Dr Jerry Bookin-Weiner at Bentley College, Massachussets. Professor Kichimoto Asaka, a member of the Centre for the Study of Comparative Law and Politics in the Faculty of Law at Tokyo University, has also recently been at Victoria University. He is currently undertaking research on the disproportionality of apportionment in the Japanese electoral system where there is a serious disparity in the per capita weighting of Diet seats. In practice rural votes have a much higher weighting than city votes because of the population imbalances between the constituencies. Professor Asaka is examining the NZ system, especially the impact of the MMP form of proportional representation, and comparing the NZ situation with aspects of the proportional representation system in Japan, and the relevance of the constitutions to those problems.
Most seminars also result in a publication.
A day long conference involving speakers from the academic, business, local government, legal and diplomatic communities. Reflections of the Origins of the Korean War , by Dr Peter Lowe, University of Manchester. Professor Gary Burns, Assist.