Author | Shapira, Amos. author |
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Title | The Interest Approach to Choice of Law [electronic resource] : With Special Reference to Tort Problems / by Amos Shapira |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1970 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7549-2 |
Descript | XIII, 273 p. online resource |
I. The Traditional Approach to Choice of Law -- A. The General Theory -- B. The Gap between Judicial Doing and Reasoning โ โEscape Devicesโ -- C. Critical Evaluation of the Traditional Approach -- D. The Traditional Tort Choice-of-Law Rules -- II. Three Preliminary Clarifications: Transnational Versus Interstate Conflicts, the Lex Fori Threshold and Foreign Law as Factual Datum -- A. Transnational Versus Interstate Conflicts -- B. The Lex Fori Threshold -- C. Foreign Law as Factual Datum -- III. The Concept of Public and Private Interests in the Choice-of-Law โ Process โ Perspectives and Values -- A. The Concept of Public Interests -- B. The Concept of Private Interests -- C. An Interest-based Approach โ The Values of Judicial Creativity, Concretization and Rationality, โDomesticationโ of the Choice Process and Functionalism in lieu of Territorialism -- IV. Public Interests Peculiar to Conflicts Contexts: Transnational Concerns -- A. The Concept of Transnational Concerns -- B. Transnational Concerns in Reciprocal Accommodation of Public Interests and Uniform Treatment of Distinctive Problem-Areas -- V. The Process of Interest Analysis-Ascertainment of Relevant Interests -- A. Ordinary and Peculiar Aspects of the Interpretive Function -- B. Factors and Guidelines in the Ascertainment of Relevant Interests -- C. Practical Complexities in the Ascertainment of Relevant Interests -- VI. The Process of Interest Analysis-Elimination and Resolution of Conflicts of Interests -- A. Elimination of Apparent-but-not-real Conflicts of Interests -- B. Resolution of True Conflicts of Interests -- C. Recourse to the Lex Fori as a Last Resort in Conflicts Adjudication -- VII. The Prospects of Standardization in the Process of Interest Analysis -- A. New Choice-of-Law Standards โ Fancies and Facts -- B. Avenues of Standardization: Accumulation of Interest-Analyses Data, Judicial and Legislative Scope-Delimitation of Legal Prescriptions, and International Legislation in Distinctive Problem-Areas -- Appendix. An Exercise in Interest Analysis -- Selected Bibliography -- General Index