Universal Minority Rights? A Transnational Approach

Morigiwa, YasutomoNagoya University. He teaches legal theory, legal ethics and anti-corruption in English, as well as in Japanese. After beginning his career at the University of Tokyo, he worked on theories of law and language at Oxford with Profs. H. L. A. Hart, R. Dworkin, and J. Raz. He is now active in work on interpretation, and in promoting the practical import of legal philosophy explaining to the practicing jurist the nature of professional responsibility. He was the Acting President of the IVR (International Association of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy) from 2009 to 2011, and a member of its Executive Committee since 2003. He is also a Director of IAOLE (International Association for Legal Ethics) and JALP (Japan Association of Legal Philosophy).

Sakurai, Tetsu
Tetsu Sakurai is Professor of Contemporary Jurisprudence at the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University.

Contents:

Y. Morigiwa: Preface
F. Ishiyama: Introduction
W. Kymlicka: Universal Minority Rights? The Prospects for Consensus
Commentaries:
M. Fukada: Comments and Questions to Professor W. Kymlicka
F. Ishiyama: A 'Distinctively Liberal' Theory of Minority Rights?
T. Katsuragi: Comments on Kymlicka's Multicultural Citizenship
R. Hirai: When Kymlicka Takes on Asia
Y. Inada: A Kind of Strategic Essentialism? A Commentary on Kymlicka
S. Morimura: In Defense of Liberal Imperialism
I. Ozaki: Who Saves Whom? A Short Comment on Multicultural Citizenship
K. Hasegawa: Comments on Will Kymlicka's Thinking about the Rights of Indigenous People
Y. Mouri: Towards a Liberal Extension of Multiculturalism: Focusing Attention on the Present Conditions of the Korean Minority in Japan
W. Kymlicka: Replies to Commentaries

Contents: Y. Morigiwa: Preface
F. Ishiyama: Introduction
W. Kymlicka: Universal Minority Rights? The Prospects for Consensus Commentaries:
M. Fukada: Comments and Questions to Professor W. Kymlicka
F. Ishiyama: A Distinctively Liberal Theory of Minority Rights?
T. Katsuragi: Comments on Kymlicka sMulticultural Citizenship
R. Hirai: When Kymlicka Takes on Asia
Y. Inada: A Kind of Strategic Essentialism? A Commentary on Kymlicka
S. Morimura: In Defense of Liberal Imperialism
I. Ozaki: Who Saves Whom? A Short Comment onMulticultural Citizenship
K. Hasegawa: Comments on Will Kymlicka s Thinking about the Rights of Indigenous People
Y. Mouri: Towards a Liberal Extension of Multiculturalism: Focusing Attention on the Present Conditions of the Korean Minority in Japan
W. Kymlicka: Replies to Commentaries