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LAW500A2(法学 / law 500)
Anglo-American Law

Futoshi IWATA

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Faculty/Graduate school Law School
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Year 2022
Class code V3111
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Term 秋学期授業/Fall
Day/Period 金4/Fri.4
Class Type
Campus 市ヶ谷
Classroom name 各学部・研究科等の時間割等で確認
Grade 1~
Credit(s) 2
Notes 選択
Class taught by instructors with practical experience
Category 基礎法学・隣接科目群
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Outline (in English)

【Course outline】
In this class, it will focus on the basic features of Anglo-American law
such as the jury system, the case law system, and Federal system in the U.S. by using capital cases as examples.

【Learning Objectives】
The main purpose of this class is to better understand the basic structures of the legal system as a whole including its cultural aspects. It plan to look at recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions and video recordings of actual jury deliberation.

【Learning activities outside of classroom】
Students are expected to prepare each classes by reading assignments for each topic (assignment are mainly written in Japanese but might include English materials. Also, students are expected to print out each assignment and class handout by themselves from this class website.
Your required study time is at least four hours for each class meeting.

【Grading Criteria /Policy】
The Grading would be basically evaluated by presentation(40%), class participation (35%), assignment (25%) though depnding on the number of students, presentation and class participation may be changed by final exam partly or totally.

Default language used in class

日本語 / Japanese