Max Planck Institute for Private Law publishes Encyclopaedia of European Private Law

23.09.2009

The Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law has released an Encyclopaedia of European Private Law (Handwörterbuch des Europäischen Privatrechts). In a compact but readily accessible format, the comprehensive compendium portrays the current state of European Private Law. The Encyclopaedia is directed towards both scholars and practitioners and offers precise information and ongoing developments on topics ranging from Abschlussprüfer (Auditor), Dienstleistungsvertrag (Service Contracts) and Ehevertrag (Marital Agreements), and on to Patentrecht (Patent Law), Seeverkehr (Carriage of Goods by Sea) and Zwingendes Recht (Mandatory Law). Moreover, the compendium simultaneously establishes a valuble basis for the further and consistent advancement of European Private Law. The Encyclopaedia of European Private Law is edited by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Basedow, Prof. Dr. Dr. Klaus J. Hopt and Prof. Dr. Reinhard Zimmermann – with assistance from Dr. Martin Illmer. The two-volume Encyclopaedia has been published by Mohr Siebeck and costs 239 Euros.

For more than 20 years a body of private law has been developing within the European Union which has increasingly displaced the national private laws of the member states. The process, however, has pursued neither a systematic nor comprehensive course. Instead, short-term needs and considerations of a political nature have been the primary driving force behind these developments. Now, the Hamburg Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law is releasing a two-volume Encyclopaedia of European Private Law (the Handwörterbuch des Europäischen Privatrechts) which penetrates this thicket of law and organises it in a comprehensive compilation. Incorporating the historical and comparative dimensions, the 473 individual entries - written by more than 100 authors - analyse the European lines of development and also comprehensively cover all endeavours towards a European and international legal harmonisation. The Encyclopaedia is a work unmatched in its scope and conceptual approach. Comprehensively portraying the whence and whither of European private law, it represents an indispensable reference work for legal scholars, practitioners and legislators alike.



Handwörterbuch des Europäischen Privatrechts
Edited by Jürgen Basedow, Klaus J. Hopt and Reinhard Zimmermann
with assistance from Martin Illmer
2009. Vol. 1: XXXVIII, Pages 1-964; Vol. 2: XXXVI, Pages 965-1991.
ISBN 978-3-16-149918-0 Linen € 239,–



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