law shopping

noun

Exploiting differences of private international law between legal systems or otherwise procuring the application of a particular legal system’s rules in order to optimize the substantive law applied to one’s case.

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Meanings

nounlaw shopping (uncountable)
  1. uncountableExploiting differences of private international law between legal systems or otherwise procuring the application of a particular legal system’s rules in order to optimize the substantive law applied to one’s case.
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APA

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Chicago

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