New Approaches in The United States
During the first half of the 20th century, the traditional conflict of laws approach came under heavy criticism from many members of the U.S. legal community, who saw it as too rigid, arbitrary, and incoherent; it sometimes forced the application of the laws of a state that had no connection to either party, except that a tort or contract claim arose between the parties in that state. This period of intellectual ferment (which coincided with the rise of the legal realism movement) gave birth to a number of innovative new approaches.
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