This chapter is the substantively revised and expanded version of the original contribution to the first edition of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (J.Smits, ed. 2006, 738-754). It reviews and discusses the theoretical scholarship of transnational law, going back to Philip Jessup's...

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University of New York at Buffalo, School of Law. In tribute to the legendary contributions by the Baldy Center and its members and affiliates over the...