Speech prepared for the 19th annual meeting of ITO Foundation for International Education Exchange (censored ver.)

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Speech prepared for the 19th annual meeting of
ITO Foundation for International Education
Exchange (censored ver.)
Akihiko Nakagawa Associate Professor Hokkaido
University School of Law
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Topics prepared
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• My experience at the LL.M. program
• My current research project
• The significance of higher education

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Topic 1
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• My experience at Yale Law School

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My Ryugaku
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• First time to live overseas alone, but I
  desperately wanted to get out of this country.
• ?Quick overview with next 4 slides

Thomas Cole, Manhood
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Departed for US August 2008
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Read, read, read, zzz.. read
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Back and forth between School and dorm
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Making new friends
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And got a degree
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Pictures Not the whole story
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• What helped me to get through the tough academic
  year?
• Financial commitment.
• Masterpieces at NGA Met.

Auguste Renoir, Oarsmen at Chatou
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How did I change?
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• I gained weight.
• You should abandon the spirit of
• Mottainai in US.

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Well, what did I study?
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• Fall term Constitutional Law Contracts
  Behavioral Law Economics Comparative Law, etc.
• Spring term Business Organization Empirical Law
  Economics Antitrust Intellectual Property,
  etc.

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Did that study matter?
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• A LOT !!
• ??????????!
• ? next 2 slides

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The most fundamentals
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• Why do I study and write?
• ?To make this world a better one
• that I would love to live in.
• Why do I make comments on others paper?
• ?To encourage her/him to improve the paper.

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The most obvious, but
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• Most easily overlooked
• Academic freedom!
• (Gakumon no jiyu)
• ?You can conduct any research you like.
• Used to be captive in narrow-minded
• specialty, but relieved at last.

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What is your specialty?
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• Specialty should not bind you to a specific area.
• Specialty is something you acquire and broaden in
  your career.

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More on academic freedom
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• Select a topic
• ?Select materials and methods
• ?Not necessarily your diploma
• field, but its OK if youre willing
• DO NOT start from a fixed discipline, but start
  from a problem to solve.

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Topic 2
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• My current research project
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The project Im working on
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• Matching Antimonopoly Law rules
• to developed methods of empirical analysis.
• This project
• (a) is developed from LL.M. papers,
• (b) focuses on quantitative methods.

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Economics supports antitrust
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• The Antimonopoly Law prohibits practices that
  restrain or exclude competition in the relevant
  market.
• Classical IO (industrial organization) provided
  justifications for this policy.
• Economics crucial when forecasting the future
  effects on competition.

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The situation changed
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• A gap between (L) and (Ea)
• ?Knowledge based on Classical IO should be
  updated.
• A gap between (L) and (Eb)
• ?Tolerable discrepancy should be specified.

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Why is this project important?
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• The Japanese Fair Trade Commission has expertise,
  but courts generally do not. ?Discretion in the
  JFTC
• Reliable rules of thumb should be specified for a
  sensible judicial review of the JFTCs actions.
• That produces a good binding decision which even
  a losing party would accept.

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Topic 3
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• The significance of higher education

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Mismatch around universities
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• Mismatch in job markets ???
• (both undergraduate and graduate)
• What kind of needs should
• universities satisfy?
• Cf Mismatch in marriage markets

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Mismatch causes anxiety
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• ?????
• ?????
• ??????? ???? ??????????
• ????????????????? ?????????10?
• (??????2010????2008?)
• ?Mismatch reduces current investment.

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Financial support does help
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• Scholarship eliminates financial concern and let
  aspiring and ambitious students intensively
  study.
• ?The virtues of sharing.

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Sharing the Best of US culture
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• Donation sharing others financial needs.
• Sharing an opened door.
• Education sharing an instructors knowledge
  experience
• International exchange sharing each others
  culture.

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Could we reduce mismatch?
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• Yes, as long as the mismatch is due to poor
  understanding of the nature of higher education.
• Politicians are easy to disregard the fundamental
  difference between practitioners and researchers.

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Different missions performed
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• Why do we conduct research in our office without
  facing our potential clients?
• Because satisfying the current needs is a job
  more properly done by practitioners.
• (And they are far much better paid.)

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Mission as a research institute
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• Professors equip students with skills and
  knowledge that they could combine to propose
  solutions satisfying FUTURE NEEDS.
• Future needs needs that could
• not be satisfied clinically yet.

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Message for future alumni
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• Even in this economic downturn, believe in
  yourself and do invest in yourself.
• As long as you have aspiration, you can develop
  your skills and knowledge.
• Let us share in the future your ideas, writings,
  products, or any output of your developed
  abilities with you.

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The end
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• I welcome comments questions.