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Introduction to administrative law -- How agencies fit into our system of separated powers -- Adjudication -- Due process -- Rulemaking -- The availability of judicial review -- The scope of judicial review -- Government acquisition of private information -- Public access to government information

"In his paper, the author is focusing on the obstacles, challenges and problems with the full integration of Muslims in the several law systems in Europe and is in particular focusing on the current situation in Germany that has one of the largest Muslim populations in the European Union. Since many of them still have an immigration background, there are specific migration-related topics to be addressed. These are, however, secular in nature; they do not concern Muslims' religious beliefs or their religious needs as such. Since September 11, 2001, Muslims in Europe and other Western societies have faced what has come to be known as 'Islamophobia'. Many Muslims in Europe still tend to seek practical solutions for reconciling their own religious beliefs and practices with legal and other codes of secular European societies. Within the last few years European Muslims have also tried to formulate theoretical statements to clarify their positions on these issues, identify possible conflicts between legal and religious norms, and find adequate solutions for such conflicts." (author's abstract)

During the three years leading up to this year 's 60th anniversary of the signing of the 1960 U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, a series of workshops were held under the joint sponsorship of Columbia Law School's Center for Japanese Legal Studies and the National Defense Academy of Japan's Center for Global Security. Bringing together experts in international law and political science primarily from the United States and Japan, the workshops examined how differing approaches to use of force and understandings of individual and collective self-defense in the two countries might adversely affect their alliance. The workshop participants explored the underlying causes of the gap in understanding between the United States and Japan with respect to these issues, and they considered the alliance in the conte xt of each state's interpretation of international law and policy positions regarding its rights and obligations under such law. In doing so, they also examined how the differing approaches could be applied to possible crisis situations of current concern in East Asia, and what that might mean for alliance relations.