"law shopping" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} law shopping (uncountable)
  1. 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. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Procedural law
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