The history of private international law is in large part a history of scholars. Many of them wrote in Latin, however, and have not been translated to German – perhaps because German scholars of earlier generations were more fluent in Latin than we are today. Some 25-30 years ago, Christian v. Bar and Peter Dopffel published two volumes of translations of texts by German authors between 1500 and 1700. That meant earlier and non-German authors remained inaccessible – including classics like Bartolus and Huber, who had long been translated to English (some in several versions)

Now that gap has been filled by Kristin Boosfeld, a professor at Freiburg and author of a pathbreaking monograph on theories of statutes, and Konstantin Liebrand, a postdoc at the University of Münster. They have, as editor and translator respectively, published a book with the seminal texts by Bartolus and Baldus, Dumoulin and d’Agrentré, Paul and Johannes Voet, and Huber, in Latin original (in one case Dutch) and German translation.
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