Choice of law and multistate justice / Friedrich K. Juenger.
1993
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Title
Choice of law and multistate justice / Friedrich K. Juenger.
Published
Dordrecht [The Netherlands] ; Boston [Mass.] : Martinus Nijhoff, [1993]
Distributed
Boston [Mass.] : Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Copyright
©1993
Call Number
JX6090 J93 1993
ISBN
0792314697
Description
x, 265 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)24667204
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [238]-249) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1
1Three examples
2
(a) The Ermenonville disaster
2
(b) The damaged rig
2
(c) Divorzio a la svizzera
3
2The nature of multistate problems
3
3A word about terminology
4
Ch. I
A historical overview
1Antiquity
6
(a) Greece
6
(b) Rome
8
2The origins of the conflict of laws
10
(a) The personal laws of the Middle Ages
10
(b) The Italian School
11
(c) The French School
16
(d) Dutch authors
19
3The English deviation
22
(a) The common law courts
22
(b) Maritime and commercial courts
23
(c) English conflicts law
24
4The origins of American conflicts law
27
(a) An early American case
28
(b) The first American conflicts book
29
(c) Story
29
5Two German authors
31
(a) Wachter
32
(b) Savigny
34
6Mancini
40
7Some observations and questions
42
Ch. II
The classical choice-of-law method
1The method described
47
2The method in international practice
48
(a) The Ermenonville disaster
48
(b) The damaged rig
52
(c) Divorzio a la svizzera
61
(d) Additional examples
67
3"Conflicts justice"
69
4The "general part" of conflicts law
70
(a) Characterization
71
(b) The incidental question and depecage
74
(c) Renvoi
77
(d) Public policy
79
(e) Rules of immediate application
81
(f) The application of foreign law
83
5The flaws of multilateralism
86
Ch. III
The American conflicts revolution
1The classical doctrine in the United States
88
2The first Conflicts Restatement
89
3The harbingers of the conflicts revolution
92
(a) Legal writers
92
(b) The Supreme Court
93
4The reorientation of American conflicts law
95
(a) The "proper law" approach
96
(b) Currie's "interest analysis"
98
(c) Choice-influencing considerations
103
(d) The Second Restatement - eclecticism codified
105
5The revolution in the courts
106
(a) New York
106
(b) California
112
(c) Other states
116
6Reactions to the "revolution"
120
(a) American judges
120
(b) American scholars
123
(c) Foreign observers
126
7The doctrinal deficiencies of the American approaches
128
(a) The proper law approach
128
(b) Interest analysis
131
(c) Eclecticism
139
(d) The pitfalls of "methodological pluralism"
143
8An evaluation of the American experiments
145
Ch. IV
Orthodoxies and teleology
1The "new" conflict of laws
151
2The orthodox doctrines re-examined
154
(a) The elusive task of localizing
154
(b) The vain hope for consistency
156
(c) The inevitability of hometown justice
156
(d) Foreign law quandaries
157
(e) The spell of sovereignty
159
(f) Forum shopping predicaments
161
(g) Complexity and confusion
162
3The role of judges in multistate cases
163
4Teleology in choice of law
169
(a) Legal writers
170
(b) Courts
173
(c) Legislation
179
(d) International conventions
185
Ch. V
Toward a reorientation of the conflict of laws
1The virtues of teleology
191
2Teleology and rules
194
3Arguments against teleology
199
4The cases revisited
208
(a) The Ermenonville disaster: alternative reference
208
(b) The damaged rig: party autonomy and "tacit consent"
213
(c) Divorzio a la svizzera: lex fori - better rule?
220
In conclusion
233
Bibliography
238
Table of Cases
251
Index
261