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If there is one thing that the people are entitled to expect from their lawmakers, it is rules of law that will enable individuals to tell whether they are married and, if so, to whom.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson (1948)

 
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Primary Sources

› Ulrich Huber, De Conflictu Legem (1689) (Eng. trans.).

Restatement (Second) of the Conflict of Laws §§ 283–84 (1971).

Secondary Sources

Joanna Campbell, The New Zealand Civil Union Act: New Challenges for Private International Law, 37 Vict. U Wellington L. Rev. 69 (2006).

Janeen M Carruthers, Scots Rules of Private International Law Concerning Homosexual Couples, vol. 10.3 ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW, (December 2006), <http://www.ejcl.org/103/article103-5.pdf>.

Barbara J. Cox, Using an "Incidents of Marriage" Analysis When Considering Interstate Recognition of Same-Sex Couples' Marriages, Civil Unions, and Domestic Partnerships, 13 Widener L.J. 699, 742-45 (2004).

I. Curry-Sumner, Private International Law Aspects of Homosexual Couples: The Netherlands Report, vol 11.1 ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW (May 2007), <http://www.ejcl.org/111/art111-8.pdf>.

Olga A. Dyuzheva, International Marriage and Divorce Regulation and Recognition in Russia, 29 Fam. L.Q. 645 (1995).

Donald J. MacDougall, Marriage Resolution and Recognition in Canada, 29 Fam. L.Q. 541 (1995).

Peter Nygh, The consequences for Australia of the new Netherlands law permitting same gender marriages, 16 Austl. J. Fam. L. __, 2002 AJFL Lexis 11.

Lennart Pålsson, Marriage in Comparative Conflict of Laws: Substantive Conditions (1981).

 

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