Perspectives on conflict of laws
Subtitle: choice of law
By: [edited by] James A. Martin.
Contributors: Martin, James Arthur, 1944-
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Conflict of laws -- United States.
Description: Of the Conflict of laws / Joseph H. Beale -- The logical and legal bases of the conflict of laws / Walter Wheeler Cook -- A critique of the choice-of-law problem / David Cavers -- Selections from the First and second Restatements of the law of conflict of laws -- Conflict of laws and the Restatement second / Willis Reese -- The "most significant relationship" in the conflict law of torts / Albert Ehrenzweig -- Recent trends in choice-of-law methodology / Arthur von Mehren -- Married women's contracts : a study in conflict-of-laws method / Brainerd Currie -- Notes on methods and objectives in the conflicts of laws / Brainerd Currie -- Comments on Babcock v. Jackson / Brainerd Currie -- Neumeier v. Kuehner : where are the emperor's clothes? / Aaron Twerski -- Interstate accidents and the unprovided for case : reflections on Neumeier v. Kuehner / Robert Sedler -- Married women's contracts : a study in conflicts of laws / Brainerd Currie --^

Enlightened territorialism and Professor Cavers : the Pennsylvania method / Aaron Twerski -- The territorial imperative : automobile accidents and the significance of a state line / Robert Sedler -- The choice-of-law process / David Cavers -- The future of choice of law for torts : what principles should be preferred? / Russell Weintraub -- Choice of law and the federal system / William Baxter -- Choice-influencing considerations in conflicts law / Robert Leflar -- Commentary on the conflict of laws / Russell Weintraub -- The value of principled preferences / David Cavers -- A proper law in a proper forum : a "restatement" of the "lex fori approach" / Albert Ehrenzweig -- Special substantive rules for multistate problems : their role and significance in contemporary choice of law methodology / Arthur von Mehren -- Choice of law : rules or approach / Willis Reese -- Rules of choice of law versus choice-of-law rules : judicial method in conflicts torts cases / Robert Sedler --^

Choice of law : a well-watered plateau / Robert Leflar -- Choice of law and the problem of justice / Arthur von Mehren.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.