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Hertz So Good: Amazon, General Jurisdiction's Principal Place Of Business, And Contacts Plus As The Future Of The Exceptional Case, D. (Douglas) E. Wagner
Hertz So Good: Amazon, General Jurisdiction's Principal Place Of Business, And Contacts Plus As The Future Of The Exceptional Case, D. (Douglas) E. Wagner
Cornell Law Review
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Degrees Of Deference: Applying Vs. Adopting Another Sovereign's Law, Kevin M. Clermont
Degrees Of Deference: Applying Vs. Adopting Another Sovereign's Law, Kevin M. Clermont
Cornell Law Review
Familiar to all Federal Courts enthusiasts is the Erie distinction between federal actors’ obligatory application of state law and their voluntary adoption of state law as federal law. This Article’s thesis is that this significant distinction holds in all other situations where a sovereign employs another’s law: not only in the analogous reverse-Erie resolution of federal law’s constraint on state actors, but also in the horizontal choice-of-law setting and even in connection with the status of international law. Application and adoption are different avenues by which to approach a pluralist world. Application involves the recognition of the other sovereign’s law …