Pursuing Economic and Legal Systems Against Injustice
(Aug.
2005) Professor Gotoh Reiko of the Graduate School
of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences has initiated the international
conference Ethics, Economics and Law: Against Injustices
to be held from October 28th to 30th, 2005. This conference
will advance Professor Gotoh’s research project “Justice as
a Point of Contention,” as well as expand upon the results
achieved at a similar conference held two years ago.
The international conference Publicness Towards the 21st
Century--Realizing Sen in Theory and Practice was held
at Ritsumeikan University on June 2nd, 2003, with Professor
Amartya Sen as the keynote speaker. Professor Sen was awarded
the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 for his contributions
to the field of welfare economics and is currently Lamont
University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy
at Harvard University. As the project administrator and a
specialist of economics and philosophy, Professor Gotoh served
as the coordinator for the conference and gave the welcome
address. Approximately 2,000 people took part in this conference,
which commemorated the establishment of the Graduate School
of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences. This graduate school
is not affiliated with any other faculty and conducts research
and educational projects based on the four themes of Publicness,
Symbiosis, Life, and Representation.
The
June 2003 conference shed new light on common themes in
political philosophy, such as rights, freedom, and democracy.
The conference indicated the necessity of reforming the
framework of modern economics into a discipline that truly
contributes to human life, while making use of the theoretical
tools of neoclassical economics. Conference delegates explored
such questions as: “What must be done to realize the rights
of individuals based on a broad understanding of consequences--”
and “What must be done in order to strike an appropriate
balance between consideration for the rights of individuals
and public interest in welfare and the environment?”
The next international conference in October will bring
together economists, philosophers, political scientists,
and legal theorists from around the world in order to facilitate
a critical exchange aimed at rethinking the relationship
between law and economics and the underlying frameworks
and methodologies of each. The conference content will concern
questions of human dignity, well-being, and rights, as broadly
understood in relation to the objective “against injustice.”
In particular, the conference will refer to the contribution
of Professor Sen’s work on these issues from theoretical
and practical perspectives.
Professor Gotoh and her colleagues hope that the conference
will contribute to the new academic field of “normative
legal economics” and envisage an economic system, as well
as a legal and political system, that is against injustice.
(Aug.
2005) Professor Gotoh Reiko of the Graduate School
of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences has initiated the international
conference Ethics, Economics and Law: Against Injustices
to be held from October 28th to 30th, 2005. This conference
will advance Professor Gotoh’s research project “Justice as
a Point of Contention,” as well as expand upon the results
achieved at a similar conference held two years ago.
The
June 2003 conference shed new light on common themes in
political philosophy, such as rights, freedom, and democracy.
The conference indicated the necessity of reforming the
framework of modern economics into a discipline that truly
contributes to human life, while making use of the theoretical
tools of neoclassical economics. Conference delegates explored
such questions as: “What must be done to realize the rights
of individuals based on a broad understanding of consequences--”
and “What must be done in order to strike an appropriate
balance between consideration for the rights of individuals
and public interest in welfare and the environment?”
