Abstract
The Annual Meeting of Legal Philosophy 2005 was held in NAGOYA on November12-13, 2005, under the auspice of Japan Association of Legal Philosophy (JALP).
Its general theme was “The Rule of Law in Contemporary Japanese Society-Ideal, Reality and Perspective”. In Japan, “the rule of law” has been emphasized as a basic ideal for the recent judicial reform. In this meeting, the various problems about the ideals, tasks and realities etc. of the rule of law (or Rechtsstaat) in contemporary Japanese society were discussed from the viewpoints of legal philosophy and public law. Six legal philosophers and three public law scholars gave reports and discussed these problems.
