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Committee in South Africa, the citizenship in European Union, and Niklas Luhmann’s systemtheory.ANNOUNCEMENTSThe 2002 annual conference of the Japan Association of Legal Philosophy (JALP) willtake place on 2-3 November 2002, at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. The main theme of theconference is "Law and Religion". Prof. TSUNODA Takeshi (Osaka Prefecture U.) will give thekeynote speech, which will be followed by four sessions. Provisional titles and speakers of eachsession are:Session 1: Natural Law and Positive Law in the Western Society1. From the Christian Perspective: Prof. Emeritus Jose LIOMPART (Sophia U.)2. From the Canon Law Perspective: Prof. ICHIHARA Yasuhisa (Kansai U.)Session 2: Indigenous Law and State Law in the Non-Western Society:3.From the Legal Pluralistic Perspective: Prof. Emeritus CHIBA Masaji (Tokyo Metropolitan U.)4.From the Islamic Perspective: Prof. ODA Yoshiko (Kansai U.)Session 3: Comparison between the Western and Non-Western Legal Culture concerning the"Law and Religion"5. From the Comparative Theory of Legal Culture Perspective: Prof. TSUNODA Takeshi (OsakaPrefecture U.)Session 4: Liberalism and "Law and Religion"6.From the Constitutional Law's Perspective: Prof. HIRANO Takeshi (Ryukoku U.)7.Comment to Prof. Hirano's Presentation from the German Constitutional Law's Perspective:Prof. SHIAKE Masanori (Kyoto U>)8.From the Multi-Culturalistic Perspective: Prof. ISHIYAMA Fumihiko (Daito Bunka U.)9.Comment from the Liberal Perspective: Prof. MORIMURA Susumu (Hitotsubashi U.)Session 5: DiscussionThere will also be six paper presentations which are not directly related to the main theme of theconference. Young scholars are especially encouraged to make presentations for this session. Theproceedings will be published in the Annals of the Japan Association of Legal Philosophy 2002.RECORDSThe executive committee of the Japan section has been reorganized, with a newTreasurer and a new Secretary General. The list of the present Executive Committee members isas follows.President: KATSURAGI Takao, professor at Seikei University, Tokyo. Email:katuragi@law.seikei.ac.jp, Tkaturagi@aol.comSecretary General: NAKAYAMA Ryuichi, professor at Osaka University, Osaka.Treasurer: Professor TAKAHASHI Fumihiko, professor at Kanto Gakuin University, Tokyo.Email: NBF01243@nifty.ne.jpTSUNODA Takeshi, professor at Osaka Prefecture University, OsakaSAKURAI Tetsu, professor at Kobe University, KobeSUMIYOSHI Masami, professor at Aoyama Gakuin University, TokyoWAKAMATSU Yoshiki, professor at Seijo University, Tokyo