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The Draft Restatement (Third) Of Conflict Of Laws: A Response To Brilmayer & Listwa, Kermit Roosevelt Iii, Bethan R. Jones Oct 2018

The Draft Restatement (Third) Of Conflict Of Laws: A Response To Brilmayer & Listwa, Kermit Roosevelt Iii, Bethan R. Jones

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This Essay responds to Lea Brilmayer and Dan Listwa’s criticisms of the Draft Restatement (Third) of Conflict of Laws. We appreciate their engagement. As a general matter, we disagree about the nature and purpose of restatements. More specifically, we disagree about the history and aims of the Restatements of Conflict of Laws. Brilmayer and Listwa’s main criticism—that the drafters of the Restatement (Third) are not authoritatively interpreting any single state’s law and therefore can be only persuasive authority as to the content of a state’s law—could apply to all restatements. But since this Draft Restatement, like other …


Race And Gender In The Law Review, Cynthia Grant Bowman, Dorothy E. Roberts, Leonard S. Rubinowitz Jan 2006

Race And Gender In The Law Review, Cynthia Grant Bowman, Dorothy E. Roberts, Leonard S. Rubinowitz

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Vern Countryman And The Path Of Progressive (And Populist) Bankruptcy Scholarship, David A. Skeel Jr. Jan 2000

Vern Countryman And The Path Of Progressive (And Populist) Bankruptcy Scholarship, David A. Skeel Jr.

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Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Vern Countryman was the leading progressive bankruptcy scholar - and in fact the leading bankruptcy scholar of any perspective. This article explores the links between Countryman's work and that of his New Deal predecessors, on the one hand, and his successors, on the other. In addition to Countryman himself, the article focuses on William Douglas, who was Countryman's predecessor and mentor, as well as being the leading bankruptcy scholar of the New Deal. Among Countryman's successors, the article focuses on the work of Elizabeth Warren, Countryman's successor at Harvard Law School and the nation's leading …


Practicing Poetry, Teaching Law, David A. Skeel Jr. Jan 1994

Practicing Poetry, Teaching Law, David A. Skeel Jr.

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Sapphire Bound!, Regina Austin Jan 1989

Sapphire Bound!, Regina Austin

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"A Rhapsody Of Antiquated Law", Margaret Center Klingelsmith Jan 1904

"A Rhapsody Of Antiquated Law", Margaret Center Klingelsmith

University of Pennsylvania Law Review

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