diff --git a/dumux/material/fluidmatrixinteractions/2p/CMakeLists.txt b/dumux/material/fluidmatrixinteractions/2p/CMakeLists.txt
index 9ad5b77c1d144b23606b63ce2aef3c154b9e1333..05bb74d80ebe4354bd8df03407f6e1a3af697048 100644
--- a/dumux/material/fluidmatrixinteractions/2p/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/dumux/material/fluidmatrixinteractions/2p/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ heatpipelaw.hh
 heatpipelawparams.hh
 linearmaterial.hh
 linearmaterialparams.hh
-philtophoblaw.hh
 regularizedbrookscorey.hh
 regularizedbrookscoreyparams.hh
 regularizedlinearmaterial.hh
diff --git a/dumux/material/fluidmatrixinteractions/2p/philtophoblaw.hh b/dumux/material/fluidmatrixinteractions/2p/philtophoblaw.hh
deleted file mode 100644
index bffa137c7b0fc48e4e59a32baba66970798bcc09..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/dumux/material/fluidmatrixinteractions/2p/philtophoblaw.hh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,208 +0,0 @@
-// -*- mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*-
-// vi: set et ts=4 sw=4 sts=4:
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-/*!
- * \file
- * \ingroup Fluidmatrixinteractions
- * \brief This material law takes a material law defined for effective
- *        saturations and converts it to a material law defined on
- *        absolute saturations. It is valid for hydrophobic materials and is
- *        called with the non-wetting phase saturation and then calls the
- *        material law defined for the wetting phase saturation.
- */
-#ifndef DUMUX_PHIL_TO_PHOB_LAW_HH
-#define DUMUX_PHIL_TO_PHOB_LAW_HH
-
-#include <dune/common/exceptions.hh>
-
-#include <dumux/material/fluidmatrixinteractions/2p/efftoabslaw.hh>
-#include <dumux/material/fluidmatrixinteractions/2p/efftoabslawparams.hh>
-
-namespace Dumux
-{
-/*!
- * \ingroup Fluidmatrixinteractions
- * \brief This material law takes a material law defined for effective
- *        saturations and converts it to a material law defined on absolute
- *        saturations.
- *
- *        Additionally, this class converts the material law defined for the wetting phase so that it
- *        can be called with the non-wetting phase saturation. This is needed for hydrophobic materials.
- *
- *        The idea: "material laws" (like VanGenuchten or BrooksCorey) are defined for effective saturations.
- *        The numeric calculations however are performed with absolute saturations. The EffToAbsLaw class gets
- *        the "material laws" actually used as well as the corresponding parameter container as template arguments.
- *
- *        The desired function (pc, Sw... ) of the actually used "material laws" gets the non-wetting
- *        saturation from the model. Here, the wetting saturation is calculated from it: \f$\mathrm{S_w = 1 - S_n}\f$.
- *        Then the effective wetting saturations are calculated and handed to the material law.
- *
- *        The following definition shows the pc-Sw-relationship for the case in which the x-axis
- *        is \f$\mathrm{S_w (=S_{water})}\f$ and the y-axis is \f$\mathrm{p_c = p_{non_wetting}-p_{wetting}}\f$.
- *        \image html pc_Sw_1.png
- *
- *        But DumuX actually uses the following curve, because \f$\mathrm{p_c = p_{non-water}-p_{water}}\f$ for the y-axis is used.
- *        \image html pc_Sw_2.png
- *
- *        This approach makes sure that in the "material laws" only effective wetting saturations are considered,
- *        which makes sense, as these laws only deal with effective saturations. This also allows for changing
- *        the calculation of the effective saturations easily, as this is subject of discussion / may be problem specific.
- *
- *        Additionally, handing over effective saturations to the "material laws" in stead of them calculating effective
- *        saturations prevents accidentally "converting twice".
- *
- *        Additionally, the values calculated by the actual material laws are then modified: \f$\mathrm{pc_{phob} = - pc_{phil} (1-S_n)}\f$.
- *
- *        This boils down to:
- *        - the actual material laws (linear, VanGenuchten...) do not need to deal with any kind of conversion
- *        - the definition of the material law in the spatial parameters is not really intuitive, but using it is:
- *          Hand in values, get back values, do not deal with conversion.
- *
- *        CAREFUL: here w and n still stand for wetting and non-wetting. In the hydrophobic model w stands for
- *        water (non-wetting) and n for non-water (wetting). Hence, Swr is the wetting phase (gas) residual
- *        saturation and needs to be set accordingly in the spatial parameters.
- */
-
-template <class EffLawT, class AbsParamsT = EffToAbsLawParams<typename EffLawT::Params> >
-class PhilToPhobLaw : EffToAbsLaw<EffLawT>
-{
-    using EffLaw = EffLawT;
-
-public:
-    using Params = AbsParamsT;
-    using Scalar = typename EffLaw::Scalar;
-    using ParentType = EffToAbsLaw<EffLawT>;
-    /*!
-     * \brief The capillary pressure-saturation curve.
-     *
-     *
-     * \param sn Absolute saturation of the non-wetting phase \f$\mathrm{\overline{S}_n}\f$. It is converted to the
-     *                  effective saturation of the wetting phase and then handed over to the material law actually
-     *                  used for calculation.
-     * \param params A container object that is populated with the appropriate coefficients for the respective law.
-     *                  Therefore, in the (problem specific) spatialParameters  first, the material law is chosen,
-     *                  and then the params container is constructed accordingly. Afterwards the values are set there, too.
-     * \return Capillary pressure \f$\mathrm{p_c}\f$ in \f$\mathrm{[Pa]}\f$  calculated by specific constitutive relation
-     *                  (EffLaw e.g. Brooks & Corey, van Genuchten, linear...)*-1 to account for hydrophobic material.
-     *
-     */
-    static Scalar pc(const Params &params, Scalar sn)
-    {
-        return -1.0 * EffLaw::pc(params, 1.0 - ParentType::swToSwe(params, sn));
-    }
-
-    /*!
-     * \brief The saturation-capillary pressure curve.
-     *
-     * \param pc Capillary pressure \f$\mathrm{p_c}\f$ in \f$\mathrm{[Pa]}\f$
-     * \param params A container object that is populated with the appropriate coefficients for the respective law.
-     *                  Therefore, in the (problem specific) spatialParameters  first, the material law is chosen,
-     *                  and then the params container is constructed accordingly. Afterwards the values are set there, too.
-     *\return Absolute wetting phase saturation calculated as inverse of
-     *                  (EffLaw e.g. Brooks & Corey, van Genuchten, linear...) constitutive relation.
-     *
-     * \return The absolute saturation of the wetting phase \f$\mathrm{S_w}\f$
-     */
-    static Scalar sw(const Params &params, Scalar pc)
-    {
-       DUNE_THROW(Dune::NotImplemented, "PhilToPhobLaw::sw(params, pc)");
-    }
-
-    /*!
-     * \brief Returns the partial derivative of the capillary
-     *        pressure w.r.t the absolute saturation.
-     *
-     *        In this case the chain rule needs to be applied:
-     \f$\mathrm{
-             p_c = p_c( \overline{S}_w (S_w))
-             \rightarrow p_c ^\prime = \frac{\partial  p_c}{\partial \overline{S}_w} \frac{\partial \overline{S}_w}{\partial S_w}
-     }\f$
-     * \param sw Absolute saturation of the wetting phase \f$\mathrm{\overline{S}_w}\f$.
-     * \param params A container object that is populated with the appropriate coefficients for the respective law.
-     *                  Therefore, in the (problem specific) spatialParameters  first, the material law is chosen, and
-     *                  then the params container is constructed accordingly. Afterwards the values are set there, too.
-     * \return          Partial derivative of \f$\mathrm{p_c}\f$ w.r.t. effective saturation according to EffLaw
-     *                  e.g. Brooks & Corey, van Genuchten, linear... .
-     */
-    static Scalar dpc_dsw(const Params &params, Scalar sw)
-    {
-        DUNE_THROW(Dune::NotImplemented, "PhilToPhobLaw::dpc_dsw(params, sw)");
-    }
-
-    /*!
-     * \brief Returns the partial derivative of the absolute
-     *        saturation w.r.t. the capillary pressure.
-     *
-     * In this case the chain rule needs to be applied:
-     \f$\mathrm{
-            S_w = S_w(\overline{S}_w (p_c) )
-            \rightarrow S_w^\prime = \frac{\partial S_w}{\partial \overline{S}_w} \frac{\partial \overline{S}_w}{\partial p_c}
-    }\f$
-     *
-     *
-     * \param pc Capillary pressure \f$\mathrm{p_c}\f$ in \f$\mathrm{[Pa]}\f$
-     * \param params A container object that is populated with the appropriate coefficients for the respective law.
-     *                  Therefore, in the (problem specific) spatialParameters  first, the material law is chosen, and then the params container
-     *                  is constructed accordingly. Afterwards the values are set there, too.
-     * \return Partial derivative of effective saturation w.r.t. \f$\mathrm{p_C}\f$ according to EffLaw e.g. Brooks & Corey, van Genuchten, linear... .
-     */
-    static Scalar dsw_dpc(const Params &params, Scalar pc)
-    {
-        DUNE_THROW(Dune::NotImplemented, "PhilToPhobLaw::dsw_dpc(params, pc)");
-    }
-
-    /*!
-     * \brief The relative permeability for the wetting phase.
-     *
-     * \param sn Absolute saturation of the non-wetting phase \f$\mathrm{\overline{S}_w}\f$. It is converted to effective saturation of the wetting phase
-     *                  and then handed over to the material law actually used for calculation.
-     * \param params A container object that is populated with the appropriate coefficients for the respective law.
-     *                  Therefore, in the (problem specific) spatialParameters  first, the material law is chosen, and then the params container
-     *                  is constructed accordingly. Afterwards the values are set there, too.
-     * \return Relative permeability of the wetting phase calculated as implied by EffLaw e.g. Brooks & Corey, van Genuchten, linear... .
-     *
-     */
-    static Scalar krw(const Params &params, Scalar sn)
-    {
-        if(sn >= params.swr())
-            return sn*sn;//EffLaw::krn(params, SwToSwe(params, 1.0 - sn));
-        else
-            return 0.0;
-    };
-
-    /*!
-     * \brief The relative permeability for the non-wetting phase.
-     *
-     * \param sn Absolute saturation of the non-wetting phase \f$\mathrm{\overline{S}_w}\f$. It is converted to effective saturation of the wetting phase
-     *                  and then handed over to the material law actually used for calculation.
-     * \param params A container object that is populated with the appropriate coefficients for the respective law.
-     *                  Therefore, in the (problem specific) spatialParameters  first, the material law is chosen, and then the params container
-     *                  is constructed accordingly. Afterwards the values are set there, too.
-     * \return Relative permeability of the non-wetting phase calculated as implied by EffLaw e.g. Brooks & Corey, van Genuchten, linear... .
-     */
-    static Scalar krn(const Params &params, Scalar sn)
-    {
-        if((1.0-sn) >= params.snr())
-            return (1.0-sn)*(1.0-sn)*(1.0-sn);//EffLaw::krw(params, SwToSwe(params, 1.0 - sn));
-        else
-            return 0.0;
-    }
-};
-}
-
-#endif