Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht (RabelsZ)
The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law
Journal of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg
Edited by:
Holger Fleischer, Ralf Michaels, Anne Röthel (Max Planck Institute),
Jens Kleinschmidt (University of Trier), Wolfgang Wurmnest (University of Hamburg)
Volume 90 (2026) / Price per volume (4 issues with approx. 820 pages)
The journal was founded in 1927 by Ernst Rabel. Continuing in its original tradition, it serves today as a global forum for scholarly exchange in the fields of private international law and international civil procedure, comparative law, and transnational private law. Articles on central topics written by authors from around the world are published in German, English, or French under an open-access model.
Submissions
Please send all manuscripts and editorial inquiries to:
Dr. Christian Eckl
Managing Editor and V.i.S.d.P.
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
Time from initial submission to acceptance decision: approx. 8-12 weeks.
Time from final submission to publication: approx. 10 weeks.
Manuscripts
For details regarding the manuscript submission procedure and text formatting as well as the preferred citation style in footnotes, please see the Instructions for Authors and Guidelines for Reviewers.
Editorial Policy
Acceptance for publication will be confirmed in writing and is subject to the condition that the manuscript has neither been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere. Unsolicited manuscript submissions are subject to a double-blind peer-review process in which at least two academic experts evaluate the manuscript; solicited manuscripts and book reviews are subject to editorial peer review. Plagiarism software will be used to check a number of randomly selected submissions as well as submissions deemed suspicious. Please note that by submitting your manuscript, you agree to the publishing house's Publication Ethics.
The journal is published under the Subscribe-to-Open (S2O) model. By submitting their work, authors agree that their contributions will, if accepted, be published under the CC BY 4.0 license. Mohr Siebeck is also granted a simple publishing right; this includes the right to reproduce and distribute the article and make it publicly available. The scope of the CC license will apply if it exceeds the granted publishing right.
Authors are permitted to upload to institutional or subject-specific repositories a PDF file of their published article which has been licensed CC BY 4.0. In order to ensure its long-term availability, the publication will be archived with Portico and CLOCKSS.
Authors may publish preprint versions of their manuscript online under the following conditions:
- Only the initial version submitted to the Rabel Journal may be posted online; subsequent versions modified as a result of the peer review process may not be published online as preprints.
- After the article has been published in the Rabel Journal, the preprint may remain in its existing location on the conditions that:
o Reference is made to the article’s publication in the Rabel Journal, including the DOI cite;
o The preprint is marked as a “Preprint version prior to editorial processing”.
Articles are not subject to processing charges, and no remuneration is paid. After publication of the issue, authors will receive a free printed copy thereof.