How central is private international law to the resolution of international disputes today? This fundamental question has at least two distinct dimensions. First, there is the question of the extent to which classic private international law's techniques and processes continue to be viable in a world with increasingly diverse yet interconnected legal systems, which challenges the very foundations of the discipline itself. Second, there is the question of whether private international law should extend itself beyond its traditional domain of private law, to address larger concerns of global governance and regulation, which concerns the appropriate location of the discipline's frontiers. In Private International Law: Contemporary Challenges and Continuing Relevance, Franco Ferrari and Diego P Fernández Arroyo bring to bear on these important questions a carefully-curated set of responses from veteran scholars in the field. The resulting collection contains fascinating insights, both for academics and practitioners, on this complex field's current state-of-play.

Major information intermediaries (such as Amazon, Facebook and Google) have considerable control over the flow of information online. This has been an issue of concern for some competition regulators. The concern, generally speaking, is that an information intermediary can use its control over information in anti-competitive ways. This gives rise to the question of how competition law should intervene in this context.