Philosophical Foundations of Private International Law

Roxana Banu is an associate professor of law at Oxford University and a fellow and tutor in law at Lady Margaret Hall. Previously, she was a lecturer in law at Queen Mary University and an assistant professor at Western Ontario University Faculty of Law. She obtained her SJD degree from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and her LL.M. magna cum laudae from Fordham Law School. Her research interests lie in private international law, legal history and theory, and feminist theory. She is currently researching on private international law's colonial history and on the social and gender history of cross-border maintenance conventions in the interwar period.Michael S. Green is the Woodbridge Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Previously, he was a professor of law at George Mason Law School and an assistant professor of philosophy at Tufts University. He clerked for Judge Richard A. Posner on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. His research interests are in the philosophy of law, civil procedure, the conflict of laws, constitutional law, and continental philosophy (especially Nietzsche and Neo-Kantianism).Ralf Michaels is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany, Chair in Global Law at Queen Mary University in London, and Professor of Law at Hamburg University. Michaels holds an LL.M. from Cambridge University and a PhD in Law from Passau University. His current research focuses on decolonial comparative law, regulatory conflict of laws, and theoretical foundations of private international law and global legal plurality. Michaels is a titular member of the Academia Europaea, the American Law Institute, the International Association of Comparative Law, and the Comparative Law Associations of the United States, Germany, and France.

Not just another PIL book, it is a work whose great innovation makes it a highly compelling read, one that does justice to the challenging encounter represented by the interaction of private international law and legal philosophy.

• Roxana Banu, Michael S. Green, Ralf Michaels: Introduction Part I Normative Structure 1: Florian Roedl: Necessary Unity 2: Sagi Peari: The Choice-Equality Foundation of Choice of Law: The Restatement 3: David Dyzenhaus: Not an Isolated, Exceptional, and Indeed Contradictory Branch of Jurisprudence 4: Kermit Roosevelt III: Against Choice of Law Exceptionalism 5: Giovanni Sartor, Antonino Rotolo: Logical Models for Private International Law Part II Authority 6: Michael S. Green: Authority and Interest Analysis 7: Lea Brilmayer: Three Ethical Perspectives in American Choice of Law 8: Alex Mills: Justifying and Challenging Territoriality in Private International Law 9: Joanna Langille: Public Policy and the Rule of Law Part III Plurality 10: Nicole Roughan: Plurality of Laws and Conflict of Laws: Reconciling Through Recognition? 11: Hans Lindahl: Conflict of Laws: Asymmetrical Recognition of the Stranger (in Ourselves) 12: Ralf Michaels: Private International Law and the Legal Pluriverse 13: Horatia Muir Watt: Private International Law as 'Ligature': Elements for a Post-Monist Jurisprudence Part IV Justice and Autonomy 14: Alejandro Aldo Menicocci: The Justice of Private International Law: Equality and the Difference Principle 15: What Do We Owe to Each Other in Private International Law?: Moral Contractualism and Transnational Justice Roxana Banu 16: A Relations-First Approach to Choice of Law Toni Marzal, George Pavlakos 17: Party Autonomy and the Challenge of Choice of Law Perry Dane 18: Conflict of Laws and Global Governance Dai Yokomizo