Private International Law and Private Law: The Corrective Justice Test

This article addresses the following question: What is the relationship between private law and private international law? Specifically, the article asks whether private law theory should affect the nature of one of the most central components of private international law—the choice-of-law process. Using a predominant theory of private law -corrective justice - as a litmus test, it demonstrates that despite its apparent attractiveness, corrective justice theory should not play a role in the choice-of-law process.