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Introduction -- Domicile -- Personal jurisdiction : constitutional foundations and traditional bases -- Personal jurisdiction : pushing the envelope -- Transfer, forum non conveniens, and forum selection clauses -- Torts -- Contracts -- Property -- Wills, intestate succession, and trusts -- Marriage -- Agency, partnership, and corporations -- Manipulation and characterization -- Substance vs. procedure -- Statutes of limitations -- Public policy -- Renvoi -- The New York approach -- Interest analysis -- Comparative impairment and modified interest analysis -- The better law approach -- Second restatement approach to torts -- Second restatement and the UCC approach to contracts -- Modern answers to traditional problems -- The Erie doctrine -- International scope of federal laws -- Choice of law in Europe -- Constitutional requirement of significant contacts -- Other constitutional limits on state choice of law -- Equal protection and privileges and immunities -- Foreign country judgments -- Sister state judgments -- Domestic relations judgments : divorce, support, and alimony -- Proving foreign law.

This volume provides the first sustained treatment of the legal theory of Eduard Gans (1789--1839) and the first translation of Gans's Systems of Roman Civil Law in Outline (1827). Hegel's close personal friend and recognized leader of the Hegelian movement, Gans posthumously edited Hegel's Philosophy of Law and Philosophy of History. As Professor of Law in Berlin, Gans championed legal codification in opposition to Savigny and the Historical School of Jurisprudence. Hoffheimer argues that Gans's legal writings, especially his systematic exposition of Roman Law, combined a brilliant application of Romanist legal scholarship with a creative, original vision of Hegelian methodology. The teacher of Karl Marx and Felix Mendelssohn, Gans promoted a liberal interpretation of Hegel and influenced an important generation of German thinkers

The Article reviews the constitutional status of sister-state sovereign immunity. It argues that the parity requirement announced in Franchise Tax Board v. Hyatt (2016) is a temporary compromise that is supported by neither the purposes of the Full Faith and Credit Clause nor by cases cited by the Court. It further argues that parity is bad policy because parity overprotects states for acts they commit beyond their borders and under protects the interests of forum states in regulating conduct within their territorial jurisdiction. But the Article breaks from most scholarship. It suggests that the Court went too far in Nevada v. Hall (1979) in finding that nothing in the Constitution compels states to respect sister-state claims to sovereign immunity. But it does not endorse those critics who find absolute state immunity in policies of federalism. Instead it proposes a limited constitutional basis for sister-state immunity that grounds this immunity in territorial restrictions on judicial power that operated during the founding era. Under the proposed approach, states would enjoy sovereign immunity in a sister-state court—but only for acts they or their agents commit in their own territory. The Article explains how this limited immunity accommodates the competing interests of the states, and why it is superior to alternative proposals to ground sister-state immunity in international law.

HOFFHEIMER CHALLENGES THE PREVAILING INTELLECTUAL-HISTORICAL ASSUMPTION ABOUT SPINOZA'S LACK OF INFLUENCE BY ARGUING THAT SPINOZA'S WRITINGS VERY PROBABLY HAD A DIRECT IMPACT ON THE POLITICAL THINKING OF JOHN LOCKE BY COMPARING SPINOZA'S AND LOCKE'S TREATMENT OF EQUALITY AND BY DIAGNOSING HISTORICALLY NEGLECTED EVIDENCE.