| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KURONUMA Etsuro KOBE UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LAW, Professor, 大学院・法学研究科, 教授 (40170138)
KITAMURA Masashi OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LAW AND FACULTY OF LAW, Professor, 大学院・法学研究科・法学部, 教授 (90204916)
KATAGI Haruhiko HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, Professor, 大学院・社会科学研究科・マネジメント専攻, 教授 (70177393)
MAEDA Masahiro KYOTO UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LAW, Professor, 大学院・法学研究科, 教授 (50240817)
KOBAYASHI Ryo NAGOYA UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LAW, Professor, 大学院・法学研究科, 教授 (60186781)
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| Research Abstract |
This research aims to produce the models of the law and good practices relating to the publicly held corporations based on the reasonable concept. We have adopted the comparative law method, and conducted the investigation by the way of comparing Japanese corporate law and its amendments found during the last quarter of the 20^<th> century with the contemporary tendencies in other major counties, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and France. First, we selected as the important subjects to examine such topics as the disclosure of information, the corporate law as "default rules", the reform of corporate structure of management, the questionable significance of the rules relating to capital formation and maintenance and the diversification of corporate finance. Meanwhile, some amendments of Commercial Code took place, on which we also made some critical comments. A part of these results were presented at the annual academic meeting of the Japan Association of Private Law 2001. Second, we made a comparison between the counties in respect of the recent drift of law amendments in general, the impacts of information technology on the management of general meetings, and the importance of the legal capital. The results of the second investigation have been reported in Shojihomu [Commercial Law Review]. We published the whole results in book form in May 2003. The book contains the articles about directors' liability, derivative suits and classified shares, too.
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