A Few Remarks on 2012 International Conference on Law and Society

Focusing on Research on Criminal Law

Abstract

I had an opportunity to attend the “International Conference on Law and Society” which was held from June 5th to June 8th in Honolulu, Hawaii, the United States of America. I wrote about my impressions of attending that conference, focusing on research on criminal law. First, I described the summary of the session I organized, in which I gave a presentation. Also, I wrote about issues which a discussion participant of the session pointed out. Next, I gave details about that conference with a focus on the presentations which I heard and found interesting. However, that conference was so big that I could not attend every session. In addition, I was unable to describe all sessions which I attended due to word limit constraints. Therefore, I focused on two sessions. One session was about the death penalty in the United States of America. The presentations of this session seemed to focus on the process by which the states use and legitimize the death penalty system. The other session was about the jury system in the United States of America. I focused on the presentations about citizens’ attitude toward jury services, in particular, their willingness to heed the jury summons. I wrote about the presentations of these two sessions, and added a few comments on those presentations.