Globalisierung und Europäisierung stellen die Rolle des Staates in Frage. Für das Privatrecht ergeben sich daraus zwei zentrale Fragen: Wie hängt das Privatrecht mit dem Staat zusammen? Und welche Folgen hat die veränderte Rolle des Staates für das Privatrecht?

Introduction
Nils Jansen and Ralf Michaels: Beyond the State? Rethinking Private Law
Part 1: Structures
Nils Jansen and Ralf Michaels: Private Law and the State: Comparative Perceptions and Historical Observations - Ralf Michaels and Nils Jansen: Private Law Beyond the State? Europeanization, Globalization, Privatization
Part 2: Relations
Charles Donahue, Jr.: Private Law without the State and During its Formation - Christiane C. Wendehorst: The State as a Foundation of Private Law Reasoning - Annelise Riles: The Anti-Network: Private Global Governance, Legal Knowledge, and the Legitimacy of the State - Marietta Auer: The Anti-Network: A Comment on Annelise Riles
Part 3: Actors
James Gordley: The State's Private Law and Legal Academia - Susanne Lepsius: Taking the Institutional Context Seriously: A Comment on James Gordley - Hans-Peter Haferkamp: The Science of Private Law and the State in Nineteenth Century Germany - Chaim Saiman: Public Law, Private Law, and Legal Science - Jürgen Basedow: The State's Private Law and the Economy: Commercial Law as an Amalgam of Public and Private Rule-Making - David V. Snyder: Contract Regulation, With and Without the State: Ruminations on Rules and their Sources: A Comment on Jürgen Basedow
Part 4: Values
Florian Rödl: Private Law Beyond the Democratic Order? On the Legitimatory Problem of Private Law "Beyond the State" - Peer Zumbansen: Law After the Welfare State: Formalism, Functionalism, and the Ironic Turn of Reflexive Law - Hanoch Dagan: The Limited Autonomy of Private Law - Gunther Teubner: State Policies in Private Law? A Comment on Hanoch Dagan