In the US, law and economics is so well established that many law schools have given up on a separate law and economics course. It seems obvious that economic theory matters for the interpretation and the evolution of the law. More recently, the empirical law movement has been gaining momentum...

In October 2011 the European Commission published a Proposal for a Regulation on a Common European Sales Law (CESL). The Commission considers its Proposal to provide for “a comprehensive set of uniform contract law rules covering the whole life-cycle of a contract”. CESL is an offspring of...

Anniversaries are days for remembrance of the past, for assessing the challenges of the present and for contemplating options for the future. Addressing these tasks I shall first take a look at the wider context of private international law and its embeddedness in the historic evolution of...