The Graduate Student Research Board (GSRB) is an university affiliated
organization that aims at promoting research management abilities of young
academics through intellectual exchanges with other young academics who are
actively pursuing their research projects in the domestic and international
scenes. The GSRB is modelled on the editorial board common at many Law Schools
in the United States. Our research board was established on November 2005, and
is being funded by the Japanese governmentfs (and the Japan Society for the
Promotion of Sciences) educational program, "Initiatives for Attractive
Education in Graduate School" Project. The members of this board have been
selected competitively among the graduate students specializing in law or
politics at the School of Law and are planning the following major activities. |
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1. | We will select, support, and promote intellectually stimulating and attractive research projects proposed by members of our research board as well as fellow graduate students that will be screened by our unique selection process. |
2. | After a project is selected, we will host workshops, study groups or symposium, which will be organized and conducted by the members of the GSRB. We will particularly put an emphasis on inviting fellow graduate students pursuing their academic endeavors in domestic and/or foreign universities. We plan to host regular study groups which we hope will facilitate a network for intellectual exchanges among graduate students inside and outside Japan. |
3. | We will publish GSRB newsletters, journals and booklets, following advices from the gSupporting Boardh which is a supervising committee composed by professors and specialists who have wide range of experiences in international joint research or editing of academic journals. |
4. | We will hold joint research projects with private companies, administrative agencies and the media, and develop ways that will enable us graduate students to contribute to society. |
5. | We have our own independent board office outside of the university campus and we the members are responsible for the technical operation, management, and day-today operation of the office. |
6. | In order to become more effective in our duties and to better serve our research board, we will organize and visit law schools in the U.S. who already have experiences in such kind of activities, as well as actively participate in the international conference. We will serve as ambassadors/representatives of our university and bring back what we have learned and incorporate that to our activities here at home. The board member will select the participants and choose what conference will best suit our members. This selection process will be conducted to insure fairness, transparency, and quality. |
7. | Through the above activities, we can offer a better research environment for our fellow graduate students, which we hope will result in accomplishments by our fellow colleagues. |
We are trying to create a more creative academic research environment at our
university through intellectual exchanges in the form of workshop, symposium,
and the network. It is crucial to have opportunities to discuss with other
academics and graduate students who share the same awareness or sensitivities in
their related field of study. Some of these potential colleagues may be
affiliated to other universities in Japan or to research institution in foreign
countries, which makes it difficult to build any solid relationships. At best,
we may get in contact or communicate once a year at one of the annual academic
conferences in Japan. However, we strongly believe that this project will make
it possible to invite young academics and graduate students and even
distinguished professors in various fields of research, by using the funds for
the ginitiativeh program. |