Social Background

　It is a problem of great importance to maintain and improve public cultural facilities (museums, theaters）for SDGs: for the preservation of Cultural Heritages; for the development of specialists in arts and history; for the public’s equal access to the culture ; for the children’s education.
  To work on this problem, we need to examine it from the point of the law, because we are facing several legal matters. But such an examination is not yet enough. Among these matters, we see the problem of the nature of the public bodies’ legal title on these facilities or on their collections.  

Objectives

　I would like to show the content and the extension of the public bodies’ legal title on cultural facilities and on their collections：Does the title have the same content as that of the citizen’s title on his properties?

Overview

　Historical research on the Japanese legal system, Comparative Approach: Research on the French legal system, on collaboration with French law researchers.

Expected effects

 Suggestion of a legal system designed to manage conservation of collections and their good use.

Achievements

Achievement of Comparative approach on French legal system : concept of « domaine public »
　Original Papers : Concept “gestion du domaine public” in the Mid-Twenties Century in France, Kita-Kyushu-shiritsu-Daigaku Hosei-Ronshu, vol. 41, no. 3 & 4, 77-133, 2014 (in Japanese)