Research and Education Activities
Research and Education Activities
Research and Education Activities
Research and Education Activities
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Research and Education Activities

Summer School

During the summer vacation period, we offer a summer school in English language at our off-campus training facility, inviting leading foreign researchers and practitioners as. In addition to students of the School of Law, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, students from other Japanese universities, foreign countries including Asia and Europe, lawyers, and corporate legal staff also participate.

Winter School

A program for students, researchers, and lawyers from overseas to study Japanese law in English intensively.

International Traineeship Program

This program allows students to complete an internship at overseas law firms and international organizations with the aim of developing internationally competitive lawyers. (The students eligible to apply for an internship are the prospective graduates of the School of Law, those who are planning to take the bar examination and those who are enrolled in the doctoral program of the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics.)

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Business Law Center

  • International Traineeship Program

    International Traineeship Program

    This program allows students to complete an internship at overseas law firms and international organizations with the aim of developing internationally competitive lawyers. (The students eligible to apply for an internship are the prospective graduates of the School of Law, those who are planning to take the bar examination and those who are enrolled in the doctoral program of the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics.)

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  • Business Law Lectures

    Business Law Lectures

    As a successor to the BLC Open Lectures, we have been holding new Business Law Lectures since the fall of 2012. The lectures are open to society and welcome professionals who are currently engaged in corporate legal practice, offering students more opportunities to come into close contact with business law.

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  • Foreign Competition Law Case Study Group

    Foreign Competition Law Case Study Group

    This study group focuses on competition laws across the globe, through a discussion of recent court rulings and decisions by foreign competition authorities. Participants include lawyers with expertise in competition law and competition officials, as well as faculty and researchers from the University of Tokyo’s Graduate Schools for Law and Politics. (Not open to the public)

  • Copyright Law Study Group

    Copyright Law Study Group

    In March 2005, the Business Law Center (at that time) established a study group on copyright law with a donation from the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC). Reports are made by faculty members of the graduate school, as well as researchers, lawyers, judges, and government officials, and the results of the study group are currently serialized in the journal NBL. (Not open to the public)

International Center for Comparative Law and Politics

  • Summer School

    Summer School

    During the summer vacation period, we offer a summer school in English language at our off-campus training facility, inviting leading foreign researchers and practitioners as. In addition to students of the School of Law, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, students from other Japanese universities, foreign countries including Asia and Europe, lawyers, and corporate legal staff also participate.

    Learn more
  • Winter School

    Winter School

    A program for students, researchers, and lawyers from overseas to study Japanese law in English intensively.

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  • Comparative Law and Politics Seminars/Forums

    Comparative Law and Politics Seminars/Forums

    The International Center for Comparative Law and Politics holds comparative law and politics seminars and forums as a place for visiting professors, short-term invitees, faculty members affiliated with the graduate school, and visiting researchers to present their research results. (Not open to the public)

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  • Comparative Law and Politics Symposia

    Comparative Law and Politics Symposia

    Since FY 1996, we have been holding international symposia. They have been held not only in Japan but also at oversea universities including the University of Sheffield, the University of Warwick, and the University of São Paulo, building a network with overseas universities and providing opportunities for international exchanges. 69 symposia have been held by the end of FY 2024, attracting many participants including researchers, practitioners, and students from inside and outside the school. (Open to the public)

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  • Michigan-Columbia Exchange Project

    Michigan-Columbia Exchange Project

    We support exchange projects (mutual dispatch of researchers, etc.) between universities and research institutions and our graduate school. The exchange project with the University of Michigan Law School began in the summer semester of 1992, and the exchange project with Columbia Law School began in the winter semester of 1994. By 2023, about 100 professors and assistant professors visited and delivered a series of lectures on "Introduction to Anglo-American Law".

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  • Endowed Chair for Politics and Mass Media (Asahi Shimbun)

    Endowed Chair for "Politics and Mass Media (Asahi Shimbun)"

    The Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo offers the lecture "Politics and Mass Media " in cooperation with the Asahi Shimbun, and IBC supports its operation.

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