This series publishes works on private law with a focus on its future development. It adopts a broad understanding of the field, which combines the traditional doctrinal core of private law with regulatory private law, and which places national legal traditions in the context of legal pluralism and with reference to transnational commercial law. Methodologically, the series is committed to an interdisciplinary exploration of the breadth and depth of the challenges that private law is facing. Thus the series combines doctrinal or interpretive legal research with the use of methods drawn from economics, sociology, psychology, political science, and science and technology studies. At the same time, it respects the free-standing methods and understandings that traditional legal science applies to private law. The series editors welcome contributions that will expand the boundaries of private law scholarship while retaining its disciplinary coherence.