Our Institute
(Last Updated : 1 / Apr / 2008)
The Institute of Comparative Law was organized at the School of Law in 1958.
The institute's mission is to make great contributions to legal studies in Japan and abroad through comparative legal research.
The institute has been providing legal researches of comparative law and introducing Japanese law abroad.
Also, the Library of the Institute has been collecting a large number of foreign legal resources, especially statutes, cases, and law reviews.
[...more information, brochure 2001 (PDF)].
| Year | Events |
| 1963 | Joint Research 'The Influence of Foreign Laws on the Modernization of Japan' started. (-1970) |
| 1964 | Monographs by the Institute Members,"Studies of the Institute of Comparative Law" were first published. |
| The first volume of the Institute's journal 'Comparative Law Review' was published. | |
| 1970 | 'Comparative Research on Capitalist Law and Socialist Law' started. |
| 1978 | Commemorative lectures 'Comparative Law and International Law' were published on the occasion of the 20th anniversary. |
| 1981 | The first volume of 'Waseda Bulletin of Comparative Law' was published. |
| 1988 | Commemorative Essays 'Law in East and West' were published on the occasion of the 30th anniversary. |
| 1992 | Joint Research Program with Moscow State University started. |
| 1993 | Academic Exchange Agreement with Chinese Academy of Social Science was signed. |
| Joint Research Program started. | |
| 1996 | Academic Exchange Agreement with University of Melbourne was signed. Joint Research Program started. |
| 1997 | Academic Exchange Agreement with Duke University was signed. Joint Research Program started. |
| 1998 | Commemorative International Symposium 'Free Market and Legal Regulation'was held on the occasion of 40th anniversary. |
| The first volume of 'Waseda Proceedings of Comparative Law' was published. | |
| 1999 | 'Waseda University Series of Japanese Legal Studies' were published. |
| 2000 | Academic Exchange Agreement with Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law Freiburg/Germany was signed. |
| 2001 | Academic Exchange Agreement with Tsinghua University School of Law, China was signed. |
| The institute's project "The New Stage of Comparative Law Study: Reception and Transplantation of Legal System started. | |
| A party and lecture meetings will be held in honor of the publication of "Waseda University Series of Japanese Legal Studies" in Beijing in September. | |
| 2003 | Academic Exchange Agreement with Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law was signed. |
| 2004 | Academic Exchange Agreement with Korea Legislation Research Institute was signed. |
| 2005 | Academic Exchange Agreement with University College London was signed. |
