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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

ANJeL is pleased to support an international conference on "Japanese Law, French Law, What Dialogue?" at the University of Lyon over 10-11 May, 2012. The conference blog (with details in English) can be found here.  

The 2011 ANJeL/Ashurst Essay Prize in Japanese Law was won by ANESTI PETRIDIS of Melbourne University, for his paper 'Knocking at the Door Of the Stone Fortress: Appeals to the Supreme Court Under Japan’s 1996 Code of Civil Procedure'. A Special Mention was awarded to SHANE CURRAN of the University of Sydney for his paper The Grey Crime Wave - Crime Amongst the Elderly of Japan.

ANJeL-in-Japan Program Convenor Souichirou Kozuka, Luke Nottage and other ANJeL members will present papers and/or chair panels at the LSA/RSCL Conference in Hawaii over 5-8 June. More information here

ANJeL will host the Gold Coast Seminar on Australian Law in August/September for Japanese law students, primarily from Osaka University.

Co-director Leon Wolff will also run a seminar on Australian law for Gakushuin University students in June, pursuant to a Prime Minister's Award for Education Assistance to Japan, to be co-taught with Professor Masako Kamiya.

ANJeL will publish a book and a mini-issue of the Journal of Japanese Law from its Anniversary Conference, “Socio-legal Norms in Preventing and Managing Disasters in Japan: Asia-Pacific and Interdisciplinary Perspectives”. Further conference news can be found on the University of Sydney website and the Japanese Law blog.

A CDROM is available from the 4th ANJeL Australia-Japan Business Law CLE Seminar held in Tokyo on 11 February 2012, focusing on recent developments in Australian consumer and labour law. It comprises audio, powerpoint and document/PDF files and can be ordered via anjelinfo@gmail.com for AUD$50 (including GST).

ANJeL welcomes donations to support its various research, teaching and community engagement activities, especially student participation in the Negotiation and Arbitration Competition in Tokyo this December.

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: 24 April 2012