Law and Politics Course

Overview

Students will study basic, public, social, and civil law as well as politics. The study of basic law involves building a foundation of positive law through research on the concepts of law, history, foreign laws, and so on. The study of public and social law aims to understand interpretations of the law as related to the nation, local governments, and civic life. The study of civil law focuses on understanding interpretations of law that discipline human environments. In politics, students look at both the ideal and the reality of politics making full use of scientific examinations along with an understanding of the history of politics, philosophy, and the functions of media. Kanazawa University is home to professors of the various fields mentioned above. Therefore, using what they have achieved in each specialized field, graduate students are expected to conduct their own creative studies to widen their horizons and challenge the status quo within the academic community and actual practice.

Faculty

Name	Research Fields	E-mail (* Note2)
ADACHI Hidehiko	Jurisprudence	hadachi@staff.
ISHIO Tomohisa	Civil Law	ishio@staff.
ISHIDA Michihiko	Social Security Law	ishidami@staff.
OKAMOTO Yoshitaka	Modern History, British Diplomatic History, History of European International Relations	y.okamoto@staff.
OTOMO Nobuhide	Intellectual Property Law	otomo@staff.
OKADA Hiroshi	Polimetrics	hokada@staff.
OSANAI Hiroki	Administrative Law	osanai@staff.
KIMURA Takahiro	Public Policy	kimurat@kenroku.
KOIZUMI Tatsuya	Modern Chinese History, History of British Empire, History of Hong Kong	tatsuyakoi@staff.
GODA Atsuko	Civil Law	goda@staff.
SATO Shunsuke	International Institutions, European Integration	s-sato@staff.
SATO Miki	Criminal Procedure Law	satomiki@staff.
NAKANO Ryoko	International Relations Theory, International Relations Thought, International Politics in East Asia	rnakano@staff.
NAKAMASA Masaki★	History of Political Thought	nakamas@staff.
NAKAMURA Masato	Asian Legal History	mnaka@staff.
NAGAI Yoshiyuki	Criminal Law	y-nagai@staff.
HAYATSU Hirotaka	Labor Law	hayatsu.hirotaka@staff.
HIGASHIKAWA Koji	Foreign Law	eastriv@staff.
FOX Senan James	International Relations, International Political History of East Asia, Maritime Issues in East Asia	senanfox@staff.
FUKUMOTO Tomoyuki	Civil Litigation Law	fukumoto@staff.
HONG Soongang	Economic Law	hongsg@staff.
HONDA Tetsuya	Local Autonomy	txhonda@staff.
MARUMOTO Yumiko	Japanese Legal History	y-marumoto@staff.
MURAKAMI Hiroshi	Commercial Law	hiroshim@staff.
YAMAZAKI Tomoya	Constitutional Law	tyamazak@staff.
WATANABE Atsuko	History of geo-political thought, international political theory	atsukowtnb@staff.
WARASY Kasim	Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, Democratization and Nation Building	wafayezada@staff.

Note

1. Those with ■ on the right of the name column will not be Senior Supervisors because they will transfer in March 2026, ☆ in March 2027, and ★ in March 2028.
2.  Note2: Please add “kanazawa-u.ac.jp” after the “E-mail” field.

Faculty Members

Faculty Name: Hidehiko Adachi

Research Theme

My research theme is legal theory (philosophy of law). Legal philosophy is an academic discipline that addresses the question, “What is law?” To address this question, I place particular emphasis on the aspects of “the relationship between law and logic” and “the relationship between law and justice. Logic is the common language of academia, but since law is normative, I am trying to understand law in particular using “logic of obligation,” a language that can express norms. Justice has also been considered to be closely related to “equality” since Aristotle. I am also interested in the interpretation of that equality. We welcome students who wish to understand law from the perspective of logic and justice (equality). Currently (June 2024), we are supervising two graduate students in the doctoral program and three graduate students in the master’s program.

Other Research Themes, Subjects, etc.

• Legal thought of Gustav Radbruch and other neo-Kantian legal philosophers
• Robert Alexy’s theory of constitutional rights, especially the distinction between rules and principles

Faculty : Michihiko Ishida

Research Interests

The two graduate students majoring in social security law in the doctoral program are working adults. They are working on their doctoral dissertations while empolyed. One graduate student’s research theme is the systematization of a framework to guarantee the rights of the elderly, including an adult guardianship system and a project for supporting independence in daily living. Another graduate student is researching the role of administrative planning in social security and social welfare. Both of these research themes are of great importance in Japan’s super-aging society, and we look forward to the development of their research in the future.