Tanaka Kōtarō and World Law - Kevin M. Doak

Tanaka Kōtarō and World Law

Rethinking the Natural Law Outside the West

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Buch | Softcover
XI, 127 Seiten
2019 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-13205-7 (ISBN)
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This book explores one of the 20th century's most consequential global political thinkers and yet one of the most overlooked. Tanaka K_tar_ (1890-1974) was modern Japan's pre-eminent legal scholar and jurist. Yet because most of his writing was in Japanese, he has been largely overlooked outside of Japan. His influence in Japan was extraordinary: the only Japanese to serve in all three branches of government, and the longest serving Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. His influence outside Japan also was extensive, from his informal diplomacy in Latin America in the prewar period to serving on the International Court of Justice in the 1960s. His stinging dissent on that court in the 1966 South-West Africa Case is often cited even today by international jurists working on human rights issues. Above and beyond these particular lines of influence, Tanaka outlined a unique critique of international law as inherently imperialistic and offered as its replacement a theory of World Law (aka "Global Law") based on the Natural Law. What makes Tanaka's position especially notable is that he defended the Natural Law not as a European but from his vantage point as a Japanese jurist, and he did so not from public law, but from his own expertise in private law. This work introduces Tanaka to a broader, English-reading public and hopes thereby to correct certain biases about the potential scope of ideas concerning human rights, universality of reason, law and ethics.

Kevin M. Doak is the Nippon Foundation Endowed Chair & Professor of Japanese Studies at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.

Chapter 1 The Formation of a Japanese Globalist Thinker
Chapter 2 Law as a Universal Force for Good
Chapter 3 Tanaka's Theory of World Law
Chapter 4 A Globalist at Home 
Chapter 5 A Globalist Judge, at Home and Abroad
Chapter 6 Tanaka's Final Years-and Beyond
List of Publications by Tanaka K_tar_ in Western Languages
Index

"Doak's new book on Tanaka is a must-read, as it opens up entirely new vistas of thought onto globalism's possibilities. ... Doak's book is truly a masterpiece of concision, readability, and research." (Jason Morgan, The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, July 21, 2019)

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Global Political Thinkers
Zusatzinfo XI, 127 p. 3 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 193 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Schlagworte Commercial Law • education reform in postwar Japan • Ernst Zitelmann • Eugenics Protection Bill • Freemasonry in Occupied Japan • Fundamental Law of Education • Human Rights • International Court of Justice • Japanese Supreme Court • kyōyōshugi • ky y shugi • ky_y_shugi • kyyshugi • Mibuchi Tadahiko • nation vs. State • Natural Law • peace and justice • Religious Freedom • Sannenkai group • Taisho cultural education • Vehementer Nos • World Law • World Peace
ISBN-10 3-030-13205-6 / 3030132056
ISBN-13 978-3-030-13205-7 / 9783030132057
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