This book discusses a phenomenon known as a revolution in Private International Law (PIL) or the law of conflict of laws in the United States. To be sure, the use of the term revolution in any field of law, especially one as esoteric as conflicts law is reputed to be, is hyperbolic and simplistic at the same time. Nevertheless, this term has prevailed in the literature as a shorthand description of the intellectual movement that challenged and eventually demolished the foundations of the established American system of conflicts law. Beginning in the 1960s, this movement had the appearances, and eventually acquired the dimensions and intensity, of a figurative rebellion against the established system, although it confined itself primarily to the area of choice of law in torts and contracts. This book chronicles this revolution, but also looks to the future and explores the question of what is, or should be, the next phase in the development of American conflicts law.
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...Professor Symeonides here provides a splendid overview of all that has gone on in U.S. conflicts since 1963. -- 51 McGill Law Review 211 (2006) by Professor H. Patrick Glenn Id. page 211.
Dean Symeonides has produced a splendid book on conflict of laws, one that I doubt anyone else could have written. -- Review of original Hague Academy course, by Prof. Gene Shreve, 52 American Journal of Comparative Law 1003, Fall 2004.
One can wrestle with it, take issue with it, and yet savor it. I had a wonderful time with it. -- Review of original Hague Academy course, by Prof. Louise Weinberg, 103 Michigan Law Review 1631, May 2005
Dean Symeonides has produced a splendid book on conflict of laws, one that I doubt anyone else could have written. -- Review of original Hague Academy course, by Prof. Gene Shreve, 52 American Journal of Comparative Law 1003, Fall 2004.
One can wrestle with it, take issue with it, and yet savor it. I had a wonderful time with it. -- Review of original Hague Academy course, by Prof. Louise Weinberg, 103 Michigan Law Review 1631, May 2005
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Symeon C. Symeonides is the drafter of three private international law codifications, and the author of six books and over sixty articles on the same subject, including the most widely read annual surveys of American choice-of-law cases.
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