评柯里的“政府利益分析说”

柯里的“政府利益分析说”是现代冲突法理论中最有影响的主张之一。本文从介绍该学说的基本内容入手,探讨了所谓的“政府利益”,分析了本州利益与外州利益以及全社会利益的关系,并从多种角度,诸如“虚假冲突”与“真实冲突”,柯里学说的可操作性、可预见性及精确性,成文法与判例法,“比较损害”问题等等,对“政府利益分析说”进行了深入的研究,作者同时还论及了柯里学说的不足。

Brainerd Currie＇s governmental interest analysis is one of the most influential modern choice - of - law theories. This article discusses Currie＇ s approach by introducing his main idea from the following aspects： what is the “governmental interest”, the relations among the interests of the forum state, the other state and the community as a whole, false conflict and true conflict, administrability,predictability and accuracy of Currie＇s approach, statute and common law, comparative impairment, etc.. The author also points out the weakness of Currie＇s approach.