A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws. 3 Vols. 1st ed.
Beale, Joseph H. A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws. Originally published: New York: Baker, Voorhis & Co., 1935. 3 Volumes. cxii, 646; xix, 647-1440; viii, 1441-2127 pp. Reprint The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2004. ISBN-13: 9781584774259. Smyth sewn tan cloth with green and black gilt stamped spine labels. New. $295. * A reprint of the monumental first edition of Joseph Henry Beale's definitive work, a masterpiece that stands alongside Samuel Williston's Contracts and Wigmore on Evidence as one of the undisputed pillars of twentieth-century American jurisprudence. As a founding father of modern conflict of laws and a dominant intellectual force at Harvard Law School, Beale dedicated his life to systematizing how courts resolve legal disputes spanning multiple jurisdictions. His work was so highly regarded by contemporaries that Legal Realist Jerome Frank remarked in Law and the Modern Mind that this treatise might well be the finest legal work produced in his lifetime. The historical importance of this three-volume set is deeply intertwined with the early history of the American Law Institute (ALI). Originally, the ALI planned to publish official, comprehensive treatises to accompany the "black-letter" text of its Restatements. When the Institute abruptly abandoned that plan, Beale independently completed his own text. The result is an invaluable, unmatched legal monument. Writing a contemporary review in the Columbia Law Review (Vol. 35, 1935), legal scholar Walter Wheeler Cook emphasized that the treatise serves three vital functions: it contains the most exhaustive collection of American conflict of laws cases ever assembled; it delivers the matured conclusions of the nation's preeminent authority on the subject; and it provides the indispensable commentary required to interpret and understand the authority behind the Restatement's specific sections. This is an essential work for legal historians and scholars of American jurisprudence.
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