East Asian Civil Codifiers

East Asian Civil Codifiers gathers the Japanese and Chinese jurists who led the adaptation of the European civil code model into their own countries' legal systems in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a distinct and deliberate transplant of Western civilian law into an East Asian legal context rather than an organic outgrowth of either the French or German traditions grouped elsewhere in this subcategory. Their work, drafting Japan's Civil Code of 1896 and 1898 and the late Qing and Republican era codification of Chinese civil law, shaped the legal systems of East Asia well beyond their own countries.