As consumer transactions and corporate activities have developed with scant regard to legal and national boundaries, private law theorists have been called upon to investigate what the international law framework might look like. Moving between 'hard' and 'soft' laws - as well as official, unofficial, direct, and indirect regulation - this book constitutes the first comprehensive attempt to develop the framework for a private law regulatory regime which mediates between state-society and public-private relations on the one hand, and a fast-evolving transnational normative field on the other....