Research and Education Activities
Announcement of Research and Education Activities
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2025.10.29Research and Education Activities
Announcement of the 297th Comparative Law and Politics Seminar on Wednesday,December 17, 2025.
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2025.10.17Research and Education Activities
Announcement of the 296th Comparative Law and Politics Seminar on Thursday,December 18, 2025.
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2025.10.10Research 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
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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
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
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)
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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
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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.
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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
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
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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Academic Exchange Project
The Institute for Legal and Political Design (ILPD) at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate Schools of Law and Politics promotes and supports faculty exchange programs with leading universities and research institutions worldwide.
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The first such program was launched with the University of Michigan Law School in the summer of 1992 and was followed by an exchange with Columbia Law School in the winter of 1994. Since then, approximately 100 professors and associate professors from these institutions have visited our graduate schools. In return, around 90 faculty members from our graduate schools have visited these partner institutions.
In the 2025 academic year, a new exchange program was initiated with KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven).
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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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