Japanese Law & Society Ⅱ 留

36040

Ｇ．Ｒ．ハラダ

2.00単位

1年

2019年度後期

This course is a continuation of Japanese Law and Society I. (International Exchange students enrolling in the second semester may also take this course.) It is offered to students who are interested in Japan and developing a general understanding of the present characteristics of Japanese society and the law. It will be a combination of lecture and discussion. The first half will comprise of lectures and students giving presentations on assigned readings. The second half will require students to form groups and to search for legal issues of their particular interests to present in class and to promote discussion on the presented topics. This course will also require each student to submit a short paper on a specific topic of his or her choice from the topics discussed.　

The objective of this course is to learn about the Japanese society and the law. Emphasis will be given to Japanese Public Law, Immigration Issues and Business Law.
Since this course will comprise of lectures, student presentations and discussions, another objective is to improve the student's communication and presentation skills.

A detailed outline of the course schedule and readings will be distributed to the students on the first day of class. Previous classess have covered the following topics:

1) The Constitution and International Environment;
2) The Japanese Government and the Law;
3) The Emperor and the Japanese Society;
4) Current Legal Issues in Japan 1;
5) Japanese Trademark Jurisprudence;
6) Japanese Business and Contract Law;
7) Current Legal Issues in Japan 2;
8) Immigration Law and International Students;
9) The Financial Crisis and Changes in the Banking Law;
10) Legal topics presented by students;
11) Legal topics presented by students;
12) Legal topics presented by students;
13) Possible visit to law-related facilities (1-Local Financial Institution);
14) Possible visit to law -related facilities (2-Local Attorney's Office);
15) Final discussion on Japanese Law and Society. 　

None.

Students are required to read the assigned materials each week (2 hours of readings) and be prepared for in-class discussions of the scheduled topic.

Text and material will be distributed to students on the first day of class.

1) M. Dean,ed., JAPANESE LEGAL SYSTEM: Text and Materials (Cavendish Publishing Limited, 1997).
2) G. McAlinn, ed., JAPANESE BUSINESS LAW (Wolters Kluwer, 2007).

Exams not done during regular exam period.　

Course grades will be evaluated by: 1) attendance/participation in discussion (30%); 2) presentations (40%); 3) final paper (30%).
*Evaluations on the presentations will be given at the end of each session.
*Any student that misses a third of the classes (5) will be given a "0" for attendance will not be allowed to submit the final paper.

Japanese students interested in taking the course must have the equivalent of the following English proficiency:
TOEIC 700 or over;
TOEFL 500 or over (paper-based).