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2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Antinomy Between Commercialization Process of Lawyer System and Professionalism of Lawyers: On Public Aspect of Lawyer System

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 25380137
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field New fields of law
Research InstitutionChuo University

Principal Investigator

YAMADA Yachiko  中央大学, 法務研究科, 教授 (90230490)

Research Collaborator STEEL Stacy  
RISE Simon  
WATOSON Andrew  
Project Period (FY) 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Keywords法曹の市場化 / 弁護士自治 / 法曹倫理 / 法的三段論法 / ABS / 法曹の公共性
Outline of Final Research Achievements

In 1999 the legal system reform started in Japan. The creation of graduate law school intended to increase both the size and capabilities of the legal profession. The number of legal profession drastically increase. Thus that would introduce the principle of competition for lawyers system in fact. Although the decrease of number of bar examination passer put a brake on the increase of lawyer, the commercialization of lawyer system would be partly realized in term of expansion of the sphere of legal profession activities
However from the perspective of comparative study Japanese society seems to have high expectation for public nature of legal profession in Japan. Therefore the commercialization should be compatible with the public nature of legal profession. Thus we should consider as following points; integration between theory and practice in legal education system, domain of bar association autonomy and the marginal.

Free Research Field

基礎法学

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Published: 2018-03-22  

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