JAPAN

The executive committee of the Japan section has been reorganized and has a new President and a new Treasurer. The list of the present Executive Committee members is as follows.		WEBSITE http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jalp/e/e-ivr-japan.html CONTACT Correspondence to the Japan Section should be sent to: Professor NAKAYAMA at: ryuichi@law.osaka-u.ac.jp Mail address: Professor NAKAYAMA Ryuichi School of Law, Osaka University 1-6 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka Osaka　560-0043 JAPAN Phone: +81-6-6850-5167 Fax: +81-6-6850-5167
President:	TSUNODA Takeshi, professor at Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka. ttsunoda@gold.ocn.ne.jp
Secretary-General:	NAKAYAMA Ryuichi, professor at Osaka University, Osaka
Treasurer:	KAWAMI Makoto, professor at Aoyama Gakuin Women’s Junior College Mkawami@aol.com
Other Members:	NASU Kosuke, professor at Setsunan University, Osaka SAKURAI Tetsu, professor at Kobe University, Kobe SUMIYOSHI Masami, professor at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo TAKAHASHI Fumihiko, professor at Kanto Gakuin University, Tokyo

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NEWS

Congratulations!

We are much pleased to receive an announcement that Professor TAKIKAWA Hirohide of Osaka City University will be awarded the IVR Young Scholars’ Prize 2005 for a paper entitled "Can We Justify the Welfare State in an Age of Globalization?: Toward Complex Borders." IVR Japan Section would like to extend our warm congratulations to our colleague. Japan Associa-tion of Legal Philosophy (JALP), which is now launching a new award encouraging younger scholars, sincerely celebrates Professor TAKIGAWA’s honorable reception of the prize.

IVR Japan Section will continue our support for the IVR Young Scholars’ Prize. We invited Professor Emilios Christodoulidis of Edinburgh University, the first winner of this prize, as a lecturer for the 7th Kobe Lecture in 2002.

Professor TAKIKAWA’s prize lecture will be delivered at 6 p.m., 29 May 2005, at a special plenary session of the IVR 2005 World Congress in Granada, Spain.

The 2004 annual conference of the Japan Association of Legal Philosophy

The 2004 annual conference of JALP was held on 13-14 November 2004 at Hiroshima University. The main theme of the conference was “Libertarianism and Legal Theory”.

The contents of the conference are as follows:
1. MORIMURA Susumu (Hitotsubashi University), “General Introduction to the Theme” and “Libertarianism: Its Meaning and Challenges”
2. HASHIMOTO Tsutomu (Hokkaido University), “On Libertarianism”
3. TORISAWA Madoka (Hiroshima City University), “Freedom in Defense of Social Norms?: Libertarianism and Community”
4. TATEIWA Sinya (Ritsumeikan University), “Freedom Does Not Support Libertarianism”
5. SIMAZU Itaru (Chiba University), Comments on 1-4.
6. HASHIMOTO Yuko (Kobe University), “Libertarian Legal Theories”
7. AIKYO Koji (Nagoya University), “Why Do Not Constitutional Scholarship Take Libertarianism Seriously?”
8. YAMADA Yachiko (Chuo University), “The Structure of Libertarian Freedom in Private Law”
9. ASANO Yuki (Kinki University), Comments on 6-8: “Libertarianism and Commutative Justice”

After the presentations, general discussion concluded the conference.
Apart from these sessions, there were also eight presentations which were not directly related to the main theme of the conference.

The proceedings will be published in the Annals of the Japan Association of Legal Philosophy 2004.