[Eugene Volokh] Quaking Quagmires

From the great torts scholar William Prosser, writing in 1953: The realm of the conflict of laws is a dismal swamp, filled with quaking quagmires, and inhabited by learned but eccentric professors who theorize about mysterious matters in a strange and incomprehensible jargon. I think things have improved, at least in this narrow area, since then,…