August 22, 2006
News Briefs
News Briefs
Law conference brings Japanese leader to campus
The vast legal reform now under way in Japan will be debated by some of its top designers and critics Friday and Saturday at the UW’s School of Law, sponsor of an international conference on “Law in Japan: A Turning Point.”
The overhaul — the first of its kind under Japan’s postwar constitution — calls for doubling the number of new lawyers, launching U.S.-style graduate law schools and introducing something akin to jury trials.
Coming to Seattle to debate the outlines of this massive experiment will be Prosecutor General Akio Harada — Japan’s counterpart to the U.S. attorney general — and 40 of the world’s leading authorities on Japanese law.
Center Web site documents state’s communist history
A new Web project by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies documents the history of labor and radicalism in the Pacific Northwest.
The project includes historical essays that explore the party’s organizational history from 1919 to 2002. It includes more than 200 photographs, cartoons and other illustrations relating to the history of American Communism.
A video memories section on the site includes excerpts from interviews with longtime members of the Communist Party. The site is located at http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/cpproject.
Site will follow campaigns on Web
A UW researcher has helped launch a Web site that will monitor political actors’ use of the Internet throughout the 2002 campaign season.
Kirsten Foot, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication partnered with a SUNY Institute of Technology scholar to launch politicalweb.info. The site can be found at http://politicalweb.info.
