Japanese Afternoon: „100 Years of Legal Exchange with Japan“ and „Comparative Seminar on Insurance Law“
MPI for Private Law, Hamburg, 12.09.2009, 15:30
On Friday, 11 September 2009, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg and the German-Japanese Jurists' Association will jointly sponsor two lecture programs. Occasion for the events is the 20th anniversary of Hamburg and Osaka's relation as sister cities. The focus of the two-part event will be, first, a retrospective consideration of the 100 years of legal interaction between Germany and Japan, and, second, a look at the latest developments in insurance contract law in Japan and Germany.The Japanese Afternoon will begin at 15:30 with a talk by Christoph Sokolowski (Berlin) on the engagement of German jurists in the formulation of modern Japanese law in the last third of the 19th century. Since that time a close bond has existed between the German and Japanese legal systems, a tie which has found expression in a vigorous academic exchange of ideas and individuals.
From 17:00 to 19:00, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., LL.M. Jürgen Basedow (Director at the Institute), Prof. Sôichirô Kozuka (Sophia University, Tokyo) and Prof. Dr. Robert Koch (University of Hamburg) will offer their expert views on the newest developments in insurance contract law within both the European Community as well as Japan and Germany. At present, the field is in a great degree of flux: Japan amended its relevant law in 2009, the German Insurance Contract Act (Versicherungsvertragsgesetz (VVG)) was newly revised in 2007, and reform discussions are ongoing at the European level.
The Japan unit of the Hamburg Max Planck Institute for Private Law, coordinator of the events, is one of Europe's most important centers for the legal and comparative consideration of Japanese civil, commercial and economic law. It has, moreover, since 1996 published the only regularly appearing western language journal on Japanese law.
The lectures will be held in English with discussions thereafter to be led in German and English.
There is no cost to attend to the lectures.
Date of publication: 28.05.2009
Language
English