Texas International Law Journal, January 1st, 2003
I. INTRODUCTION
The United States has not been a particularly good sport when it comes to private international law conventions. One of the most important international organizations to which the United States belongs is the Hague Conference on Private International Law. The Hague Conference was founded in 1893 at the behest of the Dutch government.1 Its current organizational statute provides that the Conference is "to work for the progressive unification of the rules of private international law"2-what we Americans call the "conflict of laws."3 The United States joined as a member in 1964.(...
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