Choice of law /
Choice of Law provides an in-depth sophisticated coverage of the choice-of-law part Conflicts Law (or Private International Law) in torts, products liability, contracts, forum-selection and arbitration clauses, insurance, statutes of limitation, domestic relations, property, marital property, and su...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Oxford commentaries on American law.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Choice of Law provides an in-depth sophisticated coverage of the choice-of-law part Conflicts Law (or Private International Law) in torts, products liability, contracts, forum-selection and arbitration clauses, insurance, statutes of limitation, domestic relations, property, marital property, and successions. It also covers the constitutional framework and conflicts between federal law and foreign law. |
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| Abstract: | This book covers the choice-of-law part of Conflict of Laws (or Private International Law), namely the process of choosing the law that governs disputes that implicate the laws of more than one state or country. Its central focus is on American law, but its peripheral vision is comparative. It is divided into four parts. Part I discusses the federal framework and the impact of the Constitution on choice of law. Part II discusses the structure and operation of choice-of-law rules and the historical evolution of choice-of-law doctrine and methodology from the nineteenth century to the present, through the “revolution” of the 1960s. Part III, consisting of nine chapters, is the heart of the book and is devoted to choice of law in practice. It covers conflicts in torts, products liability, contracts, forum-selection and arbitration clauses, insurance, statutes of limitation, domestic relations, property, marital property, and successions, as well as conflicts between federal law and foreign law. The book examines what courts say, but especially what they do. It identifies the emerging decisional patterns and extracts from them tentative predictions about likely outcomes. Part IV reflects on the next step in the evolution of American conflicts law and offers proposals on the content and orientation of the new Conflicts Restatement, the drafting of which began as this book was completed"-- Oxford Academic. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xl, 798 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190496753 0190496754 9780190496739 0190496738 9780190496746 0190496746 |