International Private Law, often referred to as 'Conflict of Laws', is that body of law which deals with disputes which involve the laws of more than one country because some of their constituent elements are connected with more than one such jurisdiction. Those elements might be the events which have given rise to the dispute, the locations which might be involved, or the residential location of the parties. The study of International Private Law is necessarily an exercise in comparative legal analysis. This course provides an advanced treatment of International Private Law consisting of three modules. The first, Jurisdiction, deals with the question of which of the state's courts will adjudicate the dispute. The second module, choice of law, deals with the question of whether the merits of the dispute will be resolved under the substantive law of the state of adjudication or under the law of another involved state. The third module, recognition of judgments, deals with the requirements under which the courts of one state will recognize /enforce a judgment rendered elsewhere.
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