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law shopping

law shopping noun: exploiting differences of private international law between legal systems or otherwise procuring the application of a particular legal system’s rules in order to optimize the substantive law applied to one’s case.

Noun

law shopping (uncountable)

  1. Exploiting differences of private international law between legal systems or otherwise procuring the application of a particular legal system’s rules in order to optimize the substantive law applied to one’s case.

Questions about law shopping

What does law shopping mean?
Law shopping means exploiting differences of private international law between legal systems or otherwise procuring the application of a particular legal system’s rules in order to optimize the substantive law applied to one’s case.
What part of speech is law shopping?
Law shopping is a noun.

Words near law shopping in the dictionary

  1. law reports
  2. law review
  3. law reviews
  4. law school
  5. law schools
  6. law shopping
  7. law suit
  8. law suits
  9. law unto oneself
  10. law-abiding
  11. law-biding

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