Who Rules Japan?: Popular Participation in the Japanese Legal Process - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1849804109 ISBN 13: 9781849804103

Casa editrice: Edward Elgar Pub, 2015

Riassunto

The book takes a stimulating and fresh look at the classical question: Who rules Japan? Seven highly informative analyses explore to what extent the 2001 judicial reforms have already transformed the Japanese state and paved the way for Japan's gradual shift from its (in)famous administrative governance model to a judicial state with the 'rule of law' at its center and a broader participation of citizens in the various spheres of public life.'
- Harald Baum, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Germany

The dramatic growth of the Japanese economy in the post-war period, and its meltdown in the 1990s, generated major reform recommendations in 2001 from the Justice System Reform Council aimed at greater civic engagement with law. This timely book examines the regulation and design of the Japanese legal system and contributes a legal perspective to the long-standing debate in Japanese Studies: who governs Japan?

Who Rules Japan? explores the extent to which a new Japanese state has emerged from this reform effort - one in which the Japanese people participate more freely in the legal system and have a greater stake in Japan's future. Expert contributors from across the globe tackle the question of whether Japan is now a judicial state, upturning earlier views of Japan as an administrative state. The book explores well-known reforms, such as lay participation in criminal justice, but also less well-canvassed topics such as industrial relations, dispute resolution, government lawyers, law within popular culture in Japan, and social welfare and the law. The blend of empiricism, policy analysis, theory and doctrine provides a discerning insight into the impact of the law reform initiatives from the Justice System Reform Council.

Legal academics interested in comparative law broadly and Asian law specifically will find this book an indispensable contribution to the literature, offering a unique insight into the changing Japanese legal system. Students and scholars of Japanese Studies, especially the social sciences, will find clarity in this refreshing legal viewpoint of governance in contemporary Japan.

Contributors: K. Anderson, T. Araki, S. Green, D.T. Johnson, S. Kozuka, C. Lawson, T. Ryan, L. Nottage, S. Shinomiya, L. Wolff

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Informazioni sull?autore

Edited by Leon Wolff, Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University, Japan, Luke Nottage, Professor of Comparative and Transnational Business Law, University of Sydney Law School, and Special Counsel, Williams Trade Law and Kent Anderson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Western Australia, Australia

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Edward Elgar Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1849804109
• ISBN 13: 9781849804103
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 219
• Redattore: Wolff Leon, Nottage Luke, Anderson Kent
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile