Choice of Law (Oxford Commentaries on American Law) - Hardcover

Symeonides, Dean Symeon C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019049672X ISBN 13: 9780190496722

Publisher: OUP USA, 2016

Synopsis

Choice of Law provides an in-depth sophisticated coverage of the choice-of-law part of 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.

In this book, Symeon C. Symeonides focuses entirely on Choice of Law pertaining to the question of whether the merits of the dispute will be resolved under the substantive law of the state of adjudication (lex fori), or under the law of another involved state. Structured in three parts, this book discusses the Federal framework, history, doctrine, methodology, and the practice of choice of law.

The author begins with the history of choice-of-law doctrine and follows its subsequent evolution to the present. He then moves on to methodology, and extensively explores the case law of the last fifty years, covering what courts say, and especially what they do. Symeonides goes on to identify emerging decisional patterns and extracts descriptive rules or tentative predictions about likely outcomes.

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About the Author

Symeon C. Symeonides is the Alex L. Parks Distinguished Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus at Willamette University School of Law, in Oregon. He is an award winning author and renowned expert in conflicts law, having published 26 books and more than 120 articles (in seven languages), including the widely popular annual survey of American choice-of-law cases for the last thirty years. Reviewers have called him "a conflicts giant," "the world's leading expert on comparative conflicts law," and "the father of codification," and his work "brilliant," "engrossing," "masterful," and "indispensable." His work received five scholarly prizes and has been cited by the supreme courts of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Israel (22 times).

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019049672X
• ISBN 13: 9780190496722
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 840