2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Comprehensive Research and Practical Development of Teaching Methodologies for Professional Law Schools
| Project/Area Number |
15330022
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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 |
New fields of law
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| Research Institution | Kobe University |
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Principal Investigator |
ISOMURA Tamotsu Kobe University, Graduate School of Law, Professor, 大学院・法学研究科, 教授 (00030635)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
AKASAKA Masahiro Kobe University, Graduate School of Law, Professor, 大学院・法学研究科, 教授 (80167816)
SAITO Akira Kobe University, Graduate School of Law, Professor, 大学院・法学研究科, 教授 (80205632)
NAKAGAWA Takehisa Kobe University, Graduate School of Law, Professor, 大学院・法学研究科, 教授 (10252751)
MAIYA Kiyoshi Kobe University, Institute for Promotion of Higher Education, Professor, 大学教育推進機構, 教授 (70157121)
HAMAMOTO Shotaro Kobe University, Graduate School of Law, Associate Professor, 大学院・法学研究科, 助教授 (50324900)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2005
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| Keywords | Law School / Legal Education / Student Evaluation |
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| Research Abstract |
We first tried to create a coherent system of student evaluation. The introduction of the student evaluation is rather a recent phenomenon in Japanese universities as far as law departments are concerned, and it is prepared and carried out, usually, by law professors, who are not specialists in the field. It is therefore absolutely necessary to get specialists involved, particularly those who specialize in sociology and psychology. We have organised a series of student evaluation with the help of a sociologist and a psychologist, the result of which is detailed in the final report.
In professional law schools, traditional "lecture"-style classes, where a professor speaks from the platform and students do nothing but listen to him/her, are almost non-existent. We therefore tried to develop a new type of textbooks, which are adapted to particular types of teaching methodologies employed in the classrooms of professional law schools. We have published several such textbooks (listed below), and unpublished teaching materials specially developed for professional law schools are partly reprinted in the final report.
We have also conducted several surveys for the purpose of understanding professors' and students' perception of teaching methodologies, the result of which is also detailed in the final report.
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