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Sharpe on Renvoi in Choice of Law

By Lawrence Solum

Robert Sharpe (Harvard University - Harvard Law School) has posted The Multiple Uses of Renvoi in Rule and Interest Analysis-Based Choice-of-Law Regimes on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

Renvoi is a relevant issue whenever a choice-of-law problem presents itself, clear resolution of which is a fundamental concern of the conflict of laws. The doctrine strikes at the very heart of ?choice-of-law? itself, in every case demanding consideration of what exactly is meant by the selection of a governing law. This paper draws upon judicial approaches towards renvoi in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia to identify and distinguish the multiple different uses of renvoi, in order to dispel common assumptions concerning the doctrine.

This is an LLM "long paper." Interesting!

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on June 15, 2010 (boomark / email).