Shigemitsu DandÅ
Dando Shigemitsu (Japanese団 藤 重 光; born November 8, 1913 in Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, † 25 June 2012) was a Japanese lawyer, who worked until his retirement as professor at the University of Tokyo and several years as a Supreme Court Justice had.
Life
Shigemitsu Dando, son of a prosecutor and judge, grew up in Takahashi and attended the daini Okayama chūgakkō ("second middle school Okayama ," corresponds in the present system middle and high school, Eng. Junior and senior high school ). In 1934 he completed the examination for the higher service. After this he started in 1935 a degree in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the University of Tokyo, where he participated in what was then the death penalty debate. His high school teachers belonged Seiichiro Ono, who put his views on concepts and issues such as punishment, crime, offense, totalitarianism and Nulla poena sine and related discussions coined.
In 1937, he was first an assistant professor, before he himself took in 1947 a professor of criminal law and criminal procedure at the University of Tokyo and taught there until his retirement in 1974. He also was a professor at Keio University. He was concerned with theories of illegality, the worthlessness of such action and Erfolgsunwert and a substantive examination of audited Ryuichi Hirano approaches. He became famous for his responsibility in relation to the established " theory of moral responsibility," in contrast to the established Makino Eiichi " theory of personal responsibility" was. Through his views, he had a lasting influence studies on criminal law and criminal procedural law of his time.
He was Judge of the Supreme Court of Japan in 1974 and worked there until 1983. During his tenure there, he worked on many important decisions in operations in which the death penalty was imposed. In addition, he was one of the judges who had to decide 1981 on the flight time and flight bans at the Osaka airport.
For his many years of service he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Rising Sun and in 1995 with the Order of Culture in 1981 member of the Academy of Sciences and on November 3, 1987.