CC245503 Overview of Contemporary Judiciary

Hiroshima University Syllabus

Japanese

Academic Year 2024Year School/Graduate School School of Education

Lecture Code CC245503 Subject Classification Specialized Education

Subject Name 現代司法論

Subject Name
（Katakana）ゲンダイシホウロン

Subject Name in
English Overview of Contemporary Judiciary

Instructor HATA HIROTO

Instructor
(Katakana) ハタ　ヒロト

Campus Higashi-Hiroshima Semester/Term 2nd-Year,  First Semester,  1Term

Days, Periods, and Classrooms (1T) Fri5-8：EDU K208

Lesson Style Lecture Lesson Style
(More Details) 　

Mainly lectures, Projectors instead of board writings, Blackboard 9 is always used for presentations by students, cross references, and Q & A sessions.

Credits 2.0 Class Hours/Week 　 Language of Instruction J : Japanese

Course Level 2 : Undergraduate Low-Intermediate

Course Area（Area） 24 : Social Sciences

Course Area（Discipline） 01 : Law

Eligible Students sophomore, 3rd semester, Mainly students on the Program in Social Studies Education

Keywords Judicial System, Legal Profession, Sociology of Judicial Process, Judicial Administration, Rule of Law, Training of Legal Professionals, Sociology of Law, Socio-Legal Studies, Bureaucratic Judiciary, Democratic Judiciary, Reformation of Judicial Institutions

Special Subject for Teacher Education 　 Special Subject 　

Class Status
within Educational
Program
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Criterion referenced
Evaluation
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students) Secondary School Social Studies/Geography/History/Civic Education
（Knowledge and Understanding）
・With regard to civic education field in secondary social education, to have basic knowledge of its teaching contents.
（Abilities and Skills）
・To be able to collect, understand, analyze, and evaluate data and materials about studies related to social science.

Class Objectives
/Class Outline   You will understand the status quo of Japanese legal system in relation to respective procedure and profession.To develop and improve the contents of civics education with the times, operation process of modern judiciary systematically and  dynamically using lows or social studies models, and by acquiring analytical abilities to criticize situation of judicial process correctly, quality of students who will be teachers will be improved.

Class Schedule lesson 1 Systematic Understanding about Judicial Institutions

lesson 2 The Bar 1: Lawyer

lesson 3 The Bar 2: Prosecutor

lesson 4 The Bar 3: Judge and Justice

lesson 5 Other Law-related Professions

lesson 6 Civil Procedure 1: Before Court
lesson 7 Civil Procedure 2: Use of the Law by the People

lesson 8 Civil Procesure 3: In  Court

lesson 9 Civil Procedure 4: Appellate System

lesson10 Criminal Procedure 1: Crime and Delinquency in Society

lesson11 Criminal Procedure 2: Police Investigation

lesson12 Criminal Procedure 3: Prosecutor as Gatekeeper

lesson13 Criminal Procedure 4: Defense Attorney representing and balancing different interests for Social Justice

lesson14 Criminal Procedure 5: Adjudication and Sentencing by Judges

lesson15 Access to Justice and Popular Participation in the Process

  At the end of a semester, a written exam will be held.

  Lectures will be given in line with the textbook. At the end, an written exam will be held.
　Students will submit papers at the end of May and at the beginning of July.  They should write a note on the WebCT to show that they have read the textbook.

Text/Reference
Books,etc. Text: Shigeo Kisa et al. eds., " Textbook Contemporary Justice," the 6th edition, Nihon Hyouronsha, 2015.
　Reference books: "Judiciary Bureaucrat: Men of Power of the Court," written by Shindo Muneyuki, Iwanami Shinsyo in 2009,
　　　　　"The Reality of a Judicial Process: The Field Work of Sociological Jurisprudence,"written by Miyazawa Setsuo and others published by Shinzansha-Shuppan in 1994
  The style of lecture: Preparation and review are of course essential. ; Board Writing in the projection style; The text is essential  to attend this class. ; We will regard discussion, debate, and presentation of students important. (On the WEB); Lecture's summaries are going to be put up on the bulletin board for class after.
  In the case of using ＤＶＤ (It takes 60 minutes, documentary film "The Story of Courts in Japan and Germany" published by Seido Production in 1999)

PC or AV used in
Class,etc. 　

(More Details) Texts, materials distributed on TEAMS, and movies (video).

Learning techniques to be incorporated 　

Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review   You must read the specified pages of the text before and research the related articles and/or materials after it."　It's a method that is faithful to a principle and repeats for 15 weeks a set menu composed of two hours of preparation, other two hours, actually 90 minutes, of a lecture, and other two hours of review every week.
  As "preparation", text understanding should be done in the designated part of every class.
  As "review", you should investigate and confirm the matters you couldn't understand in last lecture by yourself, and write a report about subject interesting.
※"Preparation" and "review" I say mean more offensive ones of high teaching level than ones you have knew so far, and they are the words I made. I accompanied the change of how to spell one legal term, learning, in Chinese character.

Requirements 　Subjects related to subjects
　You can post your report on the electric notice board of Bb9.

Grading Method   Final examination (100 points).
And you can submit 2 Reports and get 20 points (10 scores multiplied by two times) at most.
　You are always examined whether or not you make a effect to recognize the world with jurisprudence thought or social scientific models after having read the text enough.  I guess that major candidates of theme of a report are the construction of descriptions in the text, logical composition of invoked ideas and theories, and matters related to the truth of cases and statistics. And, about cases and statistics, you should investigate them to a certain degree by yourself at first before asking me a question in order not to make me be confused by a question asking a teacher to investigate it from the beginning. You should pay attention as well as you can. (A question like,　"I have investigated until here, but I can't find the next absolutely. " is possible.) In short, I wish you to give a report as an evidence of question setting and answering by yourself repeatedly. The style is similar to the last class, the outline of jurisprudence. You should do it efficiently.

Practical Experience

Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it

Message   According to the article 21 (2) of the Standards for Establishment of Universities, it's said that "To compose one unit class subject with the contents calling for 45 hours of learning is the standard",  so, you should do your "learning" of 60 hours individually except 30 hours of classes to get two units in this class. In this class, I'm sure that you will consume such time in preparation and review such as text's reading and writing reports. Please refer to the article 19 (3) of general notices of Hiroshima universities in which you can see the same intent.

Other ＵＲＬ of related website：１　The Supreme Court https://www.courts.go.jp/saikosai/、
　２　Japan Federation of Bar Associations https://www.nichibenren.or.jp/、
　３　The Public Prosecutors Office https://www.kensatsu.go.jp/top.shtml、
　４　The Japan Federation of Shiho-shoshi's Associations https://www.shiho-shoshi.or.jp/

Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

Academic Year	2024Year	School/Graduate School	School of Education
Lecture Code	CC245503	Subject Classification	Specialized Education
Subject Name	現代司法論
Subject Name （Katakana）	ゲンダイシホウロン
Subject Name in English	Overview of Contemporary Judiciary
Instructor	HATA HIROTO
Instructor (Katakana)	ハタ　ヒロト
Campus	Higashi-Hiroshima	Semester/Term	2nd-Year, First Semester, 1Term
Days, Periods, and Classrooms	(1T) Fri5-8：EDU K208
Lesson Style	Lecture	Lesson Style (More Details)
Mainly lectures, Projectors instead of board writings, Blackboard 9 is always used for presentations by students, cross references, and Q & A sessions.
Credits	2.0	Class Hours/Week		Language of Instruction	J : Japanese
Course Level	2 : Undergraduate Low-Intermediate
Course Area（Area）	24 : Social Sciences
Course Area（Discipline）	01 : Law
Eligible Students	sophomore, 3rd semester, Mainly students on the Program in Social Studies Education
Keywords	Judicial System, Legal Profession, Sociology of Judicial Process, Judicial Administration, Rule of Law, Training of Legal Professionals, Sociology of Law, Socio-Legal Studies, Bureaucratic Judiciary, Democratic Judiciary, Reformation of Judicial Institutions
Special Subject for Teacher Education		Special Subject
Class Status within Educational Program (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
Criterion referenced Evaluation (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)	Secondary School Social Studies/Geography/History/Civic Education （Knowledge and Understanding）・With regard to civic education field in secondary social education, to have basic knowledge of its teaching contents. （Abilities and Skills）・To be able to collect, understand, analyze, and evaluate data and materials about studies related to social science.
Class Objectives /Class Outline	You will understand the status quo of Japanese legal system in relation to respective procedure and profession.To develop and improve the contents of civics education with the times, operation process of modern judiciary systematically and dynamically using lows or social studies models, and by acquiring analytical abilities to criticize situation of judicial process correctly, quality of students who will be teachers will be improved.
Class Schedule	lesson 1 Systematic Understanding about Judicial Institutions lesson 2 The Bar 1: Lawyer lesson 3 The Bar 2: Prosecutor lesson 4 The Bar 3: Judge and Justice lesson 5 Other Law-related Professions lesson 6 Civil Procedure 1: Before Court lesson 7 Civil Procedure 2: Use of the Law by the People lesson 8 Civil Procesure 3: In Court lesson 9 Civil Procedure 4: Appellate System lesson10 Criminal Procedure 1: Crime and Delinquency in Society lesson11 Criminal Procedure 2: Police Investigation lesson12 Criminal Procedure 3: Prosecutor as Gatekeeper lesson13 Criminal Procedure 4: Defense Attorney representing and balancing different interests for Social Justice lesson14 Criminal Procedure 5: Adjudication and Sentencing by Judges lesson15 Access to Justice and Popular Participation in the Process At the end of a semester, a written exam will be held. Lectures will be given in line with the textbook. At the end, an written exam will be held. 　Students will submit papers at the end of May and at the beginning of July. They should write a note on the WebCT to show that they have read the textbook.
Text/Reference Books,etc.	Text: Shigeo Kisa et al. eds., " Textbook Contemporary Justice," the 6th edition, Nihon Hyouronsha, 2015. 　Reference books: "Judiciary Bureaucrat: Men of Power of the Court," written by Shindo Muneyuki, Iwanami Shinsyo in 2009, 　　　　　"The Reality of a Judicial Process: The Field Work of Sociological Jurisprudence,"written by Miyazawa Setsuo and others published by Shinzansha-Shuppan in 1994 The style of lecture: Preparation and review are of course essential. ; Board Writing in the projection style; The text is essential to attend this class. ; We will regard discussion, debate, and presentation of students important. (On the WEB); Lecture's summaries are going to be put up on the bulletin board for class after. In the case of using ＤＶＤ (It takes 60 minutes, documentary film "The Story of Courts in Japan and Germany" published by Seido Production in 1999)
PC or AV used in Class,etc.
(More Details)	Texts, materials distributed on TEAMS, and movies (video).
Learning techniques to be incorporated
Suggestions on Preparation and Review	You must read the specified pages of the text before and research the related articles and/or materials after it."　It's a method that is faithful to a principle and repeats for 15 weeks a set menu composed of two hours of preparation, other two hours, actually 90 minutes, of a lecture, and other two hours of review every week. As "preparation", text understanding should be done in the designated part of every class. As "review", you should investigate and confirm the matters you couldn't understand in last lecture by yourself, and write a report about subject interesting. ※"Preparation" and "review" I say mean more offensive ones of high teaching level than ones you have knew so far, and they are the words I made. I accompanied the change of how to spell one legal term, learning, in Chinese character.
Requirements	Subjects related to subjects 　You can post your report on the electric notice board of Bb9.
Grading Method	Final examination (100 points). And you can submit 2 Reports and get 20 points (10 scores multiplied by two times) at most. 　You are always examined whether or not you make a effect to recognize the world with jurisprudence thought or social scientific models after having read the text enough. I guess that major candidates of theme of a report are the construction of descriptions in the text, logical composition of invoked ideas and theories, and matters related to the truth of cases and statistics. And, about cases and statistics, you should investigate them to a certain degree by yourself at first before asking me a question in order not to make me be confused by a question asking a teacher to investigate it from the beginning. You should pay attention as well as you can. (A question like,　"I have investigated until here, but I can't find the next absolutely. " is possible.) In short, I wish you to give a report as an evidence of question setting and answering by yourself repeatedly. The style is similar to the last class, the outline of jurisprudence. You should do it efficiently.
Practical Experience
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it
Message	According to the article 21 (2) of the Standards for Establishment of Universities, it's said that "To compose one unit class subject with the contents calling for 45 hours of learning is the standard", so, you should do your "learning" of 60 hours individually except 30 hours of classes to get two units in this class. In this class, I'm sure that you will consume such time in preparation and review such as text's reading and writing reports. Please refer to the article 19 (3) of general notices of Hiroshima universities in which you can see the same intent.
Other	ＵＲＬ of related website：１　The Supreme Court https://www.courts.go.jp/saikosai/、　２　Japan Federation of Bar Associations https://www.nichibenren.or.jp/、　３　The Public Prosecutors Office https://www.kensatsu.go.jp/top.shtml、　４　The Japan Federation of Shiho-shoshi's Associations https://www.shiho-shoshi.or.jp/
Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes. Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

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