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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Reflections on I just didn't do it, the lay judge system, and legal education in and out of Japan |
Author: | Anderson, K. |
Citation: | Asian Journal of Comparative Law, 2012; 7(1):1-21 |
Publisher: | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
ISSN: | 1932-0205 1932-0205 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Kent Anderson |
Abstract: | In 2007 the Academy Award winning director of Shall We Dance released his new film, a critique of the Japanese criminal justice system from a wrongful conviction perspective. In this article, I use the film as a vehicle to serve three disparate goals. First, I provide the first legal critique of the film, a genre of legal scholarship developing over the past 15 years. Second, I use the film to reflect on criminal justice reforms in Japan, in particular the introduction of the Lay Judge System (quasi-jury saiban-in seido) from 2009. Third, I critically ask whether use of film as a legal text assists or distracts from my primary pedagogical objectives in teaching comparative Japanese law. I conclude with a cautious recommendation of I Just Didn’t Do It as legal cinema, as a catalyst for reform of the Japanese criminal justice system and as an educational text. |
Keywords: | Comparative law law and film criminal justice legal education Japanese law |
Description: | Extent: 21 p. |
Rights: | © 2012 De Gruyter. All rights reserved. |
DOI: | 10.1515/1932-0205.1422 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/1932-0205.1422 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 4 Law publications |
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