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 89 (2025) / 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. Areas of specific interest are thus comparative law and foreign law in comparative analysis, the conflict of laws, the law of international transactions and the unification of law, including the law of the European Union.
The journal sees itself as a forum of international academic discourse and intellectual exchange with foreign research. It publishes fundamental articles (in German, English and French) from all fields of work covered by the Institute.
As of 2024 the Rabel Journal is available in Open Access.”
Open Access
Since 2024 Rabels Zeitschrift has appeared in open access under a CC license as part of a subscribe-to-open model (S2O).
The subscribe-to-open model (S2O) is fair and sustainable, being based on tried and tested structures and existing partnerships between the publisher and a journal’s institutional subscribers. The institutional subscriber base enables the transition to open access and thus free access for all readers by simply continuing the subscription as before. If the required threshold of institutional subscribers is not reached in a given year, the following volume will be published again behind the paywall in order to ensure the long-term economic stability of the journal. There is no article processing charge (APC) for contributors and publication in an S2O journal is free of charge. Users may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link or use the full texts of the articles for any lawful purpose in accordance with the CC license without first obtaining permission from the publisher or author. This is in line with the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of open access.