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Power of Parties to Choose Law Governing Their Contracts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Willis L. M. Reese
Willis L. M. Reese*
Affiliation:
Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law, Columbia University
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Proceedings of the American Society of International Law at its annual meeting (1921-1969) , Volume 54 , 1960 , pp. 48 - 56
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1960

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References

1 Compare Milliken v. Pratt, 125 Mass. 374 (1878), with the Union National Bank v. Chapman, 169 N. T. 538, 62 N. E. 672 (1902).

2 Jones v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 158 Mise. 466, 286 N.Y.S. 4 (App. Term, 1936).

3 See, e.g., Bernhard, “A nationalization of the Illinois Conflict of Laws Rules Applicable to Contracts,” 40 Ill. Law Kev. 165 (1945).

4 Auten v. Auten, 308 N. Y. 155, 124 N. E. 2d 99 (1954).

5 See, e.g., Mount Albert Borough Council v. Australasian Temperance and Mutual Life Assurance Society, Ltd., [1938] A. C. 224, 230.

6 See cases cited in Reporter's Note to §332a, Restatement, Conflict of Laws Second (Tentative Draft No. 6, 1960).

7 See, e.g., 2 Beale, Conflict of Laws §332.2 (1935) ; Cheshire, Private International Law 216 (5th ed., 1957).

8 E. Gerli & Co. v. Cunard S. S. Co., 48 F. 2d 115 (2d Cir., 1931); Commissioner v. Hyde, 82 F. 2d 174 (2d Cir., 1936).

9 Eestatement, Conflict of Laws Second, §332a, Comment c (Tentative Draft No. 6, 1960).

10 See authority cited in Reporter's Note to §332a, Restatement, Conflict of Laws Second (Tentative Draft No. 6, 1960).

11 Restatement, Conflict of Laws Second, §332a, Comment a (Tentative Draft No. 6, 1960).

12 Ibid., Comment e.

13 See, e.g., Siegelman v. Cunard White Star, Ltd., 221 F. 2d 189 (2d Cir., 1955); Fricke v. Isbrandtsen Co., F. Supp. 465 (S.D. N.T., 1957); Ehrenzweig, “Adhesion Contracts in the Conflict of Laws,” 53 Col. Law Rev. 1072 (1953).

14 Restatement, Conflict of Laws Second, §332a, Comment f (Tentative Draft No. 6, 1960).

15 This is the term used in Restatement, Conflict of Laws Second §332a (Tentative Draft No. 6, 1960); see also Fricke v. Isbrandtsen Co., cited above, noted in 58 Col. Law Eev. 274 (1958).

16 Restatement, Conflict of Laws Second, §332a, Comment g (Tentative Draft No. 6, 1960).

17 Ibid.

18 Ibid.

19 Ibid., Comment h.