27Dean, Yasuhiro OsakiGraduate School of LawGraduate School of Law at Waseda University is a higher education institution aiming to train researchers and highly skilled professionals. Our teaching faculty is comprised of some of the most accomplished academics and educators in Japan, and the classes they conduct have a diverse student composition with a small-group instruction. At the same time, these faculty members serve as student advisors to provide careful, personalized advice to help each student produce their thesis based on individual’s topics of interest and specialization. In terms of researcher training, the Graduate School of Law offers a five-year (in principle) course of study (conducted in Japanese) comprised of a two-year master’s degree program and three-year doctoral degree program in three specialization tracks: Civil Law, Public Law, and Fundamental Legal Studies (Fundamental Legal Studies offers master’s degree only). The coursework system that we provide integrates the two-year master’s program and three-year doctoral program into a single five-year Unified MD System in which one can achieve a doctoral degree. The majority of students pursuing the doctoral program have successfully obtained posts as a faculty member of various universities inside and outside Japan. The number of researchers from Waseda Graduate School of Law is among the highest in Japan and has produced many leading researchers in the academic world.Waseda University also has Waseda Law School, separate from the Graduate School of Law, for students who wish to become legal professionals, such as judges, prosecutors, and attorneys. Although cultivating legal scholars has become an urgent issue for Japan these days, there are cases where legal professionals who graduated law school have entered the Graduate School of Law to pursue doctoral programs to become legal researchers. Waseda University Faculty of Law, which comprises the School of Law, the Graduate School of Law, and the Institute of Comparative Law, focuses on legal education and the training of researchers by utilizing its unique characteristics.The sort of sophisticated reasoning which law-related research develops is tremendously useful outside of academia in the professional world. Individuals with a high degree of legal expertise are in strong demand not only in academia but also in practical world. Today, as the population continues to fall and society becomes increasingly IT-driven led by generative AI, the demand for specialists who have deepened their research at graduate schools, rather than generalists, are expected to increase continuously. In fact, a large number of outstanding master’s program graduates of the Graduate School of Law are acting important roles in government, financial circles, international organizations, and so forth in present days. The significance of studying law at postgraduate level is not small.Waseda Graduate School of Law also committed to recurrent education aimed for those who have already started their career in society. To meet the needs or those people who want to further refine their expertise, we also offer a master’s program of five established areas of research: Environmental Problems and Law/Disputes of Intellectual Property and Law/Taxation Disputes and Law/Social Security, Law of Social Welfare and Conservatorship and Administration/Practice and Law of International Maritime Problems.Also, in the year 2018, we have launched a new course in the form of “Waseda LL.M.” (one-year master’s program), consists of two courses; LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law (Japanese program) and LL.M. in Asian Economic Integration and Law (English program). The LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law course provides a systematic and focused examination of both the theory and practice of law as it relates to intellectual property. Among the students enrolled in this course are government officials, corporate professionals and practicing attorneys. On the other hand, the LL.M. in Asian Economic Integration and Law course offers a systematic and focused examination towards various problems in terms of economic, environmental, labor, maritime and other perspectives which the Asian region is facing these days. We invite large number of international students from all over the world alongside Japanese students, and all classes in this course are conducted in English to facilitate the cultivation of current and future highly skilled professionals working in international organizations, multinational corporations, government offices and other institutions in Japan and overseas. To everyone who wishes to become researchers, as well as those who seek to add value to society as highly skilled professionals, we invite you to come and knock on the door of the Graduate School of Law, Waseda University.Waseda University Graduate School of LawMessage
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