The Sociology of Law

Present Situation and Prospect of the Sociology of Law in Japan

Shin Oikawa

1972 Volume 1972 Issue 25 Pages 1-14,194
Published: October 10, 1972
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11387/jsl1951.1972.1

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In this article, the writer intends to describe the present situation of the sociology of law in Japan. By doing so, he intends, also, to examine the role of the sociology of law in the 1970's.
In 1947, the Japanese Association of Scciology of Law was established. In the 1940's, the sociology of law had been reconstructed, and it became more and more critical to the existing legal system and government as a result of the discussions on its methodology.
In 1951, the first issue of "The Sociology of Law", which is an official journal of the Association, was published. Within the following decade, the sociology of law developed into the stage where various large-scale field researches were successfully organized.
In the course of 1960's, the methodology of the sociology of law was influenced by the appearance of "Keiken Hogaku" (Empirical Jurisprudence), systematic introduction of foreign studies on the sociology of law, the attempt to form Marxian sociology of law, etc. Thus the sphere of the study of the sociology of law on social problems was considerably enlarged.
In the 1970's, the nature and function of the sociology of law needs to be reexamined. The sociology of law, it is thought, should be a science which treats of legal and social phenomena. Of course, the social phenomenon includes human conducts, that become sometimes human conflicts or struggles. The problems of public nuisance, urban and traffic problems, the problems of discrimination, etc., that emerge as important ones of our age, should be analyzed in the 1970's from the view point of the sociology of law.

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Rechtssoziologie in Japan nach dem letzten Krieg und Max Weber

Ein Gesichtspunkt für die kritische Untersuchung zur Methodenlehre der Rechtssoziologie von Dr. T. Kawashima

Shigekatsu Arakawa

1972 Volume 1972 Issue 25 Pages 15-38,194
Published: October 10, 1972
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11387/jsl1951.1972.15

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1. Es ist im allgemeinen anerkannt, daß M. Weber einer von ausländischen Gelehrte, die, wie K. Marx und E. Ehrlich, auf die Entwicklung der Rechtssoziologie in Japan grossen Einfluß gehabt haben, ist. Es ist auch weit und breit bekannt, daß Dr. T. Kawashima für Einnahme der Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaft von M. Weber und für Erforschung seiner Arbeiten in Bereich der Rechtssoziologie die führende Rolle gespielt hat, und daß er heute noch eine Stelle als Kern in diesem Bereich eingenommen hat. Wenn man an die Entwicklung der japanischen Rechtssoziologie seit dem Kriegsende zurückdenkt, ist es daher unentbehrlich, zu untersuchen auf welcher Weise die Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaft von Weber und seine Arbeiten in die japanische Rechtssoziologie, insbes. in die von Dr. Kawashima, aufgenommen wurden, und welche Gepräge sie in Japan gefunden haben.
2. Nun kann man darauf hinweisen, daß sich die Auffassung, nach der Marx und Weber nicht gegenüberstehend, sondern zusammenfügend gefassen werden könnten, hier in Japan herrschend, natürlich in verschiedenen Formen, gelten. Diese Neigung in japanischer Rechtssoziologie ist, wie mir erscheint, auf viele Arbeiten von Kawashima zurückzuführen.
Nach meiner Meinung aber stehen Weber und Marx einander endgültig gegen-über, sowohl im politischen Prinzip wie im philosophischen Standspunkt, eben infolgedessen wie in der Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaft. Besonders zwischen der sog. "methodischen Individualismus" von Weber und der "materialistischen Geschichtsauffassung" von Marx bleibt noch ein unüberwindlicher Gegensatz.
3. Nach den ober erwähnten Gesichtspunkte überblicke ich die wesentlich gegen-sätzlichen Kernpunkte zwischen Marx und Weber, und dann untersuche die Methodenlehre der Rechtssoziologie von Dr. Kawashima.

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Eugen Ehrlich and the Sociology of Law in Japan

Zensuke Ishimura

1972 Volume 1972 Issue 25 Pages 39-60,193
Published: October 10, 1972
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11387/jsl1951.1972.39

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Early 1920's, Eugen Ehrlich, who was one of the founders of the sociology of law and also has had tremendous influence over the development of this discipline in Japan, contributed two essays to one of our leading law journals (Hogaku-kyokai Zashi). One of them which the author of this paper is trying to discuss was entitled as 'Gesetz und lebendes Recht' (The statute and the living law) was immediately translated into Japanese and made appeared in the said journal. By reviewing this essay the author of this paper is trying to show how Ehrlich's idea of sociology of law has been misunderstood among our academic circle. Among other things one of his main themes, that of the juridic law (Juristenrecht), has been totally ignored in this country. Without clear understanding of this idea, the author asserts, the above mentioned essay could hardly been understood. Also his idea of living law has also not been correctly understood here in this country. Here it has been accepted that he took the dichotomous idea of living law and state law. It is not true in his masterpiece; Grundlegung der Soziologie des Rechts, as well as in his essay above mentioned. He has been asserted that he took the linear or monistic development of law. It is not necessarily so. He also acknowledged the dualistic development of law both from the upper part (namely, state law) and from the lower part (living law). These points the author discusses are already mentioned by various interpretors of Ehrlich's sociology of law such as Professor T. Isomura in Japan and Dr. M. Rhebinder in Germany. Nothing new was added to their findings.

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Reality of National Consciousness in the Welfare State

In Case of New Zealand

Kenichi Yamagami

1972 Volume 1972 Issue 25 Pages 61-72
Published: October 10, 1972
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11387/jsl1951.1972.61

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Public Nuisance and the Protection of Fundamental Human Rights

Isao Kobayashi

1972 Volume 1972 Issue 25 Pages 73-82
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11387/jsl1951.1972.73

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A Study on the Self-government of Inhabitants from Viewpoint of Legal-Sociology

Through a Case in Fukuoka Prefecture

Hideo Shimada

1972 Volume 1972 Issue 25 Pages 83-88
Published: October 10, 1972
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11387/jsl1951.1972.83

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The Civil Code of the Republic of Korea and Junpu-Bizoku

Yuki Sai

1972 Volume 1972 Issue 25 Pages 89-93
Published: October 10, 1972
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11387/jsl1951.1972.89

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Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh and the Emancipation of Women

The Origin of the Revolution in Modern China

Katsumi Otsuka

1972 Volume 1972 Issue 25 Pages 94-98
Published: October 10, 1972
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11387/jsl1951.1972.94

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Legal Method in the Infomation-centered Society

Yuji Hurubayashi

1972 Volume 1972 Issue 25 Pages 99-103
Published: October 10, 1972
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Legal Framework of Capital-Concentration in Petroleum-Chemical Industry

A Study on the Concentration of Capital from Viewpoint of Legal-Sociology

[in Japanese], [in Japanese], [in Japanese], [in Japanese], [in Japane ...

1972 Volume 1972 Issue 25 Pages 104-137
Published: October 10, 1972
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S. Kuroki's "Modern Agricultural Law and the Modernization of the Common"

Toshiyuki Miyazaki

1972 Volume 1972 Issue 25 Pages 138-142
Published: October 10, 1972
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11387/jsl1951.1972.138

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H. Kitano's "The Structure of Modern Tax Law"

Kinya Kimoto

1972 Volume 1972 Issue 25 Pages 143-147
Published: October 10, 1972
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The Committee of Asahi Suit Editing (ed.) "The History of Asahi-Sui Movement"

Kenji Urata

1972 Volume 1972 Issue 25 Pages 148-152
Published: October 10, 1972
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11387/jsl1951.1972.148

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Brian Abel-Smith and Robert Stevens's (1) Lawyers and the Courts-A Sociological Study of the English Legal System, 1750-1965, (2) In Search of Justice-Society and the Legal System-

Eiji Shimoyama

1972 Volume 1972 Issue 25 Pages 153-157
Published: October 10, 1972
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Lon L. Fuller's Anatomy of the Law

Kahei Rokumoto

1972 Volume 1972 Issue 25 Pages 158-162
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1972 Volume 1972 Issue 25 Pages 163-168
Published: October 10, 1972
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11387/jsl1951.1972.163

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