2020 Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Humanities and social science courses
Law (Civil Procedure Law) C
- Academic unit or major
- Humanities and social science courses
- Instructor(s)
- Hironao Kaneko
- Class Format
- Lecture (Zoom)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 5-6 Mon (W935) / 5-6 Thu (W935)
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- LAH.S302
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2020
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 10, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
In this course students will study about the Civil Procedure Law, Civil execution Law and civil justice system. This course corresponds to the credit "Civil Procedure Law" for entry of some official professional examinations.
The purpose of studying the Civil Procedure Law is to understand the Civil Justice System especialy court system. This course focuse on the legal logic and structure of court system. Through sturdying Civil Procedure, students can extend knowledge of Civil Law, ADR(Alternative Dispute Resolution) and so on.
Course description and aims
Based on the understanding of civil law, Study about the litigation on rights and legal relationships through theoretical analsys and case studies.
Student learning outcomes
実務経験と講義内容との関連 (又は実践的教育内容)
Based on lacturr's experience as a researcher at the software protection institution, students can practically understand justice system including international dispute resolution.
Keywords
civil procedure, litigation, judgement, celf execution, ADR
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Based on the kowledge of civil law, study about the civil procedure law theoretically and through case method. Picking some Japanese cases and discussing about the problem on the cases.Using Code book.
Students not accustomed to Japanese-Chinese characters will welcom.
(Slids will contain English term as possible. We will prepare Supplemental Material in English.)
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Civil Dispute, Justice system | Understand Civil Justice System |
| Class 2 | Method and theory of the conflict resolution | comparing some dispute resolution system, understand the role of Civil Court system |
| Class 3 | Object of civil litigation | understand the object and limitation of civil litigation |
| Class 4 | Party of civil litigation | understand the party of civil litigation |
| Class 5 | The principles of civil litigation | understand principles of civil litigation |
| Class 6 | Claim, Trial | understand regulation on claims and trial |
| Class 7 | Evidence | evidence |
| Class 8 | Judgement | understand the effect of judgment |
| Class 9 | Cost of dispute | learn about cost |
| Class 10 | ADR | learn about ADR |
| Class 11 | Appeal | learn about complaint agains judgement |
| Class 12 | Multi party litigation | multiple party and complex litigation |
| Class 13 | Access to Justice | Learn about justice |
| Class 14 | General | Final Exam |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged preparing and reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Kobayashi, et al., HOUGAKU-KOUGI MINJI-SOSHOHO(Legal Courses Civil Procedure Law), (KOUBUNDO 2018)(In Japanese)
compact size code book("Ropou", any publisher)necessary
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Minji sosohou Hanrei Hyakusen (Yuhikaku)
Evaluation methods and criteria
Daily Work (30%) & Intermediate report + Test(70%)
Related courses
- LAH.S102 ： Law (Civil Law) A
- LAH.S202 ： Law (Civil Law) B
- LAH.S303 ： Law (Intelectual Property Law) C
- LAH.S101 ： Law (Constitutional Law) A
- LAH.S250 ： Seminar on Social Sciences (Japanese Law Study Seminar)1
Prerequisites
Participate at first and second classes to understand progress of the course.
Basic civil law knowledge
If it were first time to learn civil law, recomend to learn by edX Mooc https://www.citl.titech.ac.jp/japaneselaw/
Take note, you sometimes need produce it as assignment.
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
kaneko(@)ila.titech.ac.jp
Office hours
Mon&Thu 12:00PM to 12:30PM
Other
Lecture by ZOOM in 2020
Start time of 5-6th afternoon courses may change this year. Please check time table of liberal arts courses.