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1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Privatization of the State and Legitimacy of Law : A Sociological Studies on the Transformation of Current Law

Research Project

Project/Area Number 09620003
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Fundamental law
Research InstitutionNagoya University

Principal Investigator

KAINO Michiatsu  Nagoya University, Graduate School of Law, Professor, 大学院・法学研究科, 教授 (00013011)

Project Period (FY) 1997 – 1999
KeywordsPublicness / Civil Society / Privatization / Welfare State / Socio-Historical Study of law / Voluntary Association / Public Sphere
Research Abstract

Current societies undergo structural changes, and to understand the transformation of the structure of Japanese society and to describe comprehensive picture of it, our analysis begins not with the law but with everyday life. Law is not simply the reflection of social relations but is actually a complex of agencies and actors and the pluralities itself must be the field of analyses. And the notion of civil society in which polity and economy are distinct does not exist in Japan and the state is still main actor in the theatre of the transformation. On the other hand, it can be maintained that legal messages reflect social conflicts, and the structure of legal systems swings cyclically between openness and closure. In this context, law seems to be undergoing a process of both destructing and restructuring in our developed societies. It is by now commonplace to note that the decentralization authority are conscious activities. However, distrust of power re-emerges in variety of particular contexts the problems tied up with the exercise of power. In this context, the solution of law is now even more not so simple. Viewed from the perspective of a sociology of law, increasing stale intervention in both welfare and economic affairs, and the consequent erosion of the liberal separation between state and civil society, gradually undermine the relative generality and the autonomy that distinguish the legal order, and what is follow this is to make it impossible to maintain an objective and justified solution. The solution of law, which seemed to contain the problem of the unjustified exercise of the power, is no longer now even seen as doing so. Where we do go from here and what are the possibilities of any alternative conception? That choices can be made objective by people participating in and controlling decisions about them.

  • Research Products

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All Publications (14 results)

  • [Publications] 戒能通厚: "社会主義とブレア政権"法律時報. 69巻11号. 2-5 (1997)

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  • [Publications] 戒能通厚: "規制緩和・分権化の「構造的」文脈と都市法の論理"法律時報. 69巻4号. 6-12 (1997)

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  • [Publications] 戒能通厚: "行政改革の論理と構造-「強力国家」崩壊のパラドックス"法律時報. 70巻3号. 6-11 (1997)

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  • [Publications] 戒能通厚: "連帯の法社会学"法社会学(日本法社会学会). 50号. 2-8 (1998)

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  • [Publications] 戒能通厚: "共同性の法社会学"法社会学. 51号. 2-7 (1999)

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  • [Publications] 戒能通厚: "司法改革と法専門職"比較法研究(比較法学会). 61号(未定). (2000)

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  • [Publications] Michiatsu KAINO: "Socio-Legal Concepts of Property Rights in Town Development"J. W. Harris(ed.) Property Problems (Kulwer Law). 310 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Michiatsu, KAINO: "'Social' -ism and Blair's Government"Horitsu-Jiho. vol 69, No.11. 2-5 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Michiatsu, KAINO: "Structural Cnotext of Deregulation and Devolution and Logic of Urban Law"Horitsu-Jiho. vol 69, No.4. 6-12 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Michiatsu, KAINO: "Logic of Administrative Reform and Its Structure ; Paradox of Fall of "Strong State""Horitsu-Jiho. vol 70, No.3. 6-11 (1997)

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  • [Publications] Michiatsu, KAINO: "Sociological Study of Law on Solidarity"Sociology of Law. vol. 50. 2-8 (1998)

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  • [Publications] Michiatsu, KAINO: "Sociological Study of Law on Communality"Sociology of Law. vol. 51. 2-7 (1998)

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  • [Publications] Michiatsu, KAINO: "legal Profession and Judicial Reform"comparative Law Study. vol. 61 (forth coming).

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  • [Publications] Michiatsu, KAINO: "Socio-Legal Concepts of Property Rights in Town Planning"J. W Harris ed. Property Problems. 242-256

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Published: 2001-10-23  

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