• Japanese

An International Conference on
“Hope in Law and the Economy”

• Conference overview：
  

  In both Japan and the United States it is a given that law is a tool of social, political and economic ends. The conference will ask, how might recent interdisciplinary debates in “hope studies” which to this point have focused primarily on markets and their social effects, from the perspectives of economics, sociology, political theory and anthropology, illuminate current problems in legal studies?

  "Hope in Law and the Economy" is a product of an institutional partnership between Cornell University Law School's Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture and University of Tokyo's Institute of Social Science. It showcases both institutions' rich tradition of interdisciplinary work in legal studies and their unique integration of social scientific and humanistic approaches to law and politics. Its larger aim is to set a new and ambitious transnational agenda for the interdisciplinary study of law in different societies and legal systems.
  The conference will ask, how might recent interdisciplinary debates in "hope studies" which to this point have focused primarily on markets and their social effects, from the perspectives of economics, sociology, political theory and anthropology, illuminate current problems in legal studies? What insights might be gained by thinking about the cultural consequences of law alongside other tools of social engineering, from psychiatry, to religion, to electoral politics?
  This conference explores these themes with examples from Japanese and American constitutional law, property law, and labor law, as well as with studies of the role of legal theory in the political process, from Toqueville to Barack Obama.

• Date：
  　Tuesday, October 14, 2008 10:00AM - 5:00PM
• Venue：
  　International House of Japan, Iwasaki Koyata Memorial Hall (5-11-16 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo)
• Organizer：
  　Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture, Cornell University Law School
  　Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo
• Registration：
  　Registration Fee　：　Free (pre-registration required)
  　Capacity　：　150 (If applicants exceed capacity, paticipation will determine in order of arrival.)
  　How to register　：　
• Language：
  　English and Japanese (simultaneous interpretation provided)
• Program：
  

  10:00 - 10:15am

  Opening Remarks
  ・Annelise RILES (Jack G. Clarke Professor of Far East Asia Legal Studies and Professor ofAnthropology, Cornell University; Director Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture)
  ・MIYAZAKI Hirokazu (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University)
  ・GENDA Yuji (Professor, ISS, University of Tokyo）

  10:15 - 11:00am

  The Social Obligation Norm in American Property Law
  Gregory Alexander（A. Robert Noll Professor of Law, CLS）
  Comments by ISHIKAWA Hiroyasu (Associate Professor, ISS, University of Tokyo)

  11:00 - 11:45am

  Hope, Migration and Constitution
  SAKAI Naoki (Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, Cornell University)
  Comments by SAKAGUCHI Shojiro (Professor of Law, Hitotsubashi University)

  12:00 - 2:00pm

  Lunch

  2:10 - 2:55pm

  Hope and Society in Japan
  GENDA Yuji
  Comments by Stewart J. SCHWAB (Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor of Law, Cornell Law School)

  3:00-3:45pm

  Why Hope Now? The Significance of Hope in Political Theory
  UNO Shigeki (Associate Professor, ISS, University of Tokyo)
  Comments by Annelise RILES

  3:45 - 4:00pm

  Break

  4:00 - 4:45pm

  Reveries before Law: Considering Hope at a Senior Home in Fiji
  KASUGA Naoki (Professor of Anthropology, Osaka University)
  Comments by MIYAZAKI Hirokazu

  4:45 - 5:00pm

  Summary Remarks
  KOMORIDA Akio (Director Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo)
  Stewart J. SCHWAB

• Poster（PDF File 325KB）