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 …

IN A SERIES of articles published in this and other journals,'Professor Brainerd Currie has
proposed the scrapping of traditional methods of choice of law in favor of a system involving …

It is understandable that some conflicts scholars are disappointed with Allstate Insurance
Co. v. Hague. 1 That case signals the Supreme Court's continued permissive attitude toward …

There is no longer any doubt: American jurisdictional law is a mess. Split opinions, 2 loaded
footnotes, 3 and convoluted opinions larded with a fanciful vocabulary that attempts to give …

THE PRoBLEm V~ rE ARE living in a" crisis." Everyone, therefore, finds crisis in his sphere.
My field being domestic and international trade law, I find crisis there. In International Trade …

How does one restate gibberish? Anyone who looks at American judicial opinions dealing
with choice-of-law issues must conclude that the field is in a desolate state. Deprecating …

Although Cardozo called it" one of the most baffling subjects of legal science,"! the conflict of
laws of his day was still a calm and orderly discipline. In his words, it was one of the areas of …

Choice of law is a mess. That much has become a truism. It is a" dismal swamp,"'a morass of
confusion, a body of doctrine" killed by a realism intended to save it," 2 and now" universally …

The legal universe is witnessing a doctrinal and methodological revolution in the choice of
law sphere. Initially the product of American conflict of laws jurisprudence, 2 this revolution is …

If you are interested in the endlessly engrossing problem of choosing law, you may have
noticed that yet another new/old idea has some currency right now: the idea of comity. Some …