Ume Kenjirō

Ume Kenjirō

Ume Kenjirō ( Japanese 梅 謙 次郎 ; * June 7, 1860 in Matsue ; † August 26, 1910 in Seoul ) was a Japanese lawyer of the Meiji era , co-founder of Hōsei University and co-author of the Japanese Civil Code.

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Ume Kenjirō was born in Matsue in 1860 as the second son of a doctor . After attending the Tokyo Foreign Language School and the Law School of the Japanese Ministry of Justice, Ume went to France in 1875 with the support of the Japanese Ministry of Education and studied there at the law faculty in Lyon . After obtaining the Doctorat en Droit with his dissertation " De la transactions en droit romain et dans l'ancien droit français " in 1889, Ume went to Germany for a year and attended courses in law at the University of Berlin . In 1890 he returned to Japan and became a professor in the law faculty of the Imperial University of Tokyo .

In 1893 Ume Kenjirō was appointed to the newly formed Civil Law Commission in the course of the codification dispute between the legal school of the Japanese Ministry of Justice, which was shaped by French law , and the University of Tokyo, which was shaped by English law , on the Boissonadian draft of the Japanese Civil Code. Their draft for a Japanese civil code came into force in 1896 (general part, property and obligation law) and 1898 (family and inheritance law).

literature

• Kim, Marie Seong-Hak: Law and Custom in Korea: Comparative Legal History . Cambridge University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1-107-00697-3 , pp. 82-83 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kim, Marie Seong-Hak: Law and Custom in Korea: Comparative Legal History . Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 82 .
2. ↑ Alexis Dudden: Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power . University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu 2005, pp. 112 .
3. ↑ Kim, Marie Seong-Hak: Law and Custom in Korea: Comparative Legal History . Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 82 f .

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Ume is the family name, Kenjirō the first name.