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16 APLPJ i (2014-2015)

handle is hein.journals/aplpj16 and id is 1 raw text is: The editors of the Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal (APLPJ) are proud to present our Fall 2014 issue (Volume 16, Issue 1). In this issue, we feature five distinct articles that examine an array of significant, controversial legal matters in Japan, China, and Sri Lanka. To start off, we present the problem of citizenship rights in the article, Citizenship Issues and Issuing Citizenship in Sri Lanka: A Case Study of Sri Lanka's Citizenship Laws in a Global Context. Rebecca Wolozin, Harvard Law School 2015 J.D. Candidate, introduces the importance of legal identification, and how the absence of the right to nationality exposes the occurrences of human rights abuses and severe discrimination without any interference from a state. She then analyzes Sri Lanka's citizenship laws to illustrate key issues in international citizenship laws. Next, we present Crafting a Theory of Socialist Democracy For China in the 21st Century: Considering Hu Angang's (09F) Theory of Collective Presidency in the Context of the Emerging Chinese Constitutional State, by Larry Cati Backer. Exploring the different forms of democracy, Mr. Backer explains that China is engaged in developing a new model for exercising democratic constitutionalism. He then introduces Hu Angang's theory of collective presidency, a type of socialist democracy that emphasizes the mechanics and integrity of the collective government as the maker of democratic legitimacy. We next present an article by Megumi Honami, William S. Richardson School of Law, 2015 J.D. Candidate. Her article, How Successful is Japan's Labor Tribunal System?: The Labor Tribunal's Limited Scope and Effectiveness, highlights the administrative and judicial mechanisms for individual labor dispute resolutions, and assesses a judicial mechanism that was established in 2006, the Labor Tribunal System. Ms. Honami argues that the Labor Tribunal System is successful in resolving specific categories of labor disputes, and that the system should be utilized to supplement other administrative mechanisms to achieve effective dispute resolutions. We continue the discussion about alternative dispute resolution in our next article, Mediation in Mainland China and Hong Kong: Can They Learn from Each Other? Jeffrey K. L. Lee, University of Hong Kong J.D. Candidate, presents a detailed background of the existing mediation systems in Mainland China and Hong Kong. After examining the problems of each mediation system, Mr. Lee suggests that China and Hong Kong can improve their mediation systems by borrowing each other's practices. Our last article discusses legalizing same-sex marriage in Japan. In Is Japan Ready to Legalize Same-sex Marriage?, Yuki Arai provides a native Japanese perspective on this controversial legal issue. Currently Japan does not have a legal system to formalize same-sex marriages. Ms. Arai compares the progression of same sex marriage in Netherlands,

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