Renvoi

Renvoi

Definition

French for “sending back,” the conflict-of-laws doctrine whereby the forum looks both to the substantive law of a foreign jurisdiction and its conflict-of-law principles, which may result in the matter being referred back to the law of the forum and potentially creating a continual cycle of reference that prevents the forum from being able to select a particular law.

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