This course treats contemporary issues of modern criminal justice. As everyone knows, our “modern” criminal justice was born in the late 18th century, and still influences our understanding of “ideal” criminal justice. However, globalization and digitalization, which trembles our view and understanding about “truth”, poses a series of serious problems which make us difficult to rely on the core principles of our “modern” criminal justice, including free will, ration, and sovereignty. To overcome these difficulties or even crisis of our criminal justice, we should carefully review the journeys of our criminal justice, which has been changing its function as well as its tenets for several times, in order to understand what has actually provoked these changes and what we can do now to respond our crisis appropriately to avoid irreversible mistakes, which our criminal justice historically made many times. In the end of the course, non-modern resolution, which perhaps sounds strange for people who are too accustomed to “Western” legal theory but could nicely reconcile with the spirit of Japanese people, will be presented to overcome contemporary issues of our modern criminal justice. I hope my theory and strategy could stimulate my dearest Taiwanese friends’ ideas and understandings about their own criminal justice and perhaps law itself.


The topics are following:
1. Contemporary Problems of Modern Criminal Justice (Day1)
2. Sciences and Truths of Criminology (Day 2 & 3)
3. Applications of Theories for Emerging Issues (Day 4)
4. Where are we from? Where are we going (Day 5)
5. Criminal Justice in the Digital Era: Its Promise and Peril (Keynote lecture)