Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (RabelsZ)
The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law
Published by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg
Board of Directors: Holger Fleischer, Ralf Michaels, and Anne Röthel
Volume 90 (2026) / Price per volume (4 issues with approx. 820 pages)
The journal was founded in 1927 by Ernst Rabel as the key German forum for fundamental research in the field of private, economic and procedural law in their international aspects.
Submissions
Please send all manuscripts and editorial inquiries to:
Dr. Christian Eckl
Managing Editor
E-Mail: rabelsz@mpipriv.de
Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht
Mittelweg 187
20148 Hamburg
Germany
Telephone: +49 (0) 40 41900-234
Telefax: +49 (0) 40 41900-288
For all details regarding manuscript submission procedure, text formatting as well as citation style in footnotes, please see the instructions for authors and guidelines for reviewers.
Publication Guidelines
Acceptance for publication is confirmed in writing following a review by the editorial board, subject to the condition that the manuscript has not been published elsewhere or submitted for publication. Randomly selected submissions and suspected cases are checked for plagiarism using software. Please note that by submitting your manuscript, you agree to the Publication Ethics.
As long as the journal is published under the Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) model, authors license their contributions under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license upon acceptance for publication (a different license may be used in individual cases for compelling reasons, in particular funding requirements). Mohr Siebeck is also granted a simple publishing right. This includes the right to reproduce and distribute the article and make it publicly available. If the CC license goes beyond the publishing right granted, its scope applies.
Authors may upload the PDF file of their work to institutional or subject-specific repositories at any time. The publication will be archived for the long term with Portico and CLOCKSS, ensuring its long-term availability.
Authors may publish preprint versions of their manuscript online under the following conditions:
- Only the first version submitted to RabelsZ may be posted online, not subsequent versions modified as a result of peer review.
- After the article has been published in RabelsZ, reference must be made to this publication version, citing the DOI, but the preprint may remain in its previous location, with the addition of “Preprint version prior to editorial processing.”
No article processing charges will be levied. No fees will be paid. After publication of the issue, all authors will receive a free printed copy.