Japan und Deutschland im Netz des internationalen Einheitsrechts

Abstract

Uniform law conventions provide for the multilateral regulation of several sectors of private international relations, needed in the era of globalisation: maritime and air law, commercial law, intellectual property, private international law. Both Germany and Japan have participated in the legal unification movement since its inception before World War I. This paper sheds some light on the evolution and methods of uniform law, before looking into the individual commitments made by both countries. While the academic treatment in Western countries has delved into this subject already a hundred years ago, Japanese writers appear to have discovered this subject only recently. In light of the need for a uniform interpretation of uniform law conventions the subject offers itself as a new topic of comparative law.