Dear Ladies and Gentlemen
The German-Japanese Lawyers' Association, the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, the Frankfurt Law Society and the German-Japanese Society Frankfurt am Main cordially invite you to a lecture in German by
Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Makoto Ida
on The Death Penalty in Japan. At the same Time a Contribution to the Theory of Punishment
on Monday, October 07, 2024 18:00 c.t.
Goethe University Frankfurt, Hörsaalzentrum Westend, Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 1, Room HZ 11, 60323 Frankfurt am Main,
Japan still has the death penalty, which is not often, but regularly imposed and carried out. The usefulness and necessity of the punishment are also controversial in Japan, even though surveys show that a majority of the population is in favor of retaining it. Prof. IDA, one of the country's leading criminal law scholars, has written a book with the title of the lecture in which he takes a critical look at the death penalty from the perspective of penal theory. The book he refers to in his lecture questions the significance of the theory of punishment as retribution, which is prevalent in Japanese criminal law scholarship today and is used as a basis by both supporters of the death penalty and those who advocate its abolition. In doing so, he highlights the premises of the current Japanese debate and its problems. His book has met with great interest in Japan and has rekindled the deadlocked discussion in academia and society. The book has now been translated into German by Prof. Dr. Matthias K. Scheer, making it accessible to German-speaking countries.
About the author:
Makoto Ida was born in 1956. He is currently a professor at Chūō University Hōka Daigaku-in (Law School), professor emeritus at Keiō University and Dr. jur. at the University of Cologne. Prof. Ida was a member of the Science Council of Japan, Chairman of the Religious Juridical Persons Council of the Ministry of Culture and Chairman of the Legislative Commission at the Ministry of Justice. He is currently an advisor to the Judicial Training Institute of the Supreme Court and has been Chairman of the Roundtable on the Death Penalty Commission since February 2024. Prof. Ida holds honorary doctorates from Saarland University and Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. He has been awarded the Philipp Franz von Siebold Award (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), the Eugen-und-Ilse-Seibold Award (German Research Foundation), the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Cross of Merit with Ribbon), the Order of Shiju Hōshō (Medal with Purple Ribbon) by the Japanese Emperor and the Science Award 2023 of Chūō University.
You can find further information on the flyer.
We look forward to your participation.
Further lectures by Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Ida will take place on 08.10. in Hamburg, on 10.10. in Berlin and on 11.10. in Munich.
Yours sincerely,
Moritz Bälz
