Japanese and European Private International Law in Comparative Perspective

by Jürgen Basedow

On January 1, 2007, the new Japanese 'Act on General Rules for Application of Laws' entered into force replacing the statute of 1898. This major reform finds its parallels in the current efforts of the European Union to create a modern private international law regime for its member states.This volume presents the first comprehensive analysis of the new Japanese private international law available in any western language and contrasts it with the corresponding European developments.For better understanding, English translations of the Japanese statutes have been added. Basedow, Trevor C Hartley, Masato Dogauchi, Hironori Wanami, Yuko Nishitani, Catherine Kessedjian, Fausto Pocar, Aki Kitazawa, Eva-Maria Kieninger, Dai Yokomizo, Sylvaine Poillot-Peruzzetto, Daniel Zimmer, Toshiyuki Kono, Thomas Kadner Graziano, Marc Fallon, Yasuhiro Okuda, Maarit Jantera-Jareborg, Alegria Borras, Yoshihisa Hayakawa, Dieter Martiny

434 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Jürgen Basedow is a German legal scholar, since 1997 director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and a professor at the University of Hamburg. He studied at the University of Hamburg, the University of Geneva and the University of Pavia. In 1981 he earned a Master of Laws degree of the Harvard University.
In 1987 he got an appointment as professor at the University of Augsburg, where he was dean from 1993 to 1994. From 1995 until 1997 he taught at the Free University of Berlin.
He was also visiting professor at the University of Ferrara Graves, the University of Genoa, the University of Lyon III, the University of Oxford, the University Panthéon-Assas, the University of Pittsburgh, the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the University of Tunis and the New York University.