For almost a hundred years following Swift v. Tyson 1 the eral courts, in suits founded on
diversity of citizenship, held them free to exercise an independent judgment in matters of" …

This is a review of thirteen years of Erie RR Co. v. Tompkins. 1 When the case was decided
in 1938, the potential scope of its application was uncertain. In time its doctrine was …

There are certain important areas of the law that are only occasionally involved in actions
before that august court. On the rare occasions when-these areas do appear there, the …

The focus here is upon that aspect of the Erie RR v. Tompkins' doctrine which compels a
federal district court, on issues not governed by federal law, to apply the conflict of laws rules …

Walter Wheeler Cooki For one word a man is often deemed to be wise and for one word he
is often deemed to be foolish. We ought to be careful what we say.-Confucius. The decision …

The American common law of conflict of laws has changed more in the last eight or ten years
than in the preceding century. Part of the change was heralded by the general adoption of …

3 is in line with an earlier pronouncement, in Kryger v. Wilson4 in 1916, that" a mistaken
application of doctrines of the conflict of laws... being purely a question of local common law …

Problems in the allocation of lawmaking power between the federal government and the
states do not-and I am inclined to think that they should not-loom large in the traditional …

This latest product of the American Law Institute bears the unmistakable imprimatur of the
man who has done most in this country to make popular the teaching of the Conflict of Laws …

Had the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in Paul v. National Life1 applied its
traditional choice-of-law rule, lex loci delicti, to the tort claims arising from an automobile …