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> News > Guest Lecture, Assc. Prof. Sayaka Takano – Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University, Japan : Towards an Anthropology of “Making of Law”

Guest Lecture, Assc. Prof. Sayaka Takano – Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University, Japan : Towards an Anthropology of “Making of Law”

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07 February 2024

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Sadli Damanik A.Md

Guest Lecture, Assc. Prof. Sayaka Takano – Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University, Japan : Towards an Anthropology of “Making of Law”
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the Faculty of Law, Universitas Sumatera Utara (FH USU) held a guest lecture delivered by a lecturer at the Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University, Japan, Associate Professor Sayaka Takano, with the title "Towards an Anthropology of "Making of Law"

 

Public Relation FH-USU: Wednesday (07/02/2024), the Faculty of Law, Universitas Sumatera Utara (FH USU) held a guest lecture delivered by a lecturer at the Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University, Japan, Associate Professor Sayaka Takano, with the title "Towards an Anthropology of "Making of Law"". The guest lecture, which took place in the Faculty Advisory Council (DPF) room of FH USU, was given to undergraduate students of FH USU, guided by Siti Nurahmi Nasution, SH, M.H who acted as host.

 

(Associate) Professor Sayaka Takano received her master's and doctoral programs from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo, specializing in Legal Anthropology, Legal Pluralism, Cultural Anthropology and Folklore. Many articles have been published by Sayaka Takano in various journals, books and book chapters. Sayaka Takano was also awarded the 17th Academic Society Encouragement Award (Book Category) in 2016 organized by the Japan Law and Sociology Association. (Associate) Professor Sayaka Takano has written extensively on legal developments in Indonesia, one of her most popular articles being The Concept of Adat and Adat Revivalism in Post-Suharto Indonesia.

 

Siti Nurahmi Nasution, SH, M.H who acted as moderator in the introductory session opened the public lecture explaining "Indonesia has a unique legal system and does not only adhere to one legal system. There is customary law, civil law, Islamic law in the development of national law. When discussing free trade in services which certainly involves the Indonesian people as the perpetrators, there are various international treaties and agreements as laws. How should the Indonesian government accommodate this in the national legal system?" said the host.

 

(Associate) Professor Sayaka Takano in her lecture explained the contemporary significance of legal anthropological inquiry, which includes Legal anthropological approach to customary law and its unintended consequence, Recent ethnographies that elucidate how law is being made as the outcome of professional practices mediated by physical/technical devices (Latour 2002; Riles 2000; 2006), and Towards an anthropology of "making of law". Sayaka Takano also explains how the New Ethnographic Criticism and Interdisciplinary Dialogue.

 

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