Most-Significant-Relationship Test

Most-Significant-Relationship Test

Gain a bird's-eye introduction to the most-significant-relationship test, the most popular choice-of-law approach in the United States.

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Welcome to Most-Significant-Relationship Test! In this lesson, we’ll explore the most popular choice-of-law approach in the United States. That would be the most-significant-relationship test of the Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws, or Second Restatement. On any issue, the Second Restatement seeks to apply the law of the jurisdiction with the most significant relationship, or closest connection, to the parties and the underlying facts. [See Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws § 6...