My subject here is the clash, in all courts, between national and local substantive policies.
Federal-state conflicts present federal questions, of course, and the Supreme Court is …

Kryger v. Wilson'and Western Union Tel. Co. v. Brown,'the question of whether a mistaken
application, on the part of a state court, of principles of conflict of laws could raise a Federal …

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 …

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" …

It is curious that the Eisenhower administration with its avowed concern for ethics in
Government should so often have found itself embarrassed by the federal conflict of interest …

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 …

As Max Rheinstein pointed out," The states' freedom to fashion their own laws of conflict of
laws is limited by the Constitution of the United States as interpreted by the Supreme Court …

According to the Constitution's Supremacy Clause, there are only three kinds of federal law:
the Constitution, laws, and treaties. 1 Each of these kinds of federal law preempts …

During the Reagan era, more cases involving the separation of powers came before the
Supreme Court than in any previous presidency.'These decisions have occasioned …

Under our federal system of government two sets of laws operate within the country, the laws
of the constituent states and the laws of the central government. For lawyers there is the ever …