This course deals with legal conflicts arising in multistate transactions, both within the federal system and in the international sphere. The emphasis will be on choice of law, but recognition of judgments will also be given substantial attention, as well as special topics such as conflicts in family law, the "Erie problem", and international conflicts.

By the end of this course, students:

1.  Will be able to analyze problems of multistate conflict of laws using both "traditional" and "modern" methods

2.  Will have learned important doctrines of vertical federalism

3.  Will have had exposure to jurisprudential ideas underlying resolution of conflict-of-laws problems

4.  Will have looked at some conflict-of-laws problems from an international perspective