Suchergebnisse

Conflict of laws : an overview -- Traditional approaches to choice of law -- Modern approaches to choice of law -- Constitutional limitations on choice of law -- The jurisdiction of courts over persons and property -- Conflict of laws in the federal system -- Recognition of judgments -- Extraterritoriality of federal law -- Choosing legal regimes -- Choice of law in complex litigation.

This provocative book brings together twenty-plus contributors from the fields of law, economics, and international relations to look at whether the U.S. legal system is contributing to the country's long postwar decline. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions between economics and the law—in such areas as corruption, business regulation, and federalism—and explains how our system works differently from the one in most countries, with contradictory and hard to understand business regulations, tort laws that vary from state to state, and surprising judicial interpretations of clearly written contracts. This imposes far heavier litigation costs on American companies and hampers economic growth