Book Review:
Gregory S. Alexander, Choice-of-Law Methodology and Conflicts Casebooks: Selected Problems, 55 TEXAS L. REV. 953 (1977).
 

Abstract:
In this review, Professor Alexander compares and contrasts three conflicts of law casebooks edited by Cramton, Currie & Kay, Resse & Rosenberg, and Scoles & Weintraub. He begins the review by considering trends among American conflicts scholars towards emphasizing those conflict problems that touch upon constitutional problems resulting from out federal form of government while ignoring conflicts concerning foreign legal systems. All three casebooks reviewed suffer from a lack of attention to foreign conflict issues. Alexander goes on to discuss the limitations of the conflicts pedagogy that minimizes the importance of legislative solutions to choice-of-law problems. Finally, he addresses the fundamental problem in current choice-of-law theory of identifying governmental policies.