Магистратура
2025/2026
Современные проблемы международного экономического права
Статус:
Курс обязательный (Право международной торговли и разрешение споров/Law of International Trade and Dispute Resolution)
Кто читает:
Департамент международного права
Где читается:
Факультет права
Когда читается:
1-й курс, 2 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
36
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course “Contemporary Issues of International Economic Law” covers selected key issues of the International economic law such as jurisdictional immunities of states, protection of environment, interrelation of international economic law and human rights, climate change, etc.
The course requires the students to have basic knowledge of law, sufficient level of English (to read legal sources, write essays and participate in class discussions), as well as other skills acquired during their studies at the university. Additional background in international public law, private international law is welcome, although not mandatory for the course.
Learning Objectives
- The aim of the course is to provide students with a theoretical and practical understanding of the international regulatory system, to prepare them to deal with different norms of international law, including soft law, make research and present legal argumentation on selected key issues of the contemporary international economic law. As the result of the course students will obtain knowledge on structure of international law and international economic law in particular, hierarchy of norms, mechanisms of international dispute resolution, recent developments in this sphere, as well as critical view on the existing problems.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Students must gain knowledge on: structure of international law and international economic law; formation, fragmentation and hierarchy of international law norms; challenges and problems in international legal environment.
- Skills and abilities: to use specific terms and sources of the international economic law; practical abilities of research, analysis of UN, OECD, WTO legal documentation and academic papers; skills to analyse and solve cases and controversies, preparing legal argumentation and procedural and analytical documents in the sphere of International economic law.
- Students should gain the following competences: ability to work with information (search, evaluate, use information, necessary for fulfilment of academic and professional tasks, from various sources, including application of the systematic approach); ability to carry out professional activities in the international environment.
- Students should gain the following competences: ability to search, analyse, and work with legally relevant information by using the juridical, comparative and other specific methods; ability to describe legal problems and situations in the field of International economic law.
Course Contents
- Subject № 1. International economic and legal order. Principles of international economic law
- Subject 2. Jurisdiction in international law. Jurisdictional immunities of States and their property in International law.
- Subject № 3. The impact of human rights on conducting international business
- Subject № 4. International Trade and Environment protection
- Subject № 5. The Foundations of the International Law of Climate Change
- Subjects 6. Regional Economic Integration Law
- Subjects 7. Cyberspace and General International Law: Lex Lata and Lex Ferenda
Assessment Elements
- Attendance, active participation and in-class discussionEach student is expected to attend all the sessions having go through and thought about the assigned material, including the questions and any problems in the text/ judgment, podcast, etc. that are assigned, and actively participate in class discussions, ask questions and make analytical comments about the assignments. Sessions will be structured as a mix of lectures, seminars, and participative workshops in order to stimulate class discussion: the participants are expected to cover the assigned materials in advance for each class.
- TestTest based on all topics covered during the course is conducted at end of the course.
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 2nd module0.4 * Attendance, active participation and in-class discussion + 0.6 * Test
