Rebalancing competing values relating to the right to be forgotten and users’ rights: Toward a new conception of rights in the age of AI, IoT, and Robotics

29 March 2017 12:30 pm

Venue: Room 106, Allard School of Law
Tags: Centre for Japanese Research

Abstract: How would cutting-edge information technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and Robotics impact on our daily lives, society, and legal systems? What should be done to deal with issues brought by such latest technologies? With using a comparative analysis of laws in Japan, EU, and US, this lecture focuses on […]

[CANCELLED] Living in the Face of Death: Martial Mindfulness in Modern Japan

19 January 2018 4:00 pm

Venue: Room 106, Allard School of Law
Tags: Centre for Japanese Research

This event has been cancelled.

Fracturing Families: Adoption for Heirship from Tokugawa to Meiji

02 February 2018 4:00 pm

Venue: Room 106, Allard School of Law
Tags: Asian Studies, Centre for Japanese Research, Department of History

The social and political importance of families and family continuity transcended the Tokugawa-Meiji divide. This talk focuses on a common strategy for preserving a family line: the adoption of heirs, especially the adoption of sons-in-law.