IVRJ 2023: THE 2ND IVR JAPAN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
PROGRAM

Days: Saturday, September 16th Sunday, September 17th Monday, September 18th

Saturday, September 16th

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Sunday, September 17th

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09:00-10:40 Session 1A: Concept of Law
Chair:
Kamil Zeidler (University of Gdansk, Poland)
Location: Room A
09:00
Jacopo Martire (University of Bristol, UK)
Liquid modernity, technoregulation and the problem of human dignity (abstract)
09:25
Motoki Miura (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan)
A Quantitative Turn in Law and Coercion?: An Short Examination (abstract)
09:50
Mauro Zamboni (Faculty of Law, Stockholm University, Sweden, Sweden)
ONLY ONE MUST PREVAIL: POSITIVE LAW AND OTHER NON-STATE NORMATIVE SYSTEMS (abstract)
09:00-10:40 Session 1B: East Meets West: Indonesia and Japan
Chair:
Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Location: Room B
09:00
Ferry Fathurokhman (Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa, Indonesia)
The Legality of Living Law in the New Indonesian Penal Code (abstract)
09:25
Ryunosuke Hoshikawa (doctoral course, Japan)
An Aspect of the Reception of Spinoza's Political Thought in Japan (abstract)
09:50
Min Seong Kim (Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia)
Indonesia’s state ideology and the conditions of post-foundational political thought (abstract)
10:15
Aleardo Zanghellini (University of Reading, UK)
A Critical Recuperation of Watsuji’s Rinrigaku (abstract)
09:00-10:40 Session 1C: Crisis of Constitutionalism
Chair:
Michael Goldhammer (EBS University Law School, Germany)
Location: Room C
09:00
Teresa Chirkowska-Smolak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
Perceived stress and occupational burnout among Polish lawyers during the constitutional crisis (abstract)
09:25
Kun-Lung Hsieh (School of Law, National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
The Administrative State and Judicial Deference in the U.S. and Beyond (abstract)
09:50
Marek Smolak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Law and Administration, Poland)
What the Polish constitutional crisis tells us about liberal constitutionalism (abstract)
09:00-10:40 Session 1D: Equality
Chair:
Chao-Ju Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Location: Room D
09:00
Yuichiro Mori (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Freedom of Movement for All? Toward a More Individualist Relational Equality (abstract)
09:25
Kohei Nagayama (Graduate School of Law, Kanazawa University, Japan)
‘Special Quota’ is Fair? The pros and cons of introducing affirmative action in admissions - to criticize meritocracy. (abstract)
09:50
Kiyoharu Sakakibara (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Equal Respect for All: A Moral Justification for Universal Basic Income (abstract)
11:10-12:50 Session 2A: Legal Thoughts
Chair:
Tomasz Widłak (University of Gdańsk, Poland)
Location: Room A
11:10
Buğrahan Fertellioğlu (Ph.D. Candidate, Germany)
Beyond legal positivism: Hegel's concept of positive right (abstract)
11:35
Andrew Chueh-An Yen (College of Law, National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
The Value Commitment of Value-Relativists (abstract)
12:00
Monika Zalewska (University of Lodz, Poland)
Universality of Hans Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law (abstract)
12:25
Hidehiko Adachi (Faculty of Law, Kanazawa University, Japan)
Can a Law be Just? (abstract)
11:10-12:50 Session 2B: East Meets West: China
Chair:
Chao Wang (University of Macau, Macao)
Location: Room B
11:10
Yan Cui (Gansu University of Political Science and Law, China)
The Search for Common Normative Foundations between East and West (abstract)
11:35
Po-Jung Su (Heidelberg University, Taiwan)
Confucian Virtues and Democracy: On Joseph Chan’s Confucian Perfectionism (abstract)
12:00
Xiaobo Zhai (university of macao, Macao)
Han Fei and Fuller: an Examination of Kenneth Winston’s Reading of Han Fei (abstract)
11:10-12:50 Session 2C: Legitimacy, Democracy and Civil Disobedience
Chair:
Teresa Chirkowska-Smolak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland)
Location: Room C
11:10
Ming-Yuan Chin (Doctoral course, Graduate School of Law, Keio University, Japan)
Is autonomy-based civil disobedience possible? (abstract)
11:35
Gen Fukushima (Waseda University Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Japan)
Conceptually Engineering Political Legitimacy (abstract)
12:00
Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu (Institute of Law, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Civil Disobedience and the Rule of Law: How Taiwanese Courts Respond to Civil Disobedience (abstract)
11:10-12:50 Session 2D: Gender
Chair:
Jin-Sook Yun (Soongsil University, South Korea)
Location: Room D
11:10
Chao-Ju Chen (National Taiwan University College of Law (distinguished professor), Taiwan)
Marital Status Discrimination Revisited (abstract)
11:35
Kuan-Ting Chen (Ph.d student, College of Law, National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
A Rawlsian Critic on Stability problem of Public Reason: Same-Sex Marriage Debates in Taiwan as an Example (abstract)
12:00
Seow Hon Tan (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Decriminalizing Homosexual Acts, Strengthening Heterosexual Monogamous Marriage: A Jurisprudential Analysis of Singapore’s Unique Approach towards Heterosexual Norms (abstract)
12:25
Yuting Tan (University of Macao, Macao)
"Bridging the Gender Gap in Financial Technology: A Cross-Cultural Study of East and West" (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session 3: Kobe Lecture
Chair:
Hidehiko Adachi (Kanazawa University, Japan)
Location: Main Hall
14:00
Daniel A. Bell (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
In Defense of Symbolic Monarchy
16:15-17:55 Session 4A: Legal Reasoning
Chair:
Hidehiko Adachi (Kanazawa University, Japan)
Location: Room A
16:15
Dominique Ferreira (University of Münster, Germany)
Learning from Comparative Law (abstract)
16:40
Michael Goldhammer (EBS University Law School (Wiesbaden), Germany)
Truth & knowledge: on the epistemological logics of judicial review in public law (abstract)
17:05
Nozomi Hayakawa (Momoyama Gakuin University (St. Andrew's University), Faculty of Law, Japan)
Recent Debates Over Originalism and Moral Reading (abstract)
17:30
Katsuaki Hayase (Konan University, Japan)
Right answer and pragmatism (abstract)
16:15-17:55 Session 4B: East Meets West: Contemporary Issues
Chair:
Celia Filipa Ferreira Matias (University of Macau, Faculty of Law, Macao)
Location: Room B
16:15
Hsin-Hsuan Lin (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
Personal Data Protection from Asian Perspective: A Probe into Database Litigation in Japan and Taiwan (abstract)
16:40
Tomasz Pietrzykowski (University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland)
EASTERN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE MEETS EUROPEAN LAW. UNMET NEEDS, EQUAL TREATMENT AND REGULATORY GAP. (abstract)
17:05
Chao Wang (Faculty of Law, University of Macau, Macao)
In Search of Normative Consensus: Hong Kong in the Age of PRC’s Alienation from the International System (abstract)
17:30
Verena Wodniansky-Wildenfeld (Department of European, International and Comparative Law, Austria)
East or West - which Approach is Best? The Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Modern Parenthood (abstract)
16:15-17:55 Session 4C: Social Philosphy: Climate and Population
Chair:
Fumihiko Ishiyama (Chuo University, Japan)
Location: Room C
16:15
Seiko Urayama (Seijo University, Japan)
Admitting Climate Migrants as Compensation (abstract)
16:40
Makoto Usami (Kyoto University, Japan)
Sufficientarianism in Variable Population Settings (abstract)
16:15-17:55 Session 4D: Crime and Punishment
Chair:
Ferry Fathurokhman (Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa, Indonesia)
Location: Room D
16:15
Keng-Wei Fan (National Dong Hwa University, Department of Law, Taiwan)
Rethinking the Ethics of Capital Punishment in East Asia: An Observation about “Sentencing Criteria for the Death Penalty” in the Supreme Courts of Japan and Taiwan (abstract)
16:40
Yi-Wen Huang (Humboldt-University of Berlin & National Taipei University (Phd Student), Germany)
The Development of Criminal Control of Hate Speech: A Comparison Between East and West (abstract)
17:05
Sang Oh Kim (Seoul National University, South Korea)
A Relation Between Act and Criminal Capacity (abstract)
17:30
Valerij Zisman (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Germany)
Reactive Attitudes, Retributive Justice, and the Moral Worth of a Person - A Western Bias? (abstract)
Monday, September 18th

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09:00-10:40 Session 5A: Natural Law, Cosmopolitanism and Global Philosophy of Law
Chair:
Carlos Isler (Universidad San Sebastián, Chile)
Location: Room A
09:00
Bertram Lomfeld (Free University Berlin, Germany)
TRACING BASIC LEGAL REASONS – An Attempt in Global Philosophy of Law (abstract)
09:25
Kento Miyata (Otaru University of Commerce, Japan)
How Can We Share Cosmopolitan Hope Interculturally?  –– Foundation, Permissibility and Rationality of Cosmopolitan Hope (abstract)
09:50
Carlton Patrick (University of Central Florida, United States)
Moral Universals, Evolution, and Natural Law (abstract)
09:00-10:40 Session 5B: Panel
Location: Room B
09:00
Nao Saito (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Fumino Iwakuma (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan)
Shihoko Nemoto (Nihon University, Japan)
Kazumasa Oda (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Midori Wakamori (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan)
The Development of Commons Thought in Late 20th Century Japan (abstract)
09:00-10:40 Session 5C: Immigration
Chair:
Seiko Urayama (Seijo University, Japan)
Location: Room C
09:00
Khadijeh Hamidian Shour Masty (University of Winchester, UK)
Connecting eastern and western legal prospectives on justice and forced migration: Redefining The 1951 Refugee Convention for a more effective international immigration system (abstract)
09:25
Takayuki Kawase (Chiba University, Japan)
Multiculturalism and Liberal Nationalism: Liberal Integration of Immigrants (abstract)
09:50
Henry Vumjou (Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, India)
Where Kant’s Hospitality Meets "Zo Hospitality"? (abstract)
10:15
Tatsuya Yokohama (Shizuoka University, Japan)
The significance of states’ territorial jurisdictions as the basis of discretionary immigration control (abstract)
09:00-10:40 Session 5D: Law and Education
Chair:
Michihiro Kaino (Doshisha University, Japan)
Location: Room D
09:00
Tomi Hämäläinen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
How to Educate a World Conqueror? Xenophon’s Guidebook for Virtues of Global Power Politics (abstract)
09:25
Amelia Shooter (University of Winchester, UK)
Legal Scientific Education in the UK and the US: Considering Legal Education as a Tool to Uphold Justice in Criminal Decisions (abstract)
09:50
Tomasz Widłak (University of Gdańsk, Poland)
Way of the judge: on judicial virtues and appointing judges of character (abstract)
11:10-12:50 Session 6A: Legal Thoeries
Chair:
Monika Zalewska (University of Lodz, Poland)
Location: Room A
11:10
Wojciech Engelking (Department of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, Poland)
The possibility of normativity in anomie: ancient and modern answers (abstract)
11:35
Adrien Schifano (Tokyo International University, Japan)
Crises and Change in the Legal Doctrine of International Organizations (abstract)
12:00
Kamil Zeidler (University of Gdansk, Poland)
Dawid Kostecki (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
Paula Chmielowska (University of Gdansk, Poland)
Aesthetics of Law as a Branch of the Philosophy of Law (abstract)
11:10-12:50 Session 6B: Cultural Diversity
Chair:
Carlton Patrick (University of Central Florida, United States)
Location: Room B
11:10
Fumihiko Ishiyama (Chuo University, Japan)
Against misleading criticisms of accommodating cultural differences in law (abstract)
11:35
Arinori Kawamura (Nagasaki University, associate professor, Japan)
East Meets West :Are cultural identities that violate human rights under international law justified? (abstract)
12:00
Kosuke Kiyama (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
International Human Rights Norms in the Culturally Diverse World (abstract)
12:25
Emeric Prévost (Meiji University, University of Vienna, University of Strasbourg, Austria)
Aleksandra Czubak (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Differing conceptions of Justice for the resolutions of legal disputes: How to bridge the gap between West and East? (abstract)
11:10-12:50 Session 6C: Role of Government
Chair:
Tatsuya Yokohama (Shizuoka University, Japan)
Location: Room C
11:10
Takuto Kobayashi (Waseda University, Japan)
How (Not) to Object to Political Instrumentalism (abstract)
11:35
Rei Takahashi (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Group Well-Being and What States Ought to Do (abstract)
12:00
Kotaro Yonemura (Rikkyo University, Japan)
How to Reconcile Neutrality with Perfection: On Kramer’s Aspirational Perfectionism (abstract)
11:10-12:50 Session 6D: Bentham and Legislation
Chair:
Xiaobo Zhai (University of Macao, Macao)
Location: Room D
11:10
Malik Bozzo-Rey (Lille Catholic University, France)
Bentham's Indirect Legislation: Prevention, Psychology and Normativity (abstract)
11:35
Michihiro Kaino (Faculty of Law, Doshisha University, Japan)
On Bentham’s Plan of ‘‘Preventive Police’’ (abstract)
12:00
Jon Williamson (Philosophy, University of Kent, UK)
Applying Evidential Pluralism to evidence-based law (abstract)
14:00-15:40 Session 7A: Nature of Rights
Chair:
Aleardo Zanghellini (UNIVERSITY OF READING, UK)
Location: Room A
14:00
Akihiko Morita (Harvard University/McLean Hospital/Institute of Coaching, Japan)
East meets West: A paradigm shift in human rights philosophies (abstract)
14:25
Ken Oshitani (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Scanlon’s Instrumentalist Theory of Rights Reconsidered (abstract)
14:50
Tze-Shiou Chien (Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
A Positive Economic Theory of Right/Law (abstract)
14:00-15:40 Session 7B: Rule of Law
Chair:
Kotaro Yonemura (Rikkyo University, Japan)
Location: Room B
14:00
Hung-Ju Chen (The Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Ruled by AI? A Critical Examination from Lon Fuller’s Internal Morality of Law (abstract)
14:25
Carlos Isler (Universidad San Sebastián, Chile)
The Rule of Law in Francisco de Vitoria (abstract)
14:50
Jin-Sook Yun (Soongsil University, South Korea)
Overcoming the Possible Problem of Democracy and the Rule of Law (abstract)
14:00-15:40 Session 7C: Autonomy, Liability and Responsibility
Chair:
Jon Williamson (University of Kent, UK)
Location: Room C
14:00
Celia Filipa Ferreira Matias (University of Macau, Faculty of Law, Macao)
The Bonus Paterfamilias of the Information Age - A Virtue Ethics Perspective (abstract)
14:25
Rika Sasaki (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Relational Scalar Autonomy without Threshold (abstract)
14:50
Nobuaki Yamamoto (Research Center on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues, OSAKA UNIVERSITY, Japan)
A Conception of Legal Causation Theory with Application of Interventionist Accounts (abstract)
16:10-17:10 Session 8: Plenary Lecture: Hirohide Takikawa
Chair:
Makoto Usami (Kyoto University, Japan)
Location: Main Hall
16:10
Hirohide Takikawa (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Legitimate Authority: Democracy Meets Authoritarianism