Philosophical Foundations of Private International Law

Roxana Banu is an associate professor of law at Oxford University and a fellow and tutor in law at Lady Margaret Hall. Previously, she was a lecturer in law at Queen Mary University and an assistant professor at Western Ontario University Faculty of Law. She obtained her SJD degree from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and her LL.M. magna cum laudae from Fordham Law School. Her research interests lie in private international law, legal history and theory, and feminist theory. She is currently researching on private international law's colonial history and on the social and gender history of cross-border maintenance conventions in the interwar period. Michael S. Green is the Woodbridge Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Previously, he was a professor of law at George Mason Law School and an assistant professor of philosophy at Tufts University. He clerked for Judge Richard A. Posner on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. His research interests are in the philosophy of law, civil procedure, the conflict of laws, constitutional law, and continental philosophy (especially Nietzsche and Neo-Kantianism). Ralf Michaels is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany, Chair in Global Law at Queen Mary University in London, and Professor of Law at Hamburg University. Michaels holds an LL.M. from Cambridge University and a PhD in Law from Passau University. His current research focuses on decolonial comparative law, regulatory conflict of laws, and theoretical foundations of private international law and global legal plurality. Michaels is a titular member of the Academia Europaea, the American Law Institute, the International Association of Comparative Law, and the Comparative Law Associations of the United States, Germany, and France.