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Westlaw Japan K.K. (Minato Ward, President and Representative Director: Young Sun Bang) will hold an online seminar titled “Will the Time Come for Local Regions Post-COVID!?—About Autonomous Legislation” on Thursday, April 14, 2022.
Corporations need to keep track of numerous ordinances, including ordinances on countermeasures against global warming, landscape conservation, fire prevention, and elimination of antisocial forces.
In this seminar, the lecturer who has taken part in the establishment of ordinances will show actual cases to guide you through the system of ordinances, how they are established, the relationship with governmental legislations, and the importance of understanding ordinances.
Please utilize this seminar to establish and strengthen your company’s post-COVID compliance system.
| Overview | |
| Date and Time | Thursday, April 14, 2022, 4 pm to 5 pm |
|---|---|
| How to join | The seminar will be a LiVECAST webinar. You will be able to join from anywhere as long as you have internet access. After you sign up, we will send you the link together with details on how to join the seminar. |
| Fees | free of charge |
| Registration | Reception has been closed. Thank you for your entry. |
| Program | |
| 4:00 pm – 4:05 pm | Opening |
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| 4:05 pm – 4:35 pm | Lecture about autonomous legislation |
| 4:35 pm – 4:50 pm | Introduction of Westlaw Japan “Ordinance Alert” |
| 4:50 pm – 5:00 pm | Q&A |
Please see the link below for details.
https://www.westlawjapan.com/event/seminar/220414.html
【Lecturer】
Hiroshi Okada
Professor, Department of Law, Kwansei Gakuin University
Hiroshi Okada graduated from the Kyoto University Faculty of Law in 1990. He worked at Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (now Panasonic Corporation) and joined the Kyoto City Office in 1992. After serving as the Director of the Legislation Division, he served as the Director of the SDGs and Citizen Collaboration Division of the General Planning Bureau until March 2022. In April of the same year, he was appointed as a professor at the Department of Law, Kwansei Gakuin University.
[ Main works ]
Co-author of Practical Affairs on Measures to Deal with Vacant Homes* (Yuhikaku Publishing Co., Ltd., 2016)
(http://www.yuhikaku.co.jp/books/detail/9784641131996)
Author of Basics of Compliance for Municipalities* (Yuhikaku Publishing Co., Ltd., 2017)
(http://www.yuhikaku.co.jp/books/detail/9784641227323)
Co-author of The Possibilities and Limits of the Rights to Interpret Legislations and Establish Ordinances—The Contemporary Issues and Practice of Ordinances in a Decentralized Society* (Dai-ichi Hoki Co., Ltd., 2022)
(https://www.daiichihoki.co.jp/store/products/detail/104378.html)
About Westlaw Japan K.K.
Westlaw Japan K.K. is a joint venture equally owned by Thomson Reuters and Shinnippon-Hoki Publishing Co., Ltd. (headquartered in Nagoya). The company was established on March 31, 2006, in order to meet the needs of the times by providing comprehensive online legal information services in Japan. For more information, please go to https://www.westlawjapan.com/.
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About Shinnippon-Hoki Publishing Co., Ltd.
Shinnippon-Hoki Publishing Co., Ltd. has more than 70 years of history and it is one of the leading publishers in Japan in the fields of legislation, tax, and accounting. The company provides information and solution services to experts (such as lawyers, judicial scriveners, certified public accountants, tax accountants, architects, social insurance labor consultants, and public notaries), central governments, local governments, and corporate practitioners by offering them over 600 titles of loose-leaf law books, other publications, and online services. For more information, please go to https://www.sn-hoki.co.jp/.
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