In my comments for the general symposium, I try to make significant inputs for the theoretical problems of gender equality in law, especially from the viewpoint of legal philosophy that is relevantly different from the perspective of the sociology of law. Important theme thereby is the potential and scope of the theories of gender law and gender equality that support various activities in entire society for gender mainstreaming, as the points of discussion on the problem above is considered to be the theoretical reflections of the nature of societal basis and theorizing conditions for the theories of gender law and gender equality. Keeping this outlook in mind, my comments refer to some issues that are common to each lecture in the symposium, such as the significance and future of the orientation toward equality, current transformations of the mode of legal communication and the limits of legal consciousness perspective, structural problems in today’s legal education including its social dysfunctions, and the place of the basic studies of law such as sociology of law and legal philosophy in changing society. In so doing, I try to reflect and evaluate the theoretical difficulties of gender law and gender equality and the changing aspects of gender problems today.
