| Course title | International Economic Law |
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| Course code | MEP/NIEL |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture + Seminar |
| Level of course | Master |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter |
| Number of ECTS credits | 4 |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
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| Course content |
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Lectures: 1. International economic law. General presentation of the field. Subjects of international economic law. Interferences with other fields of law. 2. Law of international Exchange. Institutional Framework. 3. Historical development from GATT to WTO. 4. Dispute settlement mechanism. WTO and other fields of international law. 5. International Exchange of goods and services. 6. Regional regimes of international Exchange (NAFTA, ECOWAS, Mercosur, ASEAN, APEC) 7. International Law of FI. State contracts, oil concessions. Doctrinal disputes about the character of States contracts 8. The notion of Investment - economic and legal point of view. The notion of FI. 9. The diplomatic protection as a mean to FI protection. The ICJ case-law on diplomatic protection. 10. Bilateral and Multilateral Investment Treaties. 11. The neutralization of States´ normative jurisdiction. State clauses on stabilization. Umbrella clauses. 12. International Centre on Settlements of Investments Disputes (ICSID). ICSID Arbitration and other types of arbitration. Seminars: 1. Panoply of international instruments on international Exchange. 2. Case study on WTO dispute settlement mechanism. 3. Notion of investment in BITs and in tribunals' case-law. 4. Promotion and protection of foreign investments. 5. Case study on umbrella clauses. 6. Case study on ICSID jurisdiction.
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
| Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training) |
| Learning outcomes |
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International economic law is one of the discipline witnessing a quick development and fact of being overlapped by other area of law such as: international commercial law, law of intellectual properties, international commercial arbitration, law of international financial institution. The course covers a basic approach of international economic relations and focuses especially on free-trade regimes, WTO and NAFTA systems in their substantial and procedural aspects, and more over international regulation of foreign investment, their promotion, protection and international investment law disputes.
Student will gain general knoledge of instituions and branches of international economic law. |
| Prerequisites |
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Completion of this course is conditioned upon the completion of Public International Law I. and Public International law II.
MEP/NMPV |
| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Mark
Continuous control of knowledge in seminar lessons (reading, tests), seminar paper, colloquium |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Law | Study plan (Version): Law (2010) | Category: Law, legal and public administration proceeding | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter |
| Faculty: Faculty of Law | Study plan (Version): Law (2010) | Category: Law, legal and public administration proceeding | 4 | Recommended year of study:4, Recommended semester: Winter |
| Faculty: Faculty of Law | Study plan (Version): Law (2010X) | Category: Law, legal and public administration proceeding | 4 | Recommended year of study:4, Recommended semester: Winter |
| Faculty: Faculty of Law | Study plan (Version): Law (2010) | Category: Law, legal and public administration proceeding | 5 | Recommended year of study:5, Recommended semester: Winter |
| Faculty: Faculty of Law | Study plan (Version): Law (2010X) | Category: Law, legal and public administration proceeding | 3 | Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter |
| Faculty: Faculty of Law | Study plan (Version): Law (2010X) | Category: Law, legal and public administration proceeding | 5 | Recommended year of study:5, Recommended semester: Winter |