The Private Side of Transforming our World - UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and the Role of Private International Law

This book explores the role of private international law in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 2030) and suggests how it can be reformed to promote these goals. It highlights the importance of private action in development and argues that private international law is essential to the global legal architecture needed to turn the SDGs into reality.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 588 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2021
Publisher: Intersentia Ltd

The United Nations formulated 17 ambitious goals towards transforming our world in 2015, known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 2030). While the relation of these goals to public international law has been extensively studied, private law has received less attention in this context, and private international law has been largely overlooked. However, development occurs not only through public action but also through private action, and private law and private international law play a predominant role in governing such actions. This book aims to demonstrate the significant and constructive role of private international law as an indispensable part of the global legal architecture required to turn the SDGs into reality. Renowned and upcoming scholars from around the world analyze, for each of the 17 SDGs, what role private international law actually plays in advancing these goals and how private international law could or should be reformed to further them. Together, the chapters in the book shed light on the hitherto lacking private side of transforming our world.

Weight: 990g
Dimension: 171 x 246 x 36 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781839701665