The conference will enable an exchange between Japanese and German scholars on the impact of digitalisation on the Japanese and German legal systems. It is intended to facilitate a bi-national, German-Japanese dialogue on the necessary changes, the methods and the (preliminary) results.
The comparison with developments in Japanese law offers very special opportunities. On the one hand, the basic structures of Japanese and German commercial law are very similar. For another, the upheaval in Japan, a high-tech country, is just as strong and comprehensive as in Germany.