"Another" Critical Legal Studies: Its Method and Vision

• Project/Area Number: 26780004
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Fundamental law
• Research Institution: Okayama University
• Principal Investigator: Agatsuma Satoshi 岡山大学, 社会文化科学研究科, 准教授 (60437564)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
• Keywords: ロベルト・アンガー / 批判法学制度派 / 制度の不確定性 / 制度としての法 / 制度構想としての法的思考 / 批判法学 / 制度学派 / 法律学方法論 / 障害法学 / アメリカ法理論 / 障害学 / 差別禁止法理

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project is an attempt to elaborate Professor Roberto Unger's institutionalist approach to Critical Legal Studies and to encourage its collaborative work with other progressive tendencies in contemporary legal thought such as Disability Legal Studies, Democratic Experimentalism and others. It argues that Unger's Critical Legal Studies is the most transformative approach to law and society but at the same time Ungerian larger project has to learn more concrete and feasible insights from those "grassroots" or "civil society" oriented socio-legal studies. What we need today is not fights among/against the schools of legal thought but collaborative fights of a variety of schools against the larger social structure itself.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 批判法学制度派の研究プログラム: Roberto Ungerは法をどのようなものとして視るのか (2017)
  • Author(s): 吾妻 聡
  • Journal Title: 法社会学 Volume: 83 Pages: 85-98
• [Journal Article] 「もう一つの」批判法学による法教育―提案と趣旨の説明― (2016)
  • Author(s): 吾妻 聡
  • Journal Title: 岡山大学法学会雑誌 Volume: 65 Pages: 1078-1128
  • Open Access
• [Journal Article] Roberto Ungerの批判法学批判―『批判法学運動』における形式主義批判・客観主義批判についての覚書― (2015)
  • Author(s): 吾妻 聡
  • Journal Title: 岡山大学法学会雑誌 Volume: 65 Pages: 211-284
  • NAID: 120005688917
  • Open Access
• [Presentation] Roberto Ungerの法社会理論 (2016)
  • Author(s): 吾妻 聡
  • Organizer: 法社会学会
  • Place of Presentation: 立命館大学朱雀キャンパス（京都市）
  • Year and Date: 2016-05-28
• [Presentation] Roberto Ungerにおける法社会理論 (2016)
  • Author(s): 吾妻 聡
  • Organizer: 日本法社会学会
  • Place of Presentation: 立命館大学朱雀キャンパス
  • Year and Date: 2016-05-27
• [Book] 新入生のためのリーガル・トピック５０（吾妻 聡「障害者に対して公正な配慮ある社会を」） (2016)
  • Author(s): 阿部昌樹・和田仁考 他 編著
  • Total Pages: 147
  • Publisher: 法律文化社