The Sixteenth Sino-Japanese Seminar on Comparative Law: “the Application of Constitutional Principles in the Field of Private Law” Held in Beijing

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On September 22, 2017, the Sixteenth Sino-Japanese Seminar on Comparative Law: “the Application of Constitutional Principles in the Field of Private Law”, jointly organized by CASS Law Institute and the Institute of Comparative Law of Waseda University, was successfully held in the conference room of the CASS Law Institute in Beijing. The seminar was divided into three sessions: in the first session, “the relationship between the constitution and private law from the constitutional law perspective”, the Chinese and Japanese scholars gave keynote speeches and carried out discussions on such topics as “the legal fact bases in constitutional review”, “international human rights treaties in the interpretation and application of civil law: the Japanese example and characteristics”, “the constitutional functions of the Chinese Civil Code”, “the linkage between the constitutional law and civil law in Japan”, “the non-conventional practices of royalty to the constitution and reflections thereof”; at the second session of the seminar, which took “the relationship between the constitution and private law from the civil law perspective” as its theme, Chinese and Japanese scholars gave keynote speeches and carried out discussions on such topics as: “the change of the safeguarding mode of condominium ownership in the reconstruction of condominium buildings”, “the constitutionalization of commercial law: a contemporary trend of development of commercial law”, and “clan law and constitutional law”; at the third session, “constitutional principles and the labor law”, the keynote speeches were given and discussions carried out around the following two topics: “the application of the constitutional principle of equality in the framework of inclined protection under the labor law” and “the realization of constitutional principles in Japanese labor law: abuse of power, public order, and personality interests”.