Europe and Asia as a Legal Area for Fundamental Rights

The European Union and the Council of Europe as legal area of freedom, fundamental rights and rule of law.- Protection of Human Rights in East and Southeast Asian countries after World War II.- Peacekeeping, Protection of Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law in Europe - Problems, Future Prospects and an International Role Model.- BREXIT and the European Convention on Human Rights.- The EU as a defender of the Liberal International Order and the Rule of Law.- The primacy of EU law over national law: Rule of law contested - Reflections on the Case of the Polish Constitutional Court.- Human Rights Limitation in the Rule of Law from Vietnam's Practice.- Protection of personal data as property in the Chinese constitutional order.

Masahisa Deguchi is Professor of Civil Procedural Law at the Faculty of Law, Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto/Japan). He studied Civil Procedural Law at Chuo University and Freiburg University (Germany). He attained his Master of Laws (Keio University 1988) and Doctor of law (University of Freiburg 1991) through the DAAD-Scholarship.
He was researching as Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Freiburg(1994-1995, 2007), Regensburg(2015) and Cologne(2015). He received the JaDe-Price [Die Stiftung zur Förderung japanisch-deutscher Wissenschafts- und Kulturbeziehungen in Köln] in 2002. In 2006, he received the Cross of Merit on the ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic Germany (Verdienstkreuz am Bande des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland).
He was Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Law School (2002) and University of Washington Law School in USA (2002). He has been Board Member of Notarial Law in Japan (since 2005), he was Member of Disciplinary Committee at Kyoto Bar Association (2007-2009), and he was Vice President of the International Association of Procedural Law (2007-2015) and has been Honorary Vice President of International Association of Procedural Law (since 2015). He was Visiting Scholar at the Renmin University (2010). He is Member of Examination Committee of Attorney at Law at Kyoto Bar (2011-2019). He was Member of Judicial State Examination in Japan (2012). He is Presidium Member of the Freiburg Alumni and Board Member of Alumni Freiburg e.V. (since 2016). He was Visiting Professor at  National Taiwan University in Taiwan (2016). He was Visiting Professor at  National Chengchi University in Taiwan (2018). 
His fields of research are Civil Procedural Law, Civil Enforcement Law, Civil Injunction Law, Comparative Law, EU-law, and German Law. 
Kimio Yakushiji is Professor Emeritus at the School of Law, Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, Japan). In 1974, he graduated from the School of Law, Kyoto