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Governing Law On Forum-Selection Agreements, Kevin M. Clermont
Governing Law On Forum-Selection Agreements, Kevin M. Clermont
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The task of determining which law governs a contractual choice-of-forum clause is an enigma to courts. The key to its solution lies at the very heart of the subject, where one encounters its most celebrated riddle: Which law governs when the parties have also agreed to a choice-of-law clause-that is, does a court first test the forum-selection clause under the law of the seised forum, or does one first look at the parties' choice of law to apply the chosen law to the forum-selection clause?
This chicken-or-egg mystery throws courts into contortions. Prior commentators have opted for the chosen law. …