特別講義　トランスナショナル・ロー（外国語科目）

Day 1 (November 26: 3rd &4th periods): Why study comparative constitutional law in East Asia? RAN HIRSCHL, COMPARATIVE MATTERS: THE RENAISSANCE OF COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, chapter 5 (2014) Bryan Dennis Gabito Tiojanco, Editorial Reflection: The Paradox of Academic Freedom and the Ethic of Complementarity, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (forthcoming) Bryan Dennis G. Tiojanco, How to Misread a Constitution (I-CONnect, 1 July 2022), available at https://www.iconnectblog.com/***** Bryan Dennis G. Tiojanco, John Hart Ely would disown Comparative Political Process Theory, Dobbs, and most his other intellectual heirs (or maybe not), 14(2) GLOBAL CONSTITUTIONALISM 238 (2025), available at https://www.cambridge.org/***** Day 2 (November 28: 2nd, 3rd, & 4th periods): Pathways to Constitutional Legitimacy in East Asia BRYAN DENNIS G. TIOJANCO ET. AL. (eds.), PATHWAYS TO CONSTITUTIONAL LEGITIMACY IN ASIA PACIFIC, chapters 1, 4, 6, 7, 9, & Afterword (2026) Day 3 (December 3: 3rd&4th periods): Gender, Sexuality, and Constitutionalism WEN-CHEN CHANG ET AL. (eds.), GENDER, SEXUALITY AND CONSTITUTIONALISM IN ASIA, chapters 1–3, 5, 8–9 (2024) Day 4 (December 5: 2nd, 3rd, & 4th periods): Constitutional Structures NGOC SON BUI ET AL. (eds.), ASIAN COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, VOL 3.—CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE, chapters 1–2, 6, 9, 12, & 14 (2025) Day 5 (December 10: 3rd, 4th, & 5th periods) (with Professor Kentaro Matsubara): The Chekhov’s Gun Dilemma in Constitutional Design Bryan Dennis G. Tiojanco & Kentaro Matsubara, The Chekhov’s Gun Dilemma in Constitutional Design: the United States, Japan, and the Philippines (draft manuscript) YASUO HASEBE, TOWARDS A NORMAL CONSTITUTIONAL STATE: THE TRAJECTORY OF JAPANESE CONSTITUTIONALISM, chapters 11–13 (2021)

I will start each class with a lecture introducing the readings. This is followed by a class discussion of the response essays. I encourage voluntary participation by all students in class, though the quality of your participation is more important than the frequency. I expect everyone to have read the required readings, and hope that some would read the suggested readings.

There are two writing requirements for the semester: Response Essays: You are required to submit at least one response essay during the course. The essay should respond to a session day’s reading assignment. You can choose any one of the five session days to submit a response essay. It should be submitted by six p.m. of the day before class. They should be around 1–3 pages long. Anyone who submits at least three response essays is exempted from the final essay requirement below. Final Essay: You are required to write a final essay applying what you have learned in the course. It should be submitted by midnight of the last day of final examinations. It should be around 10–12 pages long.

The course will be conducted entirely in English, but not on the assumption that all students have a native speaker's command of the language. Students whose first language is not English should see this as an opportunity to accustom themselves to academic discussions in English.