International Workshop in Kyoto 2025

Date: 1-2 March 2025

Language: English

Venue: Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus, Soshikan Conference Room

Organizer: Institute for Legal Systems in Comparative Law at Ritsumeikan University

Law Faculty of Ritsumeikan University

Co-Organizer: Konrad-Adenauer Foundation (Regional Programme Political Dialogue Asia)

Preliminary Programme

March 1st 2025

09:00 Opening Ceremony

09:20 Session1 “The Constitutional Limits on Application of AI in the Judicial Practice”

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Tzong-li Hsu, Former President of the Judicial Yuan

10:45 Session 2 “AI tools for the Judiciary and the European AI Act”

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Georg Borges, Saarland University

13:30 Session 3 “Towards E-justice? A Case for Electronic Submission of Third-Party Interventions before the European Court of Human Rights”

Speaker: Dr. Cathérine Van de Graaf, University of Cologne

14:15 Session 4 “National and EU reflections on E-Justice”

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ian Stewart Forrester, QC, Former Judge at the General Court of the European Union

16:00 Session 5 “Anti-rights Mobilisation and Misinformation in the digital Age”

Speaker: Dr Ivo Gruev, University of Cologne

17:15 Session 6 “The Dutch preliminary ruling procedure”

Speaker: Prof. Bart Krans, Leiden University


March 2nd 2025

09:00 Session 7 “Justice, Consumer Protection, Corporate Social Responsibility”

Speaker: Prof. Antonios Karaiskos, Ryukoku University

10:15 Session 8 “UNIDROIT Principles and Digitalization”

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Rolf Stürner, Freiburg University

11:15 Lunchen Meeting: Special Presentation by Yasuhiro Fujioka on the title of Separate:

“John Coltrane was close to Malcom X rather than Martin Luther King Jr. during Civil Rights Movement”

13:00 Session 9 “The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Judicial Decision Making”

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Philipp M. Reuß , Göttingen University

14:00 Session 10 “E-Justice in Insolvency Law”

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lüke, Former Judge at Dresden High Court, Faculty of Law, University of Leipzig.

15:15 Session 10 “E-Justice in International Civil Procedure Law”

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hau, Faculty of Law, University of Munich

16:15 Session 11 “E-Justice in Enforcement Law”

Speaker: Professor Dr. Christian Gomille, Faculty of Law, Saarland University, Judge at the Saarland High Court

17:15 Closing Remarks


Registration

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