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Articles 1 - 16 of 16
Full-Text Articles in Law
Principles Of Forum Selection, Antony L. Ryan
Principles Of Forum Selection, Antony L. Ryan
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
"Are We There Yet?": Towards A New Rule For Choice Of Law In Tort, Janet Walker
"Are We There Yet?": Towards A New Rule For Choice Of Law In Tort, Janet Walker
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
The Supreme Court's effort to establish certainty in this area by basing a firm rule on a clear theory has failed. The intention was laudable but the proposed theory bore little relation to the courts' adjudicative concerns; and the rule sometimes produced injustice, prompting courts to circumvent it. This article considers the brief history of choice of law in tort and recent developments in common law and civil law jurisdictions, and suggests a new theory and a new rule (based on principles of tort law rather than public international law) which are likely to increase certainty by promoting fairness.
Leave Bad Enough Alone, Gary J. Simson
Leave Bad Enough Alone, Gary J. Simson
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Commodifying Justice For Global Free Trade: The Proposed Hague Judgments Convention, Vaughan Black
Commodifying Justice For Global Free Trade: The Proposed Hague Judgments Convention, Vaughan Black
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
A notable omission from the legal apparatus for international free trade is a multilateral agreement on court jurisdiction and enforcement of foreign country judgments. However, negotiations toward such an international convention are in progress. This paper explores the background to those discussions. It examines the current draft of the proposed judgments convention with particular reference to the way in which implementation of that draft would affect Canadians engaged in the practice of international commercial litigation. It concludes with a discussion of current sticking points in the negotiations, and with commentary on the judgment enforcement scene and the implications of failure …
Federal Jurisdiction Over State Claims To Shipwrecks: Should The Eleventh Amendment Go Down With The Ship?, Mark R. Baumgartner
Federal Jurisdiction Over State Claims To Shipwrecks: Should The Eleventh Amendment Go Down With The Ship?, Mark R. Baumgartner
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
The Eleventh Amendment prohibits citizens from bringing actions in law or equity against individual states in federal courts. The Amendment does not address whether states are subject to federal jurisdiction for actions in admiralty in which both a shipwreck salvor and a state claim title to a shipwreck Analyzing applicable admiralty, federal, and common law in the context of Eleventh Amendment jurisprudence, this Note examines whether the states are subject to pure admiralty actions in federal court by citizen-salvors seeking either title to or reward for salvaging a shipwreck. The original intentions of admiralty law: rewarding salvors for their efforts, …
Admiralty And Federalism In The Wake Of Yamaha Motor Corp., Usa V. Calhoun: Is Yamaha A Cry By The Judiciary For Legislative Action In State Territorial Waters?, David R. Lapp
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
On Mapping The Conceptual Battlefield Of Private International Law, Nikitas E. Hatzimihail
On Mapping The Conceptual Battlefield Of Private International Law, Nikitas E. Hatzimihail
Nikitas E Hatzimihail
This short essay examines the use of conceptual ‘maps’ in the discourse of private international law. By helping us to conceptualize the choices we are faced with, as well as by providing us with a version of the history of private international law, which is supposed to validate that conceptualization, these ‘maps’ have had a – mostly unacknowledged –normative effect on the very identity and operation they purport to describe. Existing maps have been inaccurate in their portrayal of the PIL field and its development, as a more sophisticated historical overview easily shows. The essay concludes by proposing some new …
Of Enchantment: The Passing Of The Ordeals And The Rise Of The Jury Trial, Trisha Olson
Of Enchantment: The Passing Of The Ordeals And The Rise Of The Jury Trial, Trisha Olson
Trisha Olson
No abstract provided.
Prologomenon To An Empirical Restatement Of Conflicts, William M. Richman, William L. Reynolds
Prologomenon To An Empirical Restatement Of Conflicts, William M. Richman, William L. Reynolds
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Conflicts Between U.S. Law And International Treaties Concerning Geographical Indications, Christine Farley
Conflicts Between U.S. Law And International Treaties Concerning Geographical Indications, Christine Farley
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
It should not be surprising that the United States is not a major proponent of the protection of geographical indications. Countries that stand to benefit the most from this protection are those that have a long history of traditional industries, such as many European countries. These historical differences may help explain the stance that the United States has taken with regard to the protection of geographical indications, as compared to its stance towards other intellectual property rights negotiated in TRIPs Agreement. But the inability of the U.S. to benefit to the same extent as European countries, because of its apparent …
Supreme Court Federalism Decisions, Leon Friedman
Supreme Court Federalism Decisions, Leon Friedman
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Reexamination Of The Distinction Between “Loss-Allocating” And “Conduct-Regulating” Rules, Wendy Collins Perdue
A Reexamination Of The Distinction Between “Loss-Allocating” And “Conduct-Regulating” Rules, Wendy Collins Perdue
Law Faculty Publications
The Louisiana choice of law code is an important effort to codify the best of modem conflicts understanding. I routinely teach it to my conflicts students even though few will practice in Louisiana. I think it quite possible that someday states that have followed more ad hoc judicial codifications may consider adopting the more systematic codification found in Louisiana.
The code's choice of law articles on torts incorporate a distinction, first developed in New York, between tort rules that are conduct-regulating and those that are loss-allocating. This rule is built around the premise that there are two fundamental purposes of …
Every Conflicts Decision Is A Promise Broken, Gene R. Shreve
Every Conflicts Decision Is A Promise Broken, Gene R. Shreve
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Dueling Class Actions, Rhonda Wasserman
Dueling Class Actions, Rhonda Wasserman
Articles
When multiple class action suits are filed on behalf of the same class members, numerous problems ensue. Dueling class actions are confusing to class members, wasteful of judicial resources, conducive to unfair settlements, and laden with complex preclusion problems. The article creates a typology of different kinds of dueling class actions; explores the problems that plague each type; considers the effect the Supreme Court's decision in Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. v. Epstein, 516 U.S. 367 (1996), has had on these problems; evaluates the efficacy of existing judicial tools to curb them; and proposes an array of possible solutions. The more …
Benign Hegemony? Kosovo And Article 2(4) Of The U.N. Charter, Jules Lobel
Benign Hegemony? Kosovo And Article 2(4) Of The U.N. Charter, Jules Lobel
Articles
The 1999 U.S.-led, NATO-assisted air strike against Yugoslavia has been extolled by some as leading to the creation of a new rule of international law permitting nations to undertake forceful humanitarian intervention where the Security Council cannot act. This view posits the United States as a benevolent hegemon militarily intervening in certain circumstances in defense of such universal values as the protection of human rights. This article challenges that view. NATO's Kosovo intervention does not represent a benign hegemony introducing a new rule of international law. Rather, the United States, freed from Cold War competition with a rival superpower, is …
Adrift On The Sea Of Indeterminacy, Michael H. Gottesman
Adrift On The Sea Of Indeterminacy, Michael H. Gottesman
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Today's conflicts scholars no doubt consider themselves a diverse bunch, with widely differing views about how law should be chosen in multistate disputes. But from the trenches, most of them look alike. Each waxes eloquent about the search for the perfect solution-the most intellectually and morally satisfying choice of law for each dispute-and each ends the theorizing by embracing some proposition that will prove wholly indeterminate in practice.