Students with a specialist interest in a particular area of Japanese law may, in conjunction with the course coordinator, develop their own specialist course. For example, students may elect to complete the subjects Japanese Law and Politics, Japanese Law and Society or Japanese Law and the Economy in a self-paced tutorial format if the relevant subject is not offered in that year. Alternatively, students may wish to co-develop a program in Japanese Labour Law, Gender and Japanese Law, Japanese Constitutionalism, Japanese Corporate Law and so on. This might be an especially effective way for students to investigate an area of law prior to completing a LLM, SJD or PhD thesis in the field.