German-Japanese Lawyers Association
The German-Japanese Lawyers Association is an association that aims to strengthen cooperation between German and Japanese lawyers and to deepen their knowledge of the respective legal systems. The board of directors is supported by a board of trustees made up of representatives from politics, diplomacy, science and business.
founding
The German-Japanese Lawyers Association (DJJV) was founded on June 7, 1988 in Hamburg. Wilhelm Röhl was elected as the founding president, Morito Seki as vice-presidents, Jan Grotheer , Matthias Scheer as general secretary and Christoph R. Kremp as treasurer. The association is registered in the Hamburg register of associations and recognized as a non-profit organization.
Goals and Activities
The DJJV is a non-partisan association represented in Germany and Japan, which aims to strengthen the cooperation of German and Japanese lawyers and to deepen mutual knowledge of the legal systems, to offer scientists and practitioners a forum for the exchange of ideas, thus scientific knowledge and practical experience from both countries can be used.
To support these projects, the DJJV works with the BMJV and the Japanese Ministry of Justice as well as the Supreme Court and the like. a. in the exchange of judges between Germany and Japan and in the workshops held annually by the two ministries for the last 13 years, with the Japanese embassy in Berlin and with all consulates general, the German embassy in Tokyo and with numerous universities in Japan and Germany, with legal associations (including DRB , BRAK ) and associations with a connection to Japan (including JDZB , DAAD , DWIH ).
The DJJV are together with the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, the Journal of Japanese Law / Journal of Japanese Law out, which is the world's only magazine that regularly reports in Western languages extensively on Japanese law. Of the around 80 comparative law symposia in all areas of law that have been held since its foundation, the DJJV has organized around 20 in Japan, preferably in Tokyo, several of them together with the DAAD . Recent examples: 2018 a symposium on mediation in Munich, another one on artificial intelligence and the like. a. at the MPI in Hamburg and on international tax law in Tokyo, a trilateral German-Japanese-Korean seminar “The law's answers to crises in Germany, Japan and Korea” in Constance and, on the occasion of its 30th anniversary, the symposium “Securing the rule of law “In Tokyo. 2019 Symposium "Further development of administrative law" in Constance, "Modernization of the law of obligations from a Japanese perspective" in Hamburg, "LegaTech - Artificial Intelligence in Law and Justice" in Tokyo, "Japan in the Edo period, state structure and social order" in Munich. In addition, the DJJV organizes a patent law symposium every two years in Munich and Tokyo, as well as numerous lecture events and round tables.
The association currently has around 700 members, companies and institutions in Germany, Japan and other countries. In Japan the DJJV has around 150 members; it has an office in Tokyo that represents the interests of the DJJV in Japan.
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Individual evidence
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