Conflict of Laws: Cases and Materials, Ninth Edition

Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook on Casebook Connect, including academic lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities. Access also includes an outline tool and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes. Updated and expanded to be truly state-of-the-art, Conflict of Laws: Cases and Materials, Ninth Edition, presents a balanced study of Conflict of Laws by leading scholars in the field. The book begins with a discussion of traditional approaches to choice-of-law problems, both inter-state and international, followed by an examination of how modern courts and commentators have struggled to formulate new and better approaches. The remaining broad topics—constitutional limitations on choice of law, personal jurisdiction, conflicts in the federal system, recognition and enforcement of judgments, extraterritorial application of federal law, choice of legal regimes, and choice of law in complex litigation—are considered in light of the wisdom derived from consideration of the basic choice-of-law problems.    New to the Ninth Edition:  Revised, expanded, and streamlined chapters on:  Choice of law and forum selection clauses, reflecting new developments in the law  Personal jurisdiction  Judgments, including more in-depth discussion of foreign-country judgments and child-custody and child-support judgments  Federal extraterritoriality, covering the distinct choice-of-law issues in the transnational setting, with updated coverage of federal extraterritoriality doctrine and entirely new material on the act-of-state doctrine, the dormant foreign relations doctrine and preemption, international comity, and transnational human rights litigation under the Alien Tort Statute and the transitory tort doctrine  Recent case excerpts including:  De Fontebrune v. Wofsy (2016) (proof of foreign law)  Nunes v. Cable News Network, Inc. (2022) (cross-border defamation)  National Pork Producers Council v. Ross (2023) (dormant Commerce Clause)  Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation (2025) (choice of law in Nazi looted art claim)  Erickson v. Pharmacia LLC (2025) (punitive damages)  The Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act of 2025, a new law that enables survivors and heirs to recover art stolen by Nazis without regard to statutes of limitations  Up-to-date excerpts from the draft Restatement (Third) of Conflict of Laws  Professors and students will benefit from:  A balance of historical and recent cases, with problems that test application of case precedents and accompanying notes  Modern applications to internet disputes, complex litigation, party autonomy, and jurisdictional competition, among other cutting-edge topics  Comprehensive treatment of choice of law and forum selection clauses, with expanded coverage of transnational choice of law issues  A balance between theoretical and practical aspects of Conflict of Laws, with coverage of state law and comparative perspectives where appropriate  Broader coverage of extraterritorial application of federal law than any leading Conflict of Laws casebook