The Integration of Adult Guardianship Law and the Principle of Negotiorum Gestio towards Empowering People with Mental Disabilities to Excersise Their Own Rights(Fostering Joint International Research)

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15KK0134
• Research Category: Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Civil law
• Research Institution: Hosei University
• Principal Investigator: SUGA Fumie 法政大学, 経済学部, 教授 (50386380)
• Research Collaborator: SINGER Reinhard フンボルト大学, 法学部, 教授 ; BROSEY Dagmar ケルン工科大学, 応用社会学部, 教授 ; CHEN-WISHART Mindy オックスフォード大学, 法学部, 教授 ; MULHERON Rachael ロンドン大学クイーンメリーカレッジ, 法学部, 教授 ; WADDINGTON Lisa マースリヒト大学, 法学部, 教授 ; GUIMARAES Raquel ポルト大学, 法学部, 教授
• Project Period (FY): 2015 – 2017
• Keywords: 判断能力不十分者 / 脆弱な消費者 / 国連障害者権利条約 / 情報提供義務 / 合理的配慮義務 / 制限行為能力制度の見直し / vulnerable consumer / 法的能力の平等

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research has been aiming at establishing a legal system which makes persons with mental disabilities (eg caused by dementia and Alzheimer's disease)empowered to stay active in social lives, which particularly means that they should be considered equally as "consumers" in the ordinary market (eg.financial and medical products,travels,utilities and all other kinds of commodities and services).The article 12 of the CRPD (the UN Convention on the Rights of Perons with Disabilities) requires the State Parties (Japan is one of them) to "take appropriate measures to provide access by persons with disabilities to the support they may require in exercising their legal capacity”.In the context of making contracts I beleive it means that legal environemnt should be established for discouraging marketing practices which can exloit the vulnerability of people with disabilities, and, furtheremore, providing reasonable accomodations throughout the market.

Free Research Field

民法（契約法、消費者法）