ANJeL Visiting Academics Scheme

 

ANJeL welcomes applications from researchers from Japan and elsewhere interested in visiting Australia to pursue their research. ANJeL will supplement any other funding available to the researcher; provide the researcher with access to law libraries and other research facilities at ANU, UNSW and USydney; and facilitate meetings with experts in the researcher's area of interest. The level of funding support will be based on economic need and the nature of the proposed research program.

 

To apply, please email anjelinfo@gmail.com with the following information:

• your name and affiliation;
• preferred dates to visit Australia;
• outline of your research project or research goals;
• your curriculum vitae;
• any other funding sources.

For more information, please email any of the Directors.

 

ANJeL Visiting Academic for 2009

 

Professor Toshifumi Sowa teaches administrative and environmental law subjects at Kwansei Gakuin University Law School. His recent Japanese language publications include Toshifumi Sowa et al. (eds.), (2007) “Legal Control of Urban Development and the Environment” (Nihon Hyoronsha) and Toshifumi Sowa, Hiroshi Yamada and Tadasu Watari, (2007) “An Introduction to Administrative Law” (Yuhikaku). Professor Sowa’s interest is in Anglo-American administrative law. He will visit the University of Sydney Law School for several weeks during the course of 2009 to conduct research on comparative judicial review as part of a sabbatical year in New Zealand.

 

ANJeL Visiting Academic for 2008

 

Ryuichiro Fukasawa is Associate Professor of Administrative Law at Kyoto University. He has mainly studied the legal control of administrative discretion with comparing Japanese law and English law. His published papers include “The Legal Nature of Administrative Policies and raison d'être of Administrative Discretion” in Minshoho-Zasshi (2003), “The Constitutional Foundations of Judicial Review in England: A Reconciliation of the Sovereignty of Parliament and the Rule of Law” in Kyoto Law Review (2003) and “A Comment on Denis James Galligan’s Theory of Administrative Discretion” in Kyoto Law Review (2006) (all in Japanese). He was Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK between March 2007 and March 2008. His current interest lies in administrative rule-making, administrative review and judicial review based on human rights. He will conduct research on Australian administrative law, in particular the apparatus and function of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, at the University of Sydney between April 2008 and September 2008.

 

ANJeL Visiting Academic for 2007

 

Professor Makoto Ibusuki, leading scholar in criminal procedure and cyber-law as well as a strong ANJeL supporter, spent his sabbatical at University of Sydney and UNSW from October 2007 until March 2008. Professor Ibusuki researched the video-taping of police interrogations at UNSW, guest lectured in the Japanese Law courses at ANU, and also assisted a large delegation of Kyoto lawyers who visited Sydney for intense study into how best to defend defendants in quasi-jury trials.

 

ANJeL Visiting Academics for 2006

 

Dr Harald Baum is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Japan Department at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law, Hamburg, Germany; Priv.Doz., University of Hamburg; Research Associate, European Corporate Governance Institute, Brussels, Belgium; Founding and Executive Editor: Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht / Journal of Japanese Law (ZJapanR, which ANJeL now collaborates in); and Vice-president, German-Japanese Lawyers Association (an ANJeL affiliate). Dr Baum is an expert in comparative commercial law, with numerous publications on business law, corporate governance, takeovers, and capital markets regulation in Germany, the EU, Japan, and the U.S., comparative law, and private international law. He spoke in Sydney, Wollongong, Canberra and Melbourne in late February/early March 2006.

 

Professor Colin Jones grew up in Canada, but attended International Christian University in Tokyo and graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1986 with a degree in Oriental Languages and Literature. After obtaining an LL.M. at Tohoku University in Sendai, he attended Duke Law School, graduating in 1993 with a J.D. and an LL.M. in international and comparative law. Colin practiced law for over 10 years in New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo focusing on corporate, finance and telecommunications law. He has worked at major U.S. firms as well as in-house. He is a member of the bars of New York and Guam, and recently passed the bar exam in Palau. Colin joined the faculty of Doshisha University Law School in April of 2005. There he teaches Anglo-American law. He has published scholarly and professional on a variety of subjects including Sarbanes-Oxley, Japanese banking and telecommunications law, as well as legal philosophy.

 

ANJeL Visiting Academics for 2005

 

Professor Meryll Dean is Head of the Law Department at Oxford Brookes University, England. She was previously Legal Assistant to the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities and held various academic posts at in the School of Legal Studies at Sussex University, England. Professor Dean has published one of the leading textbooks on Japanese law: The Japanese Legal System (London, Cavendish, 2002) and has written in the areas of Japanese public and constitutional law. Her most recent research has been on Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, the role of the Self- Defence Forces and the legality of their participating in international operations. The most recent published work on this is a Chapter "Renouncing Peace in a Time of War – Japan’s Constitutional Conundrum" in Paul Eden and Thérèse O'Donnell (eds), 11 September 2001: A Turning Point in International and Domestic Law? (Ardsley, New York, Transnational Publishers, 2005). In addition to this work, her current research is looking at asylum and immigration law in Japan and will also consider the issue of human trafficking. In December 2004 she gave a guest lecture at Waseda University entitled "Enforcing International Legal Norms: Asylum and Immigration in Japan and the United Kingdom". She visited Sydney around the week of the 23 February conference.

 

Souichirou Kozuka is Associate Professor of Law at Sophia University (Jochi Daigaku). He specialises in business law, including commercial transactions law, corporate law, banking regulation, and competition law. His recent works in English include "Carriage of Goods and Legal Uniformity in Asia-Pacific Region" in Uniform Law Review (2003-1/2), and "The Use of Stock Options as Defensive Measures: The Impact of the 2001 Amendments to the Corporate Law on Corporate Control in Japan" in 15 Zeitschrift fuer Japanisches Recht / Journal of Japanese Law (2003). He visited Sydney from 23-28 February to study research and education on Japanese Law in Australia, and to discuss further collaboration regarding the Journal of Japanese Law, of which he is now an Editorial Board member.

 

ANJeL Visiting Academics in 2003

 

Professor Setsuo Miyazawa was professor of law at Waseda University when he visited Australia, and a prominent criminologist and legal sociologist heavily involved in recent initiatives to reform Japan's judicial system. He visited Australia from 5 to 8 July to deliver a keynote address at the Japanese Studies Association of Australia Conference in Brisbane and to participate in a continuing legal education seminar on recent reforms to Japan's system of civil justice in Sydney.

Professor Miyazawa's research interests range from police and criminal justice, legal culture, corporate legal departments, and judicial administration, to legal aid and cause lawyering. Among numerous publications in Japanese and English are the prize-winning Policing in Japan (1992), and "Lawyering for the Underrepresented in the Context of Legal, Social, and National Institutions" in Louise G. Trubek & Jeremy Cooper (eds.), Educating for Justice Around the World (1999). He holds LL.B., LL.M., and LL.D. degrees from Hokkaido University and M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from Yale University. Before moving to Waseda University in October 2000, he taught at Hokkaido University in Sapporo (1979-83) and Kobe University (1983-2000) in Japan. He has held visiting teaching positions in the law schools of York University (Canada), the University of Washington, Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley, UCLA, and New York University.

From September 2003 he became Vice-President of Omiya Law School near Tokyo, newly founded with the support of the Second Tokyo Bar Association to provide postgraduate professional legal education from April 2004.

 

Professor David Johnson of the University of Hawaii visited Australia from 28 August to 9 September. The author of the acclaimed study The Japanese Way of Justice: Prosecuting Crime in Japan, Professor Johnson specialises in comparative criminal justice. On 8 September, Professor Johnson lead a roundtable discussion on comparative criminal justice at UNSW and later give a seminar on Japanese criminal justice at the University of Sydney. Prior to that, he was a Visting Fellow at the Australian National University Law Faculty where he gave a variety of seminars and met with researchers and graduate students.

 

Dr Makoto Ibusuki is professor of criminal procedure at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, and ANJeL's fourth Research Visitor for 2003. He is also a pioneer in cyberlaw research and teaching both in and outside of Japan, and a founding director of the Hojohogakkai (Association for Legal Informatics). He is a key member of a study group promoting IT issues in Japan's current wave of reforms to criminal and civil justice. In addition to an ANJeL seminar on Wednesday 26 November at the UNSW (where he talked about "The Ongoing (R)evolution of IT in Japanese Law and Judicial Reform in Japan ", Dr Ibusuki also presented a paper on "The Possibility of Translated Legal Databases for Asian Countries"at an AustLII conference co-hosted by UNSW and UTS. His further report on this issue can be found in the Committee for Judicial Reform and Advanced Technology (in Japanese).

 

 

Last updated: 15 August 2008