Symeon Symeonides‘ Annual Survey of American Choice-of-Law Cases for 2018, now in its 32nd year, has been posted on SSRN. A summary of the contents is reproduced below. If you are interested in the Survey, you can download it by clicking here.
If you are interested in the Private International Law Bibliography for 2018, you can download it from SSRN by clicking here.
Symeon sends his best wishes for the New Year, and I concur.
Table of Contents
Introduction
I. The Extraterritorial Reach of Federal Law
A. The Alien Tort Statute
B. The Fourth and Fifth Amendments and Cross-Border Shootings
C.-M. Other Federal Statutes
II. Choice of Law
A. Proof of Foreign Law
B. Anti-Foreign Law Amendments
C. Choice-of-Law Methodology
D. Contracts
1. Contracts with Choice-of-Law Clauses
a. Choice of Procedural or Conflicts Law
b. Choice-of-Law Clauses and Statutes of Limitation
c. Plain Choice-of-Law Clauses
d. Choice-of-Law and Forum-Selection Clauses
e. Choice-of-Law and Arbitration Clauses
2. Contracts without Choice-of-Law Clauses
E. Torts
1. Common Domicile Cases
2. Cross-Border Unfair Trade Practices
3. Other Torts
F. Products Liability
G. Statutes of Limitation
H. Insurance Conflicts
I. Nazi-Looted Art
J. Domestic Relations
1. Marriage and Divorce
2. Marital Property
3. Adoption and Succession
4. Child Custody and the Hague Convention
III. Recognition of Foreign Judgments and Awards
A. Foreign-Country Judgments
B. Sister-State Judgments
C. Foreign Arbitral Awards
