Article by Symeon C. Symeonides
This Article is a discussion of the Louisiana Conflicts Codification by its drafter. The Article explains why and how this first and only comprehensive American conflicts codification combines the best elements from the vast laboratory of the American interstate conflicts experience, Louisiana's civil law heritage, and Europe's rich codification tradition, while also charting an independent new course; compresses the lessons of the American choice-of-law revolution into succinct, civilian-style rules and combines them with a flexible American-style “approach”; and provides more certainty than the conflicts laws of any other state of the United States and more flexibility than any European conflicts codification.
About the Author
Symeon C. Symeonides. Dean and Alex L. Parks Distinguished Professor of Law, Willamette University College of Law; LL.B. (Private Law), LL.B. (Public Law) University of Thessaloniki; LL.M., S.J.D. Harvard Law School.
Citation
83 Tul. L. Rev. 1041 (2009)