KONAN UNIVERSITY

The kind of society that we aim to establish in the 21st century is one where you are allowed to live the way you wish to in the home, school, workplace and local region regardless of age, sex, nationality or disabilities - a secure society. Moreover, as is evident now from the introduction of a jury system, each and every individual is now required to have some sort of relationship with legislation and the administration of justice in the 21st century.

In order to achieve these goals, the Faculty of Law has designed a curriculum where students can master the fundamentals of law and political science by accumulative and repeated learning. Classes where true understanding can be easily achieved are conducted by our professors.

Freshmen and sophomores study the fundamentals of the Constitution, civil law and criminal law. Then, on the basis of what they have learned, they move on as juniors and seniors to major in the subject of their choice to continue studying at the Law School or to pave the way to their careers as civil servants, employees at private corporations, or workers at social welfare organizations. Freshmen are offered extracurricular classes that help to prepare them for admission exams to the Law School or for a national licensing exam for law, and more than 100 students take part in this program. The practical learning of the law and politics via lectures given by police officers, prosecutors, administrators of justice, reformists, and civil servants of various fields, and also the opportunity to teach high school students about law through mock courts put on by the university students themselves, create chances to examine and broaden their personal academic achievements. The Faculty of Law places emphasis on training students to possess a rich legal mind and the practical ability necessary in any workplace, industrial sphere, home or regional society.

Faculty History

1952	The Faculty of Economics (Department of Economics) is established
1960	The Faculty of Law (Department of Law) and the Faculty of Business Administration (Department of Business Administration) are established
1994	The Faculty of Law in the Department of Business Law is established
2002	The EBA Program is jointly established in the Faculty of Economics and the Faculty of Business Administration

Faculty member

Name	Title	Field of Research	Subject of Research
KURODA, Tadabumi	Professor	European Legal History & Comparative Legal Culture	Comparative-historical researches into the history of law, legal education, constitution and judicature in the early modern Europe.
ANZAI, Toshimitsu	Professor	History of Japanese Political Thought	Reception and Transformation of 'West Modern' Thoughts in Modern Japan.
TAKANO, Kiyohiro	Professor	History of Western Political Thought	Study of the religious and political Thought of Richard Hooker and his contemporaries.
KOIZUMI, Yoichi	Professor	Constitutional Law	Religious liberty and the separation of religions and State in the Japanese and foreign constitutions.
NISHIDA, Hidekazu	Professor	Sociology of Law	Socio-Linguistic Studies of Disputing Process.
MAEDA, Tadahiro	Professor	Criminology	Juvenile Delinquency, Domestic Violence, Child Abuse and Criminal Justice.
NAKAI, Itsuko	Professor	International Law	Development of the "Law" of the International Protection of Human Rights.
MAESHIMA, Kyoko	Professor	Corporate Law	Liability of Directors, Officers and Auditors.
SHIMADA, Shigeru	Professor	Administrative Law	Legal studies of personal data protections.
KIM, Moonsook	Professor	International Private law	CISG and International Private law.
YAMAMOTO, Machiko	Professor	Corporate Law, Securities Regulation	The Nature of Company and the Role of Securities Market in Law.
IKEDA, Yoshitaka	Professor	International Relations	Comparative study of regionalism in Europe.
KUWAOKA, Kazuhisa	Professor	Vertragsrecht	Selbstbestimmung und Selbstveranwortung im Vertrag.
NISHIYAMA, Takayuki	Professor	Political Science	American Social Policy and Urban Politics.
SUMITA, Hideho	Professor	Civil Law	Law of Damages.
KUBO, Haruka	Associate Professor	Public Administration	Environmental Policy and Governance. Policy Process.
SAKURAI, Tomoaki	Associate Professor	Constitutional Law	Theories of Constitutional Rights.
OKAMORI, Shiaki	Associate Professor	Administrative Law, Enviromental Law	Enviromental Lawsuit in France.
MORINAGA, Masatsuna	Associate Professor	Criminal Law	Self-defense, Necessity, Consent and Terrorism.
SASAKURA, Kana	Associate Professor	Criminal Procedure Law	Public trial, its limits and media coverage of courtrooms.
TANAKA, Makoto	Associate Professor	Civil Procedure	Defense of set-off in the Action and the ADR.
KANAMARU, Yoshihira	Associate Professor	Civil Law	Law of Dameges, Damege and Compensatory Damages.
MASUZAWA, Aya	Lecturer	Civil Law	Law of Torts, Family Law.