ANJeL International Conference 2005

• International Conference in Japanese Law February 2005

ANJeL hosted an international conference in Japanese Law at the University Sydney on Wednesday, 23 February 2005. ANJeL wishes to thank the Japan Foundation for their generous financial support for the conference. The theme of the conference was "Japanese Law on Trial". Panels were organised into ‘mock trials' against two charges:

(i) that Japan’s System of Criminal Justice is Unjust; and

(ii) Japan is Americanising its Civil and Commercial Laws.

THAT JAPAN’S SYSTEM OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE IS UNJUST (Chair: Kent Anderson, ANU)

Judge Daijiro Yasuda (Utsunomiya District Court; ANJeL Judge-in-Residence, Melbourne):
"One Aspect of Criminal Justice in Japan" (manuscript in English; MS PowerPoint presentation is also available)

Judge Masaki Takasugi (Chiba District Court; ANJeL Judge-in-Residence, Sydney):
"The Lay-Judge System in Japan" (manuscript in English, proofreading by Kallun Willock)

Professor Makoto Ibusuki (Ritsumeikan University):
"Dismantling Miscarriages of Justice: An Empirical Analysis of the Future for Criminal Justice System in Japan" (MS PowerPoint presentation in English)

Kent Anderson (Australian National University):
"Comments" (also, his tentative English translation of the new Saiban-in law in Japan is available)

THAT JAPAN’S SYSTEM OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE IS UNJUST (CON’T) (Chair: Pete Lawley, ANU)

Stacey Steele (University of Melbourne):
"When Silence isn’t Golden: The Right to Silence in the Context of Criminal Justice in Japan and the Wakayama Curry Poisoning Case"

Professor Meryll Dean (Oxford Brookes University)
"Criminals or Asylum Seekers? Japanese Approaches to International Law on Refugees"

Professor Daniel Foote (University of Tokyo):
"Comments"

THAT JAPAN IS AMERICANISING ITS CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL LAWS (Chair: Professor Christoph Antons, University of Wollongong)

Professor Souichiro Kozuka (Sophia University):
"The Use of Economic Analysis in Japanese Commercial Law" (MS PowerPoint presentation mainly in English)

Professor Satoshi Watanabe (Ritsumeikan University):
"Recent Developments in International Intellectual Property Disputes in Japan"

Luke Nottage:
"A Tentative Typology of Law Reform Processes in the 'New' Japan"

Carol Lawson (Legal Communications Japan):
"Australian Law Students on Trial: Student Conceptions about Law and the Economy in Japan" (MS PowerPoint presentation in English)

Professor Tomoyo Matsui, Tohoku University: "Comments" (from a broad corporate governance perspective)

Last updated: 13 June 2009