Kyoto/Tokyo Seminar Program in Japanese Law
Kyoto seminar: 8-12 February 2010
Tokyo seminar: 15-18 February 2010
The Kyoto/Tokyo Seminar Program offers a unique opportunity to study Japanese Law in global and socio-economic context. The Program aims to develop the general skills of comparative lawyers, to effectively and critically assess contemporary developments in the Japanese legal system. It is jointly organised by Sydney Law School and Ritsumeikan University School of Law in collaboration with the Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL).
Classes are co-taught in English on an intensive basis by ANJeL co-directors and members, as well as Japanese professors or practitioners from Ritsumeikan or other universities and organisations. International students from Australia and beyond will join with law students from leading Japanese universities.
The Kyoto Seminar is held at Ritsumeikan University Law School in Kyoto and provides an introduction to how law operates in Japanese society. After an overview of comparative law techniques, Japanese legal history and its contemporary legal system, classes explore civil and criminal justice, consumer law, politics and constitutionalism, gender and law, and an introduction to business and law.
The Tokyo Seminar is held at Ritsumeikan University campus in Tokyo and examines business law topics in socio-economic context in more detail. After outlining developments in the Japanese economy, it focuses on corporate and securities law, investment and finance law, insolvency and labour law, ADR and lawyering.
Enrolment is available to undergraduate and postgraduate law students seeking to obtain credit for a tertiary award, and to students with appropriate tertiary education qualifications who are seeking to enrol for non-degree purposes.
Applications open on Monday 14 September 2009 and close on Friday 9 October 2009.
Please note that the 'Information for students' PDF is for University of Sydney and cross-institutional students seeking to enrol for academic credit (or for non-degree purposes) through the University of Sydney only. All other students should apply directly to Ritsumeikan University School of Law at www.kyoto-seminar.jp.