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Adolfo Sevilla Azcuna (born February 16, 1939) is a Filipino jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 2002 to 2009. He was appointed to the Court by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on October 24, 2002.
Joseph Henry Beale (October 12, 1861 – January 20, 1943) was an American law professor at Harvard Law School and served as the first dean of University of Chicago Law School. He was notable for his advancement of legal formalism, as well as his work in conflict of laws, corporations, and criminal law. [1]
In contract law, the lex loci contractus is the Law Latin term meaning "law of the place where the contract is made". [1] [2] It refers (in the context of conflict of laws) to resolving contractual disputes among parties of differing jurisdictions by using the law of the jurisdiction in which the contract was created.
Lex loci rei sitae (Latin for "law of the place where the property is situated"), or simply lex situs, [14] is the doctrine that the law governing the transfer of title to property is dependent upon and varies with the location of the property, for the purposes of the conflict of laws. Conflict is the branch of public law regulating all ...
Dicey, Morris & Collins on the Conflict of Laws (often simply Dicey, Morris & Collins, or even just Dicey & Morris) is the leading English law textbook on the conflict of laws (ISBN 978-0-414-02453-3). It has been described as the "gold standard" in terms of academic writing on the subject, [1] and the "foremost authority on private ...
Capacity (law) Characterisation (law) Choice of law; Choice of law clause; Comity; Conflict of divorce laws; Conflict of nullity laws; Conflict of property laws; Conflict of succession laws; Conflict of tort laws; Conflict of contract laws; Convention on the Exercise of Liberal Professions of 1889; Convention on the Exercise of Liberal ...
The history of the journal is intertwined with the modern history of the Philippine legal system. Founded in the earlier part of the American Occupation, only three years after the University of the Philippines College of Law’s establishment in 1911, the journal served as a platform for the country's first legal scholars and luminaries to discuss highly contentious issues which would later ...
In the United States most courts try to solve conflict of laws questions without invoking renvoi. In Re Schneider's Estate , 96 N.Y.S.2d 652 (1950), is an example where renvoi is recognized as an option, in which the local court chose to apply the foreign country's laws to decide the dispute in the local court.