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. 1. National reports -- v. 2. The legal systems of the world : their comparison and unification -- v. 3. Private international law -- v. 4. Persons and family -- v. 5. Succession -- v. 6. Property and trust -- v. 7. Contracts in general -- v. 8. Specific contracts -- v. 9. Commercial transactions and institutions -- v. 10. Restitution/unjust enrichment and negotiorum gestio -- v. 11. Torts -- v. 12. Law of transport -- v. 13. Business and private organizations -- v. 14. Copyright -- v. 15. Labour law -- v. 16. Civil procedure -- v. 17. State and economy