"The chapters of this volume were presented at the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth Sokol Colloquia on Private International Law, held at the University of Virginia School of Law in September 2014 and September 2015." -- Acknowledgments, p. [xi].

Conceptualizing comparative international law / Anthea Roberts, Paul B. Stephan, Pierre-Hugues Verdier & Mila Versteeg -- Methodological guidance : how to select and develop comparative international law case studies / Katerina Linos -- Comparative international law, foreign relations law and fragmentation : can the center hold? / Paul B. Stephan -- Why comparative international law needs international relations theory / Daniel Abebe -- The many fields of (German) international law / Nico Krisch -- Crimea and the South China Sea : connections and disconnects among Chinese, Russian, and Western international lawyers / Anthea Roberts -- "Shioki (control)," "fuyo (dependency)," and sovereignty : the status of the Ryukyu Kingdom in early-modern and modern times / Masaharu Yanagihara -- Comparative international law within, not against, international law : lessons from the International Law Commission / Mathias Forteau -- The continuing impact of French legal culture on the International Court of Justice / Mathilde Cohen -- International law in national legal systems : an empirical investigation / Pierre-Hugues Verdier & Mila Versteeg -- Objections to treaty reservations : a comparative approach to decentralized interpretation / Tom Ginsburg -- Intelligence communities and international law : a comparative approach / Ashley S. Deeks -- National legislatures : the foundations of comparative international law / Kevin L. Cope & Hooman Movassagh -- International law in Chinese courts during the rise of China / Congyan Cai -- The democratizing force of international law : human rights adjudication by the Indian Supreme Court / Neha Jain -- Case law in Russian approaches to international law / Lauri Mälksoo -- Doing away with capital punishment in Russia : international law and the pursuit of domestic constitutional goals / Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov -- Comparative views on the right to vote in international law : the case of prisoners' disenfranchisement / Shai Dothan -- When law migrates : refugees in comparative international law / Jill I. Goldenziel -- An asymmetric comparative international law approach to treaty interpretation : the CEDAW committee's tolerance of the Scandinavian states' progressive deviation / Alec Knight -- Comparative international law and human rights : a value-added approach / Christopher McCrudden -- CEDAW in national courts : a case study in operationalizing comparative international law analysis in a human rights context / Christopher McCrudden -- The great promise of comparative public law for Latin America : towards ius commune americanum? / Alejandro Rodiles -- Who cares about regulatory space in BITs? A comparative international approach / Tomer Broude, Yoram Z. Haftel & Alexander Thompson -- Africa and the rethinking of international investment law : about the elaboration of the Pan-African Investment Code / Makane Moïse Mbengue & Stefanie Schacherer -- Not so treacherous waters of international maritime law : Islamic law states and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea / Emilia Justyna Powell.