Conflict of Laws
Every module follows the same shape: visualize the doctrine, drill it, then apply it through a real case scenario — no passive video lectures, no AI-generated answers, just structured, interactive exercises you can revisit as many times as you need. This course is part of the All-Access Membership.
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1. Domicile & Foundations
What domicile is, how it changes, the one-domicile rule, dependent domicile, and why domicile matters across many legal doctrines.
2. Choice of Law in Torts
The traditional lex loci delicti rule, the modern most significant relationship approach, governmental interest analysis, true vs. false conflicts, and depecage.
3. Choice of Law in Contracts
Party autonomy and choice-of-law clauses, the substantial relationship and fundamental policy limits, and the traditional and modern approaches absent a valid clause.
4. Recognition & Enforcement of Judgments
The Full Faith and Credit Clause's basic obligation, the narrow defenses to enforcement, foreign-country judgments and comity, and full faith and credit for public acts.
5. Constitutional Limits & Special Topics
Due process and full faith and credit limits on choice of law, renvoi, recognition of marriages across state lines, statutes of limitations, and characterization.
Capstone: The Full Case
One integrated scenario requiring all 5 modules together — the way a real case actually unfolds.
