The legal academy currently consists of roughly two groups, two kinds of scholars, two sets
of questions and concerns. On the one hand are the constitutional theorists, the legal …

This authoritative text covers jurisdiction and interstate and international private litigation in
torts, contracts, business planning, family law (marriage, same-sex relationships, property …

Local courts are, by far, the most commonly used courts in our justice system. Cases filed in
local courts outnumber those filed in federal court by a factor of over two hundred. Few …

This is the Thirty-Third Annual Survey of American Choice-of-Law Cases. 1 It is written at the
request of the Association of American Law 1. The previous thirty-two surveys are, in …

Over the past half-century, courts in the United States have developed canons of
construction that they use exclusively to construe choice-of-law clauses. These canons are …

In the World Economic Forum's 2019 Global Risks Report, both 'Cyber-attacks' and 'Critical
information infrastructure breakdown'were ranked higher in both impact and likelihood than …

Enforcing contract provisions that choose the law that applies to the contract can be efficient
because these clauses reduce the uncertainty of vague conflict-of-laws default rules and …

SOSA v. ALVAREZ-MACHAIN 542 US 692 (2004) SOSA v. ALVAREZ-MACHAIN ET AL. No.
03-339. Supreme Court of United States. Argued March 30, 2004. Decided June 29, 2004. [*…

International transactions present unique legal risks. When a contract touches several
different nations, a party may not know where it will be called upon to defend a lawsuit or …

[C] omparative law has not normally been" transnational" at all, but rather it has grown within
the frameworks of differ-ent legal traditions, responding to" inner" needs of legal elites. From …