The Legal Framework for Strengthening UK/Japanese Relations: Trade, Policy, and Constitutional Dimensions

加强英日关系的法律框架：贸易、政策和宪法层面

• 批准号: ES/S014063/1
• 负责人: Navraj Ghaleigh
• 金额: $ 5.95万
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FS014063%2F1
• 关键词: Legal; Framework; Strengthening; UK; Japanese

This proposal is driven by the conviction that the scope and depth of legal research pertaining to Japan has been unfit for purpose. There are a range of significant connections between the constitutional and international law practices and traditions of the UK and Japan which are ripe for collaborative exploration. Bolstering developing research relationships to deepen our understanding of these constitutional issues will be crucial in extending understanding on both sides of how the UK and Japan are governed. If the economic and political relationship between the states is to be extended through international trade commitments, such collective understanding will be an essential prerequisite of embedding such commitments in domestic legal structures. This will also generate considerable academic benefits - these rich possibilities for collaborative and comparative research in constitutional law remain largely untapped, which is a major gap in the constitutional scholarship of advanced democratic states.Our Work Packages aim to address two broad but central aspects of UK-Japanese relations: trade-related, and constitutional. This work will extend understanding in the diverse communities of social science research and contribute towards translating said findings into user-communities via our stakeholder engagement, as elaborated in our Case for Support.Work Package 1: The UK shall not only present itself as the "gateway to Europe" for Japan business. This project explores the legal means by which the UK can deepen the bond between the two countries and, if possible, surpass the level of integration granted by the EU-Japan EPA in areas such as corporate governance, e-commerce, intellectual property protection and regulatory cooperation. A strong strategic link with Japan would also facilitate wider plans, such as the UK's membership to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a long-term project that might complement the UK's role in the East of the world, alongside its key role in the China-led OBOR enterprise.Work Package 2: Despite differences in constitutional structure between the UK's uncodified system and the Japanese written constitutional text, there are important points of commonality in both institutional and conceptual terms. The key institutional issues which raise connected challenges for UK and Japanese scholars include the operation of electoral systems and the approach to the democratic accountability of government, the role of Supreme Courts in the enforcement of fundamental norms, the functions of Cabinet government, and the effectiveness of parliamentary processes.We contend that this needs a step change in both theory and practice. User involvement, acting across sectors, deploying distinct and apt forms of knowledge, must involve new propositions and forms of governance. Such changes are also deeply political. Applying interdisciplinary approaches for our academic programmes, a further objective is to nurture a rising generation of researchers with a proper understanding of the common concerns of the two nations, and the networks to explore their research agendas. See further, Academic Beneficiaries document.Our Projects will commence just before the UK is set to leave the EU, and we aim to inform the UK's international strategy wherever the higher politics takes us.

提出这一建议是因为我们深信，与日本有关的法律的研究的范围和深度已经不适合这一目的。联合王国和日本的宪法和国际法惯例与传统之间存在着一系列重要联系，合作探索的时机已经成熟。支持发展研究关系，以加深我们对这些宪法问题的理解，对于扩大双方对英国和日本如何治理的理解至关重要。如果要通过国际贸易承诺扩大国家间的经济和政治关系，这种集体谅解将是将这种承诺纳入国内法律的结构的必要先决条件。这也将产生可观的学术利益--宪法合作和比较研究的丰富可能性在很大程度上尚未开发，这是先进民主国家宪法学术的一个主要差距。我们的工作包旨在解决英日关系的两个广泛但核心的方面：贸易相关的和宪法的。这项工作将扩大社会科学研究的不同社区的理解，并通过我们的利益相关者参与将上述研究成果转化为用户社区，正如我们的支持案例所阐述的那样。工作包1：英国不仅要成为日本企业的“欧洲门户”。该项目探讨了法律的手段，英国可以通过这些手段加深两国之间的联系，如果可能的话，在公司治理，电子商务，知识产权保护和监管合作等领域超过欧盟-日本EPA授予的一体化水平。与日本建立强有力的战略联系还将促进更广泛的计划，例如英国加入跨太平洋伙伴关系协定（TPP），这是一个长期项目，可能会补充英国在世界东部的作用，以及它在中国领导的一带一路企业中的关键作用。尽管英国的非法典体系和日本的成文宪法文本在宪法结构上存在差异，在体制和概念方面都有重要的共同点。选举制度的运作、政府的民主问责、最高法院在执行基本规范中的作用、内阁政府的职能、议会程序的有效性等制度问题对英国和日本学者提出了挑战。用户的参与，跨部门的行动，部署独特和适当的知识形式，必须涉及新的主张和治理形式。这种变化也是深刻的政治。将跨学科方法应用于我们的学术课程，另一个目标是培养新一代研究人员，他们对两国的共同关切有正确的理解，并建立网络来探索他们的研究议程。我们的项目将在英国即将离开欧盟之前开始，我们的目标是为英国的国际战略提供信息，无论更高的政治将我们带到哪里。