Last Lecture of Prof. Dr. Masahisa Deguchi

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

Ms. Akiko Hatsuda (Flute)  

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Masahisa Deguchi, Ritsumeikan University (Japan)

09:10 Speaker: Dean Prof. Dr. Masaharu Miyawaki, Ritsumeikan University (Japan)

              Director Stefan Samse, Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Germany)

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

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Tzong-li Hsu, National Taiwan University, Former President of the Judicial Yuan (Taiwan)

Moderator: Prof. Kimio Yakushiji, Ritsumeikan University (Japan)

10:00 Comment & Discussion

Prof. Dr. Masato Ichikawa, Ritsumeikan University (Japan)

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lüke, University of Leipzig (Germany)

10:55 Session 2 AI tools for the Judiciary and the European AI Act

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Georg Borges, Saarland University (Germany)

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Go Murakami, Ritsumeikan University (Japan)

11:25 Comment & Discussion

Prof. Dr. Omi Hatashin, Yasuda Jyoshi University (Japan)

Goya Kobayashi: Counselor, Council for Digital Administration and Fiscal Reforms, Cabinet Secretariat

14:30 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 (Belgium)

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Philipp M. Reuß (Germany)

15:00 Comment & Discussion:

Ass. Prof. Dr. Rieko Kitamura, Ritsumeikan University (Japan)

Prof. Dr. In-chin Chen, Central University (Taiwan)

16:00 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 (UK)

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Kuan-Ling Shen, Faculty of Law, National Taiwan University (Taiwan)

16:30 Comment & Discussion:

Prof. Antonios Karaiskos, Ryukoku University (Japan)

Dr. Cathérine Van de Graaf, University of Cologne (Belgium)

17:15 Session 5 Anti-rights Mobilisation and Misinformation in the digital Age

Speaker: Dr Ivo Gruev, University of Cologne

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Walter Rechberger, Vienna University

17:45 Comment & Discussion:

Prof. Go Murakami, Ritsumeikan University (Japan)

Prof. Dr. In-chin Chen, Central University (Taiwan)

March 2nd 2025

09:00 Session 6 The Dutch preliminary ruling procedure

Speaker: Prof. Bart Krans, Leiden University (Netherlands)

Moderator: Dr Ivo Gruev, University of Cologne (Bulgaria) 

09:30 Comment & Discussion:

Miyako Ikuta, Attorney at Law, Kitahama Partners (Japan)

Professor Dr. Christian Gomille, Saarland University (Germany)

10:15 Session 7 E-Justice, Consumer Protection, Corporate Social Responsibility

Speaker: Prof. Antonios Karaiskos, Ryukoku University (Germany)

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Koji Takahashi, Doshisha University (Japan)

10:45 Comment & Discussion:

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hau, University of Munich (Germany)

Miyako Ikuta, Attorney at Law, Kitahama Partners (Japan)

11:30 Session 8 E-Justice in Enforcement Law

Speaker: Professor Dr. Christian Gomille, Saarland University (Germany)

Moderator: Ass. Prof. Maiko Miyashita, Surugadai University (Japan)

12:00 Comment & Discussion:

Prof. Dr. Zhixun Cao, Peking University (China)

Prof. Dr. Omi Hatashin, Yasuda Jyoshi University (Japan)

12:30 Lunchen Meeting: Special Presentation by Yasuhiro Fujiok (Japan) on the title of Separate: “John Coltrane was close to Malcom X rather than Martin Luther King Jr. during Civil Rights Movement”

14:30 Session 9 E-Justice in Insolvency Law

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lüke, University of Leipzig (Germany)

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Zhixun Cao, Peking University (China)

15:00 Comment & Discussion:

Prof. Moon-Hyuck Ho, Seoul National University (Korea)

Ass. Prof. Maiko Miyashita, Surugadai University (Japan)

15:45 Session 10 E-Justice in International Civil Procedure Law

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hau, University of Munich (Germany)

Moderator: Prof. Masaaki Haga, Keio University (Japan)

16:15 Comment & Discussion:

Prof. Dr. Koji Takahashi, Doshisha University (Japan)

Prof. Dr. Kuan-Ling Shen, National Taiwan University (Taiwan)

17:00 Session 11 The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Judicial Decision Making

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Philipp M. Reuß, Göttingen University (Germany)

Moderator: Prof. Antonios Karaiskos, Ryukoku University (Japan)

17:30 Comment & Discussion:

Prof. Hiroshi Shimizu Meiji University (Japan)

Prof. Dr. Bart Krans, Leiden University (Netherlands)

18:00 Closing Remarks: Director Stefan Samse, Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Germany)

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until: June 4, 2024

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Date: 20 April 2024 (Saturday)

Language: English

Venue: 
Soshikan Conference Room at Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus

Organizer: 
The Institute for Justice Systems in Comparative Law (IJSCL) Ritsumeikan University
Center for Peace Education and Research, Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University

Sponsor: 
Egusa Foundation for International Cooperation in the Social Sciences

Programme

20 April 2024 (Saturday)

09:35-12:25 SESSION 1: “Digitalisation of Justice in the European Union and in Spain”

13:55-16:45 SESSION 2: “Collective Redress for Consumers in the European Union and in Spain”

Speaker

Prof. Dr. Fernando Gascón Inchausti (Complutense University)

Moderator

Prof. Dr. Masahisa Deguchi (Ritsumeikan University)

Commentators

Prof. Dr. Kuan-Ling Shen (National Taiwan University) Prof. Dr. Johannes Hager (LMU)  Prof. Dr. Antonios Karaiskos (Ryukoku University) Prof. Dr. Kunihiro Nakata (Ryukoku University) Prof. Hiroshi Tega (Tokyo Metropolitan University) Prof. Hiroshi Shimizu (Toyo University) Prof. Dr. Omi Hatashin (Osaka Jogakuin University) Prof. Dr. Michael Johannes Pils (Taylor Wessing) Prof. Manabu Wagazuma (Tokyo Metropolitan University) Prof. Koji Takahashi (Doshisha University)

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Documents

• Prof. Dr. Fernando Gascón Inchausti: Collective Redress for Consumers in the European Union and in Spain
• Prof. Dr. Fernando Gascón Inchausti: Digitalisation of Justice in the European Union and Spain
• EUとスペインにおける司法のデジタル化（仮訳）
• Prof. Dr. Johannes Hager: Digitalisierung im Notariat (Englisch (britisch))
• Prof. Dr. Johannes Hager: Digitalisierung im Notariat
• Prof. Dr. Johannes Hager: Digitalisierung im Notariat Gliederung (Englisch (britisch))
• Prof. Dr. Johannes Hager: Digitalisierung im Notariat Gliederung
• Prof. Hiroshi Shimizu – (仮訳）ヨーロッパ連合およびスペインにおける消費者のための集団的救済
• Prof. Hiroshi Shimizu: スペインの訴訟制度への集団的救済に関する指令の導入に関するコメント
• Prof. Dr. Kuan-Ling Shen: Session 1 – Comment on Digitalisation of Justice final (PDF)
• Prof. Dr. Kuan-Ling Shen: Session 2 – Comment on Collective Redress final (PDF)
• Prof. Dr. Koji Takahashi: Permissibility of cross-border virtual court hearing under international law
• Prof. Dr. Koji Takahashi: Some private international law issues of court-approved collective settlements
• Prof. Hiroshi Tega: Comments
• Prof. Dr. Kunihiro Nakata: Comments on COLLECTIVE REDRESS FOR CONSUMERS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND IN SPAIN

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第1報告

①第1報告日本側（日本語） JPN

②第1報告日本側（韓国語） KOR

③第1報告韓国側指定討論文（韓国語） KOR

④第1報告韓国側指定討論文（日本語） JPN

⑤第1報告韓国側（韓国語） KOR

⑥第1報告韓国側（日本語） JPN

⑦第1報告日本側指定討論文（日本語） JPN

⑧第1報告日本側指定討論文（韓国語） KOR

第2報告

⑨第2報告日本側（日本語） JPN

⑩第2報告日本側（韓国語） KOR

⑪第2報告日本側（読み原稿：日本語） JPN

⑫第2報告日本側（読み原稿：韓国語） KOR

⑬第2報告韓国側指定討論文（韓国語) KOR

⑭第2報告韓国側指定討論文（日本語） JPN

⑮第2報告韓国側（韓国語） KOR

⑯第2報告韓国側（日本語） JPN

⑰第2報告日本側指定討論文（日本語） JPN

⑱第2報告日本側指定討論文（韓国語） KOR

報告者及び討論者CV

(1)日本側報告者及び討論者CV（日本語） JPN

(2)日本側報告者及び討論者(日本cv)일본측 발표자 및 토론자 KOR

(3)韓国側報告者及び討論者 CV（日本語） JPN

(4)韓国側報告者及び討論者CV(韓国cv)한국측 발표자 및 토론자 KOR