Under the auspices of the International Association of Legal Science. The Responsible Editors for the Encyclopedia as a whole are Professors U. Drobnig and K. Zweigert † of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Private Law, Hamburg. Each of the seventeen volumes has a Chief Editor or Editors, whose primary duty is to organize and coordinate the work on the major topic of that volume. The final responsibility for specific chapters is assumed by about 400 reporters.

V. 3 : 1. Introduction - - 2. Sources - - 3. Fundamental Approaches - - 4. Connecting Factors - - 5. Characterization - - 6. Renvoi - - 7. The Law Applicable to Preliminary (Incidental) Questions - - 8. Intertemporal Conflict of Laws - - 9. Interlocal Conflict of Laws - - 10. Interpersonal Conflict of Laws - - 11. Public Policy - - 12. Operation of Foreign Public Law - - 14. The Application of Foreign Law - - 15. Persons - - 16. Marriage and Divorce - - 17. Personal Effects of Marriage - - 21. Property - - 22. Industrial and Intellectual Property - - 23. Trusts - - 24. Contracts - - 25. Transport by Rail and by Road - - 26. Transport by Sea and Inland Waterways - - 27. Transport by Air - - 28. Labour Contracts - - 29. Agency - - 30. Quasi-Contracts - - 31. Torts – Introduction - - 32. Enterprise Liability - - 33. Intentional Torts - - 34. Unfair Competition - - 35. Restrictions on Competition - - 36. Currency.