Study into the Metamorphosis of the Constitution

本项目旨在分析以欧盟的建立和欧洲社会境内外区域化为标志的国际化对公法和宪制理论的影响。研究人员包括日本和法国专门研究公法和宪法的学者。主要项目区有：1)国家和主权面临国际化和区域化；2)人权的国际化；3)面临全球化的地方政府；4)全球化与福利国家；5)少数民族问题。基于我们的成果，我们的成员在1999年12月14日至18日在斯特拉斯堡大学举行的《宪法的蜕变》和2002年3月7日至12日在日本东海大学、日本关东学院大学和日本神学院大学举行的《21世纪人类权利研究会》上发表了论文。我们的论文还发表在第7卷《神学院大学研究所年度报告》（全球化和区域化问题）、第8卷《少数民族问题会议报告》、第11卷《关东学院大学法学咨询》（人权理论的普遍性及其当代层面）和第33卷《东海法律评论》（生命和性问题）中。1999年提交的论文计划在法国出版。其他相关文章将在我们的研究人员所在机构的期刊上发表。

This project has aimed at analyzing the impact of internationalization symbolized by the establishment of the European Union and regionalization within and beyond national borders in the European society on public law and constitutional theories. The researchers include Japanese and French academics specialized in public law and constitution. The main project areas are: 1) the State and sovereignly facing internationalization and regionalization; 2) intemalization of human rights; 3) local governments facing globalization; 4) globalization and the welfare state; 5) issues concerning minorities.Based on our achievements, papers were presented by our members at La Metamorphose de la Constitution, December 14-18, 1999, at the University of Strasbourg, and La societe et les Droits de l'homme au 21eme siecle, March 7-12, 2002, at the University of Kogakuin University of Tokai and University of Kanto Gakuin. Our papers have also been published in Volume 7, the Annual Report of Kogakuin University Institute (Problems of Globalization and Regionalization) and Volume 8 (Report of the Session on Minority Issues), Volume 11, Jurisconsultus Kanto Gakuin University (Universality of Human Rights Theories and Their Contemporary Dimensions), and Volume 33, Tokai Law Review (Issues of Life and Sex). Papers presented in 1999 are scheduled to be published in France. Other related articles are to be published in periodicals of the institutions to which our researchers belong.