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HAI.2IBL - International Business Law* Q4

Faculty
Andrej Savin, Lynn Roseberry, guest lecturers
Course Coordinator
Lynn Roseberry
Course content, structure and teaching
The course provides a basic understanding of the legal framework within which international business operates and to enable the students to analyse some of the legal problems that international businesses typically encounter.
The course explores the rules that apply to international dispute resolution, international trade in goods, services and labour, with particular emphasis on the Convention on the International Sales of Goods (CISG), the European Community Treaty, and the World Trade Organisation agreements, especially the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT 1994), the regulation of multinational enterprises, international legal protection of intellectual property, foreign investment and transportation.
Practical application of theory
The course demonstrates how the traditional state-based theory of international law structures the way in which international business issues arise and are resolved.
Relation to a Business or an Institutional Setting
The course includes descriptions and analyses of different types of companies, international institutions, and supra-national institutions. This will be done primarily through cases included in the required reading.
Relation to International Business or Economics
The course emphasises the distinction between regulation of national and international business activities and focuses primarily on issues arising in the conduct of business activities across borders and how this issues may be resolved through international and domestic dispute resolution.
Research Based Teaching
Elements of the lecturers own research will be included in the lectures.
Lectures, exercises and case study discussions
Learning Objectives
To receive the grade 12, the student must demonstrate the ability to:
  • Identify and explain the different kinds of sources of international law.
  • Identify and explain the legal effects of various sources of public and private international law
  • Identify and explain how international legal disputes can be settled in international tribunals and municipal courts.
  • Identify international legal problems that arise in specific situations and formulate persuasive arguments for the resolution of the problems on the basis of legal arguments that incorporate and correctly apply the relevant sources of international law.
Type of examination, exam aids and assessment
Written 4-hour open book exam, graded by internal examiner on the 7-point scale. The make-up and re-examination takes place according to the same rules as the regular examination.
Students are allowed to bring textbooks, lecture notes and dictionaries. Electronic devices (Laptop and Personal Computers etc.) are not allowed except for non-programmable calculators.
Recommended literature
Compendium compiled by Andrej Savin

Last updated by The electives office 03/11/2009