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Dépeçage


In law, dépeçage is a conflict of laws where different issues within a case may be governed by the laws of different states. In common law countries dépeçage usually means a single contract which provides that different parts of the contract shall be governed by different laws. In the United States, "depecage choice of law theory" is where the court considers disagreement among states over which rule of law is applicable to each issue.

The concept originated in civil law countries, but has also been adopted in common law countries such as the United Kingdom and Ireland pursuant to the Rome Convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Article 3(1)).

In practice, it is relatively rare for a contract to have more than one expressly chosen governing law. Two examples of such situations are:


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