Transformations: An Introduction to this Volume and Reflections on Uniform Law Conventions as Public and Private Law

This chapter introduces this Liber Amicorum for Professor Mads Andenas KC. The author and editor of this volume puts the choice of this book’s subject in context with the academic work of the honorand and with her own research interest. This interest is in the connection and interaction between public (international) and private law concepts and practice. Uniform law conventions, especially contract law conventions, are a prime example to illustrate the challenges arising from this dual nature as public international and substantive private law. At the same time, this example shows the potential impact of the research presented in this volume which covers a broad range of issues in public international and private law highlighting transformations through responding to technological innovation and reflection on traditional concepts.