IVRJ 2026: THE 3RD IVR JAPAN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
PROGRAM

Days: Friday, March 27th Saturday, March 28th Sunday, March 29th

Friday, March 27th

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Saturday, March 28th

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09:30-10:30 Session 1A: Justice, Legitimacy and Democracy
09:30
On the moral basis for recognitional legitimacy (abstract)
10:00
Workplace Democracy for Nonhuman Animals (abstract)
09:30-11:00 Session 1C: Judicial Review and Judicial Deliberation
09:30
Demystifying the Public in the Judicial Review of Japanese Court through the Perspective of Relational Autonomy (abstract)
10:00
Reappraising the Roberts Court Revolution (abstract)
10:30
Collective Intentionality and Judicial Deliberation: Preliminary Insights from Collegiate Courts in Europe (abstract)
09:30-10:30 Session 1D: Technology and Law
09:30
AI and the Limits of Law: Exploring the Debate on Legal Singularity (abstract)
10:00
From Tools to Agents: Rethinking Will, Autonomy, and Legal Personhood in the Age of AI Agents and Avatars (abstract)
09:30-11:00 Session 1E: Human Rights 1
09:30
Social Recognition and the Foundations of Rights: A Comparative Analysis of Hannah Arendt and T.H. Green (abstract)
10:00
Reconstructing the Juridical Foundations of Humanity: Hannah Arendt on Rights, Dignity, and Human Existence (abstract)
10:30
Human Rights, Democracy, and the Idea of Communism (abstract)
09:30-11:00 Session 1F: Criminal Liability and Retribution
Location: Lounge
09:30
Death Penalty, Communication, and Democratic Law- Reflections on Jimmy Hsu’s Hybrid Theory of Capital Punishment (abstract)
10:00
Error Regarding Duress (abstract)
10:30
Possession, Retribution, and Disobedience (abstract)
11:00-11:30Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Session 2A: Constitutionalism and Populism
11:30
The Taiwan Constitutional Court in a Dance with Politics: The Debate on Constitutional Loyalty and Democratic Self-Defense (abstract)
12:00
The Validity of Law in the Context of Populist Constitutional Amendment (abstract)
11:30-13:10 Session 2B: Bentham, Mill and Classical Utilitarians
11:30
The originality of Bentham's theory of evidence (abstract)
11:55
Among the Poor: Character, Democracy and Social Knowledge in Early-Victorian Manchester (abstract)
12:20
Bentham's Panopticon and His Idea of Indirect Legislation (abstract)
12:45
J. S. Mill on the Settler Colonies (abstract)
11:30-13:10 Session 2C: Analytical Jurisprudence
11:30
The Relation between Law and Its Users: Some Remarks on the Notion of Collective Acceptance/Recognition in the Artifact Theory of Law (abstract)
11:55
How Does Law Exist in Imagined Worlds? On the Rightness of Legal Representation (abstract)
12:20
Authorising Coercion (abstract)
12:45
The Force and Internal Morality of Law (abstract)
11:30-13:10 Session 2D: Digitization and Democracy
11:30
Democratic Governance as a Societal Value: Engaged Rulemaking in Digital Times (abstract)
11:55
Rethinking democracy in digital healthcare: access, design, and governance (abstract)
12:20
From Autonomy to Automation: The Crisis of the Legal Subject in Digital Democracy (abstract)
12:45
Volunteer or Vigilante? Algorithmic Fragmentation and Democratic Legitimacy in Content Moderation (abstract)
11:30-13:00 Session 2E: Human Rights 2
11:30
Constitutional Rights and Proportionality as an Approach to Human Rights Protection (abstract)
12:00
An Examination of Arguments for the Human Right to Social Relationship (abstract)
12:30
Phenomenology of Human Rights: Empathy and the identification with the ‘we’ of humanity (abstract)
11:30-13:00 Session 2F: Rule of Law
Location: Lounge
11:30
Moral and Legal Vectors: Why Law is a Blackhole (abstract)
12:00
The Arc's Fondations: Rethinking Dyzenhaus on Law and Justice (abstract)
12:30
Responding to Injustice: Judith Shklar’s two concepts of rights (abstract)
13:00-14:30Lunch Break
16:00-16:30Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Session 4A: Democracy, Decision Making and Governance
Chair:
16:30
Practical Decision Making and the Problem of Framework Choice (abstract)
17:00
A Trustworthiness Account of Central Bank Independence (abstract)
17:30
The Seniority Problem with Legislative Intent: Party Power Dynamics and Democratic Values (abstract)
16:30-17:30 Session 4B: Constitutional Law and Constitutionalism
16:30
Taiwan's Current Democratic Crisis: An Observation from the Perspective of Constitutionalism (abstract)
17:00
Constitutional Thought of Mobilization in the 1930s–1950s: the War Cooperation of Japanese Legal Scholars and Post-War Democratization (abstract)
16:30-18:00 Session 4C: Populism and Judiciary
16:30
Populist deconstruction of the liberal legal order (abstract)
17:00
INSIDE AND BEYOND PROTESTANTISM: JURISPRUDENCE IN TURMOIL UNDER THE ATTACK OF AUTHORITARIAN-POPULISM (abstract)
17:30
The Relational Dimension of Judicial Independence: Courts, Power, and Social Trust in Post-2015 Poland (abstract)
16:30-18:10 Session 4D: AI and Democracy
16:30
Democracy After Truth: Reconstructing Ethical and Epistemic Foundations in the Age of AI (abstract)
16:55
Linguistic Justice and Minority Language Rights in the Age of AI Translation (abstract)
17:20
Translation and Interpreting Technologies and Democratic Legitimacy: Toward Institutionally Embedded Linguistic Risk Governance (abstract)
17:45
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: An Analysis from the Perspective of Constitution, Law and Applied Ethics (abstract)
16:30-18:00 Session 4E: Feminism and Reproduction
16:30
The Flawed Application of Abortion Law in Chile: Reflections and Areas for Improvement (abstract)
17:00
Locating Nedelsky in Relational Autonomy Debates (abstract)
17:30
Justice Beyond Jurisdiction: Feminist Legal Pluralism and the Cross-Recognition of Sexual Harassment Tribunal Awards in China and Malaysia (abstract)
16:30-18:00 Session 4F: Philosophy of Punishment
Location: Lounge
16:30
Climate Protests, Civil Disobedience, and Democratic Legitimacy: A Legal-Philosophical Analysis (abstract)
17:00
Sentencing as an Expression of a Democratic Criminal Law (abstract)
17:30
State Punishment and Authority (abstract)
Sunday, March 29th

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09:30-11:00 Session 5A: Relationship 1
09:30
Placing Interpersonal Interactions at the Center of Justice Theory (abstract)
10:00
Relational Personhood as a Theoretical Foundation for Law in Liberal Democracies (abstract)
10:30
The Self-respect Approach to Responsibility-cut: A novel distributive demand of relational equality (abstract)
09:30-10:30 Session 5B: Normativity and Human Dignity
09:30
Re-narrating Human Dignity at the Crossroads of Liberal Modernity (abstract)
10:00
Adam Smith’s ‘Impartial Spectator’ and the Normativity of Law. (abstract)
09:30-11:00 Session 5C: International Justice and International law
09:30
The Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine: Goals, Challenges and Relation with the Rule of Law (abstract)
10:00
Why Should We Care about The Authority of International Law? (abstract)
10:30
At a slight angle to the Universe: SWAIL and history of international law (abstract)
09:30-10:30 Session 5D: Climate Change and Disaster
09:30
The Ethics of Intervening in Nature for Disaster Prevention (abstract)
10:00
Moral Uncertainty and Typhoon Control Technology (abstract)
09:30-10:30 Session 5E: Freedom and Justice
09:30
What Can We Learn from the Waldron–Weinstein Exchange? Symbolic Case Fallacy, Democratic Legitimacy, and Hate Speech Regulation (abstract)
10:00
Freedom of Artistic Expression: Norm Entrepreneur or Destroyer of Moral Order? (abstract)
09:30-11:00 Session 5F: Philosophy of Criminal Law
Location: Lounge
09:30
Is it Possible to Construct a Theory of Criminalization? (abstract)
10:00
A Puzzle about Intervening Cause (abstract)
10:30
Democracy, Public Opinion and Criminal Law Theory (abstract)
11:00-11:30Coffee Break
11:30-13:10 Session 6A: Marrige and Children
11:30
Against Right-to-Parent Allocation: Building a Children-Rights Framework (abstract)
11:55
Beyond the Marital-Family Model: Envisioning A Marriage-Free State (abstract)
12:20
The Public Value of Care: Rethinking Family Law in Liberal Democracies (abstract)
12:45
Same-sex relationship recognition and democracy in Japan (abstract)
11:30-13:00 Session 6B: Continental Legal Philosophy
11:30
On the Reliability of Empirical Assumptions in Proportionality under Robert Alexy’s Principle Theory (abstract)
12:00
Sociality of Law as Ground of Legal Norms: On the Legal Theory of Werner Maihofer (abstract)
12:30
From Facts to Norms: Wittgenstein and Kelsen Revisited (abstract)
11:30-12:30 Session 6C: Legal Transplants, EU, and Communitarianism
11:30
Reevaluating Legal Families: Toward a Dynamic Genealogy and Typology for Legal Mimesis (abstract)
12:00
Natural law theory and acquisition of indigenous lands in North America and Japan (abstract)
11:30-13:10 Session 6D: Artificial Intelligence and Law
11:30
Investigating the Lisbon Treaty’s Impact - A Stochastic Block Model (abstract)
11:55
AI Anxiety and Trust in Artificial Intelligence: Emotional and Ethical Responses among Polish Legal Professionals (abstract)
12:20
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Deliberative Democracy: The Case of the Habermas Machine (abstract)
12:45
Rule of Law and the Possibility of Individualizing Law (abstract)
11:30-13:10 Session 6E: Justice and Fairness
11:30
Epistemic Dimension of Structural Injustice and Disruption (abstract)
11:55
Rethinking Conscientious Objection for Environmental Sustainability (abstract)
12:20
Self-respect, Stability and Distribution in Liberal Democratic Societies (abstract)
12:45
Partial Compliance, Fair Play, and Reciprocity (abstract)
11:30-13:00 Session 6F: Democracy, Law and Society
Location: Lounge
11:30
On the Relation between Democracy and the Rule of Law. The Constitutive and Normative Approach (abstract)
12:00
Making Democracy Intelligible: Dewey, the Social, and Narrative Inquiry (abstract)
12:30
The Statutory Legislative Model and Participatory Democracy: Strengths, Limits, and Democratic Tensions (abstract)
13:00-14:30Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 Session 7A: Care and Personalized Law
14:30
Beyond Same-sex Marriage: Reconstructing the Marriage Law in Taiwan (abstract)
15:00
Personalized Affirmative Action? On Its Potential (abstract)
15:30
Deprivatising Care & Uncovering Ir-Relationalities: Care Ethics and Individuality in the Law (abstract)
14:30-16:10 Session 7B: Theories on Rule
14:30
Rules and Principles: A Distinction Through Possible Worlds Semantics (abstract)
14:55
The Fiction of Finality – Law Between Uncertainty and Order (abstract)
15:20
The Rule-like Features of Law and its Moral Value: A Critique of Lon Fuller’s Argument from Reciprocity (abstract)
15:45
The End of the Rules-Based Order, Long Live the Rules-Based Order (abstract)
14:30-16:00 Session 7C: Global Justice and Nationalism
14:30
(via Zoom) Fairness and Democratic Legitimacy in Sovereign Debt Governance: Rethinking International Financial Law (abstract)
15:00
How Can a Landscape of Our Community Shape Nationalist and Conservative Norms? (abstract)
15:30
Beyond Deparochialization: Rethinking Global Justice through the Lens of the Marginalized (abstract)
14:30-16:00 Session 7D: Relationship 2
14:30
How Egalitarianism Can Overcome Environmental Injustice? (abstract)
15:00
The Legal Right to Protection from Loneliness: Social Isolation, Disability and Old Age. (abstract)
15:30
Limits and Contradictions of Family Reunification in Immigration Law (abstract)
14:30-16:00 Session 7E: Justice in Contexts
14:30
Capital Sentencing After Taiwan's Constitutional Court’s Death Penalty Ruling: A Critical Reflection through the Lens of Punishment Theory and Human Right (abstract)
15:00
Restorative Justice Values within the New Indonesian Penal Code (abstract)
15:30
Irregular Migrants and the Case for Amnesty Revisited (abstract)
14:30-16:00 Session 7F: Democracy and variants
Location: Lounge
14:30
Mapping Militant Democracy: A Framework for Understanding Legal Defenses of Democratic Order (abstract)
15:00
Democracy and Its Pretenders (abstract)
15:30
Can ‘militant democracy’ serve as a response to far right? (abstract)
16:00-16:30Coffee Break