LAW 338B.001 Japanese Law: Japanese Business Law Teaching
I teach a variety of courses at the University of British Columbia, Peter A. Allard School of Law.
LAW 338B.001 Japanese Law: Japanese Business Law
This course is designed to introduce business law of Japan. Topics to be covered include historical development of law, legal process, judicial system, lawyers, legal education, structure of government, constitutional protection of economic liberties, administrative law on regulation of economy, property law, contract law, tort law, company law, security law, employment law, environment law and criminal law. The course will highlight some of the notable characteristics of Japanes business law, including the week corporate governance, absence of hostile take-over, life-long employment system. There are no pre-requisite courses for taking this course, but students are supposed to bring their basic knowledge of Canadian Law and engage in comparative analysis of Japanese Business Law and Canadian Business Law.
LAW 334B.001 Introduction to Asian Legal Studies (together with IPitman Potter and John Kim)
This course offers an introduction to the legal systems of the People's Republic
of China, Japan, and Korea. The course
has two objectives. The first is to introduce methods in, and approaches to,
comparative law. The second is to introduce
aspects of the legal systems of each country as related to certain common themes:
law and economic development, law
and social change, and the growth of civil society. Thus the course has five
components: (1) the Japanese component; (2)
the Vietnam component; (3) the Chinese component; (4) the Korean componet, and
(5) the classes devoted to issues in comparative law.
This seminar is designed to focus on the legal issues arising from the development
of cyberspace. Public law issues
include the internet governance and the role of law, jurisdictional issues,
ISP liability, freedom of
expression on the Internet, defamation, invasion of privacy, obscenity, child pornography, indecent
speech, hate speech, copyright infringment, domain name disputes,personal data protection, and cyberdemocracy.
LAW100.002 Constitutional Law (not offered in 2016-17)
This course is the mandatory first-year course on Canadian Constitutional Law. It will examine the meaning of the constitution, the system of judicial review, the judiciary, federalism issues, aboriginal people, and Charter rights.
Law 150.004 Transnational Law (not offered in 2016-17)
This course is the mandatory first-year course, which is designed to provide the students with basic knowledge on international law, private international law and comparative law. With the globalization of the economy, legal disputes came to deal more with international aspects. In order to practice, it is imperative to understand the basic scheme of international law and basic principles of private international law. It is also very important to maintain the keen interest in comparative law, since we are living in a world of different legal cultures and legal systems.
Law 342C.001 Comparative Law--Different Legal Traditions of the World (not offered in 2016-17)
This course is designed to give the students basic understanding of two leading traditions of the world: civil law tradition and common law tradition. The course will especially focus on Germany and France as representing the civil law tradition and U.K. and the U.S as representing the common law tradition. The students can learn the similarity and difference between these two legal traditions through examinations of historical background, constitutional system, judicial review, judicial system, legal education and legal profession, interpretation and judicial process and civil procedure. The students can then learn the impact of convergence between these two traditions.
Law 343C.001 Topics in Public Law: Freedom of Expression--Freedom of Expression
This course is intended to provide the students with an opportunity to learn various questions regarding freedom of expression. Should the government be allowed to ban hate speech? Does the citizen have a right to constcut billboard on the sidewalk of the city street? Should the journalist be allowed to refuse the disclosure of the news source? When the courts can close the criminal trial and exclude the public from the courtroom? Why the government is allowed to regulate broadcasing? This course is ideal for students who have learned the basic doctrines of constitutional law to apply its knowledge in specific situations involving freedom of expression.
Law 342C.002 Topics in Comparative Law: Comparative Constitutional Law
This seminar is a comparative study of Canadian constitutional law and American constitutional law. There are may striking differences between Canadian constitutional law and American constitutional law. The basic philosophy, structure of the government, federalism, and the protection of individual rights. This seminar will examine each specific topic, examine how the United States Supreme Court has responded to the issue and explore why the United States Supreme Court has adopted such an attitude so different from the Supreme Court of Canada.
last update: July 8, 2016
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