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The Form Of Wills, Ernst Rabel

Vanderbilt Law Review

"Yielding Place to New: Rest Versus Motion in the Conflict of Laws"' Under this headline Herbert F. Goodrich, the eminent leader, recently reviewed improvements of judicial attitudes. Concluding his stimulating essay, he states that "motion and rest" must stay balanced; no total codification of uniform conflicts rules will be feasible until our experience is much enhanced. I fully agree. It is also my own impression that conflicts law needs infinitely more study and effort, not only by the courts, but also, and in the first place, by the scholars. But could not the approach toward reasonable and uniform judicial rules …