This volume explains the differences between the two categories and presents the established and emerging jurisprudence in a concise and clear manner, while also providing an discussion of the multifaceted role of U.S. federalism.

This volume explains the differences between the two categories and presents the established and emerging jurisprudence in a concise and clear manner, while also providing an enlightening discussion of the multifaceted role of U.S. federalism, which is essential to the foreign reader's understanding of American conflicts law.Dr Symeonides has done a great service in collecting and organizing this scattered material into a coherent but non-technical and readily usable whole that offers all interested lawyers an easy-to-use but authoritative overview of the subject. The discussion includes:the federal-state allocation of lawmaking and judicial powers; the constitutional limitations on state choice of law; the resolution of conflicts between federal and foreign law; recognition of sister-state and foreign-country judgments; judicial jurisdiction in interstate and international conflicts; recognition of sister-state and foreign-country judgments; the choice-of-law revolution and its aftermath; and choice of law in torts, products liability, contracts, status and domestic relations, property, marital property, successions, and statutes of limitation.