Master 2024/2025

International Business Transactions

Type: Elective course (Law of International Trade and Dispute Resolution)

Area of studies: Law

Delivered by: School of International Law

Where: Faculty of Law

When: 1 year, 4 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Instructors: Vladimir Kostsov

Master’s programme: Law of International Trade and Dispute Resolution

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 32

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The International Commercial Transactions course will cover advanced topics relevant for both academic and practical work with international deals. The course will not focus on the approach of a particular jurisdiction, but will proceed on a more general and comparative level. The course will cover various domestic approaches to conflict of laws, including the conflict of laws revolution in the United States, as well as other advanced topics of private international law, such as choice of law clauses in commercial contracts, overriding mandatory rules and difficult issues of legal characterization including the substance-versus-procedure distinction. We will also discuss aspects of substantive law of international contracts, particularly through the lens of lex mercatoria and the 1980 Convention on the International Sales of Goods (the CISG). The main goal of the course is to enhance students' analytical and issue spotting skills and to enable them to argue both ways on difficult issues of international contracts, whether in a transactional, adversarial or academic setting.