{"title":"Legitimacy of International Organizations and their Decisions : Challenges that International Organizations Face in the 21st Century","authors":"Tetsuo Satō","doi":"10.15057/17322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/17322","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction I. Some Background on the Legitimacy of International Organizations and their Decisions 1. Two Reasons Why Legitimacy did not Surface as an Issue Earlier 2. Three Reasons Why Legitimacy has Surfaced as an Issue II. Recent Cases Where Legitimacy was Questioned 1. The European Union (EU) 2. The United Nations Security Council 3. The World Trade Organization (WTO) 4. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) III. Towards an Improvement in the Legitimacy of International Organizations and their Decisions 1. Democracy 2. Accountability Conclusion","PeriodicalId":208983,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of law and politics","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124904026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reform of the System for Charitable Corporations and Tax System Revision","authors":"Tadatsune Mizuno","doi":"10.15057/17319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/17319","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":208983,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of law and politics","volume":"1923 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130123775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The History of Marriage Law in Austria and Germany : from Sacrament to Civil Contract","authors":"Judith Von Schmadel","doi":"10.15057/17321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/17321","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":208983,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of law and politics","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131992079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Just War Theory of the 20th Century : The Rebirth of Grotius and the United States","authors":"Susumu Yamauchi","doi":"10.15057/15653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/15653","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":208983,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of law and politics","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121534448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eigenliebe als Moralprinzip unter den aufgeklärten Absolutismus Friedrichs des Grossen","authors":"Jiro Rei Yashiki","doi":"10.15057/15655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/15655","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":208983,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of law and politics","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129673254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The libertarian view of human nature","authors":"S. Morimura","doi":"10.15057/13788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/13788","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":208983,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of law and politics","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131273390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zwischenbericht des Forschungsprojekts : Der Einfluß der Frauenbewegung auf die Entstehung des BGB und die Rechtspraxis im Ehegüterrecht der Kaiserzeit","authors":"Jiro Rei Yashiki","doi":"10.15057/13789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/13789","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":208983,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of law and politics","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115594537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gneist als Zivilrechtslehrer","authors":"D. Eßer","doi":"10.15057/8130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/8130","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":208983,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of law and politics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128451666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A brief note on the legal effects of jus cogens in international law","authors":"Kyoji Kawasaki","doi":"10.15057/8133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/8133","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":208983,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of law and politics","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131763518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Das Japanische Recht und der Code Civil Als Modell der Rechtsvergleichung","authors":"Shusei Ono","doi":"10.15057/8132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/8132","url":null,"abstract":"In 2004 hat der Code Civil (Français) den 200. Geburtstag gefeiert. Der Code Civil wurde vor zwei Jahrhundert, nämlich zur Zeit der Aufklärung, aus dem Geist des Vernunftrechts geschaffen. Bis heute hat er noch weltweiter Einfluß und große Bedeutung als Modell der Rechtsvergleichung. Der Vernunftgedanke der Europa wurde weit auch in Japan zur Zeit des Anfangs der Modernisierung, nämlich zu Beginn der sog. Meiji-A »ra (1868), akzeptiert. Zu der Zeit war der Code Civil schon ein der Modelle der modernen Gesetzgebung der Welt. Man erkannte damals, daß das Recht zu den wesentlichen Grundlagen für eine rationale Ordnung des modern-westlichen Lebens in entwickelte Staaten gehört. Daraus geschah die starke Hoffnung, das überkommene, in vielen Einzelheiten altmodische, zersplitterte und feudalistische Recht (besonders unbeschriebenes Gewohnheitsrecht) durch ein bewußt geplantes und einheitlich von modern-staatlicher Autorität (besonders durch parlamentarischer Gesetzgebung) getragenes umfassendes Kodifikationswerk zu ersetzen. D.h. von Kasuistik zum einheitlichen System. Sie entsprach auch die moderne Idee der Souveränität der Nation. Auch in Europa hat die Hoffnung der Kodifikation aus dem Geist des Vernunftrechts zu drei großen und bedeutenden Kodifikationen geführt. Als Vorspiel der kommenden großen Kodifikationen gab es zwar in Bayern den Codex Maximilianeus Bavaricus civilis (1765). Allenthalben blickte schon der Vernunfsglaube der neuen Zeit durch. Systematisch folgte es aber noch das System des römischen Institutionen. In Preußen schuf man 1794 das Allgemeine Landrecht für die Preussischen Staaten von 1794 (ALR). Wenn auch das Gesetz durch den Geist der Vernunft und der Aufklärung geeingedrückt, blieb es allerdings noch wesentlich der ständischen Struktur des altmodischen Staatswesens Friedrichs II von Preußen (der Groß, 1740-86; Entstehungszeit des ALR, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1786-97) angekettet. Das Gesetz war streng aufgedrückt von der Fürsorglichkeit oder gleichzeitig dem Eingreiffen eines Bürokratischeund Obrigkeitsstaates gegenüber den Untertanen (nicht die Staatbürger) als Charakter des aufklärenden Absolutismus. Außerdem war es technisch nicht so erfolgreich, weil seine komplexe","PeriodicalId":208983,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of law and politics","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116994234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}