HIKAKU KAISHAHO KENKYU (Comparative Corporate Law-Seeking the Corporate Law in the 21th Century

本研究旨在以合理的概念为基础，提出与上市公司相关的法律模式和良好实践模式。我们采用比较法的方法，将20世纪最后25年日本公司法及其修正案与美国、英国、德国、法国等主要国家的当代趋势进行了比较研究。首先，我们选择了信息披露、公司法中的“违约规则”、公司治理结构的改革、资本形成和维持规则的可疑意义以及公司融资的多元化等问题作为重要的研究课题。与此同时，《商法典》也进行了一些修改，我们也对此提出了批评意见。其中一部分成果在2001年日本私法协会年度学术会议上作了介绍。其次，我们就近期法律修订的总体趋势、信息技术对股东大会管理的影响以及法定资本的重要性进行了比较。第二次调查的结果已在《商法评论》上报道。我们在2003年5月以书籍的形式发表了全部结果。这本书还包括关于董事责任、衍生品诉讼和分类股份的文章。

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.