Beyond the State? Rethinking Private Law: Introduction to the Issue

2019

European Journal of Law Reform

European Journal of Law Reform, 2000

2008

ference and the closed workshop showed how varied the approaches and focuses, even the concepts and terms, are in the debate. Much translation was necessary; much learning was achieved. This issue presents the results of this conference and aims at instigating further learning. It brings together the papers presented as revised by the participants after the conference. We hope that this collection can spur further interest in the kind of international and interdisciplinary research that would seem adequate for a private law beyond the state.

Political Studies Review, 2013

2015

Am. J. Comp. L., 2006

Encyclopedia of Private International Law, 2017

German Law Journal, 2005

The recent European Society of International Law Research Forum – only the Society's second conference following the inaugural event in Florence last year – took place from the 24-26th May 2005 in stunning surroundings on the shores of Lac Lemain in the buildings of the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. Quite apart from the obvious importance of a high-level international conference under the auspices of one of the most important international law societies in the world, and the attendant quality of the speakers and other participants, the event was of real significance in that it allowed for an insight into how the new Society itself is developing, and the manner in which it will go about the task of fulfilling the objectives that it has set itself.