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Introduction to Symposium on the Third Restatement of Conflict of Laws

Part of: Third Restatement of Conflict of Laws

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Carlos M. Vázquez
Carlos M. Vázquez*
Affiliation:
Georgetown University Law Center
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The American Law Institute (ALI) has recently embarked on the project of elaborating a new Restatement of Conflict of Laws. Its first two Restatements on this subject have been enormously influential. The Ali began its work on the First Restatement in 1923, naming Joseph Beale of the Harvard Law School as its Reporter. Adopted in 1934, the First Restatement reflected the highly territorialist approach to the conflict of laws that had long prevailed in this country. Even before the First Restatement’s adoption, the First Restatement’s territorialist approach, and the “vested rights” theory on which it was based, was subjected to intense scholarly criticism. Nevertheless, the First Restatement’s approach continued to prevail in the United States until the New York Court of Appeals initiated a “choice-of-law revolution” in the early 1960’s with its decision in Babcock v. Jackson. Although most states have departed from the First Restatement’s approach, the First Restatement retains its adherents. Ten states continue to follow the First Restatement for tort cases and twelve states for contract cases.

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Symposium on the Third Restatement of Conflict of Laws
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AJIL Unbound , Volume 110 , 2016 , pp. 137 - 138
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2016

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12 Id. at 158.

13 Brilmayer, supra note 8, at 144; Roosevelt & Jones, supra note 6, at 143, n. 19.