International Business Transactions

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

6

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

School of International Law

Course type:

Elective course

When:

1 year, 3, 4 module

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.