Conflict of Laws, Private International Law, Cases and Materials

ISBN-10: 1634593081
ISBN-13: 9781634593083
Category: Conflict of laws
Pages: 1377
Language: English
Published: 2017-07-13
Publisher: Foundation Press
Authors: Richard D. Freer, Peter Hay, Russell J. Weintraub

Description

The authors of the fifteenth edition are proud of the book''s heritage, which dates to 1936. At the same time, they are mindful of the needs of students and professors addressing the Conflict of Laws eight decades later. We have added the subtitle "Private International Law" to acknowledge the more common title of the subject outside the U.S., as well as to alert students that they will face a blend of domestic and international issues once they become lawyers. As an intellectual matter, the conflicts course presents rich and nuanced doctrine. As a professional matter, every litigator will face issues raised in this course. As a practical matter, an increasing number of students are drawn to the course because it is tested on the bar exam in every state that has adopted the universal bar exam or the multistate essay exam. The authors recognize the need, therefore, to provide appropriate review of civil procedure to allow the student to transition to the study of conflicts. A modern conflicts casebook must be flexible. Some professors will choose to cover a great deal of international and comparative law. Others, however, will prefer to address conflicts only in the domestic sphere. This edition fully supports either (or some middle) approach. The professor may comfortably choose how much international and comparative material to cover without losing transition or context. Some highlights of the fifteenth edition: Chapter 2 has been shortened and honed to drive home the significance of domicile and the complementary concept of habitual residence, including a new note on domicile and devolution of real property. Chapter 3, concerning personal jurisdiction, has been sharpened by trimming notes in light of current developments. There is a new note on "Effects" Jurisdiction, which addresses Calder and Keeton as a prelude the Supreme Court''s most 2014 decision in Walden v. Fiore. In the section on general jurisdiction, Daimler replaces Goodyear as a principal case, and students are invited to consider how the constriction of general jurisdiction may impose increasing demands for expansion of specific jurisdiction. Chapter 4 pulls together everything that bears on limiting a court''s exercise of jurisdiction that it otherwise has. This includes forum selection agreements in interstate and international transactions, antisuit injunctions, dismissals (or denials of motions to dismiss) in cases of parallel litigation (lis pendens) or on the ground of forum non conveniens, and federal transfer. Chapter 5 treats a number of questions often not addressed in depth in the first-year procedure course. For instance: what is a "judgment" for purposes of recognition - administrative decrees, equity decrees, modifiable support orders? How conclusive is a judgment on a second court - comparing Treinies with the 2010 SPEECH Act requiring review of foreign country awards for libel? Does public policy play a different role in the case of foreign than in interstate judgments? Can non-parties benefit or be bound: what about "virtual representation" or non-mutual collateral estoppel? What are the mechanisms for the recognition and enforcement of domestic and of foreign-country judgments in the United States? Chapter 6, concerning the impact of the Constitution, has been streamlined to enhance "teachability." The 2016 opinion in franchise tax Board versus Hyatt is now included as a principal case. Chapters 7 and 8 present the central themes of choice of law. Both have been updated substantially. Chapter 8 has been considerably revised to show the progression from the traditional system, to the height of the conflicts revolution, to a developing consensus to consolidate modern analysis in a manner that provides more predictability and certainty. This revision is designed to give students -- most of whom have little or no familiarity with choice of law doctrine -- a b

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