Lessons drawn from the Minamata Disease cases and principles of environmental law and public policy

• Project/Area Number: 21510040
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Environmental impact assessment/Environmental policy
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: KABASHIMA Hiroshi 東北大学, 大学院・法学研究科, 教授 (00329905)
• Project Period (FY): 2009 – 2011
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2011)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
• Keywords: 環境影響評価・環境政策 / 環境理念 / 環境法 / 公害 / 水俣病 / 環境倫理

Research Abstract

Concerned with the lessons drawn from the Minamata Disease cases the main outcome is the clarification of the institutional mechanism why the Minamata cases could not be resolved adequately in favor of victims through the civil and public law litigations. This dysfunction of legal system can be identified also in the current Fukushima meltdown cases. Theoretical achievement consists in founding the notion of"social costs" according to K. W. Kapp in terms of the global warming and environmental preservation.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Settlement in pollution cases-contribution to the dispute resolution of the Fukushima nuclear power plant's melt down (2012)
  • Author(s): KABASHIMA Hiroshi
  • Journal Title: GEMC journal Volume: 6 Pages: 14-25
• [Journal Article] 国・自治体の責務とその限界 (2011)
  • Author(s): 樺島博志
  • Journal Title: ジュリスト Volume: 1427 Pages: 9-14
• [Journal Article] 社会的費用, 成長の限界, 成長の権利-国際環境法への法哲学的アプローチ (2011)
  • Author(s): 樺島博志
  • Journal Title: GEMC Journal Volume: 5 Pages: 20-31
  • NAID: 40019066370
• [Journal Article] 法・倫理・計算-小林公『法哲学』 (2011)
  • Author(s): 樺島博志
  • Journal Title: 法哲学年報 Volume: 2010 Pages: 134-138
• [Journal Article] 社会的費用,成長の限界,成長の権利-国際環境法への法哲学的アプローチ (2011)
  • Author(s): 樺島博志
  • Journal Title: GEMC Journal Volume: No.5 Pages: 20-31
  • NAID: 40019066370
• [Journal Article] 法的思考と審査技術 (2011)
  • Author(s): 樺島博志
  • Journal Title: 法学 Volume: 74巻6号 Pages: 39-71
  • NAID: 40018749862
• [Journal Article] 要件事実論と法的思考モデル-法理学からの検討 (2010)
  • Author(s): 樺島博志
  • Journal Title: 法哲学年報2009 Volume: 2009 Pages: 155-156
• [Journal Article] 法的思考の基本構造-実体法と手続法の思考枠組 (2010)
  • Author(s): 樺島博志
  • Journal Title: 法律時報 Volume: 82巻11号 Pages: 80-84
• [Presentation] Settlement in pollution cases-contribution to the dispute resolution of the Fukushima nuclear power plant's melt down (2012)
  • Author(s): KABASHIMA Hiroshi
  • Organizer: 8th East Asian Conference on Philosophy of Law
  • Place of Presentation: NCCU Taipei, Taiwan
  • Year and Date: 2012-03-17
• [Presentation] Current issues in legal policy for recovery from the aftermath : one year after the 3.11. Tohoku earthquake and tsunami (2012)
  • Author(s): KABASHIMA Hiroshi
  • Organizer: Socio-legal Norms in Preventing and Managing Disasters in Japan : Asia-Pacific and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
  • Place of Presentation: Sydney Law School, Australia
  • Year and Date: 2012-03-01
• [Presentation] Reason of State and Political Romanticism-Carl Schmitt and the National Socialism related to the Japanese Fascism (2011)
  • Author(s): KABASHIMA Hiroshi
  • Organizer: Reason of State and State of Reason in the Global Era : History and Present
  • Place of Presentation: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  • Year and Date: 2011-12-04
• [Presentation] Settlement in pollution cases-contribution to the dispute resolution of the Fukushima nuclear power plant's melt down (2011)
  • Author(s): KABASHIMA Hiroshi
  • Organizer: Hagi Seminar 2011, Tohoku University Global COE, Workshop : Nature Catastrophe
  • Place of Presentation: Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2011-10-14
• [Presentation] Social Costs, limits to growth, right to growth : approaching global environment oriented to philosophy of law (2011)
  • Author(s): KABASHIMA Hiroshi
  • Organizer: 25th IVR World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
  • Place of Presentation: Frankfurt am Main
  • Year and Date: 2011-08-19
• [Presentation] Social Costs, limits to growth, right to growth : approaching global environment oriented to philosophy of law (2011)
  • Author(s): KABASHIMA Hiroshi
  • Organizer: 25th IVR World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
  • Place of Presentation: Frankfurt am Main, BRD
  • Year and Date: 2011-08-19
• [Presentation] 社会的費用, 成長の限界, 成長の権利」 (2011)
  • Author(s): 樺島博志
  • Organizer: 環境法政策学会2011年度第15回学術大会第4分科会
  • Place of Presentation: 国学院大学
  • Year and Date: 2011-06-19
• [Presentation] 社会的費用,成長の限界,成長の権利 (2011)
  • Author(s): 樺島博志
  • Organizer: 環境法政策学会2011年度第15回学術大会第4分科会
  • Place of Presentation: 国学院大学
  • Year and Date: 2011-06-19
• [Presentation] Note for an international network of the legal education-a brief report on the present situation and the task at a Japanese law school (2011)
  • Author(s): KABASHIMA Hiroshi
  • Organizer: The Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Law Deans' Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  • Year and Date: 2011-04-22
• [Presentation] 社会成本, 増長的. 権与増長的権利-国際環境法的法哲学思考 (2010)
  • Author(s): 樺島博志
  • Organizer: 全球治理与国際法治, 国際学術検討会
  • Place of Presentation: 吉林大学理論法学研究中心
  • Year and Date: 2010-07-31
• [Presentation] 社会成本,増長的扱権与増長的権利-国際環境法的法哲学思考 (2010)
  • Author(s): 樺島博志
  • Organizer: 中国(吉林大学理論法学研究中心)
  • Place of Presentation: 全球治理与国際法治,国際学術検討会
  • Year and Date: 2010-07-31
• [Presentation] 坂東克彦資料から見た新潟水俣病, 聞き手 (2010)
  • Author(s): 樺島博志
  • Organizer: 新潟水俣病発生公式確認45年企画「資料でたどる新潟水俣病-坂東克彦弁護士史料より」
  • Place of Presentation: 新潟県立環境と人間のふれあい館
  • Year and Date: 2010-07-04
• [Presentation] 坂東克彦資料から見た新潟水俣病,聞き手 (2010)
  • Author(s): 樺島博志
  • Organizer: 新潟水俣病発生公式確認45年企画「資料でたどる新潟水俣病-坂東克彦弁護士史料より」
  • Place of Presentation: 新潟県立環境と人間のふれあい館
  • Year and Date: 2010-07-04
• [Presentation] 現代型訴訟の特質と限界-水俣病事件をてがかりに (2010)
  • Author(s): 樺島博志
  • Organizer: 学術創成研究「ポスト構造改革における市場と社会の新たな秩序形成」平成21年度第8回エンフォースメント部会研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 京都大学法学部, 法経北館3階, 第13演習室
  • Year and Date: 2010-02-27
• [Presentation] 現代型訴訟の特質と限界-水俣病事件をてがかりに (2010)
  • Author(s): 樺島博志
  • Organizer: 学術創成研究「ポスト構造改革における市場と社会の新たな秩序形成」平成21年度第8回エンフォースメント部会研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 京都
  • Year and Date: 2010-02-27
• [Presentation] 趣旨説明:要件事実論と審査・起案技術-法理学からの検討 (2009)
  • Author(s): 樺島博志
  • Organizer: 2009年度日本法哲学会学術大会BワークショップB-2
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪
  • Year and Date: 2009-11-14
• [Presentation] Thinking about Provisions against the Failure of Law-A Study on Minamata Cases in Public Law Litigation in Japan (2009)
  • Author(s): KABASHIMA, Hiroshi
  • Organizer: IVR 24th World Congress (Beijing), Working Group 9 Constitution and Rule of Law
  • Place of Presentation: 北京, 友誼賓館
  • Year and Date: 2009-09-19
• [Presentation] Thinking about Provisions against the Faiure of Law-A Study on Minamata Cases in Public Law Litigation in Japan (2009)
  • Author(s): 樺島博志
  • Organizer: IVR 24th World Congress(Beijing), Working Group 9 "Constitution and Rule of Law
  • Place of Presentation: 中国,北京,友誼賓館
  • Year and Date: 2009-09-19
• [Presentation] Kyoto School and the World War II (2009)
  • Author(s): 樺島博志
  • Organizer: Justice-Theory and Practice(正義理論及其実践)
  • Place of Presentation: 台湾,台北,国立台湾大学法律学院
  • Year and Date: 2009-05-26
• [Book] Gerechtigkeit-Theohe und Praxis (2011)
  • Author(s): Shing-I Liu, Ulfhd Neumann(hrsg.)
  • Total Pages: 250
  • Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
• [Book] 『各国憲法の統合と差異』初宿正典先生還暦記念論文集 (2010)
  • Author(s): 大石眞, 土井真一, 毛利透, 服部高宏
  • Publisher: 成文堂
• [Book] 各国憲法の差異と接点-初宿正典先生還暦記念論文集 (2010)
  • Author(s): 大石眞, 土井真一, 毛利透編
  • Total Pages: 720
  • Publisher: 成文堂
• [Book] 『各国憲法の統合と差異』初宿正典先生還暦記念論文集樺島博志「現代型訴訟としての水俣病事件」 (2010)
  • Author(s): 大石眞, 土井真一, 毛利透, 服部高宏(編著)
  • Publisher: 成文堂(印刷中)
• [Book] 『全球化背景下東亜的法治与和諧』司法. 判中公害問題的解決及其限界 (2009)
  • Author(s): 張文顕, 徐顕明
  • Publisher: 山東人民出版社