Reconstructing the Law Model for International Cases, Facing on the Recent Rapid Developments of Natural Science

在深入调查了可能影响法律模式的新兴技术之后，我们选择了有针对性的主题，面对自然科学的快速发展，我们一直在努力开发一种新的处理国际案件的法律模式。IDA接手了人类基因研究的课题，成功地制定了人类基因研究的伦理准则。樱田和佐藤致力于国际私法的一般理论，我们研究了生殖技术的法律的条件。因此，在我们研究小组的支持下，在日本科学理事会组织和举行了关于法律和生殖技术的专题讨论会（见所附报告）。包括电子商务和电子支付在内的IT法规由多田、河野和高杉负责。与此同时，我们还承担了涉及电子商务或消费者保护以及同性婚姻等新问题的日本国际私法（Horei）的改革工作。在这方面研究了巴西法律。知识产权对新技术的发展起着重要的推动作用，渡边和木名对此进行了深入的研究。欧盟法作为一部重要的比较法著作，由高杉、西谷和中西三位学者进行了分析。渡边、樱田、高杉等人对国际民事诉讼程序进行了探讨，促进了知识产权保护的国际化等冲突的解决。综上所述，我们得出的结论为新的法律模式提供了一些指导方针，我们需要进一步研究这些指导方针的功能。

After thorough investigations of new emerging technologies, which could affect law model, we selected targeted topics Facing on the rapid evolution of Natural Science, we have been endeavoring to develop a new law model dealing with international cases. IDA took over the topic on human genetic research and successfully elaborated ethical guidelines on human genetic research.While Sakurada and Sato have devoted themselves to general theory of Private International Law, we researched legal conditions on reproductive technology. The symposium on Law and Reproductive Technology at the Science Council of Japan was thus organized and held, supported by our study group (see attached report). IT-regulations including e-commerce and electronic payments was dealt with by Tada, Kono and Takasugi. At the same time, we took up the Reform work of Japanese Private International Law (Horei) which touches e-commerce or consumer protection and quite new problems such as the same-sex-marriage。Brazilian law was studied in this respect。 Intellectual Property、 which promotes the developments of new technology、 was studied especially by Watanabe and Kidana。 As an important comparative law work、 EU-law was analyzed by Takasugi, Nishitani and Nakanishi. International civil procedure was approached by Watanabe, Sakurada and Takasugi, which promotes resolving conflicts around, e.g.internationalization of protection of Intellectual Property.To sum up、 we have reached the results, which would show some guidelines on new law model, and we have to examine further the function of these guidelines。