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. 7 : 1. A General View of Contract - - 2. Contract in Pre-Commercial Societies and in Western History - - 3. The Impact of Large Scale Business Enterprise Upon Contract - - 4. Public Contracts - - 5. Contract in the Socialist Economy - - 6. Contract in the Far East – China and Japan - - 7. Contract Law of Islam and the Arab Middle East - - 9. The Formation of Contracts - - 10. Formal Requirements - - 11. Defects in the Contracting Process - - 12. Contracting Subject to Standard Terms and Conditions - - 13. Rights of Third Parties. Third Party Beneficiaries and Assignment - - 15. Breach of Contract - - 16. Remedies for Breach of Contract (Courses of Action Open to a Party Aggrieved).