Corporation Law Towards Enabling Rules

近年来，公司法通过几次修正案似乎正朝着授权和补充规则的方向发展。虽然这些修改是顺应了企业界的要求，但我们应该研究为什么以及在多大程度上允许公司法规则成为授权规则，而不是强制性规则。本研究从这一观点出发，对近年来的公司法修正案进行了考察。在本研究期间，日本于2005年制定了新公司法，以实现公司法制度的现代化。根据这项新规定，股东可以比以前更灵活地通过公司章程确定自己的规则。例如，允许公司发行更多类别的股票，并选择更多的机构。虽然日本的公司法在整体上得到了改善，但似乎还有不少问题需要研究。

Corporation law seems to be moving towards enabling and suppletory rules through several amendments in recent years. Although these amendments have been made corresponding to the demand of business world, we should examine why and to what extent corporate law rules are allowed to be enabling rules in contrast with mandatory rules. This research examines recent corporate law amendments from this point of view.During the term of this research new Corporation Act was enacted to modernize Japanese corporate law system in 2005. Under this new regulation shareholders are allowed to determine their own rules through articles of incorporation much more flexibly than before. For example corporations are allowed to issue more classes of shares, and to choose more sets of organs they should have. Although Japanese corporate law has been improved on the whole by the new Act, but there seems to be not a few subjects still to be examined.