… to enact a statute or series of statutes declaring federal choice of law rules for categories of
… which state's law will apply to resolve a dispute when more than one state's law might fairly …

… common law systems legislatures have meticulously avoided the" dismal swamp,"'2 civil
law … The realm of the conflict of laws is a dismal swamp, filled with quaking quagmires, and …

American conflicts law has been called a" dismal swamp"'and many other similar names. …
common law systems legislatures have meticulously avoided the" dismal swamp,"'2 civil law …

… "The realm of the conflict of laws is a dismal swamp, filled with quaking quagmires, and
inhabited by learned but eccentric professors who theorize about mysterious matters in a strange …

[C] onflict of laws is a dismal swamp, filled … lawyer, is quite lost when engulfed and entangled
in it.' As the quotation suggests, Conflict of Laws is a bit different than other areas of the law: …

… "The realm of the conflict of laws is a dismal swamp, filled with quaking quagmires, and … a
jury's application of a state rule of law in a civil lawsuit as by a statute."Applying this principle, …

… on Judge Thomas Ruffin to setting the action in the Dismal Swamp, the characters, setting, …
Longfellow's poem, The Dismal Swamp, about a slave hunted in the swamp, which provides a …

… law. Several years ago, he colorfully wrote: "The realm of the conflict of laws is a dismal swamp,
… codes or in other prescriptive texts (such as a statute) or, absent such a regulatory guide, …

… A common mistake when approaching a new legal topic is to try to locate all of the statutes
and cases immediately. Finding good commentary and analysis of the law will save time. …

… extralimital if they left the swamp and continued on their freedom … who sought freedom in the
Dismal Swamp, we must instead … laws were in force—the only law in the Dismal Swamp was …