Tuesday 23 April, 2024
Tuesday 7 March, 2023
Hosted by Asian Law Centre, Melbourne Law School
Both in news and entertainment programs, Japanese prosecutors are typically portrayed as indefatigable warriors for justice. The reality, however, is more complicated. Allegations of overreaching and worse are not infrequent. Despite this, severe punishment is rare and the reputational effect tends to be short-lived. In the public eye, the myth conduct presented by the mass media serves to insulate the prosecutorial establishment from the consequences of misconduct. Nevertheless, a cascade of complaints in recent years has prompted the Justice Ministry to institute at least some reforms. The goal is said to be restoring public trust, which has been degraded by the gap between myth conduct and misconduct.
This seminar was presented by Professor Dan Rosen, Chuo University, Japan
Professor Dan Rosen
Dan Rosen turned to law after a career in journalism and then made yet another turn to Japan. He received J.S.D. and LL.M. degrees from Yale Law School and a J.D. from Southern Methodist University School of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of Southwestern Law Journal (since renamed SMU Law Review). Dan served as a law clerk to Chief Judge James R. Browning of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He taught at Loyola Law School in New Orleans before relocating to Japan, where he was on the faculty of Doshisha University in Kyoto and is now at Chuo University in Tokyo. He also has been an adjunct faculty member at a number of other institutions across the country. Dan spent 2017-2018 in residence at Melbourne Law School as a Visiting Scholar. For a decade, he coordinated a summer program that was founded by former MLS Professor and ALC Director Malcolm Smith, bringing Japanese law students to study in Melbourne.
This seminar was hosted by the Asian Law Centre, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne.