Private international law is the body of principles, rules, and at times, policies that

indicate how a foreign element in a legal problem or dispute should be dealt with
-Mortensen 2008
Introduction
Private International Law is the legal framework composed of conventions, protocols, model laws,
legal guides, uniform documents, case law, practice and custom, as well as other documents and
instruments, which regulate relationships between individuals in an international context.

The common law has traditionally classified multi-state cases as giving rise
to one or more of three different issues:
1. Jurisdiction
Whether the local court, or forum, has the power to hear and
determine the case, or whether the contacts the case has with another
state or country limit or otherwise restrain the forum courts power or
willingness to decide the case
2. Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments
Where the case has proceeded to judgment in the other state or
country, whether that judgment can be recognised or enforced in the
forum
3. Choice of law
Even if the forum court has, and will, exercise the jurisdiction to decide
the case, whether it will decide the case in accordance with the law of
the forum (lex fori ), or in accordance with the law of the other state or
country
Is the forum or foreign law to be the law of the cause (lex causae)
that disposes of the case, and how does the forum court choose one or
the other?
This question is naturally only important if application of the forums
law is likely to give a different result to the application of the foreign
law -that is, where there is a conflict of laws

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