Both Restatements of the Conflict of Laws have been controversial. The First, completed in 1934, enshrined territorial rules, such as the law of the place of the injury (lex loci delicti) governing tort cases. The First ...

The Supreme Court's 2008 decision extending the constitutional right of habeas corpus to non-citizen detainees held at Guantanamo Bay is a remarkable decision on many levels. Although the Supreme Court had previously held ...

As same-sex marriage has passed from a hypothetical to a reality in a few U.S. states, the conflict-of-laws questions are entering a new and more subtle stage of debate. Because marriages are not judgments for purposes of ...

Patrick Borchers portion of the Juenger colloquium held on February 12, 2004, that was organized by the University of California at Davis School of Law. Participants of the colloquium discussed the influence of Friedrich ...

The abbreviated summary of Patrick Borchers comments at the Juenger colloquium held on February 12, 2004, at the University of California at Davis School of Law.

Excerpt of Patrick Borchers speaking at The New European Choice-of-law Revolution at Duke University on September 2, 2008. He was part of the first panel which spoke on contract and tort law.

This article is written as a hypothetical dissenting opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Shady Grove Orthopedic Associates v. Allstate Insurance Co. In that case, the Court held that a federal court sitting ...