Prerequisites: All first-year courses
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The rules of conflict of law are examined as they have developed in separate, sometimes unrelated areas - (Choice of Law, Constitutional limitations on choice of law, Domicile, Jurisdiction, Enforcement of other state judgments, and Erie problems) in a way to show the need of lawyers to think spatially; to emphasize the multistage characteristic of much of human activities and thus legal problems. An attempt will be made to provide insight that may help to manage these problems of conflicting rules which arise with the constant movement of people and their affairs. It is also hoped that the course will shed light upon how rules of law arise, function, and interact or compete.
A discussion of domicile; jurisdiction of courts with reference to constitutional limitations; foreign judgments and the impact of the Constitution; choice of law problems in general with a more detailed look at problems concerning choice of law in relation to property, family law, contracts, torts, trusts and the administration of estates.
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