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Contractual Choice Of Law And The Prudential Foundations Of Appellate Review, David Frisch
Contractual Choice Of Law And The Prudential Foundations Of Appellate Review, David Frisch
Vanderbilt Law Review
Within the past decade, professional organizations interested in making the law better suited to commercial transactions have begun to advocate the proposition that contracting parties should have almost unlimited power to choose the law to govern their relationship. The new choice-of-law framework resulting from these reform efforts will provide parties with an expanded menu of legal regimes from which to choose when drafting their contract and, in turn, will lead to a more frequent use of choice-of-law clauses. Indeed, some have even suggested that omitting such a clause may soon become malpractice for the commercial lawyer. Given both the trend …