CONFERENCES
2011 SHO SATO WORKSHOP ON "THE PROBLEM OF LAW IN RESPONSE TO DISASTERS"
October 25-26, 2011, Berkeley, CA
Co-sponsored with the Japan Foundation
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Prof. Masayuki Murayama of Meiji University and Profs. Harry Scheiber and Charles Weisselberg of Berkeley Law organized an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars to explore the problem of law in response to disasters, with a primary focus on the catastrophe of this year in Japan. The first meeting of this group was held in Berkeley on October 25-26, 2011. The next two meetings are tentatively planned for March 2012 in Tokyo and for June 2012 in Honolulu.
2011 SHO SATO CONFERENCE ON "THE JAPANESE LEGAL SYSTEM: AN ERA OF TRANSITION"
March 14-15, 2011, Berkeley, CA
The 2011 Sho Sato Conference, organized by Prof. Harry Scheiber of UC Berkeley and Prof. Tom Ginsburg of the University of Chicago, was held on March 14-15 at the Claremont Hotel. This year's conference was devoted to the recent change – sources and directions of change, challenges, likely outcomes that represent new departures – in various aspects of the Japanese legal system, with presentations from some of the leading scholars and practitioners from Japan and the United States, including Prof. Masayuki Murayama of Meiji University, Prof. Lawrence Friedman of Stanford, and Prof. Yasuhei Taniguchi, former judge of the Court of the World Trade Organization.
Topics ranged from the first effects of the criminal justice system reforms initiated a decade ago; the process (thus far attenuated) of American-style judicialization; women's issues and legal change; privacy law and policy; the emergence of a venture capital law; the impact of reforms on the legal profession; and environmental and worker-safety law.
The organizers are indebted to Prof. Taniguchi, the officers of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, Mr. Satoru Shinomiya, and Prof. Aya Yamada for their valuable counsel and cooperation in the planning of this conference.
RECENT SHO SATO CONFERENCES
"Tax Law, Social Policy, and the Economy"
March 9-10, 2009, Berkeley, CA
"Japanese Family Law in Comparative Perspective"
March 7-8, 2008, Berkeley, CA
"Clinical Legal Education in Japan and the United States"
co-sponsored with the Center for Clinical Education, UC Berkeley
March 10-12, 2006, Berkeley, CA
"Emerging Concepts of Rights in Japanese Law" and "A Symposium Honoring Professor Takao Tanase"
February 12-13, 2005, Berkeley, CA