Books in the International Studies in the Theory of Private Law series

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Vienna. Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakulteat, 2013) issued under title: The cultural perspective of wrongful enrichment law.

The book offers the first systematic treatment of European, American and international 'standards law' in the English language.

This book explores the debate over the tension between trade liberalisation and environmental protection.

This book explores the significance of implicit understandings and tacit expectations of the parties to different kinds of contractual agreements.

'Transnational governance' is neither public nor private, nor purely international, supranational nor totally denationalised.

The book provides a comparative analysis of the law relating to remedies for breach of contract from the viewpoint of various legal systems.

This volume is the outcome of a conference held in Fribourg, Switzerland, which focused on the legal treatment of contractual networks.

This translation of Teubner's work sets out his concept of 'connected contracts' and explains how it addresses the problems posed by networks.

This volume presents the first thorough sociologically informed legal analysis of the financial crisis which unfolded in 2008.

Polanyi's warning against a commodification of labour, land and money, provide the trans-disciplinary reference point for this book.

This book contains the papers prepared for a conference held at the Wisconsin Law School in 2011 to honour the work of Stewart Macaulay, one of the most famous contracts scholars of his generation.

The aim of this work is to shed light on the governance of complex cross-border contracts by developing a comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding the relevance of both formal and informal institutions.