Comarative Law Study Series(Sousho)

[no.34] Waseda University Institute of Comparative Law (ed.), Japanese Legal Studies in Comparative and Historical Context: It's Perspective of Comparative Law, 2008
Item Title Author pages
[Preface] Preface Michiatsu Kaino i-ii
[Editor's Introduction] A Comment on "Japanese Legal Studies in Comparative and Historical Context: Its Perspective of Comparative Law Michiatsu Kaino 1-18
PART 1: The Present Day and the Place of Japanese Legal Studies 1. The Role of Comparative Law in the Research of European Law Masao Ohki 21-48
Comment: EU Laws and the Comparative-Law Studies Hideo Sasakura 49-53
2. Contemporary Law and Roman Law: On the Subject of Specification and Warranty Kozo Ogawa 54-76
Comment: "Specification" in Roman Law Toshihiko Harada 77-84
Comment: Question from Roman Jurisprudence Yasuhiro Fujioka 85-90
3. PECL and German Obligation Law Yoshio Shiomi 91-120
Comment: Comparative Perspective on the Reform of German Law of Obligation Katsuichi Uchida 121-126
4. A Method of Asian Law Research and Law and Development Studies ---Three Legal Principles, Societies and Developments, and Three Layered Structure of Law Nobuyuki Yasuda 127-166
Comment: A Study on Asian Law and Law & Development Makoto Ishida 167-169
5. Social System and Democracy: A Historical Approach Isamu Fujita 170-200
Comment: Reform and Revolution under the 20th Century's Socialsm Hiromichi Hayakawa 201-205
PART 2: Internal and External Image of Japanese Law 6. Japanese Law through the Eyes of American Legal Scholars Koichiro Fujikura 209-240
Comment: American Scholars of Japanese Law in the Tradition of the American Higher Education Shigeo Miyagawa 241-245
7. Comparative Constitutional Law and "Fundamental Concepts of Constitutional Law" ---on the Legal Concept of the State as "the Owner of the Sovereignty" of Minobe and of Miyazawa Yasuo Sugihara 246-275
Comment: The Significance of the Historical Studies and the Legal Concept of the State as "the Owner of the Sovereignty" in the Constitutional Theory of Sugihara Koji Tonami 276-286
8. Studies of Civil Law in Japan: German and French Influences? Eiichi Hoshino 287-313
Comment: The Trend of the Thories in the Japanese Civil Law Studies in the Waves of Globalization Kaoru Kamata 314-317
9. The Development and Reforms of the Code of Criminal Procedure in Japan from the Standpoint of Comparative Law Koya Matsuo 318-333
Comment: Concering Variations of the Concept of "Truth-Finding" in the Criminal Procedure Morikazu Taguchi 334-337
PART 3: Theoretical Trends of Comparative Law 10. Reading "Inclusion and Exclusion" of Niklas Luhman Junichi Murakami 341-371
Comment: Structural Coupling between Social System and Individual Yoshiki Kurumisawa 372-380
11. Minority and Civil Law ---toward the Redefinition of "Civil" Atsushi Omura 381-409
Comment: Two Key Words in Omura Report Akio Yamanome 410-415
12. Reinterpreting the Public-Private Dichotomy in the Civil Law Theory Katsumi Yoshida 416-459
Comment: Reflections on the Position of Public Welfare in the Private Law System Akio Yamanome 460-468
13. Wat's the Real Understanding of Foreign Legal System in the Field of Corporation Law and Capital Market Regulation Tatsuo Uemura 469-491
Comment: The Features of Uemura Corporation Law Study Yasuhiro Osaki 492-494
Part 4: Comparative Law and the Modernity: Japanese Perspective 14. "Western Legal System" in Comparative Study: An Attempt at the Particular of Comparative Legal Culturology Taiichiro Ohe 497-536
Comment: Some Remarks on the Occidental Characteristics in the History of Legal Culture Hideo Sasakura 537-544
15. Situating Japanese Modern Land Law in Comparative Legal History Takeshi Mizubayashi 545-564
Comment: Land Ownership under the Civilized Traditional China Hikota Koguchi 565-568
Comment: Between Feudal Society and Capitalistic Society Yoshiki Kurumisawa 569-575
16. "Law" without "Rules" ---Another Concept Concerning Traditional Chinese Law Hiroaki Terada 576-602
Comment: On the Concept of Chinese Law as Law without Rule Hikota Koguchi 603-606
17. The Rule of Law in the Contemporary Japanese Society Tatsuo Inoue 607-638
Comment: Toward a Liberal Democracy Based on Deliberation Norikazu Kawagishi 639-649