Hamburg and Kyoto to Participate in Academic Exchange
12.09.2008
The agreement will formalise the close scholarly relationship that has existed for decades between the Max Planck Institute and the premier Japanese university. The aims of the academic partnership are twofold: First, to promote a regular exchange of scholars who are engaged at each institution, especially junior scholars, and second, to intensify cooperative efforts on targeted projects. Guest scholars will be afforded full freedom of research during their stay while also being invited to partake in the academic life of the partner institution. Alongside agreements already in place with the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, this represents the third large-scale cooperation between the Max Planck Institute for Private Law and an elite university.The University of Kyoto ranks among Japan’s top universities. Its law faculty has for many years placed considerable focus on German law. Above all, this is the result of the influence German law had on the formation of modern Japanese civil law, a process which began in the closing years of the 19th century. At the Max Planck Institute for Private Law, the examination and comparison of disparate legal systems and their harmonisation numbers among its central scholarly aims. The significance of the cooperation for the MPI was emphasised by Priv.-Doz. Dr. Harald Baum, Senior Research Fellow responsible for the Institute’s Japan Unit. Noting that Japan continues to represent the world’s second largest economy and must, like Germany, overcome the mounting challenges of globalisation, Dr Baum expressed certainty that the cooperation with one of Japan’s premier universities would prove an exceptional catalyst for research the Institute conducts in civil law fields such as commercial law, corporate law and financial law.
The Japan Unit at the Max Planck Institute for Private Law in Hamburg is one of Europe’s most important centers for legal and comparative law analysis in respect of Japanese Civil Law, Commercial Law and Economic Law. Furthermore, it has since 1996 been responsible for publication of the only ongoing journal which addresses Japanese law in western languages.
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Press Release (in German)
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