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


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特別講演会:Dr. Clemens von Goetze


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Prof. Dr. Fernando Gascón Inchausti: “European Civil Procedural Law and Human Rights Guarantees”

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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