THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ANGLO-JAPANESE CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM

英日刑事法律制度的比较研究本项目的目的是比较英国和日本的刑事法律制度，以了解两种制度的优缺点。为了实现这一目标，项目成员相互访问，收集书籍、文章、案件报告、文件，并采访警察、刑事律师、法官、监狱官员。我们试图从刑事法律制度中如何保障人权的角度对两种制度进行比较。我们不仅研究了两个法系的理论，还研究了两个法系的实践。我们发现，理论和实践的某些部分是共同的，但大部分是非常不同的。造成这种差异的主要原因是两国审判模式的不同。英国有陪审制度，但日本没有。因此，我们今年的研究重点是陪审制度。

THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ANGLO-JAPANESE CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEMThe aim of this project is to compare the English Criminal Legal System and Japanese one in order to understand the merits and demerits of both Systems. To perform this aim, the members of the project visited each other country to gather the books, articles, case reports, documents and to interview the police officers, criminal lawyers, judges, prison officers.We tried to compare two systems in the respect from how to protect the human rights in the Criminal Legal System. We researched not only the theories but also the practices in both legal systems.We found that some parts of theories and practices are common but most parts of them are very different. The main reason of this difference comes from the differnce of the model of Trials in two countries. England has Jury Trial but Japan has not.Therefore we concentrate our research in this year on Jury Trial.