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Legal Information and Plural Society -- An Example of " the Best Interests of the Child ". Prof. Yoshiharu MATSUURA 松浦好治 Director, JaLII, Nagoya University 名古屋大學 Prof. Amy Huey-Ling SHEE 施慧玲 Director, TaiwanLII, Chung Cheng University 中正大學.
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Legal Information and Plural Society-- An Example of "the Best Interests of the Child" Prof. Yoshiharu MATSUURA 松浦好治 Director, JaLII, Nagoya University名古屋大學 Prof. Amy Huey-Ling SHEE 施慧玲 Director, TaiwanLII, Chung Cheng University 中正大學
Material–Information– knowledge資料–資訊 \ 情報–知識 civil society – discipline society plural society \ information society 市民社會–專業社會 多元社會 \ 資訊社會
the Best Interests of the Child ??? to use… Legal Information in… Plural Society
孩子眼中的世界 Sense the World from the Sensitivity of the Child 由 孩 子 的 感 官 體 認 世 界
legal information child interests plural society
Story Facts Issues Law \ RuleQuestion \ Argument ReasoningConclusions 1. List up questions 2. Categorise 3. Expand questions to make comparative analyses 4. Looking for the answers and collecting information
Story Practice
釋字第365號 Judicial Interpretation 1994.09.23NO 365 由一男一女成立之婚姻關係,以及因婚姻而產生父母子女共同生活之家庭… 應基於兩性平等原則及兼顧未成年子女之最佳利益,規定其解決途徑…… The union of man and woman through marriage, and the children created from that union are subject to the above constitutional obligations. …This problem should be resolved based on the premises of the principle of gender equality and the best interest of minors …
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child児童の権利に関する条約(平成6年, 1994) http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/gaiko/jido/
pp.36-38 子 女 最 佳 利 益日本法律 vs 聯合國兒童權利公約
p.38 児童の権利条約http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/gaiko/jido/zenbun.html 日本國憲法 • 第九十八条 この憲法は、国の最高法規であつて、その条規に反する法律、命令、詔勅及び国務に関するその他の行為の全部又は一部は、その効力を有しない。 • 日本国が締結した条約及び確立された国際法規は、これを誠実に遵守することを必要とする。
Bilingual KWIC English + Native LanguageKey-Word-in-Context SearchStandard Translation Dictionary Reference for Translation Comparative Legal Concepts Continental vs Common Law Package Legal Information Nagoya JaLII Invention Cross-national collaborations CCUTaiwanLII Application
A Proposed ProjectMulti-layered Sharing of Legal Informationin East Asia What to share? • Statutory Text in Two Languages • Standard Translation Dictionary • Contextual Information in Plain Language 注釈: annotations to statutory text annotations to basic legal concepts
比較法研究 MOJ 法令外国語訳 JaLII, 名古屋大学 日本法令 (J-E対訳) annotations e-legislation research Plain law Statutory text & Standard Translation Dictionary TaiwanLII,中正大学 Ministry of Government Legislation, 韓国 台湾法令 (C-E対訳) 韓国法令 (K-E対訳) 中国法(大陸)研究 パートナー(交渉中)
親 權 Transplant of a Legal Term & Its Contextual Evolution & Its Translation transplant 親 權 modernisation 權 利 義 務 rights & duties Internationalisation duty-right UN Convention on the Rights of the Child parental responsibilities
Towardthe Discovery of a “Functional Equivalent” of Two Legal Systems Laws and Institutions about The Best Interest of Children Taiwanese Law Japanese Law • Common Challenges to the Study of Comparative Law • How can we list up all the “relevant” rules and related materials? • How should we read the data so identified ?
Unique Feature of Taiwan KWIC (1) • The Taiwan Bilingual KWIC of Judicial Interpretationsmade by the Grand Justices of the Constitutional Court • 669Interpretations, 2313 keywords, 10,677 lines: • substantial numbers for use of KWIC
Unique Feature of Taiwan KWIC(2) • Under the Continental Code structure, Judicial Interpretations may supplement the law KWIC to… -- define imported legal concept as legislative principle: No.365: monogamous family to raise independent children; No.590: children’s right to parental care -- create Constitutional right: No.587: the right to know parents;No.554: constitutional family right -- lead legal reform: No.365: family court & child interest;No.520: ethical concerns in adoptive family -- social engineering: No.587: out-of-wedlock paternity
From West-centered “modernisation” “internationalisation” “globalisation” Towards an Asian Network of Information Society for Legal Pluralism Contexts of Legal Information - Legislative history - Current laws & orders - Judicial interpretations - Court decisions - Academic writings - Empirical findings The LawPack Project
LawPack—Contextual information of law functional equivalents Jurisdiction B Human right issues Jurisdiction A child abuse, abortion sexual harassment, Internet privacy,etc. Local Contexts of Law & Practice LegalInformation Exchange Network
Taiwan Bilingual KWIC(law) Keyword:children
pp.38-41 日本 KWIC 搜尋 關鍵字:child's interests,搜尋結果:1條
Bilingual KWIC English + Native LanguageKey-Word-in-Context SearchStandard Translation Dictionary Reference for Translation Comparative Legal Concepts Continental vs Common Law Package Legal Information Nagoya JaLII Invention CCUTaiwanLII Application Cross-national collaborations