The Supreme Court's partial invalidation of the Communications Decency Act on First
Amendment grounds' raises the more fundamental question of whether the state can …

Today, a California resident can incorporate her shipping business in Delaware, register her
ships in Panama, hire her employees from Hong Kong, place her earnings in an asset …

This Article proposes a comprehensive system for choice of law that is designed to enhance
social wealth by focusing on individual rather than governmental interests. To the extent …

It finally happened. On Tuesday, December 3, 1996, a Honolulu judge struck down a
Hawaiian law permitting only opposite-sex couples to marry, and Hawaii became the first …

V IRTUAL worlds are upon us. Games are now among the most lucrative parts of the
entertainment industry, and an increasingly important segment of computer games are …

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 …

According to the standard account in American corporate law, states compete to supply
corporate law to American corporations, with Delaware dominating the market. This" …

The recently enacted and widely publicized Defense of Marriage Act (" DOMA") has two
provisions. One of these, the definitional provision, defines marriage, for federal purposes …

The orthodox view that states have no role in US foreign relations is not only inconsistent
with their place in the modem global economy, but the constitutional basis for a" dormant" …

Ordinarily, marriages that are valid where they are celebrated are valid everywhere, for all
purposes. There is a longstanding exception to this rule, however, in cases where a …