This article reports the 2012 international conference on Law and Society. The author participated in the conference thanks to the Fellowship for the 2012 International Conference on Law and Society participants from the Japanese Association of Sociology of Law. The author made a presentation about Japanese law school students’ perceptions regarding dispute resolution at Dispute Resolution session. At the session, four others presented their work: financial ADR center in Hong Kong, Cultural Adaptability of ADR, the difference between dispute resolution and dispute disposal, and health care dispute in Canada. The chair person set a high valuation on the session both in terms of the quality of presentations and a variety of topics they covered. The author also participated in sessions such as legal access, legal professionals, legal consciousness in China, and legal consciousness and social exclusion. The conference provided 11 workshops for graduate students such as “Publication and Doing Sociolegal Research” and “Entering the Field,” in which the author participated. At the workshop, participants including professors and students discussed topics such as job hunting, getting grants, and motivation for research. In all, the international conference in Honolulu was very well organized, comprehensive, and accommodating various needs of researchers including those of young scholars.
