Questions of the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments are deserving of study in their own right, and not as an appendage to accounts of (adjudicatory) jurisdiction and choice of law. Nothing is more revealing of the spirit with which a given legal order approaches the wider subject area of the conflict of laws than the approach that it takes in its reception of exercises of adjudicatory authority by judges of other legal orders in their efforts to secure the just and peaceful resolution of disputes. From the 17th century onwards, influential works on the law of nature shaped the...