Max Planck Encyclopedia of European Private Law

• A landmark reference work in the field of European private law, offering expert historical and comparative analysis on all major topics in the field
• Sets current debates about legal harmonization in their historical context, providing an invaluable context in which to understand the modern politics of European private law
• Features full bibliographies of the most important publications and information sources on national and transnational private law - serving as a go-to guide for research in the field

Readership: Academics, students, and policy-makers working in the field of national and transnational private law.

Edited by Jürgen Basedow, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg and Professor at the University of Hamburg, Klaus J. Hopt, Director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg and Professor emeritus at the University of Hamburg, Reinhard Zimmermann, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg and Professor at the University of Regensburg, and Andreas Stier, Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg