The Civil Code Controversy in Meiji Japan outlines the dramatic history of the failed liberalization of Japanese private law during the Meiji era.
Micha. A. Piegzik has a PhD in Japanese private law, lecturing family law and children's rights law at Edinburgh Napier University. He was awarded the Japanese Ministry of Education scholarship for exceptional research results. In 2016-2017 and 2020-2022, he researched Japanese legal history at the Tokyo Metropolitan University. The Pacific War is his life's passion which also, remarkably influenced his academic skills and career path. The author of six monographs and 20 articles related to law and history, "The Civil Code Controversy in the Meiji Era Japan", published by Leiden University Press in 2024, is his debut in the Netherlands.
