The American Society of Comparative Law was founded in 1951 "to promote the comparative study of law and the understanding of foreign legal systems . . . [and] private international law." The Society ...

with detailed case studies in selected areas from different fields of law (comparative constitutional law, comparative private law, comparative criminal justice, EU law; and commercial arbitration, ...

He went on to be a Senior Research Fellow at the Hamburg Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. From 2003 to 2015 he held the statutory Chair in Comparative Law at the ...