The theme of my lectures in the next three days, in brief, is “The Challenges of Environmental Law to Conventional Jurisprudence.” This is because there is a need for conventional jurisprudence to catch up with changing environmental issues. I will address such questions as the following:

• What is presented as a new issue of law

• How environmental law studies as a new form of jurisprudence have dealt with this issue

• What are the issues to be solved by environmental law and environmental law studies at this moment, and

• What issues environmental law should deal with and what strategies it should employ in the future

I was asked to adopt one theme for each lecture, if possible, and to make the three lectures into one coordinated “Distinguished Lecture on Environmental Law.” In response to this difficult request, I would like to structure the lecture as follows: In Lecture I on the first day, which is titled “Land Use and Environmental Law,” I would like to explain why and how a new system of laws is needed to solve a variety of social issues caused by environmental issues that goes beyond the conventional laws and jurisprudence on land use. In Lecture II, I would like to focus on “The Courts and Environmental Law.” Here, I will discuss what role the Courts (Judiciary) can play in setting up new principles of environmental law and of environmental legislation. On the last day, in Lecture III, I would like to discuss “New Approaches of Environmental Law.”