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The Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL) is an initiative of the College of Law at the Australian National University (ANU), the Faculty of Law at Bond University and the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney (USyd). The core aim of ANJeL is to promote scholarly engagement with Japanese law, especially in Australia.

             

 

Announcements

Kyoto Seminar (6-10 February) and Tokyo Seminar (13-16 February 2012) in Japanese Law: applications for LLB, JD or Masters credit via USydney Law School open Monday 12 September – Friday 7 October
For the first time, LLB or JD students in Australia can enrol on a HECS-fee basis. ANU LLM students can receive credit for the Kyoto Seminar through LAWS8171. Bond University will also be making the Seminars available for credit, please contact law@bond.edu.au for more information.

Mr Akira Kawamura, ANJeL Advisor, has also kindly donated a $750 scholarship for a student enrolling via USydney who demonstrates financial hardship. This is in addition to the $750 ANJeL Akira Kawamura Course Prizes for the overall best student in Japanese Law courses offered through USydney and ANU. ANJeL thanks Mr Kawamura for his ongoing support and his election as President of the International Bar Association.

4th ANJeL Australia-Japan Business Law Seminar, Saturday 11 Feb 2-5.30pm at Herbert Smith, Tokyo: comparing developments in Australian labour law (Prof Joellen Riley) and the new “Australian Consumer Law” (Dr Luke Nottage), including dispute management aspects and with comments/comparisons from Herbert Smith lawyer Peter Coney and Gakushuin University Prof Souichirou Kozuka. Information and registration here.
Please save the date and register preliminary interest by emailing anjelinfo@gmail.com.

Submissions for the $1000 ANJeL Blake Dawson Essay Prize in Japanese Law are due by 30 November 2011. Please also tell your students or classmates!

“Team Australia” has been finalised for the INC Negotiation and Arbitration Competition in Tokyo over 2-3 December. Four ANU law students and five USydney students (including one already in Japan on exchange, former ANJeL assistant Glenn Kembrey) will compete again in English and Japanese, coached by former Team member Rohan Kapur. For financial support already, we thank the INC organisers (and their own main sponsor, Sumitomo Chemical), Allens Arthur Robinson, ANU, Blake Dawson, Nagashima Ohno and Tsunematsu, Sofico Australia and the University of Sydney. We warmly welcome further (tax-deductible) donations: Forms and Information

10th ANJeL International Conference, “Socio-legal Norms in Preventing and Managing Disasters in Japan: Asia-Pacific and Interdisciplinary Perspectives”, Sydney Law School, 1-2 March 2012: This anniversary conference, commemorating Japan’s “3-11” disaster in 2011 as well as ANJeL’s decade-long efforts to compare Japanese Law in broad context, is also supported by Tohoku University, the Japanese Studies Department, CAPLUS and the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, and will include specialists (often with first-hand experience of recent disasters) from China, Indonesia, NZ and the USA as well as Japan. Please save these dates and keep an eye on the Law Events for future developments.

 

ANJeL membership is free to all. Find out more.

Have your ANJeL newsletters stopped coming? ANJeL is now requesting that all existing members provide a secondary, non-institutional email address to assist in maintaining communications. Contact ANJeL via our new email address: ANJeLinfo@gmail.com.
   
 

ANJeL People

ANJeL is a network of over 350 scholars, practitioners, policy-makers, senior students and others interested in Japanese law from Australia, Japan, and the rest of the world. ANJeL welcomes applications for membership.

 

ANJeL is managed by its two co-directors: Kent Anderson (ANU), Luke Nottage (USyd) and Leon Wolff (Bond). They are assisted by an Executive Coordinator, three Deputy Directors and a diverse Advisory Board.

 

ANJeL offers a Research Visitor scheme for scholars and jurists. ANJeL's directors welcome applications at any time.

 

ANJeL Events

ANJeL organises a number of research events to stimulate intellectual and public debate on issues of Japanese law.

 

These events range from international conferences, continuing legal education seminars to informal discussion workshops.

 

ANJeL is also engaging a wide range of media and consultancy activities. ANJeL members and associates receive e-newsletters for updating information about ANJeL activities including the up-coming events.
 

ANJeL Research

ANJeL promotes research on Japanese law and supports the research by Japanese scholars of Australian law.

 

The ANJeL website hosts resources on Japanese law for researchers and a selection of publications by ANJeL scholars in Australia and elsewhere.

 

ANJeL collaborates in promoting the multi-lingual Zeitschrift fuer Japanisches Recht / Journal of Japanese Law, the only Japan-specific law journal published in Western languages. ANJeL encourages members and associates to make submissions on any aspect of Japanese law and justice.

  

ANJeL Teaching

ANJeL offers a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Japanese law at its network of universities.

 

ANJeL assists in the "Kyoto and Tokyo Seminars" in Japanese Law sponsored by Ritsumeikan University. ANJeL sponsors a team of Australian students to compete at the Japan Intercollegiate Arbitration/Negotiation Competition.

 

ANJeL awards the Akira Kawamura prize for performance in Japanese law courses at its network of universities and the nationwide Blake Dawson essay prize in Japanese Law.

     

 

Last updated: 10 October 2011