As the world has faced the COVID-19 pandemic for more than two years, each country has enacted its own regulations to prevent the spread of infection. Some countries have lax regulations, such as self-restraint, while others have strict ones with fines for violations. However, any regulation is meaningless if people do not follow it. It is a central topic in the sociology of law to consider the social environment in which people do or do not comply with regulations. This talk will introduce some interesting aspects of sociology of law by looking at the case of regulations related to the containment of COVID-19 in Japan and Europe.

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- This lecture was conducted only in Japanese.