学術国際会議派遣報告(ダニエル・ローゼン教授)
本学法務研究科 ダニエル・ローゼン教授が「全米ロースクール協会年次総会」に参加いたしました。以下、学術国際会議派遣の報告をいたします。
【会議名】全米ロースクール協会年次総会
(Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting)
【主催機関名】全米ロースクール協会
(Association of American Law Schools)
【開催地】ニューオーリンズ(アメリカ)
【テーマ】
“Transformative Law”
【内容】
The Association of American Law Schools annual meeting brings together faculty members from law schools in the United States and around the world. The activities include discussion of substantive law matters as well as developments in legal education. In my capacity as the representative of Chuo Law School, I participated in the meeting January 7-11, held in New Orleans, Louisiana.
At the session of the Section on Comparative Law, co-sponsored by the Sections International Legal Exchange and Post-Graduate Legal Education, we discussed the theme "The Role of Law Schools and Law School Leadership in a Changing World." During the open discussion, I was asked to provide some comments on the law school system in Japan and its relationship to admission to the practice of law. The session revealed a wide range of approaches to legal education around the world. By participating in this session, I was able to provide the other people in attendance with some sense of the Japanese model, and I was able to bring back to Japan ideas from elsewhere that might be incorporated in our own approach.
Another event at the AALS is particularly designed to bring together law professors from countries other than the U.S. I attended the "Reception for Foreign Law Teachers" and held a discussion with the President Emeritus of the International Association of Law Schools (IALS). At present, the IALS includes no member schools from Japan. The President Emeritus was quite keen on Chuo becoming the first Japanese member, and we discussed the details of how that could happen.
I also met with the Dean of a law school in Australia who is active in the IALS. He, too, urged me–as Chuo's representative to the AALS?to convince the university to join the IALS. Upon returning to Japan, I began consultations to try to bring that about.
Another of the sessions at the AALS was entitled "International Cooperation to Create Opportunities for Students. " This is an important aspect of our work at Chuo Law School, and the session allowed me to understand some ways in which we might advance this mission.