This book contains the presentations of a conference held in the form of a joint symposium in July 2012 in Munich which was hosted by the Faculty of Law of the University of Munich in cooperation with the Max-Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy. It had as its main topic "Social Dimensions of International Law" that served as a chapeau for presentations in both, public and private international law.The presentations cover various social dimensions of a wide field of international and domestic law: among others, International Human Rights Law, International Economic Law, International Environmental Law, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, International Law of Restitution, International and European Tort Law, Procedural Law and International Labour Law.