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Naoko Kaya & Masaki Okada（Shiho-Shishi Lawyer & Professor,
Tsukuba University）
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（4）“The Effects of Law School Education on Self-assessment of
Competency: A Comparison between Lawyers who Passed the New
Bar Examination and Lawyers who Passed the Old Bar Examination
in Japan”
Osamu Koyama（Research Associate, Doshisha University）
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（5）“Japanese Nationality Cases and Judicial Policymaking”
Takeshi Akiba（Associate Professor, Akita International University）
.
（6）“Analysis of Resolution System for Parent's Demands at Educational
Administration: on the Possibility of Public Resolution”
Akihiro Tsuchiya（Associate Professor, Iwate University）
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10. Legal Philosophy
The Japan Association for Legal Philosophy held its 2013 General Meeting
at Komazawa University on November 16 and 17, 2013.
M a i n T h e m e : “‘I m p l i c i t W i s d o m’ i n C i v i l P r o c e d u r e :
Reconsideration of ‘the Legal Syllogism’ ”
Presentations on Each Theme:
Section A:
（1）“Legal Institutionalization of Ethics: Clinical Ethics and Research
Ethics”
Yasuji Yamazaki（Professor, Kobe University）
（2）“Genome Database and Privacy”
Takayuki Kira（Lecturer, Utsunomiya Kyowa University）
（3）“A Consideration on Retribution and Law”
Yuko Hashimoto（Associate Professor, Kyushu Sangyo University）
（4）“The Role of Concept in Legal Consideration”
Yasutoshi Mouri（Professor, Seinan Gakuin University）
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Section B:
（1）“A Possibility of Defense in the Modern Theory of Natural Law”
Mitsutaka Hirai（Doctoral Student, Tokyo University）
（2）“Position of Judiciary and Trial in Discourse Theory”
Takayuki Onishi（Visiting Researcher, Ritsumeikan University）
（3）“Critical Examination on the Historical Development of the Japanese
Legal Methodology: With a Hint of the Recent Situations of the
Argument in Germany”
Hiroshi Hattori（Associate Professor, Matsuyama University）
Workshops:
Section A
First Part: “Search for a Possibility of Queer Legal Theory”
（1）“Explanation of the Purpose of the Project”
Rokuro Ayabe（Research Associate, Nagoya College）
（2）“Crossing Fields between Feminist Legal Studies and Queer Legal
Studies”
Hirono Ikeda”（Part-time Lecturer, Tsuru University）
（3）“Queer Analysis on the ‘Minority’ Concept within the International
Human Rights Act”
Hiroyuki Taniguchi（Associate Professor, Takaoka University of Law）
（4）“Q u e e r i n g a L a w : M a k i n g t h e P h e n o m e n o n o f L e g a l
Institutionalization of Homosexual Marriage a Subject for
Consideration”
Rokuro Ayabe（Research Associate, Nagoya College）
（5）“Comments”
Yoshinori Seki（Associate Professor, Shinshu University）
Second Part: “Interaction between the Theory of Norms and the
Theory of Positivism: With a Hint of Libertarian Paternalism”
（1）“Explanation of the Purpose of the Project”
Yoshiki Wakamatsu（Professor, Gakushuin University）
（2）“A Design of Practice”
Keisuke Kondo（Lecturer, Tomakomai Komazawa University）
（3）“Overview on Results of the Experimentation”
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Kazumi Shimizu（Professor, Waseda University）
（4）“Summary and Future Prospects”
Akira Inoue（Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University）
Section B
F i r s t P a r t : “K a n t’s T h e o r y o f t h e L a w o f R e a s o n a n d h i s
Republicanism: from the Perspective of Globalism”
（1）“Kant’s Theory of the Law of Reason and his Republicanism: from the
Perspective of Globalism”
Jun Kihara（Professor, Toyama University）
（2）“Comments”
Ichirou Sakou（Professor, Kyushu University）
（3）“Comments”
Toshio Shinohara（Professor, Kokushikan University）
Second Part: “Globalization and Reorganization of Public Law and
Private Law”
（1）“Raising the Issue”
Yuki Asano（Professor, Doshisha University）
（2）“Administrative Law in the Era of Globalization”
Takeshi Fujitani（Associate Professor, Tokyo University）
（3）“International Private Law in the Era of Globalization”
Dai Yokomizo（Professor, Nagoya University）
（4）“Comments from Legal Philosophy”
Kousuke Nasu（Associate Professor, Kyoto University）
Section C
F i r s t P a r t : “P u r s u i n g R e a l I m a g e o f F a c t F i n d i n g i n C i v i l
Litigation”
（1）“Conditions and Method of Theory of Fact Finding in Civil Litigation”
Yasutomo Morigiwa（Professor, Nagoya University）
（2）“Fact Finding and the Method of Judgment in the Yokohama Common
Property Case and its Modern Implications”
Takashi Sonoo（Judge, Tokyo High Court）
（3）“Education on Legal Practice in the Early Meiji Era: With a Hint of the
Yokohama Common Property Case”
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Akihiko Tsujimura（Part-time Lecturer, Gakushuin University）
（4）“Reading the Context in Place of a Summary”
Satoru Kobayashi（Part-time Lecturer, Meijo University）
Second Part: “Judicial Independence and the Practice of Natural
Law: Recent Findings of the American Public Documents on the
Sunagawa Case”
（1）“Koutarou Tanaka, the Chief Justice of Supreme Court, and the
Judicial Practice of Natural Law”
Reiko Fukawa（Former Professor, Yamanashi Gakuin University）
（2）“The Sunagawa Case and its Modern Implications”
Isao Naitou（Lawyer）
（3）“Judicial Independence in Danger: Judicial Activism and Judicial
Passivism”
Mitsuo Yoshinaga（Lawyer）
（4）“Concluding Comment”
Masaaki Gabe（Professor, Ryukyu University）
Presentations on the Main Theme: “‘Implicit Wisdom’ in Civil
Procedure: Reconsideration of ‘the Legal Syllogism’ ”
First Part:
（1）“Comments on the Main Theme”
Fumihiko Takahashi（Professor, Meiji Gakuin University）
（2）“Should Laws be Applied to Facts, or should Facts be Applied to
Laws?”
Hiroshi Kamemoto（Professor, Kyoto University）
（3）“Limitations and Prospects of the Legal Syllogism in Civil Litigation:
Using Cases of Excess Interest as a Subject Matter”
Nobuhisa Segawa（Professor, Waseda University）
（4）“Method of Choice and Constitution of Legal Norms in Civil
Litigation”
Ayumu Murata（Judge Professor, Legal Research and Training
Institute）
Second Part:
（1）“Fact Finding in Legal Litigation”
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Itaru Shimazu（Professor, Chiba University）
（2）“Fact as seen from the Lawyer’s Perspetive”
Tamiko Nakamura（Lawyer）
（3）“Structure of Fact Finding in Civil Litigation”
Asami Tejima（Supreme Court Secretariat）
（4）“Fact Finding and Statutory Interpretation and Application of Laws
（Concluding Comment）
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Shintarou Kato（Judge, Tokyo High Court）
（5）“Concluding Comment”
Shigeaki Tanaka（Emeritus Professor, Kyoto University）
S y m p o s i u m : “‘I m p l i c i t W i s d o m’ i n C i v i l P r o c e d u r e :
Reconsideration of ‘the Legal Syllogism’ ”
11. Comparative Law
I. The Japan Society of Comparative Law held its 76th General Meeting at
Aoyama Gakuin University on June 1 and 2, 2013.
First Day
1. Anglo-American Law Section Part 1:
（1）“Protection of immigrant women from domestic violence through
application for permanent residence on the Humanitarian and
Compassionate ground in Canada”
Yuriko Fukushima（Researcher, Kyoto Human Rights Research
Institute）
（2）“Security of Tenure under the Long Residential Leases in England and
Wales; for the Reconstruction of the Building Lease System in Japan”
Takeshi Ohno（Professor, Meiji Gakuin University）
（3）“The meaning and concept of nationality in the British nationality and
immigration law – from the aspect of constitutional law”
Noriko Miyauchi（Researcher, Kwansei Gakuin University）