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CONFERENCE 2025: HOW TO ACT RESPONSIBLY TODAY? POLITICS OF LAW IN EUROPE AND JAPAN


The full video of the international conference "How to Act Responsibly Today? Politics of Law in Europe and Japan", held on April 26, 2025, is now available.

As democracy wavers around the world, the conference explored what it means to act responsibly and how frameworks of responsibility function within the international order.

The conference consisted of the following two panels:
Panel 1 – Responsibility in Action: Law, Economics, And Society Facing Global Challenges
Panel 2 – Framing Responsibility: Global Justice, and Democratic Challenges



【Panel 1】

00:00:07 
Responsibility in Action: Law, Economics, and Society Facing Global Challenges
- Gilles CAMPAGNOLO


00:07:40
 
Introduction of Panelists
- Adrienne SALA

00:09:06 
Climate Responsibility and Local Planning
- Raphaël LANGUILLON

00:28:51 
Beyond Anthropocentrism: Rethinking Ethical Framework for the Future
- Kanako TAKAE

00:44:42 
The Liability of Companies: The Solution to Humanitarian Disaster?
- Marie ELIPHE

01:00:20 
Discussion/Q&A


【Panel 2】

01:32:30 
Framing Responsibility: Global Justice, and Democratic Challenges
- Yasushi WATANABE

01:36:42 
Introduction of Panelists
- Yasushi WATANABE

01:38:23 
Three Different Aspects of Democracy: Values, Institutions, and Ideology
- Maiko ICHIHARA

01:54:14 
Responsibility to Whom? Limits and Hopes of Democracy
- Hirohide TAKIKAWA

02:10:22 
The Reconceptualization of Responsibility as Response-Ability in Times Called the Anthropocene: An Ultimate Thought Experiment for Legal Scholars?
- Isabelle GIRAUDOU

02:28:53 
Discussion/Q&A


【Wrap up & Closing】

03:04:44 
Wrap-up and Closing
- Gilles CAMPAGNOLO


<Panelists>

■Gilles CAMPAGNOLO (Professor, Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne University & CNRS) 

■Adrienne SALA (Assistant Professor, Waseda University) 

■Raphaël LANGUILLON (Researcher, FRIJ-MFJ) 

■Kanako TAKAE (Research Associate, Waseda university) 

■Marie ELIPHE (Assistant Professor, Paris Pantheon-Assas University) 

■Yasushi WATANABE (Professor, Keio University / Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA) 

■Maiko ICHIHARA (Professor, Hitotsubashi University)

■Hirohide TAKIKAWA (Professor, The University of Tokyo) 

■Isabelle GIRAUDOU (Professor, The University of Tokyo)

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