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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) 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

The 2nd ANJeL “Australia Japan Business Law Update” CLE Seminar will be held at Ernst & Young’s Tokyo office on 13 February from 2-5.30pm, followed by an informal dinner. The two main themes will be the amended Double Tax Treaty and post-GFC financial markets developments: please see the attached flyer and register promptly via http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/law/457.html?eventid=5139.

Luke Nottage and Leon Wolff’s just published co-translation of Takao Tanase, Community and the Law: A Critical Assessment of American Liberalism and Japanese Modernity (Edward Elgar, 2010). This book is available at a 50% discount if you inform the publisher about your ANJeL membership: see attached flier and http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/Bookentry_Main.lasso?id=13711.

ANJeL-in-ASEAN Program Convenor, Dan Puchniak, has organised a panel involving ANJeL members focused mainly on Japanese corporate governance for the Asian Law Institute (ASLI) conference in Kuala Lumpur on 25-6 May: see http://law.nus.edu.sg/asli/7th_asli_conf/feature.html.

Kobe University IP Law Professor Ryo Shimanami is an ANJeL Research Visitor until February 2010 at USydney. Waseda Law School Professor Satoshi Kurokawa is an ANJeL Research Visitor at ANU until March 2011, researching climate change law.

ANJeL Co-directors, and former ANJeL Visitors David Johnson and Makoto Ibusuki, will provide a Report on Japan for a five-country comparison of judicial sector reforms as part of a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) project for the government of Vietnam. The project is being coordinated through USydney’s Research Institute for the Asia-Pacific (RIAP).

ANJeL will offer its second Australian Japanese Business Law Update CLE Seminar, at the Ernst & Young office in Tokyo on 13 February 2010 (2-5.30pm). It will survey some important developments in financial markets in both countries, and various implications of the revised Australia-Japan double tax treaty. Find out more

ANJeL is pleased to announce that Adrian Wong (ANU) has won the nation-wide 2009 ANJeL Blake Dawson Essay Prize in Japanese Law, writing on the impact of Japan's 2004 amendments to the Administrative Case Litigation Act. Find out more

The Kyoto and Tokyo Seminar intensive courses in Japanese Law will be offered over 8-18 February 2010. The quota for LLB and postgraduate students seeking USydney course credit is now basically full. See also http://www.kyoto-seminar.jp/

ANJeL will coordinate two Panels comparing judicial reform initiatives in Japan at the inaugural East Asian Law and Society Conference, at the University of Hong Kong over 5-6 February 2010. Find out more

Membership and Newsletters

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) and Luke Nottage (USyd). They are assisted by an Executive Coordinator, two 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: 09 February 2010