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. 17 : 2. State and Economy in Transformation. Revolution by Law in the Central and Eastern European Countries - - 3. Law and Economic Reform in Eastern Europe – The Transition from Plan to Market during the Formative Years of 1989-1994 - - 10. Regulation - - 11. Legal Consequences of State Regulation - - 16. Socialist Enterprises - - 20. Money and Foreign Exchange - - 21. Foreign Commerce and Investment– General Observations - - 22. Foreign Commerce and Investment in Market Economy Countries - - 23. Foreign Commerce and Investment in Socialist Countries - - 25. Universal Economic Organizations.