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Legal Treatises by Subject

In this guide you will find general resources for various fields of law arranged alphabetically.

Conflict of Laws

Hay, Peter et al. Conflict of Laws. 6th ed. St. Paul, MN : West Academic Publishing, 2018 [KF411 .S28 2018] [Available electronically via West Academic Publishing to UNC Students and Faculty]. 

This treatise covers jurisdiction and interstate and international private litigation in torts, contracts, business planing, family law (marriage, same-sex relationships, property rights, support, child custody), property, succession adn estate administration, and teh recognition of sister-state and foreign judgments. The text also examines the current state of approaches to choice of law, and addresses issues of jurisdiction applicable law in private litigation in federal courts. 

Spillenger, Clyde. Principles of Conflict of Laws. 3rd ed. St. Paul, MN : West Academic Publishing, 2020 [KF411 .S78] [Available electronically via West Academic Publishing to UNC Students and Faculty]. 

This book is an indispensable aid to students and practitioners seeking to better understand the basic principles of choice of law, recognition of judgments, and the law applied in federal courts, as well as more specific developments concerning conflicts in family law, cyberspace, and international transactions.  

Peari, Sagi. The Foundation of Choice of Law : Choice and Equality. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018 [Available electronically via Oxford Scholarship Online to UNC Students and Faculty]. 

This treatise focuses on the subject of choice of law as a whole and provides an analysis of its various rules, principles, doctrines, and concepts. It offers a conceptual account of choice of law, called "choice equality foundation" (CEF), which aims to flesh out the normative basis of the subject. 

Nanda, Ved P. and Pansius, David K. Litigation of International Disputes in U.S. Courts. 2nd ed. Eagan, MN : Thomson/West, 2005- (2024 Update) [KF8940.P75 N363] [Available electronically via Westlaw to UNC Law Students and Faculty]. 

This treatise analyzes issues pertinent to the expanding field of transactional litigation. With nearly 1,000 pages of revised content, it examines nuts-and-bolts issues and immunity doctrines such as: personal jurisdiction; service of process; extraterritorial discovery; forum non conveniens; the Convention on the International Sale of Goods; Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act; immunity of officials; and Act-of-State Doctrine. 

Symeonides, Symeon C. Choice of Law. Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016 [KF411 .S965] [Available electronically via Oxford Scholarship Online to UNC Students and Faculty]. 

This treatise provides an in-depth study of private international law (PIL) as it pertains to the United States. This book focuses entirely on Choice of Law pertaining to the question of whether the merits of the dispute will be resolved under the substantive law of the state of adjudication (lex fori), or under the law of another involved state. 

Wright, Charles Alan and Miller, Arthur R. Federal Practice and Procedure. St. Paul, MN : Thomson Reuters, 1969- (2024 Update) [KF8840 .W68] [Available electronically via Westlaw to UNC Law Students and Faculty]. 

This treatise provides comprehensive and authoritative coverage of all aspects of federal, civil, criminal, and appellate procedure, including rules of civil, criminal, and appellate procedure, rules of evidence, the federal judicial system, jurisdiction of all federal courts, venue, removal of cases, res judicata, relation of state and federal courts, multi district litigation, and more. 

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