The myth of choice of law: rethinking conflicts.

Michigan Law Review;  August 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......constitutional constraints on state choice-of-law rules.(5) This article will do both...determinate answer, given by the choice-of-law rules of that state. But different...natural if we suppose that choice-of-law rules simply compose part of ...

JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS: COMMISSION TABLES "ROME II" REGULATION ON CHOICE...

European Report;  July 23, 2003 ;     673 words ......transparency. He said the current choice-of-law rules vary from Member State to...States may be applied if the choice-of-law rules indicate theirs is the applicable...thereby disregarding the choice-of-law rules. Defamation. For attacks ...

JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS : 'ROME II' CHOICE-OF-LAW RULES RE-CRAFTED BY...

European Report;  March 28, 2006 ;     640 words ......Regulation, which sets out whose law applies in non-contractual...urging, deleted specific choice-of-law rules on environmental offences...a separate proposal on choice-of-law for violation of privacy...over whether to favour the law where the publisher ...

Choice of State Law in Bankruptcy Cases: Part I

American Bankruptcy Institute Journal;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......we apply federal and state choice-of-law rules without even realizing that...bankruptcy court apply the choice-of-law rules of Delaware, the forum state...should it apply the federal choice-of-law rules? This is the question explored...

JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS: PARLIAMENT GIVES JUDGES MORE LEEWAY ON ROME II...

European Report;  July 9, 2005 ;     700+ words ......defamation cases, it said the law applicable shall be deemed...internet publications, the law of the country in which editorial...formula, under which the law of the country where the...MEPs have deleted specific choice-of-law rules for environmental offences...for a general ...

Economics of law as choice of law.

Law and Contemporary Problems;  June 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ......article (though they exist without doubt). (12) The law can certainly benefit from interdisciplinary analysis...repeatedly referred to as a dismal swamp, (13) choice of law as a discipline indeed yearns for intellectual nurture...provide answers to the perpetual problems that choice of law faces as a ...

The defamation of choice-of-law in cyberspace: countering the view that...

Federal Communications Law Journal;  March 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......on traditional choice-of-law regimes almost certainly...of the unique aspect the law of defamation brings to...worldwide. (11) Clearly, the law of defamation represents...of traditional choice-of-law regimes in cyberspace. Despite the various ...

Federal Circuit Antitrust Law and the Legislative History of the Federal...

The Review of Litigation;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......controversy over federal circuit's choice-of-law rules The Federal Circuit's decision to apply...FCIA supports the Federal Circuit's choice-of-law rules. The effects of the court's choice-of-law rules will necessarily impact that discussion...

Afterword: conflicts as a law of laws?

Law and Contemporary Problems;  June 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ...I Law, however conceived, tells its addressees what to do. Conflicts of laws decides what law governs when two or more laws claim to tell...to do. Conflicts is, in some sense then, a law of laws. Just as Hannah Arendt suggested that...

CONTRACT LAW: DISTANCE SELLERS SLAM MEPS' CHOICE-OF-LAW REGIME.

European Report;  July 2, 2005 ;     385 words ......Regulation, which says whose law applies in cross-border non-contractual civil law disputes. Parliament's Legal...flexibility in determining whose law to apply by scrapping more specific choice-of-law rules proposed by the European...rule proposed is that the law of the ...

'Law & Order': Season 19

SouthtownStar (Chicago, IL);  November 3, 2008 ;     700+ words ......detective to join NBC-TV's long-running "Law & Order." The fun-loving and funny Anderson...each police detective and prosecutor on "Law & Order," and deemed Anderson a "natural...succession of young actors - well, young by "Law & Order" standards - recruited by Wolf for...

JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS: COMMISSION REMOVES MEDIA FROM ROME II...

European Report;  February 18, 2006 ;     373 words ......supported by publishers as it gave precedence to the law of the country to which the media was principally directed...preferable to the alternatives which automatically favour the law of the plaintiff . Other changes. The modified proposal...that the two parties can decide between themselves whose law to ...

JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS: RAPPORTEUR BACKS MORE FLEXIBLE 'ROME II'...

European Report;  January 22, 2005 ;     646 words ......the moment says the law of the country where...Commission's specific choice of law rules on product liability...Regulation is whose law should apply in defamation...if the general rule - law of the country where...proposed is that the law of the country in which...will ...

Choice of State Law in Bankruptcy Cases: Part II

American Bankruptcy Institute Journal;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......1941), and apply the state choice-of-law rules where state law claims are...chosen to follow the federal choice-of-law rules. Two circuit courts-the Fourth...rationale for applying the choice-of-law rules of the forum state: ...

JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS: MORE FLEXIBLE CHOICE-OF-LAW REGIME URGED BY...

European Report;  June 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......broadly supported the proposed general rule. MEPs say the law applicable shall be the law of the country in which the damage occurs or is likely...forum shopping, where plaintiffs try to get whatever law that will be most favourable to them applied. Defamation...magazine publisher. The MEPs stipulate ...