1. Define Conflict of Laws; What is a Conflict of Laws case?

ABUTAZIL

2. Is Conflict of Laws part of International Law? SULAIMAN

3. What is the reason for the diversity of conflicts rules among the different states in the world?
CHIONG

4. Distinguish Conflict of Laws from Public International Law SINSUAT

5. Saudi Arabian Airlines v Court of Appeals DATU IMAM

6. What are the sources of Conflict of Laws? DELA CRUZ

7. How does the court determine whether it has jurisdiction over the case? What are the kinds of
jurisdiction? GUIAMLA

8. What is the principle of forum non conveniens? May a court refuse to exercise jurisdiction over a
case on the basis of this principle? PROF

9. After a court has acquired jurisdiction over a conflicts case and has decided to assume that
jurisdiction, when is it bound to apply the internal or domestic law? BINUDIN A

10. Give examples of cases/ situations which require the application of Philippine Internal or
domestic law BINUDIN L

11. Explain why the foreign law cannot be applied if it has not been pleaded and proved. DUMAMA,
S

12. How is a foreign law proved under our Rules of Court? TORRES

13. What is meant by the Processual Presumption of Law? DUMAMA B

Theories that justify the application of the foreign law

14. Theory of Comity BAILAN

15. Vested-right Theory DISO

16. Theory of Local Law KALIM

17. Theory of Harmony of Laws KIMAMAO

18. Theory of Justice LAO-UN

19. Distinguish a purely internal provision of law from a conflicts rule or a provision in conflict rules.
Give example/s MACABUMBUN
 20. 2 kinds of conflicts rules IBRAHIM

Nationality Theory

21. What is this Theory all about? What are its weaknesses? KAMPANG

22. Three kinds of the citizens of the Philippines MACAUMBOS

23. Who determines whether a person is a citizen of a certain state or country? For example, who
determines whether a person is a Filipino citizen or not? KASIM

Domiciliary Theory

24. What is the Domiciliary Theory in Conflict of Laws? What are the different kinds of domicile?
MACUD

25. What are the defects of the Domiciliary Theory? MAGUINDRA

26. Considering that our country follow that Nationality Theory, why is it still important for us to
know and study the Domiciliary Theory? NUL

27. Rules for the Domicile or Origin (Domicilium Origins) PELANDOC

Situs or Eclectic Theory
28. What is meant by the Situs or Eclectic Theory MAYO

29. What is meant by Renvoi? When does the problem of Renvoi arise? LAUBAN

30. What are the proposed solutions to address the Renvoi problem NUNEZ

31. What is meant by Double Renvoi? What about the theory of transmission? PAHM

Conflicts Rules on Status and Capacity

32. Considering that one’s status starts with the beginning of his personality, when does human
personality begin under the Philippine Law? In Conflict of Laws, what law determines the
beginning of one’s personality? PENDATU

33. What is meant by absence? Under what conditions may a person be declared an absentee under
Philippine law? What are the legal effects of such declaration? LORENZO

34. Who may ask for the declaration of one’s absence? SINARIMBO

35. When may the absentee be presumed dead, and for what purposes? LAO

36. What is our conflicts rule on capacity to contract? SAMANODEN