Deciding Between Contradicting Norms: Rights-Based Law vs. Duty-Based Law and Their Social Ramifications

Pages 399-423, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avac037

The concept of rights stands at the very center of our legal universe. An imaginary alternative legal universe might have similar legal norms to ours, except that they are centered on the concept of duty. 

Differences in a Minor Archive: Feminist Activists and Scholars on Cohabitation

Pages 364-398, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avac039

In an act of minor comparativism, this Article studies feminist writings on unmarried cohabitation from Canada’s jurisdictions of the common law and civil law. 

Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2021: Thirty-Fifth Annual Survey

Pages 318-368, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avac038

This is the Thirty-Fifth Annual Survey of American Choice-of-Law Cases. It was written at the request of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Conflict of Laws,1 and is intended as a service to fellow teachers and to students of conflicts law, both inside and outside the United States. Its purpose remains the same as it has been from the beginning: to inform, rather than to advocate.

Comment ça va? The Status of French Laws in Vanuatu

Pages 275–317, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avac033

Prior to Vanuatu’s independence in 1980, in the absence of applicable joint regulations, French law applied to French citizens and English law applied to British citizens.

The Jurisdictional Vacuum: Transnational Corporate Human Rights Claims in Common Law Home States

Pages 227–274, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avac036

Private MNCs that operate in developing host states through overseas subsidiaries are regularly accused of human rights and environmental violations.