(15) What is the public policy exception?

The divide (the conflict law's most-operational line): the SUBSTANTIVE (the rights-and- duties' content — the foreign law applies where the conflict rule points) vs the PROCEDURAL (the litigation's machinery — the FORUM's own law always (the lex fori's procedural monopoly)). The characterisation craft (the exam's list): what is procedural? — the broad procedural category (the common-law's wide reading: the limitation, the evidence, the remedies, the interest, the damages' measure's faces — the forum law's expansion); the substance's counter-list (the capacity, the validity, the formation — the foreign law's field).