2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Positive analysis of the legal and political policy-making process of the European integration
| Project/Area Number |
13420003
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Fundamental law
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| Research Institution | THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, FACULTY OF LAW |
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Principal Investigator |
ITO Yoichi The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law, Professor, 大学院・法学政治学研究科, 教授 (50201934)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
FUJIWARA Kiichi The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law, Professor, 大学院・法学政治学研究科, 教授 (90173484)
YAMASHITA Tomonobu The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law, Professor, 大学院・法学政治学研究科, 教授 (10107485)
TAKAHASHI Susumu The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law, Professor, 大学院・法学政治学研究科, 教授 (40009840)
NAKAMURA Tamio The University of Tokyo, Institute of Social sciences, Associate Professor, 社会科学研究所, 助教授 (90237412)
NAKAYAMA Yohei The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law, Associate Professor, 大学院・法学政治学研究科, 助教授 (90242065)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2002
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| Keywords | EUROPEAN INTEGRATION / EC LAW / EU / EUROPE AN UNION / EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES / EU POLITICS |
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| Research Abstract |
After the completion of the European internal market in 1992, it is time for enlargement of the European Union. We confront the constant evolution of the European construction. In such an era, a more dynamic elaboration of schemes for new challenges is an absolute necessity for the enlarged Union. So a more dynamic and interdisciplinary approach should be taken for studies of the European integration. That is why we tried to assemble a interdisciplinary team of specialists, more precisely, specialists of legal and political sciences.
Our research aimed at promotion of understanding in the highly complex process of the European integration by law. For this purpose, we adopted a two-level approach to the subject. On the one hand, we tried to illustrate the complex interaction between the European and national levels. On the other hand, we tried to analyze EC law in the context of arrangement of different policy-making process such as the problem of serious conflicts between the company law and the labor law.
It was stimulating for us, a little bit heterogeneous team, to discuss these issues in turns because, in the course of our research, we discovered gradually divergence of images of the European integration depending on disciplines. Our exchange of views revealed mat, in a sense, we all had a somewhat biased image of it. Some of comments made by political scientists during the discussion were very revealing for jurists, and vice versa. Here is one of the most valuable points of our interdisciplinary research.
It is safely submitted mat studies of Community law will have more importance in the near future. The Convention on the future of the Union will submit its draft Constitution in June. It is thus essential to continue following the evolutions of the European integration.
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