Choice of Law: An Experiential Learning Approach

This book enables students to become proficient in the field of conflicts of law through experiential learning. To prepare students for a dozen moot court exercises, the book describes both traditional and modern approaches to choice of law. It outlines standard patterns of cases, and explains which cases are easy and which are hard. It clearly presents the main arguments one would expect on both sides of the hard cases.

To facilitate understanding, the book is both a casebook and a treatise; it contains detailed analyses of many representative cases along with hornbook-style explanations of the issues in the cases and their typical resolutions. This second edition has been updated with the most recent drafts of the Third Restatement of Conflict of Laws, updates to the problem on noncompetition clauses in light of changing state and federal laws, and an entirely new moot court problem on the conflicts of law that may arise today on the issue of abortion.

While clinical teaching is the best way to give students experiences in lawyering, moot courts based on real world problems are a low-cost alternative that enables students to act as both judges and advocates in the kinds of conflict of law cases they will face in the practice of law.