We would like to announce the 14th GGR Brown Bag Lunch Seminar as below:   Title: What is ESG investment?: The Intersection of Global Issues and Businesses Speaker: Yuki Miyoda (Junior Fellow, Graduate School of Law) Date/Time: April 19th, 2023 (Wed.), 12:30-13:30 Language: Japanese Pre-registration: https://hrs.ad.hit-u.ac.jp/v33/entries/add/594   Lecture: Yuki Miyoda Yuki Miyoda is a Junior […]

On March 22, 2023, the Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) hosted its 13th GGR Brown Bag Lunch Seminar on “Autocratization and the constitutions: Double-edged swords for democracy?” with Mr. Takuto Tohkairin, a Ph.D. student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo and a research fellow of Japan Society […]

As part of the international research project “Legal Systems and Artificial Intelligence” led by Professor Mihoko Sumida, Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Law, members of the WP1 “Future Scenarios of Legal Systems and Artificial Intelligence Research Group” travelled to the UK and together with research members from the University of Cambridge, held a Foresights Workshop […]

The Present and Future of Displaced Ukrainians: Rethinking Refugee Policies in Japan Yujin Woo (Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Law & Faculty of Law, Hitotsubashi University) April 6, 2023 Introduction In 2022, immediately following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Japanese government announced that it would accept Ukrainians seeking refuge from the war. The Kishida Cabinet […]