Introduction: The Relevance of Private International Law to the Global Governance Debate, Horatia Muir Watt and Diego P. Fernández Arroyo

Part I: BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: THE PRIVATE MODEL AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Section A. Epistemological Challenge: The Meaning of ‘Private’ in Private International Law
1. Comparative Law as Resistance, Geoffrey Samuel
2. Private v Private: Transnational Private Law and Contestation in Global Economic Governance, Robert Wai
3. Post-critical Private International Law: From Politics to Technique, Ralf Michaels

Section B. Political Critique: Privatization as Homogenization
4. Global Land Grabbing: A Tale of Three Legal Homogenizations, Tomaso Ferrando
5. Governance Implications of Comparative Legal Thinking: On Henry Maine’s Jurisprudence and British Imperialism, Veronica Corcodel

Section C. Searching for Legitimacy: Questions of Design
6. Private Adjudication Without Precedent?, Diego P. Fernández Arroyo
7. The Merchant Who Would Not Be King: Unreasoned Fears about Private Lawmaking, Gilles Cuniberti
8. Balancing the Public and the Private in International Investment Law, Yannick Radi

PART II: BEYOND THE SCHISM: EMERGING MODELS AND WORLDVIEWS
Section A. The Global Turn to Informality: Pragmatism and Constructivism
9. A Pragmatic Approach To Global Law, Benoit Frydman
10. Rules of Recognition: A Legal Constructivist Approach to Transnational Private Regulation, Harm Schepel
11. The Extraterritorial Application of Access to Justice Rights: On the Availability of Israeli Courts to Palestinian Plaintiffs, Michael Karayanni

Section B. Re-importing Public Law Methodology: Federalism and Constitutionalism
12. Variable Geometry, Peer Governance, and the Public International Perspective on Private International Law, Alex Mills
13. The Constitution of the Conflict of Laws, Jacco Bomhoff
14. Importing Proportionality to the Conflict of Laws, Jeremy Heymann

Section C. Reinventing a Global Horizon: Working towards a Global Public Good
15. Regulatory Choice of Law as a Public Good, Bram van den Eem
16. Recognition( and Mis-recognition) in Private International Law, Ivana Isailovic
17. Can Private International Law Contribute to Global Migration Governance?, Sabine Corneloup
Paradigm Change in Private International Law: Renewal, Circularity, or Decline?, Horatia Muir Watt