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Conflicts And Dependant Sovereigns: Incorporating Indian Tribes Into A Conflicts Course, Wendy Collins Perdue
Conflicts And Dependant Sovereigns: Incorporating Indian Tribes Into A Conflicts Course, Wendy Collins Perdue
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Professor Perdue describes her use of materials on Indian Tribes at the end of her Conflict of Laws course as a vehicle for examining the interrelations among choice of law, Jurisdiction, and recognition of judgments. Her goal is not to make students experts in Indian law, but rather to get students to reexamine assumptions about the nature of sovereignty and the role of choice of law, jurisdiction, and recognition of judgments as devices for recognizing and allocating governmental authority
U.C.C. Survey: General Provisions, Bulk Transfers, And Documents Of Title, David Frisch
U.C.C. Survey: General Provisions, Bulk Transfers, And Documents Of Title, David Frisch
Law Faculty Publications
A drafting compromise by the U.C.C. drafters in section 1-105 dictated the state having an "appropriate relation" to govern choice of law problems in the absence of a contractual clause, and if there is a clause, a "reasonable relation" to the state selected. The purpose was to leave choice of law problems to the general rules of the common law. Thus, some courts in breach of warranty cases continue to apply the tests of "place of injury" for personal injury suits and "place of contracting" for what does not involve personal injury, while others look for the state having the …