Law

The objective of the Faculty of Law is to cultivate competent and sensible citizens equipped with a legal grounding. To achieve this, we provide a well-balanced holistic education that integrates specialized and humanistic learning, aiming to nurture a sense of human rights and establish a spirit of coexistence.

The Faculty of Law atCGU, based on the university's founding spirit and educational philosophy, aims to deepen students' understanding of contemporary society through specialized and systematic research and education in law, politics, and public administration. Furthermore, leveraging these learning outcomes, the Faculty of Law is dedicated to cultivating individuals capable of thriving in various sectors of society, including competent public servants such as national and local government officials, police officers, firefighters, and teachers. Except for special casessuch as transfer admissions, the Law Faculty awards the degree of Bachelor of Laws to students who have been enrolled for at least four years, have acquired the six abilities listed below, and have completed 124 or more credits in accordance with the graduation requirements of their respective courses.

1. Broad Knowledge and Understanding
Students will have acquired the abilities and attitudes to thrive widely in society as citizens with a deepened understandingof humanity, nature, and culture, including self-management skills and a commitment to lifelong learning.

2. Specialized Knowledge
Students will possess specialized knowledge and logical thinking skills regarding the major subjects of the Faculty of Law (legal studies, political science, and public administration) as well as course-specific subjects. They will have also acquired the ability to participate actively in society with a well-balanced and high level of insight.

3. Problem Identification and Solution Skills
Students will have acquired the ability to identify social issues arising from law, politics, and public administration, and to collect, organize and analyze the information necessary to solve those issues.

4. Understanding of Diversity and Communication Skills
Students will have acquired the ability and attitude to accept individuals from diverse backgrounds and different cultures, express their own ideas, and promote collaboration with others, including the ability to show leadership in teamwork. Additionally, they will have developed the ability to communicate effectively with people from multicultural backgrounds.

5. Generic Skills
Students will have acquired the ability to respond to various issues in contemporary society by utilizing diverse means, including information and communication technology, to collect and analyze information, and by effectively applying it based on logical judgment.

6. Regional Collaboration and Social Contribution
Students will have acquired the ability to recognize their responsibilities and roles as members of society and organizations, and to contribute to the local community with a sense of human rights and a spirit of coexistence, while utilizing their specialized knowledge and well-balanced insight in law, politics, and public administration.

The Faculty of Law at CGU designs and implements a systematic curriculum as outlined below, in order to enable students to acquire the abilities defined in our “Diploma Policy”.

1. Curriculum Design Policy
The Faculty of Law features three specialized courses designed to cultivate individuals capable of thriving in various sectors of society, including public service. Students join one of these three courses in either their first or second year and pursue their studies along that course’s systematic curriculum. While sharing the core concepts and educational philosophy of the Faculty of Law, each course independently maintains its own career pathways, educational objectives, and academic frameworks. They offer distinctive curricula that combine core legal, political science, and public administration subjects with unique course-specific electives.

Law Course: Primarily focusing on fostering legal professionals, including legal public servants such as court clerks and corporate legal staff, this course provides electives structured around law subjects that cultivate logical legal thinking.

Public Service and Administration Course: Designed to train administrative officials in prefectural and municipal governments, police officers, and social studies teachers, this course offers electives for studying political science and public administration alongside core legal subjects.

Sports Management Course: Aimed at training sports coaches, police officers, and firefighters, this course offers electives for studying sports administration and legal subjects.

Students will develop the following specific abilities through the curriculum:
(1) Broad Knowledge and Understanding
Through liberal arts subjects, students acquire broad knowledge and understanding regarding humanity, nature, and culture. In addition, first-year seminar subjects are mandatory to help students build fundamental academic skills, mindsets, and self-analysis tools linked with career support events to raise career awareness.

(2) Specialized Knowledge
Specialized education subjects—consisting of faculty-wide required subjects, course-specific electives, free electives, and seminars—are offered for each of the three courses. Through these subjects, students acquire specialized knowledge in major fields (law, political science, and public administration) and course-specific disciplines, while fostering logical thinking and well-balanced insight. Each course introduces fundamental concepts in the first year, with studies deepening into more specialized areas from the second year onward.

(3) Problem Identification and Solution Skills
Specialized education subjects, including faculty-wide required subjects, course electives, free electives, and seminars across all three courses, are designed to cultivate the ability to identify and resolve social issues arising from law, politics, and public administration.

(4) Understanding of Diversity and Communication Skills
Through seminars, faculty-wide required subjects (Japanese language), elective foreign languages, and physical education, students develop the ability and attitude to understand diversity and promote collaboration with others, while enhancing their communication skills. Faculty-wide required Japanese subjects are taken primarily as first-year requirements, and foreign language subjects are taken as requirements during the first and second years.

(5) Generic Skills
Generic skills are nurtured through faculty-wide required subjects (Japanese language and information literacy) as well as courses related to AI and data science.

(6) Regional Collaboration and Social Contribution
Specialized education and liberal arts subjects are provided to enable students to acquire the abilities needed for regional collaboration and social contribution.

2. Curriculum Implementation Policy
The Law Faculty implements instructional formats that appropriately combine lectures and seminars, while ensuring opportunities for students to learn actively and at their own initiative. This includes experiential learning that deepens the understanding of the judicial system and law (such as mock trials), Project-Based Learning (PBL) focused on politics and public administration, and the writing of seminar theses based on field research.
Methods for evaluating learning outcomes are specified in detail within each syllabus. The syllabus defines the attainment goals and assessment methods for each subject, and grading is conducted based on objective standards using a pre-determined variety of evaluation methods.

1. Ideal Candidate Profile
The Faculty of Law, under the university's founding spirit of "Cultivating social and moral integrity," aims to realize its educational philosophy: "To nurture a sense of human rights and establish a spirit of coexistence, and to provide a well-balanced holistic education that integrates specialized and humanistic learning, thereby cultivating competent and sensible citizens equipped with a legal grounding."
To develop such capable individuals, the Law Faculty seeks candidates who possess the following qualities.


(1) Basic Academic Capabilities and Motivation for Specialized Knowledge
Candidates should possess the foundation of the "Three Elements of Academic Ability" necessary for acquiring specialized knowledge in areas such as law, political science, and public administration: Knowledge and Skills; the Ability to Think, Judge, and Express; and an Attitude to Learn Independently in Collaboration with Diverse People. They must also have a strong interest in these disciplines and a high motivation to master this specialized knowledge.

(2) Desire for Broad Knowledge Acquisition
Through their studies up to high school, candidates should be able to demonstrate a keen interest in a wide range of fields and disciplines, including the humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, languages, and sports, along with a strong desire to deepen their understanding of them.

(3) Commitment to Regional and Social Contribution
Candidates should aspire to acquire broad knowledge, culture, and specialized academic insights in law, political science, and public administration, and wish to actively contribute to society at large, from their local communities to the global stage, based on these foundations.

2. Basic Policy for Student Selection
To select applicants who match the "Ideal Candidate Profile" outlined above, the Faculty of Law conducts the following student selection processes.

(1) General Admission
Selection primarily focused on the university’s independent academic examinations and the Common Test for University Admissions.

(2) Recommendation-Based Admission
Selection primarily focused on document screening, interviews, and essays.

(3) Comprehensive Admission
Selection primarily focused on document screening and interviews.