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This book endeavours to interpret the development of private international law in light of social change. Since the end of World War II the socio-economic reality of international relations has been characterised by a progressive move from closed to open societies. The dominant feature of our time is the opening of borders for individuals, goods, services, capital and data. It is reflected in the growing importance of ex ante planning - as compared with ex post adjudication - of cross-border relations between individuals and companies. What has ensued is a shift in the forces that shape international relations from states to private actors. The book focuses on various forms of private ordering for economic and societal relations, and its increasing significance, while also analysing the role of the remaining regulatory powers of the states involved. These changes stand out more distinctly by virtue of the comparative treatment of the law and the long-term perspective employed by the author. The text is a revised and updated version of the lectures given by the author during the 2012 summer courses of the Hague Academy of International Law.
About the author
Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c.mult. Jürgen Basedow, LL.M. (Harvard Univ.) is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg; Professor of Law, Univ. of Hamburg; Membre associé de l'Institut de droit international; Titular Member and Secretary General of the International Academy of Comparative Law (2008-2014); member of numerous advisory bodies at the German and EU level, inter alia Chairman of the German Monopolies Commission (2000 to 2008); member of the Groupe européen de droit international privé and of Deutscher Rat für Internationales Privatrecht.
