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

本研究的目的是在合理概念的基础上产生与上市公司相关的法律模型和良好实践。我们采用了比较法的方法，通过比较20世纪最后25年日本公司法及其修正案与美国、英国、德国和法国等其他主要国家的当代趋势来进行调查。首先，我们选择了信息披露、公司法作为“默认规则”、公司管理结构改革、资本形成和维持规则的可疑意义以及公司财务多元化等主题作为重要主题进行考察。同时，商法典的一些修改，我们也提出了一些批评意见。其中部分成果已在2001年日本私法协会年度学术会议上发表。其次，我们比较了各国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。第二次调查的结果已发表在《商法评论》上。我们在2003年5月以书的形式出版了全部结果。书中还包含了有关董事责任、衍生诉讼和分类股票的文章。

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.