International Business Law: East-West & North-South Challenges - JURD7664
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: 36UOC of JD courses for students enrolled prior to 2013. Students enrolled after 2013 must have completed 72 UOC of JD courses and Law in the Global Context (JURD7220)
Equivalent: LAWS3164
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Students from UNSW Law and foreign students will have the opportunity to engage in intercultural dialogue around the issues presented in the course, thus learning from each other and building transnational professional networks. UNSW Law students who commenced in or after 2013 are required to complete Law in the Global Context prior to enrolling in this course.
The course will discuss the legal and regulatory issues that are relevant to international transactions that arise between:
- Western and non-western legal systems,
- Developing and developed country legal systems,
- Civil and common law legal systems; and
- Market and non-market legal systems
- The essential legal characteristics of Western versus non-Western legal systems, Civil law legal systems, Non-Market legal systems and Developing states
- Relevant international commercial law
- Relevant international economic law
- Relevant transnational litigation & arbitration
- Theory and practice of cross-cultural negotiations