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Prologomenon To An Empirical Restatement Of Conflicts, William Richman, William Reynolds
Prologomenon To An Empirical Restatement Of Conflicts, William Richman, William Reynolds
William L. Reynolds
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Understanding Conflict Of Laws, William Richman, William Reynolds
Understanding Conflict Of Laws, William Richman, William Reynolds
William L. Reynolds
This Understanding treatise provides authoritative and comprehensive explanations of major theories and leading cases covered in Conflict of Laws courses. A family law chapter includes substantial new material on federal legislative responses to the serious problem of child support enforcement. Understanding Conflict of Laws also includes a new section on cyberspace jurisdiction.
When Religious Practices Become Legal Obligations: Extending The Foreign Compulsion Defense, Michael A. Helfand
When Religious Practices Become Legal Obligations: Extending The Foreign Compulsion Defense, Michael A. Helfand
Michael A Helfand
The purpose of this article is to fashion a religious compulsion defense as an outgrowth of the legally recognized foreign compulsion defense. Contra the rationale advanced in Employment Division v. Smith, the article argues that the rationale behind the foreign compulsion defense - to protect individuals from conflicting legal norms of competing legal systems - should also apply to situations where religious law and United States law collide. In adopting the criteria of the foreign compulsion defense, a religious compulsion defense would extract individuals from conflicts of law, protecting individuals in the throes of the most intractable of dilemmas.