School of Law   2024   Autumn Term

Lectures will proceed in the following order:

1. Introduction

2. Legislation and political process

3. Voters

4. Special interest groups(Mini Report I)

5. Political market

6. Voting rules

7. Initiation of legislation

8. Diet members and political parties

9. Law interpretation and public choice theory(Mini Report II)

10. Bureaucrats I

11. Bureaucrats II

12. Bureacrats III

13. Political economics of judiciary

14. Precedent

15. Strategic Litigation