Academic Activities

80th Anniversary of the End of World War II International Workshop in March 2026

the theme on “Accountability of the Supreme Court and Constitutional Court in Digital Justice and AI Analysis of Judgment Databases”

Date: 10-11 March 2026

Language: English

Venue:
Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus, Soshikan Conference Room

Organizer:
Institute for Legal Systems in Comparative Law at Ritsumeikan University
Co-Organizer:
Konrad-Adenauer Foundation (Rule of Law Programme Asia)
Sponsor:
Civil Dispute Resolution Research Fund, Eugusa Foundation for International Cooperation in the Social Science
The Foundation for Research in Civil Dispute Resolution, Shiho Kyokai, Peace Education and Research Institut of Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University
Research Office at Ritsumeikan University, Institute of Humanities, Human and Social Sciences, Ritsumeikan University

Scheduled Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Katsuya Uga (Former Justice of the Supreme Court in Japan)
Justice Kim Hyungdu (The Constitutional Court of Korea)
Prof. Dr. Álvaro Pérez Ragone (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)
Prof. Dr. Christoph Hurni （President of the First Civil Division at the Swiss Federal Supreme Court)
Prof. Jeffrey Lubbers (Amerikan University)
Prof. Dr. Michael Johannes Pils (Taylor Wessing)
Prof. Dr. Philipp Reuss (Göttingen University)
Prof. Dr. Sheng-Lin JAN (National Taiwan University, Former Justice of the Taiwan Constitutional Court)
Prof. Dr. Remo Caponi (Justice of Italian Supreme Court)
Dr. Apipong Sarnatikasem (Judge of Court of Appeal in Thailand)
Prof. Dr. Zhixun Cao (Peking University)
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Burkhard Hess (University of Vienna)

Registration

Please fill out the following form to register for the workshop. Please fill it out until 24th February.

Preliminary Programme

the Fifth PKU Postgraduate Summer School on Frontiers of Comparative Civil Procedural Law

From July 14 to 18, 2025, primarily organized by Peking University Law School and China Civil Procedural Law Society and supported by the IAPL, the Fifth PKU Postgraduate Summer School on Frontiers of Comparative Civil Procedural Law (hereafter 2025 PKU Summer School) was successfully held on the campus of Peking University in Beijing, China.
Under the theme “Civil Procedure from the Perspective of Fundamental Rights Protection”, the 2025 PKU Summer School brought together renowned civil procedural law experts to provide in-depth analysis and facilitate scholarly exchange within relevant research fields. The program comprised a symposium on comparative civil procedure methodology and eight lectures – five delivered in Chinese and three in English – conducted through a hybrid format combining online and offline participation.
The 2025 PKU Summer School attracted over 80 participants, studying in Mailand China or overseas, and featured keynote addresses from distinguished international scholars, and IAPL members, including Professor Eduardo OTEIZA (Argentina), Professor Masahisa DEGUCHI (Japan), and Professor Yulin FU (China).
The 2025 PKU Summer School attracted over 80 participants, studying in Mailand China or overseas, and featured keynote addresses from distinguished international scholars, and IAPL members, including Professor Eduardo OTEIZA (Argentina), Professor Masahisa DEGUCHI (Japan), and Professor Yulin FU (China).
The Summer School’s primary objective was to broaden perspectives in civil procedure law research through comparative methodology while strengthening interdisciplinary dialogue within the field.