• 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.

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 private law background to international business transactions. It analyses the regulation of multinational enterprises, international contracts (with particular emphasis on the Convention on the International Sales of Goods – CISG and the EU legislation), as well as international dispute resolution in the shape of litigation and arbitration.

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 lecturer's own research will be included in the lectures. Lectures, exercises and case study discussions

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