Conflict of Laws Posts
Internationalizing the New Conflict of Laws Restatement
Ralf Michaels and Christopher A. WhytockSome sixteen years ago, on the occasion of one of many symposia on the possibility of a new Restatement of Conflict of Laws to replace the much derided Second Restatement, Mathias Reimann suggested that a new Restatement should focus on the requirements of what he called “the international age.” Conflict of laws is increasingly international, he pointed out.
Children Crossing Borders: Internationalizing the Restatement of the Conflict of Laws
Louise Ellen TeitzTreating internal U.S. conflicts and international conflicts law the same, without distinguishing between them, has always puzzled non-U.S. lawyers and scholars. And nowhere is the question of whether domestic and international conflicts should be treated the same more pressing than in the current work of The American Law Institute.