Home Activities Supporting the School of Law Supporting the School of Law Summer School Michigan-Columbia Project Transnational Law Program Course in Autumn-Winter 2007     Summer School Summer School started from 2004 as a part of the Transnational Law Program at the School of Law. This one-week intensive course was held outside campus, and lectured in English by professors and legal practitioners from the US and Europe. Not only the students within the school of law, but also students from inside and outside Japan, young lawyers, and business people participate in the Summer School. IBC, with its track record in international issues, continues to provide substantial supports to the School of Law. 2013 Academic Year Title Introduction to American Law Schedule August 4 - August 9, 2013 Venue Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, LTD. Izu Kogen Club Number of participants 73 from Japan, 9 from Korea, China and Singapore Teaching staff Charles W. Mooney Jr. Professor, University of Pennsylvania; Joseph Hoffmann Professor, Indiana University; Tom Ginsburg Professor, The University of Chicago Christopher Hanna Professor, Southern Methodist University; Veronica Taylor Professor, The Australian National University Professors from the School of Law Masahito Inouye, Professor emeritus; Junichi Matsushita, Dean of School of Law; Keiichi Karatsu, Director of the Summer School Program; Haruo Hirano 2012 Academic Year Title The Global Trends in Modern Corporate Law Schedule August 4 - August 9, 2012 Venue The Conference Center Kazusa Arc Number of participants 55from Japan, 9 from Korea, China and Singapore Teaching staff Dr Harald Baum, MPI Hamburg, Germany; Mr Jacques Buhart, McDermott Will & Emery, Paris, France and Brussels, Belgium; Professor Paul Davies, University of Oxford, UK; Professor Jill Fisch, University of Pennsylvania, US; Professor Gerard Hertig, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Professor Curtis Milhaupt, Columbia University, US; Professor Hideki Kanda, The University of Tokyo Professors from the School of Law Atsushi Yamaguchi, Dean of Graduate Schools for Law and Politics; Junichi Matsushita, Dean of School of Law; Keiichi Karatsu, Director of the Summer School Program 2011 Academic Year Title International Dimension of Modern Competition Law and Policy Schedule August 5 - August 10, 2011 Venue The Conference Center Kazusa Arc Number of participants 50from Japan, 6 from Korea and China Teaching staff Professor Harry First, New York University; Mr. Michael P.A. Cohen, Paul Hastings (Washington D.C.); Mr. Kenju Watanabe, Paul Hastings (New York, Tokyo); Professor Andreas Fuchs, Osnabrueck University Germany; Mr. Jacques Buhart, McDermott Will & Emery (Paris); Professor Tadashi Shiraishi, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, the University of Tokyo Professors from the School of Law Tomonobu Yamashita, Dean of Graduate Schools for Law and Politics; Takashi Araki, Dean of School of Law; Keiichi Karatsu, Director of the Summer School Program; Hideki Kanda 2010 Academic Year Title Introduction to American Law Schedule August 5 - August 10, 2010 Venue The Conference Center Kazusa Arc Number of participants 79from Japan, 9 from Korea, China and Singapore Teaching staff Joseph L. Hoffmann, Professor, Indiana University; Christopher H. Hanna, Professor, Southern Methodist University; Veronica L. Taylor, Professor, University of Washington School of Law; Charles W. Mooney Jr., Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School Professors from the School of Law Tomonobu Yamashita, Dean of Graduate Schools for Law and Politics; Atsushi Omura, Dean of School of Law; Yoshiaki Miyasako, Director of the Summer School Program; Hideki Kanda 2009 Academic Year Title The Global Trends in Modern Corporate Law Schedule August 6 - August 11, 2009 Venue The Conference Center Kazusa Arc Number of participants 82from Japan, 9 from Korea, China and Singapore Teaching staff Professor Reinier Kraakman, Harvard Law School; Professor Gerard Hertig, Swiss Institute of Technology; Professor Klaus Hopt, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law; Professor Paul Davies, London School of Economics Law Department; Professor Edward Rock, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Judge Alice Pezard, French Supreme Court; Mr. Jacques Buhart, Partner and head of Paris office corporate group, Herbert Smith LLP Professors from the School of Law Masahito Inouye, Dean of Graduate Schools for Law and Politics; Hitoshi Saeki, Dean of School of Law; Yoshiaki Miyasako, Director of the Summer School Program; Hideki Kanda 2008 Academic Year Title Business and Law in America Schedule August 6 - August 11, 2008 Venue The Conference Center Kazusa Arc Number of participants 64from Japan, 7 from Korea and China. Teaching staff Tom Ginsburg, Professor, University of Illinois; E. Anthony Zaloom, of-counsel to the Tokyo law firm of Mori Hamada & Matsumoto; Toshiko Takenaka, Professor, University of Washington School of Law; Joseph L. Hoffmann, Professor, Indiana University; Christopher H. Hanna, Professor, Southern Methodist University; Veronica L. Taylor, Professor, University of Washington School of Law Professors from the School of Law Masahito Inouye, Dean of Graduate Schools for Law and Politics; Yasuo Hasebe, Dean of School of Law; Yoshiaki Miyasako, Director of the Summer School Program 2007 Academic Year Title Comparative Law Study of US and European IP Protection Systems Schedule July 31-August 5, 2007 Venue The Conference Center Kazusa Arc Number of participants 53 from Japan, 6 from Korea and China. Teaching staff David Vaver, professor, University of Oxford; Heinz Goddar, Professor, the University of Bremen; Peter Meier-Beck, Judge at the Federal Supreme Court of Germany / Professor, the University of Dusseldorf; Diane L. Zimmerman, Professor, New York University; Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, Professor, New York University; Graeme Dinwoodie, Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law; Toshiko Takenaka, Professor, University of Washington Professors from the School of Law Masahito Inouye, Dean of the Graduate School; Yasuo Hasebe, Dean of the School of Law; Shinto Teramoto; Yoshiaki Miyasako, Director of the Summer School Program Summer School before 2007 → ICCLP Annual Report Michigan-Columbia Project 2007 Academic Year <Visitors this spring from Michigan Law School and Columbia Law School> Name Affiliation Research Area Major Publication Gil Seinfeld Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Law School Federal Courts, Jurisdiction and Choice of Law ‘The Possibility of Pretext; Analysis in Commerce Clause Adjudication’, Notre Dame L.Rev.78, no.4 (2003):1251-328. Jessica Litman Professor, University of Michigan Law School Copyright Law, Trademarks, Unfair Competition Digital Copyright, 2nd ed. Amherst, N.Y.: Foundation Press,2006 Thomas W. Merrill Professor, Columbia Law School Property, Environmental Law, Administrative Law ‘Rethinking Article I, Section 1: From Nondelegation to Exclusive Delegation’, 104 Columbia L. Rev. 2097 (2004). Michigan-Columbia Project before 2007 → ICCLP Review, ICCLP Annual Report Transnational Law Program Course in Autumn-Winter 2007 Name Affiliation Term Lecture Title Lisa Yano Partner, Morgan Lewis-TMI and Visiting Professor, the School of Law October 2007 -March 2008 Anglo American Law Ⅲ (Intellectual Property Law)