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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