Kramer, Roosevelt, and Franklin's Conflict of Laws: Cases—Comments—Questions, 12th

The 12th edition of the popular Conflicts casebook (formerly Kay, Kramer, Roosevelt, and Franklin's Conflict of Laws) maintains its rich scholarly focus on choice of law while engaging with cutting-edge developments in international law, the law of the Internet and cryptocurrency, and many other emerging fields. This edition contains a new Prologue that introduces students to the high stakes of conflicts of law through the nineteenth-century battleground of slavery and the twenty-first century battleground of abortion rights. It also contains additional discussion of the developing Third Restatement of Conflicts by its chief Reporter; an exploration of the 2022 amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code, including the new Article 12 on controllable electronic records; new material on extraterritoriality and the dormant Commerce Clause (National Pork Producers Council v. Ross); personal jurisdiction by consent (Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway); federal-court jurisdiction and the Fifth Amendment (Fuld v. PLO); personal jurisdiction and online transactions (Briskin v. Shopify, Inc.); in rem jurisdiction and cryptocurrency (Timoria LLC v. Anis); the presumption against extraterritoriality of federal statutes (Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc. and Yegiazaryan v. Smagin); federal regulation of digital assets on international exchanges (Williams v. Binance); party autonomy and the enforceability of choice-of-law clauses (Great Lakes Insurance v. Raiders Retreat Realty); choice of law under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation); defenses to the return remedy under the Hague Convention on child abduction (Golan v. Saada); anti-SLAPP statutes and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; the Respect for Marriage Act; the internal affairs doctrine in corporate law, and much more.