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Research for development of and education for legal mind

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15530002
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

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

Principal Investigator

SHIMAZU Itaru  Chiba University, School of Law, Professor, 大学院・専門法務研究科, 教授 (60170932)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) FUJII Toshio  Chiba University, Department of Pedagogy, Professor, 教育学部, 教授 (50110276)
TODA Yoshiharu  Chiba University, Department of Pedagogy, Associate Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (50207586)
Project Period (FY) 2003 – 2004
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2004)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
KeywordsJapanese mixed-jury system / education for discussing justice / sense of justice / judging the state / 法学教育 / 法学的マインド / 国民教育 / 法の概念 / 法=権利 / 平等 / 実技教育 / ノウ・ハウ
Research Abstract

We organized a series of experimental education in cooperation with the teachers in Chiba Minami High School, and Junior High and Elementary Schools both attached to Chiba University. Our purpose was to give an opportunity for pupils in primary and secondary education to have some basic experience of performing judiciary and justice. This was the third phase of our research which had started in 2001. We chose as our material the Kaiware Case in which the state of Japan was sued for negligence in releasing the information concerning the cause of mass-infection. The plaintiffs were the farmers of Kaiware radish from all over Japan who suffered from the announcement by the Ministry of Health that Kaiware radish served in elementary school lunch in the city of Sakai was the suspect for the mass infection of O-157 colitis which caused the death of 3 children and diarrhea of thousands.
We spent the year of 2003 preparing materials ; editing the court-decisions, interviewing attorneys of both … More parties etc. In 2004 we run the classes in the schools mentioned above. After given basic facts, pupils were divided into the groups of 6 each and discussed for the right decision.
We find the result rather satisfactory. The pupils of every school became fascinated in discussing in search of justice. We asked them to apply their own sense of justice first and see if the results were the same among the members of the group. Then they were expected to try to reach some consensus by either persuading or being persuaded by others.
Our final goal is to see if Japanese society can be rearranged so that people's sense of justice plays a greater roll than present. That goal is ambitious and a bit remote. But for the time being our experiment, we believe, was a success. In the publication of the result of our research we included the materials we had used, which teachers in different levels of school can use for the purpose of instructing people, adult and junior, for the new Japanese mixed-jury system which will start in 2008. Less

Report

(3 results)
  • 2004 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2003 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All 2005 2004 2003 Other

All Journal Article (8 results) Publications (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Legal Mind as Faculty for the Citizens of Liberal State2005

    • Author(s)
      Shimazu, Itaru
    • Journal Title

      Archiev fuer Rechts - und Sozialphilosphie Beiheft Nr.97

      Pages: 55-60

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Proceedings of the 21st IVR World Congress, Lund(Sweden), 12-17 August 20032005

    • Author(s)
      States, Svein Eng ed.
    • Journal Title

      Rechts-und Sozialphilosophie Beiheft(Franz, Steiner Verlag) Nr.97

      Pages: 55-60

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Legal Mind as Basic Faculty for the Citizens of Liberal State2005

    • Author(s)
      Itaru Shimazu
    • Journal Title

      Archiv fuer Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, Beiheft Nr.97

      Pages: 55-60

    • NAID

      120007086333

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 国民への法学教育2004

    • Author(s)
      嶋津 格
    • Journal Title

      ジュリスト 1266号

      Pages: 43-49

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report 2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Law Education for the People2004

    • Author(s)
      Shimazu, Itaru
    • Journal Title

      Jurist vol.1266

      Pages: 43-49

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 正義論の経緯と現状2003

    • Author(s)
      嶋津 格
    • Journal Title

      自由と正義 54巻11号

      Pages: 14-24

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Theories of Justice ; past and present2003

    • Author(s)
      Shimazu, Itaru
    • Journal Title

      Freedom and Justice (Jiyu To Seigi) Vol.54-11

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Legal Mind as Basic Faculty for the Citizens of Liberal

    • Author(s)
      Shimazu, Itaru
    • Journal Title

      Part II : Law and Practice(Archiv fuer)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 嶋津 格: "国民への法学教育--小中学校での実験授業など"ジュリスト. 2004年4月15日号. (2004)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2003-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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