Governing law clauses in New Jersey

Contractual provisions that specify the law that will govern the agreement are common — so common that they often tend to fade into the boilerplate.  But, as all good contracts lawyers know, they’re not always enforceable.  New Jersey judges, for example, often prefers to apply the law they know rather than the one the parties have chosen, as Gianfranco Pietrafesa of Cooper Rose & English (Summit, N.J.) in New Jersey Law on Governing Law Contract Provisions.