Lawyers and legal scholars who tackle legal issues often debate how courts should interpret relevant statutory provisions. Scholars also discuss, when lawmakers are deliberating new statutory rules to solve a legal issue, what those new rules should be. In such normative legal analyses, what standards or methods do scholars and practitioners use to determine the desirability of a particular interpretation of statutory provisions, or even the desirability of establishing new rules? How do they prioritize the interests of different parties in legal disputes? Are the standards or methods employed in legal analyses particular to jurisprudence, or do they share common features with those in other areas of social science, such as welfare economics, or other disciplines, such as moral philosophy? In this project, we aim to develop both positive and normative analyses of "methods of jurisprudence". In other words, we will discuss what standards or methods are and should be used in legal analyses.
Members Takeshi FUJITANI [Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo] Tomonobu HAYASHI [Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo] Takashi IIDA [Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo] Tatsuhiko INATANI [Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University] Hiroyasu ISHIKAWA [Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo] Akira KAMO [Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo] Yasuhito NISHIUCHI [Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University] George SHISHIDO [Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo] Wataru TANAKA [Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo] *Leader Akira TOKUTSU [Department of Business Law, Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University] Ken YAHAGI [Faculty of Economics Department of Contemporary Economic Studies, Seikei University]
Activities
- October 30, 2024Workshops
- Workshop 35：Understanding Measurement in Social Science
- June 12, 2024Other Events
- 19th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence)
- March 4, 2024Other Events
- 18th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence)
- January 30, 2024Other Events
- 17th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence)
- August 21, 2023Other Events
- 16th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence)
- April 25, 2023Other Events
- 15th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence)
- March 28, 2023Workshops
- Workshop 16：Are there any methods in jurisprudence?
- February 22, 2023Other Events
- 13th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence)
- January 25, 2023Other Events
- 12th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：Wataru TANAKA [UTokyo]
- December 16, 2022Other Events
- 11th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：Ken YAHAGI [Seikei University]
- October 26, 2022Other Events
- 10th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：Takashi IIDA [University of Tokyo]
- August 29, 2022Other Events
- 9th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：Hiroyasu ISHIKAWA [University of Tokyo]
- July 21, 2022Other Events
- 8th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：Tomonobu HAYASHI [University of Tokyo]
- May 30, 2022Other Events
- 7th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：Takeshi FUJITANI [University of Tokyo]
- March 25, 2022Other Events
- 6th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：Yasuhito NISHIUCHI [Kyoto University]
- January 12, 2022Other Events
- 5th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：Tatsuhiko INATANI [Kyoto University]
- December 2, 2021Other Events
- 4th meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：George SHISHIDO [University of Tokyo]
- September 7, 2021Other Events
- 3rd meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：Akira TOKUTSU [Tohoku University]
- July 20, 2021Workshops
- Workshop 4：Methods of Jurisprudence: In Quest for Standards of Values
- July 1, 2021Other Events
- 2nd meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：Akira KAMO [University of Tokyo]
- April 27, 2021Other Events
- 1st meeting (Methods of Jurisprudence) Speaker：Wataru TANAKA [University of Tokyo]