Taishinin's Judicial Behaviour in Corruption Cases: Japanese Body in Western Jacket
暫譯: 太清審的貪污案件司法行為：西方外衣下的日本體系
Wong, Kam Bill, Fang, Steve Liang
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商品描述
Legal transplant in the Meiji Restoration gave birth to Taishinin, which is the former of today's Supreme Court of Japan, but the objective of it was not solely for legal justice at the beginning. Taishinin's criminalization of corruption as an offense was out of both legal and non-legal factors. Law is often unclear and general because legislator cannot foresee all modus operandi in future. Judges' judicial decision-making and sentencing practices have space to interpret it with opinions, discretion, legal consciousness and innovation for an immediate legal effect of criminal justice on society. This book applies robust judicial behavior concept to analyze how Taishinin's judicial behavior of such factors rationalized its rulings on corruption cases. This is not only a matter of transplanted "Western jacket" of Germanic Penal Code, but also departmental internal instructions, integrity standards and traditional legal consciousness of unwritten codes of conduct. The original findings of this book reveal that Taishinin's judicial behavior in corruption cases was subject to many non-legal considerations, such as historical development of anticorruption law, traditional jurisprudential concepts, mission of and commitment to judicial role, values, judge appointment, judicial training and the political impacts of Ministry of Justice's administration of judiciary.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
明治維新期間的法律移植催生了太裁院，這是今日日本最高法院的前身，但其初衷並不僅僅是追求法律正義。太裁院將貪腐定為犯罪的原因，既有法律因素，也有非法律因素。法律往往不夠明確且過於一般，因為立法者無法預見未來所有的作業模式。法官的司法決策和量刑實踐有空間可以根據意見、裁量、法律意識和創新進行解釋，以便對社會的刑事司法產生即時的法律效果。本書運用穩健的司法行為概念，分析太裁院在貪腐案件中的司法行為如何合理化其裁決。這不僅僅是德國刑法的「西方外衣」的移植問題，還包括部門內部指導、誠信標準以及傳統法律意識中未成文的行為準則。本書的原始發現揭示了太裁院在貪腐案件中的司法行為受到許多非法律考量的影響，例如反貪腐法律的歷史發展、傳統法理學概念、司法角色的使命與承諾、價值觀、法官任命、司法訓練以及法務部對司法行政的政治影響。
作者簡介
Dr. Kam Bill Wong is a criminologist and researcher with a strong interest in Japanese studies. His academic background spans international human rights law, arbitration law, Japanese culture and history, business administration, and marketing. He has extensive teaching and research experience at institutions in Hong Kong, Japan, the United States, and mainland China. In 2009, he served as a visiting scholar at Stanford University. His current research focuses on the relationship between judicial behavior and justice, particularly in relation to judgments in corruption cases adjudicated by the Taishinin in pre-war Japan. Dr. Wong received his Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong in 2008. Dr. Steve Liang Fang is a researcher specializing in Japanese history, with a particular focus on pre-modern history and Japan's foreign relations in the nineteenth century. He is currently a research fellow at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Chiba University, and a member of the Fair Society Studies group at the same institution. His work explores the historical factors contributing to social injustice, aiming to identify solutions to contemporary issues related to fairness and equality. Dr. Fang received his Ph.D. from Chiba University in 2022.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
黃錦彬博士是一位犯罪學家和研究者，對日本研究有濃厚的興趣。他的學術背景涵蓋國際人權法、仲裁法、日本文化與歷史、商業管理及行銷。他在香港、日本、美國及中國大陸的多所機構擁有豐富的教學和研究經驗。2009年，他曾擔任史丹佛大學的訪問學者。他目前的研究重點是司法行為與正義之間的關係，特別是與戰前日本大審院裁決的貪污案件判決相關的議題。黃博士於2008年獲得香港大學的博士學位。 梁方博士是一位專注於日本歷史的研究者，特別關注前現代歷史及十九世紀日本的對外關係。他目前是千葉大學社會科學研究所的研究員，同時也是該機構公平社會研究小組的成員。他的研究探討導致社會不公的歷史因素，旨在找出解決當前與公平和平等相關問題的方案。梁博士於2022年獲得千葉大學的博士學位。
