Showing posts with label conflict of laws. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conflict of laws. Show all posts

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Conflict of Laws

The body of rules that directs the choice a court makes when the court must decide whether to apply the law of one state (or a nation-state) or another to settle an issue in a case. When there is a conflict between the laws, principles called choice of law rules are applied to settle the question.