This course covers the choice of laws where there are competing applicable laws depending on territorial jurisdictions. The competing laws may relate to commercial transactions, domestic relations, property rights, enforcements of judgments. The course guides students on how to ascertain the power in given situations of competing matters of state sovereignty.
The course is designed to equip students with a good appreciation/understanding of the concepts and doctrines of the subject to enable them guide courts in the selection of jurisdiction; determination of when and whether a given court should recognize and enforce a foreign judgment or not; and how the process of selection of the applicable law is undertaken in the resolution of disputes with foreign connections.
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