Dean of the Faculty of Law
Dean of the Faculty of Law
Dean of the Graduate School of Law and Politics
Taniguchi Koichi
Tokyo Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Law has been providing the necessary specialized education in legal studies and political science for the next generation, based on the fruits of many years of research and educational activities.
As Japan’s population shrinks and it transforms into a superannuated society, we are faced with a range of challenges, such as measures to combat possible future large-scale disasters, transitioning to a decarbonized society, and promoting digitization. To handle these difficult challenges, we need to understand the current state and history of Japanese society and the international environment surrounding it, acquire the means to calmly analyze the factors leading to the various challenges and strategies to resolve them, and attain a viewpoint that provides a future-oriented outlook.
Therefore, we aim to offer “specialized education that draws out the abilities of each individual student” and foster eager personnel who will confront modern society’s many challenges using the theories and methods of legal studies and political science. We have a full complement of instructors who are experts in their fields and have arranged lecture courses where students can learn the fundamentals and systematic theories of fields of specialty and specialized seminars where they can exhibit their autonomy.
This faculty’s graduates are active in a wide range of fields, including corporations, the public sector, and local government. Besides progressing to law schools at any university, those aiming for the legal profession can also choose our Law School within the legal profession development program established in AY2020. Those aiming to be specialist researchers in legal studies or political science can also move into our researcher development graduate school, which enjoys a solid reputation.
I look forward to everyone’s aggressive attempts at these challenges.
Dean of the Department of Law and Politics
Dean of the Department of Law and Politics
Shinsuke Amano
The Graduate School for Law and Politics is made up of the Legal Studies Department and Political Science Department. The faculty of both departments actively focus on their respective fields, with each student being meticulously directed into specific research based on their individual abilities.
The distinctive features of this major are the “Seminar” and “Comprehensive Practice.” In small group (special research) seminars, research skills specialized to each major are fostered. Furthermore, the entirety of the graduate students and faculty of both departments participate in the comprehensive practice, styled as research presentations, where they present their own research results, and are able to deepen their arguments from multifaceted perspectives. These together function to deepen research even further.
The research environment is also well-equipped. All affiliated students are provided with their own research space and bookshelves. Further, they are able to take advantage of a rich collection of materials and publications related to legal studies and political science in the Law and Politics Research Room (Faculty of Law Library). Additionally, graduate students at the doctoral level are able to present their research results through academic papers published in the departmental bulletin–Journal of Legal Studies. Aside from this, various research support systems, including support for doctoral and specialist research, are available.
The numerous students who have studied in this major are active in their respective fields, including specialized researchers in law and political science, and specialized professionals and public servants who have acquired profound knowledge. To all of you who are seriously interested in conducting research in law and political science, all our faculty members look forward to your taking on this exciting challenge.