授業の目的 【日本語】
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授業の目的 【英語】
Goals of the Course | | This seminar provides students opportunities to learn and discuss the actual functioning of law and legal system in its social context.
Each student picks one paper from the list (or more, according to the number of participants), prepare handout and make physical copies for the students. The handouts need to contain (1) summary of the paper: what is explained and discussed in the material and (2) reporter’s comments for discussion.
Students must submit an after-presentation report according to the instruction privided at the class.
Students may also be required to submit final report according to the class size.
Students other than the reporter must read papers in advance and actively participate in discussion. All the students are expected to make at least one comment at every class.
Through such efforts students are expected to obtain basic knowledge and insights on the reality of the legal system. |
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到達目標 【日本語】
Objectives of the Course(JPN) | | |
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到達目標 【英語】
Objectives of the Course | | |
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授業の内容や構成
Course Content / Plan | | Each session will cover one paper as listed above. Session involves presentation and discussion
Reading Materials
Each student picks one (or more) of the articles on the reading list below for presentation and discussion. We will read one paper per one session.
Discussion Topics and Reading Materials
First Meeting: Orientation
1.How the “Disputes” Develop in Social Contexts
Article 1
Felstiner, William L. F., Richard L. Abel, and Austin Sarat, “The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes: Naming, Blaming, Claiming…” 15 Law and Society Review 631 (1980).
Article 2
Miller and Austin Sarat, “Grievances, Claims, and Disputes: Assessing the Adversary Culture,” 15 Law and Society Review 525 (1980).
Article 3
Albiston, Edelman and Milligan “The Dispute Tree and the Legal Forest,” 10 The Annual Review of Law and Social Science 105 (2014).
2.The Reality of Civil Dispute Mechanisms
Article 4
William M. O'Barr; John M. Conley, “Lay Expectations of the Civil Justice System,” 22 Law & Soc'y Rev. 137 (1988)
Article 5
Robert H. Mnookin; Lewis Kornhauser, “Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: The Case of Divorce,” 88 Yale L.J. 950 (1979).
Article 6
Sara Cobb, “The Domestication of Violence in Mediation,” 31 Law & Society Review 397-440 (1997).
3.Why “the Haves” Come Out Ahead in Legal Spheres?
Article 7
Why the 'haves' come out ahead: speculations on the limits of legal change / Marc Galanter
Article 8
Lauren B. Edelman; Mark C. Suchman, “When the Haves Hold Court: Speculations on the Organizational Internalization of Law,” 33 Law & Soc'y Rev. 941 (1999)
Article 9
Beth Harris, Representing Homeless Families: Repeat Player Implementation Strategies, 33 Law & Soc'y Rev. 911 (1999)
4.Law and Social Control
Article 10
Sebastian Scheerer, “The New Dutch and German Drug Laws: Social and Political Conditions for Criminalization and Decriminalization,” 12 Law & Soc'y Rev. 585 (1978)
Article 11
Tom R. Tyler; Robert J. Boeckmann, “The Three Strikes and You Are out, but Why - The Psychology of Public Support for Punishing Rule Breakers,” 31 Law & Soc'y Rev. 237 (1997)
Article 12
Hamai & Ellis, "Crime and Criminal justice in modern Japan: From reintegrative shaming to popular punitivism"International Hournal of the Sociology of Law,34, 157-178 2006. |
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履修条件・関連する科目
Course Prerequisites and Related Courses | | | Recommendation: Japanese Law and Society /Sociology of Law Semina A in Fall semester (before or after taking this course) |
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成績評価の方法と基準
Course Evaluation Method and Criteria | | Presentation (30%), class discussion (30%), after-presentation report (40%).
Credit is given of C- or C（where applicable）or higher for each graded criterion. |
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教科書・テキスト
Textbook | | | Instructions will be given in class |
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参考書
Reference Book | | |
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課外学習等（授業時間外学習の指示）
Study Load(Self-directed Learning Outside Course Hours) | | | Students must read the material before each class. |
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注意事項
Notice for Students | | | Enroll as a member of this course through NUCT, where you get all important notices from the lecturer. Students must attend the first meeting to be assigned a paper to present at the class. |
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授業開講形態等
Lecture format, etc. | | This course will be conducted by Zoom.
Every students must attend classes by connecting Zoom on time. |
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遠隔授業（オンデマンド型）で行う場合の追加措置
Additional measures for remote class (on-demand class) | | This course will be conducted by Zoom. Students taking this course from abroad must understand time differences between Japan and your home country are not considered as a reason for your non-attendance. Classes are not video- or audio-recoreded.
Zoom invitation and assined papers are sent or shared via NUCT system. Students who skipped course application at the first round application process does not appear on the list of NUCT course site. If you have trouble in NUCT system, let the lecturer know the situation. |
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