LAW549

040398

This three-credit survey course analyzes the major legal issues in international trade law, international business transactions, intellectual property and foreign investment law in both the private and public sectors. It will provide basic coverage of the wide variety of issues that relate to international trade, investment and commercial intercourse with which every competent lawyer, international economist or policy maker should be familiar. The principal areas of coverage are: (1) the GATT/World Trade Organization agreements and regional trade agreements such as North American Free Trade Agreement and the Trans-Pacific Partnership; (2) the protection of intellectual property; (3) the movement of goods, including private techniques of contract and financing, along with import tariffs and customs; and (4) problems of international investment, including dispute resolution through litigation and international arbitration.

The course is intended to introduce students to the legal and policy aspects of all of these related areas. While legal scholars have traditionally viewed them distinctly, the expansion or renegotiation of regional trade agreements with investment chapters and the interconnection of trade and investment in the global economy, among other factors, expands the interplay among these related disciplines. Thus, understanding the fields and how they relate to each other is critical to effective participation in the field of international economic law.

GRD - Regular Plus/Minus Grades A, B, C, D, E

Law

LAW449