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This paper aims to further the classification discourse by examining the importance and function of taxonomical structures in private law. The paper begins by considering the extent to which it is possible to develop, establish and maintain a classificatory scheme that constitutes a genuine reflection of the law and more generally, the value in searching for such coherence in law. The discourse developed within the paper is based on an assumption that there is a significant need for taxonomy, both within and beyond the boundaries of national law. This paper will introduce some of the issues which are of particular relevance at both the national level, through a consideration of taxonomy and classification in the development of the civil and the common legal traditions, and the transnational level, through an analysis of the attempts to develop legal taxonomy within the context of European private law (examining in particular, the Draft Common Frame of Reference).

"The Law of Nations and Natural Law 1625-1800 offers innovative studies on the development of the law of nations after the Peace of Westphalia. This period was decisive for the origin and constitution of the discipline which eventually emancipated itself from natural law and became modern international law. A specialist on the law of nations in the Swiss context and on its major figure, Emer de Vattel, Simone Zurbuchen prompted scholars to explore the law of nations in various European contexts. The volume studies little known literature related to the law of nations as an academic discipline, offers novel interpretations of classics in the field, and deconstructs 'myths' associated with the law of nations in the Enlightenment"

International Investment Law and Competition Law -- Editorial -- Contents -- Quest for a Sustainable International Investment Regime: Leveling Up Through Competition (Policy) Rules? -- 1 Browsing Documents for ``Competition´´ -- 2 By Way of Introduction -- 3 Linkages and Fissures: Interactions of Trade, Investment, Competition -- 3.1 Sketching Antecedents -- 3.2 Trade-Investment ``Interface Economics´´ -- 3.3 Role of Competition in Trade and FDI Policy -- 3.3.1 Brief Recap 1: Evolution of Liberating Rules for the Global Marketplace -- 3.3.2 Brief Recap 2: Competition, Competition Policy, Competition Law -- 3.3.3 Competition, Competition Law, Competition Policy and FDI -- 4 International Cooperation in the Field of Competition Policy -- 4.1 Proposals for Multilateral Rules -- 4.2 Failed Attempts to Establish Multilateral Rules -- 4.2.1 FDI and Competition Policy at the WTO -- 4.2.2 FDI and Competition Policy in National Law -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- International Investment Law and Public Procurement: An Overview -- 1 Introduction: Public Procurement Law as Competition Law -- 2 The Main Scenarios -- 3 Public Procurement and the Investment Treaty Protection of Foreign Investors -- 3.1 The Scope of Application of International Investment Agreements -- 3.2 Explicit Treaty Provisions on Public Procurement -- 3.3 The Notion of Investment in the Context of Public Procurement -- 4 Application of Investment Treaties to the Different Scenarios -- 4.1 Measures Affecting Tenderers During the Procurement Proceeding -- 4.2 Measures Affecting Tenderers During the Procurement Proceeding: ``Protection´´ of Successful Tenderers -- 4.3 Measures Affecting Tenderers During the Procurement Process: ``Protection´´ of Unsuccessful Tenderers -- 4.3.1 Protection of Foreign Investors Tendering in a Procurement Proceeding.

Introduction -- An overview of the free movement of persons, services, establishment and goods -- Direct effect and state liability -- European law, litigation and the ECJ -- Introduction to competition law -- Anti-competitive agreements Article 81 of the EC treaty -- Abuse of a dominant position Article 82 -- The member state and its role in the economy Article 86 -- Mergers -- Procedural and enforcement aspects of EC competition law -- State aid -- Public procurement -- European private international law -- General and exclusive jurisdictional rules in the EU -- Special and procedural jurisdictional rules in the EU -- Recognition and enforcement of judgments in the EU -- Choice of law rules

The author presents a chronology of the codification of private law in the (continental) civil law system.