Robert B. Niles-Weed and Robert H. Sitkoff | February 10, 2023 | Conflict of Laws
Below is the abstract for “The Twenty-First Century Revolution in Conflict of Trust Laws,” available for download on SSRN. There is broad consensus that the law of conflict of trust laws is outdated. Both the American Law Institute and the Uniform Law Commission have...
Perry Dane | October 12, 2022 | Conflict of Laws
Below is the abstract for “Party Autonomy and the Challenge of Choice of Law,” available for download on SSRN. This piece will be published as a chapter in Philosophical Foundations of Conflict of Laws (Oxford University Press), edited by Roxana Banu, Michael Green,...
Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl | August 31, 2022 | Conflict of Laws
Below is the abstract for “Improving (and Avoiding) Interstate Interpretive Encounters,” available for download on SSRN. State courts often encounter the statutes of other states. Any encounter with another state’s statutes raises an interesting, though easy to...
Georgina Garriga Suau and Christopher A. Whytock | August 15, 2022 | Conflict of Laws
Below is the abstract for “Choice of Law for Immovable Property Issues: New Directions In The European Union And The United States,” available for download on SSRN. In both the European Union and the United States, it is a dynamic period for private international law...
Jeffrey A. Parness | June 7, 2022 | Children and the Law, Conflict of Laws
Below is the abstract for “Choosing Parentage Laws in Multistate Conduct Cases,” available for download on SSRN. The (r)evolution in U.S. state parentage laws in the last half century presents significant, and to date generally unrecognized, challenges when parentage...
