2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Comprehensive Framework for the Building of a Legal System (2) Current Situation and Agenda of Judicial Reform
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13123206
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Review Section |
Humanities and Social Sciences
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
KAINO Michiatsu Waseda University, Graduate School of Law, Professor, 大学院法学研究科, 教授 (00013011)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KURUMISAWA Yoshiki Waseda University, Graduate School of Law, Professor, 大学院法学研究科, 教授 (40139499)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2005
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| Keywords | Study of Legal Assistance / Globalization / Transportation of regime / Market Economy / Land ownership |
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| Research Abstract |
In recent years, Asian countries that are in the process of shifting from the socialist system to the market economy system are seeking human resources and knowledge-based assistance from foreign countries, particularly Japan, in order to build up a new legal infrastructure responsive to the move to marketization. Japanese government has started its legal assistance programs for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, etc, since 1996. However, in the course of implementing these programs, some fundamental questions emerged. Among them are questions asking what the philosophy of legal assistance is and what areas of law should be the targets for providing assistance. In this priority area research, academic reviews of the ongoing legal assistance activities in the field are conducted with a view to constructing a new discipline on legal assistance studies. The research group organized joint research with academic institutions in these Asian countries, international conferences and field research, etc, in order to examine the current state of and challenges to the reform of the judicial and legal systems in those Asian transitional countries, by targeting the issue of land use and privatization. Findings and outcomes of the research are published in the form of a report on "Legal Assistance and Marketization (Land and Land Use)" (Kaino Michiatsu, Matsumoto Tsuneo, Kurumisawa Yoshiki, eds). This report helps clarify the current situation and agenda of legal issues surrounding land use in Vietnam and China. We expect that further research will be conducted on the basis of these achievements.
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