Legal Information Base for analyzing foreign laws in the drafting process of the Japanese Civil Code

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26885036
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Civil law
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: Sano Tomoya 名古屋大学, 法学(政治学)研究科(研究院), 特任助教 (30419428)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-08-29 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 民法の立法沿革 / 情報基盤 / データベース / 比較法 / 外国法令

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research is to collect foreign laws referred in the drafting process of the Japanese Civil Code, and to clarify the relationship between the Civil Code and the referred foreign laws. The research specified that the draftsmen of the Civil Code referred to 34 countries or regions and their 124 laws, and examined 119 laws of them. The analysis revealed that each field of the Civil Code was likely to refer to different countries’ laws. Based on the results, I developed and opened the WEB system that enables us to analyze the relationship between the Japanese Civil Code and foreign laws.

Free Research Field

民法, 法情報学