Law and Politics Course

Overview

Students study basic, public, social, and civil law as well as politics. The study of basic law involves building a foundation for positive law through research on the concepts of law, history, and foreign law. The study of public and social law seeks to understand the interpretation of law in relation to the nation, local governments, and civic life. The study of civil law focuses on understanding the interpretation of laws that regulate the human environments. In politics, students examine both the ideal and the reality of politics, utilizing scientific examinations, along with an understanding of the history of politics, philosophy, and the role of media. Kanazawa University is home to professors in 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 in 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. ■: Transfer in Mar 2026 ☆: Mar 2027 ★: Mar 2028 (Not selectable as preferred advisors.)
2.  Please add “kanazawa-u.ac.jp” after the email address field.

Faculty Members

Faculty Name: Hidehiko Adachi

Research Theme

My research theme is legal theory (the 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 interpreting this equality. We welcome students who wish to understand law from the perspectives of logic and justice (equality). Currently (June 2024), we are supervising two graduate students in a doctoral program and three graduate students in a 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

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