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The Restatements of the Law is one of the most respected and well-used sources of secondary authority, covering nearly every area of common law. While considered secondary authority (compare to primary authority), the authoritativeness of the Restatements of the Law is evidenced by their acceptance by courts throughout the United States.
The complexity of American federalism and massive interstate diversity between the laws of the 50 states in the Union mean that U.S. federal and state courts as of the mid-2010s were deciding around 5,000 conflict-of-laws cases each year—far more than the courts of any other country. As a result, Americans have accumulated "vast judicial ...
The Restatement (Second) of the Law of Contracts is a legal treatise from the second series of the Restatements of the Law, and seeks to inform judges and lawyers about general principles of contract common law. It is one of the best-recognized and frequently cited legal treatises [1] in all of American jurisprudence.
The Rome Regulations: Commentary on the European Rules of the Conflict of Laws. Kluwer. CILE Studies (Center for International Legal Education – University of Pittsburgh School of Law) Private Law, Private International Law, and Judicial cooperation in the EU-US Relationship. Clarkson, C.M.V.; Hill, Jonathan (2006). The Conflict of Laws ...
J H C Morris. "False conflicts, dépeçage and foreign law as datum". The Conflict of Laws. Third Edition. Stevens and Sons. London. 1984. ISBN 0-420-46890-0, p 526 at pp 528 to 530. David J Levy (ed). "Depecage - Applying the Law of Different States to Separate Issues". International Litigation. American Bar Association. 2003. Section 7.4.6. p ...
In the United States, this rule still exists at common law. However, the Uniform Commercial Code ("UCC") dispenses with it in § 2-207 (but it can also be argued that § 2-207(1) enforces the mirror image rule). [6] Therefore, its applicability depends upon what law governs. Most states have adopted the UCC, which governs transactions in goods.
In conflict of laws, renvoi (from the French, meaning "send back" or "to return unopened") is a subset of the choice of law rules and it may be applied whenever a forum court is directed to consider the law of another state.
Restatement of Contracts, Second, completed by the American Law Institute in 1979; Restatement of Policy on Germany, a famous speech by James F. Byrnes, then United States Secretary of State, held in Stuttgart on September 6, 1946; Restatement (finance), the amendment and republication of a company's financial statement to correct an error, or ...