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"The Place Of The Wrong": Torts And The Conflict Of Laws, George W. Stumberg

Washington Law Review

In an article published in 1951, a well-known English authority on conflict of laws remarked, "To a foreign observer, it seems extraordinary that there should be so much uncertainty in the United States as to what law governs the validity of a contract, and so much uncritical acceptance of the rule that tort liability is governed by the law of the place of wrong."' The writer was referring, of course, to the rule embodied in the Restatement of Conflict of Laws, according to which the place of the wrong is that place where the tortious conduct of the defendant has …