHIDO, Joji

OsakaCityUniversity HISASUE, Yayoi Sophia University TAKAMI, Katsutoshi

TMI Associates KAWANAKA, Hiroyoshi Research on Anglo-American Juvenile Law

Fukushima University KIM, Byong hak KokushikanUniversity KATO, Naotaka

Meiji Gakuin University KONDO, Takashi Kumamoto University NAITO, Hiromi

Meiji University NAKAYAMA, Koji Kokushikan University SHISHIKURA, Yuta

Toyo University SAKAMOTO, Keizo Kokushikan University TATSUNO, Bunri

Chiba University SUGIMOTO, Kazushi Kokushikan University YOSHIKAI, Taichi

Ryutsu Keizai University TAJIRI, YasuyukiComparative Research on Economic Administrative Law andTheory

Tokyo Metropolitan University TANAHASHI, Yohei Aoyama Gakuin University FUKAWA, Mayuko

Meijo University YANAGISAWA, Yuji Kanazawa University HIRAKAWA, Eiko

Change and Development of Constitutional Law toward the21st Century

Komazawa University JO, Wonje

Iwate Prefectural University CHIKUNI, Ryosuke Ehime University KWON, Gibob

Meiji Gakuin University GIRAUDOU, Isabelle Daito Bunka University MORI, Toshiki

Hirosaki University KAWAI, Masao Kanazawa University OSANAI, Hiroki

Rissho University LEE, Dooyoung Nagoya University SHIMOYAMA, Kenji

Kyorin University LIU, Di Toyo University TERA, Yohei

Fukuoka University JITSUHARA, Takashi Heisei International University YAMADA, Shinichiro

Saitama University MIYAKE, Yuuhiko St. .Andrew's University YAMAMOTO, Junichi

Niigata University NEMORI, Ken Study on Recent Court Cases in China

Tokyo Gakugei University SAITO, Kazuhisa Hokuriku University HU, Guanghui

Takushoku University TAKAHASHI, Masato Juris Doctor KONG, Xiaoxin

Analysisof theLatestDevelopmentsinFrenchLawforthePurposeofMakingaDatabase

Niigata University KUNIYA, Satoshi

Rissho University BABA, Satomi Chinese Academy of Social Sciences LU, Yanbin

University of Tsukuba HINO, Tatsuya Aichi University MATSUI, Naoyuki

Seigakuin University ISHIKAWA, Yuichiro Chiba University of Commerce MITARAI, Daisuke

Tokoha University KOYAMA, Takaharu Hitotsubashi University TAJIMI, Makoto

Hakuoh University SHIRAISHI, Tomonori Asia University XIA, Yu

Comparative Studies of Intellectual Property Law andInternational Trade Law

Comprehensive Study on Medical Law

Aoyama Gakuin University ITO, Takaya Hokkai-Gakuen University CHIBA, Kazuki

Aoyama Gakuin University HAMABE, Yoichiro Shibaura Institute of Technology HONDA, Mari

Tokyo Metropolitan University KIM, JimanNational Center of Neurology andPsychiatry

IKKA, Tsunakuni

Tokyo Metropolitan University TANEMURA, Yusuke Kyushu University KAWAHARA, Naoto

Studies on the United States Supreme Court Toyo University MUTO, Masaaki

Kanto Gakuin University HARAGUCHI, Yoshiaki Studies on the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

The University of British Columbia MATSUI, Shigenori The University of Tokyo ASAKA, Kichimoto

UCHastingsCollegeof TheLaw MIYAZAWA, Setsuo Tezukayama University SANO, Yutaka

Kanto Gakuin University YOSHIDA, Hitomi Tohoku University SERIZAWA, Hideaki

Studies on Anglo-American Criminal Law Rikkyo UniversityTAMARUYA,Masayuki

Okayama University HARADA, Kazuyuki Study on International Law of Responsibility

Meijo University KATO, Katsuyoshi Surugadai University KONAKA, Satsuki

Nagoya University KOJIMA, Jun Nagoya Gakuin University MINAKAWA, Makoto

Toyo University MATSUDA, Masateru Kokugakuin University MIYAUCHI, Yasuhiko

Doshisha University SHUMI, Mitsuo Rissho University NAGATA, Takahide

Waseda Law School Faculty ofCommerce

TANAKA, Toshihiko Gakushuin Women’s College SAKURAI, Daizo

Meiji University UCHIDA, Yukitaka Aichi Gakuin University TAZUNOKI, Shinya

University of Tsukuba WATANABE, Takuya Studies of Current Developments of European Law

Senshu University OBASE, Takuma

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Study on Scandinavian Law Study on Fragmentation of International Law

University of Tsukuba KIZAKI, Shunsuke Hokkaido University KOYANO, Mari

Seiwa University LI, Yan Hong Sophia University HIROMI, Masayuki

Takasaki City University of Economics OGATA, Sho Yokohama City University SETA, Makoto

Ehime University TAGAWA, Yasuhiro Aoyama Gakuin University SHIN, Hea Bong

Research on Law and SustainabilityNational Graduate Institute for PolicyStudies

TSURUTA, Jun

Senshu University II, Takayuki Research on Illustrating Civil Law for English Speakers

Norinchukin Research InstituteCo., Ltd. KAMEOKA, Kohei Chuo University OGANO, Shoichi

Chubu University KUME, Hideyo Takasaki City University of Economics OKAWARA, Mami

Kochi University OGATA, Kenichi Chuo University ROSEN, Daniel

Tokoha University OGAWA, Yuji

University of ToyamaTAKAHASHI,Mitsuhiko

Takaoka University of Law UECHI, Ichiro

Comprehensive Research on Social Law in Population ReductionSociety

TheJapanInstituteforLaborPolicyandTraining HOSOKAWA, Ryo

TheJapanInstitute forLaborPolicyandTraining NAITO, Shino

Himeji Dokkyo University OHKI, Masatoshi

Ibaraki University SUZUKI, Toshiharu

Shitennoji University TSUNEMORI, Yusuke

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