The course provides students with basic practical and legal knowledge of nature, rules, and mechanism of private international law (or commonly known as ‘conflict of laws’) and encourage students to discover solutions and solve problems in cases involving ‘foreign elements’.

The course will cover following main aspects:

1) Introduction to private international law and its basic concepts (e.g. connecting factors, incidental questions, classification / characterisation / doctrine of renvoi);

2) Choice of Jurisdiction;

3) Choice of Law; and

4) Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments and/or Foreign Arbitral Awards.