This article is about Professor Robert Leflar's Better Law System, in which five choice-influencing considerations are used in choice-of-law cases. This article discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the system and ...

After decades of hostility to exclusive forum selection agreements (i.e., agreements that require parties to litigate only in a particular court), the Supreme Court embraced them in 1973 in The Bremen v. Zapata Offshore ...

Beginning in 1963, U.S. conflict-of-laws principles began to alter drastically. On its way out was the vested rights theory that produced fairly certain rules, such as the place-of-the-injury rule for tort cases, and on ...