2013 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Global Legal Education: Japan as a New Model?
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25885045
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
イザベル ジロドウ 名古屋大学, 法学(政治学)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (70713072)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-08-30 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | New Fields of Law |
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| Research Abstract |
First Research Trip : Vietnam, visit of the Center for Japanese Law Education and Research Center, Faculty of Law, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (1-3 November 2013), interviews with the Director of the Center, and two Japanese Law teachers; attend to one day teaching (3 classes).
Second Research Trip: I took the opportunity of the Leading Program Overseas Promotion Trip to make contact with a number of law professors teaching at universities that develop innovative programs in legal education; I visit and had several interviews with law teachers and legal scholars at Versailles-Saint-Quentin University (Versailles, France), Paris Sciences-Po School of Law (Paris, France), Lyon III University (Lyon, France), Maastricht University (Maastricht, Netherlands), and 2 universities in Brussels, Belgium (Saint-Louis University, and Université Libre de Bruxelles).
I made 2 oral presentations on my research : a preliminary one at Nagoya University, during a conference organized by CALE (Center for Asian Legal Exchange), summer school 2013; and another one at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, during a research seminar organized by the Center Perelman of Philosophy of Law (2014, March 25).
I published a "working paper" (on line: http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00918673) and a first peer reviewed article is forthcoming (to be published in May 2014 in Revue Interdisciplinaire d'Études Juridiques; see the web site of this academic review: http://www.usaintlouis.be/publications/332.html).
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
I feel the necessity of investigating two research fields in order to compare the transformations of legal education in Japan with both some developments in Asia (in particular Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, but also Singapore) as well as in Europe (France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, England). So far, I could go only to Vietnam and I concentrated on European countries such as France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. I would like to continue to investigate other Asian (Cambodia, Singapore) and European countries (in particular England, Switzerland and Luxembourg). I would like also to examine further some innovations in Canada (the so-called "transsystemic approach" to legal education), but I am afraid I will not have sufficient time and resources to go to Quebec (McGill University). That is why I decided instead to focus on how some European countries (notably Luxembourg) have borrowed from Canada and adapted the transsystemic approach.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
I am planning to go in June to Europe to get more information on some innovations adopted in the field of legal education. I will focus on three approaches : the problem-solving approach, the case-studies approach, and the "transsystemic approach" as further developed in particular in Switzerland (Geneva University) and in Luxembourg (Luxembourg University). I will have additional interviews. I will probably give a presentation in Geneva University on my research (to be confirmed in May). Then, I will examine how such initiatives relate to some innovations adopted in Japan in relation with the so-called "internationalization" of legal education and the efforts developed in Japan to better connect theory and practice in legal education. On this basis, I am planning to write a second article (in French), to be finalized at the end of September. The first article I have already written, and the second article in progress, will form the basis for an article in Japanese written with a Law Faculty member from Nagoya University.
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