2023/2024
Civil and Commercial Litigation: Comparative Perspective
Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Mago-Lego
Delivered by:
School of International Law
When:
4 module
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Instructors:
Maria Filatova
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
32
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Why to study foreign civil and commercial procedure? This is not an easy question to answer since it is not merely a rhetoric one: although the importance of comparative approach in legal education is not put into doubt today all over the world, relevance and utility of comparative procedural law is not always obvious. Indeed, what is a practical effect of learning peculiarities of different procedural systems for a lawyer educated in a national system who, most likely, will not participate as an attorney in a foreign court proceeding? Does such study imply any practical importance or has just informative value? The course gives answers to these questions proposing not only information on organisation and functioning of foreign procedural systems but paying attention to the fundamental similarities and differences between different procedural models. Students learn to identify common issues for all procedural systems and to analyze the best techniques used for deal with them. These techniques hypothetically may be borrowed to improve the national procedural system. The course gives an overview of different judicial and procedural systems in the modern world. It covers different aspects of courts’ organization, types of procedural systems and forms of judicial (and, to a certain extent, of non-judicial) protection of rights. It begins with a historical analysis of the modern procedural systems evolution that explains major differences in philosophy and technique of civil procedure. The course will be useful for Russian as well as foreign graduate students having interest in the development of European judicial systems and procedures. The course is taught in English.
Learning Objectives
- The main objectives of the course are the following: 1. Obtaining knowledge allowing to assess in a correct way the legal environment in which foreign partners of Russian business actors live and act; 2. Acquiring the skills of professional evolution of perspectives of filing a claim with foreign States’ courts in case of legal disputes (civil and commercial); 3. Familiarization of students with main procedural concepts including those unknown in the Russian legal system; 4. Learning the trends of development of the procedural law in the global context.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- assess the perspectives of cases examination by the foreign courts
- deal with basic skills of legal analysis when assessing particular cases and legal conflicts
- give an analysis of foreign procedural law and case-law
- give legal analysis of potential legal issues which may arise in course of examination of the case by a foreign jurisdiction
- the basic typology of modern procedural systems and their particularities
- deal with basic skills of legal analysis when assessing particular cases and legal conflicts
- give an analysis of foreign procedural law and case-law
- the main sources, notions and institutes of foreign countries’ procedural law
- the trends of development and harmonization of modern civil and commercial litigation
Course Contents
- Civil and Commercial Litigation: Cases and Courts
- Typology of Modern Procedural Systems
- Sources of Procedural Law of Modern States
- Civil and Commercial Proceedings and its Structure in Different Legal Systems
- Initiating a Claim: Main Procedures and Effects
- Examination of Evidence in Different Legal Systems
- Judicial Decisions and Their Effects in Modern Legal Systems; Res Judicata and its Perception in Different Countries
- Appeal and Recourse against Judicial Decisions
- Trends of Development of Modern Legal Systems
- Harmonization and Unification of Modern Civil Procedural Law
Assessment Elements
- Seminar attendance /participation
- Self-study (in-betweener forms)Work in groups (team-work, 2-5 students)
- In-class activity (Debates)An individual performance during the debates.
- Examination
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 4th module0.5 * Examination + 0.1 * In-class activity (Debates) + 0.1 * Self-study (in-betweener forms) + 0.3 * Seminar attendance /participation
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Alan Uzelac. (2014). Goals of Civil Justice and Civil Procedure in Contemporary Judicial Systems. Springer.
- Larry E Sullivan, Marie Simonetti Rosen, Dorothy M Schulz, & M. R. Haberfeld. (2005). Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement. SAGE Publications, Inc.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Dwyer, D. M. (2007). European Traditions in Civil Procedure. By C. H. van Rhee (ed). Modern Law Review, 70(2), 342–345. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.2007.00641_1.x
- Maleshin, D. (2007). The Russian Style of Civil Procedure. Emory International Law Review, 21(2), 543–562.