2015/2016
BA-BINBO1140U International Business Law
| English Title |
| International Business
Law |
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| Language |
English |
| Course ECTS |
7.5 ECTS |
| Type |
Mandatory |
| Level |
Bachelor |
| Duration |
One Quarter |
| Start time of the course |
Fourth Quarter, Summer |
| Timetable |
Course schedule will be posted at
calendar.cbs.dk |
| Study board |
Study Board for BSc in International
Business
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| Course
coordinator |
- Andrej Savin - Law Department (LAW)
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| Main academic
disciplines |
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Last updated on
12-08-2015
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| Learning objectives |
To achieve the grade 12, students
should meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor
mistakes or errors:
- Identify different kinds of sources of international law and
their relative importance.
- Understand the basics of negotiating and writing international
sales contracts
- Form awareness of the importance of various international
business law issues in the daily life of a corporation
- Explain how international legal disputes can be settled in
international tribunals and municipal courts.
- Formulate opinions for the resolution of the problems on the
basis of legal arguments that incorporate and correctly apply the
relevant sources of law.
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| Examination |
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International
Business Law:
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| Exam ECTS |
7,5 |
| Examination form |
Written sit-in exam |
| Individual or group exam |
Individual |
| Assignment type |
Written assignment |
| Duration |
4 hours |
| Grading scale |
7-step scale |
| Examiner(s) |
One internal examiner |
| Exam period |
Spring and Summer, the regular exam takes place
in June. The make-up and re-examination takes place in
August. |
| Aids allowed to bring to the exam |
Open book: all written and electronic aids,
including internet access |
| Make-up exam/re-exam |
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
If the number of registered candidates for the make-up
examination/re-take examination warrants that it may most
appropriately be held as an oral examination, the programme office
will inform the students that the make-up examination/re-take
examination will be held as an oral examination
instead.
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Description of the exam
procedure
This is an open book exam meaning that all materials are allowed
(textbook, personal notes, lecture slides, exercise solutions,
articles, calculators, etc.) An exception is any electronic device
that makes it possible to communicate with others, e.g. USB key.
PC exam with access to personal S-drive on CBS network.
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| Course content and
structure |
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The course provides a basic understanding of the legal framework
within which international businesses operate, enables the students
to analyse it and explores the rules that govern it. The course
looks at both private and public law background to international
business transactions. Within the first, it analyses the regulation
of multinational enterprises, international sales (with particular
emphasis on the Convention on the International Sales of Goods –
CISG), international dispute resolution, rules on financing foreign
trade and intellectual property law. Within the second, it looks at
foreign investment transactions and the importance of ethics, human
rights and corporate social responsibility in the legal framework.
Relation to a Business or an Institutional Setting: the course
operates through 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
emphasizes 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: the lecturers own research will
be included in the lectures. Lectures, exercises and case study
discussions
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| Teaching methods |
| Traditional lectures + exercises +
case study discussions |
| Expected literature |
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Compendium + statutes, conventions and problems on CBS Learn.
Please note, minor changes may occur. The teacher will upload the
final reading list to Learn two weeks before the course
starts
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Last updated on
12-08-2015
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