Conflict of laws

The conflict of laws summarizes the legal norms that are used to determine which competing legal norms or which competing legal systems are to be applied to a specific, specific fact. One of the most prominent areas of conflict of laws is in international law, such as private international law , which the conflict of laws literature and case law is mainly concerned with. Other conflict-of-law matters are intertemporal law , which deals with chronologically successive legal systems, e.g. after territorial assignments, secessions or annexations , or interregional law , which deals with competing partial legal systems within a state. The conflict of laws applicable between the old Federal Republic of Germany before 1990 and the German Democratic Republic were also regarded as the latter in the past .

Conflict-of-law norms are national law, even if they were agreed in international contracts. Each state has its own conflict of laws.