2018/2019
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 |
- Peter Arnt Nielsen - CBS Law
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| Main academic
disciplines |
- Business Law
- Globalization and international business
- Strategy
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| Teaching
methods |
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Last updated on
26-06-2018
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| Learning objectives |
- 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 on CBS'
computers |
| Individual or group exam |
Individual exam |
| Assignment type |
Written assignment |
| Duration |
4 hours |
| Grading scale |
7-step scale |
| Examiner(s) |
One internal examiner |
| Exam period |
Spring and Summer |
| Aids |
Open book: all written and electronic aids,
including internet access
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| 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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| 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 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 regional (EU)
and global 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
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| Description of the teaching methods |
| Traditional lectures + exercises + case study
discussions |
| Feedback during the teaching period |
Peer discussions
Q&A-sessions
Assignments
Exercises
Cases |
| Student workload |
| Lectures |
120 hours |
| Exercises |
80 hours |
| Exams |
20 hours |
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| Expected literature |
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1) Two textbooks,
2) A number of research articles,
3) Legislative texts (Conventions, Regulations and Model
Laws), and
4) Cases (judgments and awards).
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
26-06-2018
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