Магистратура
2026/2027
Семинар наставника траектории "Международное торговое право"
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, 1-4 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
36
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course is focused on international legal aspects of current challenges to multilateral trading system and preferential trade agreements. After introductory sessions treating basic principles, the course will address legal aspects of substantive issues such as the following: crisis of decision making and dispute settlement in the WTO, brexit and its influence on international trade, international trade during the COVID-19, international trade in services, international trade and sustainable development goals. The course specifically emphasizes compatibility of multilateralism and regionalism and balance between trade and non-trade interests from the international trade law perspective. There is a prerequisite for this course that students need to have prior familiarity with basics of international law.
Learning Objectives
- Min purpose of the course is to make students able to use norms of law of international trade, make legal research and solve cases in this field. The course’s objectives are numerous but its main purpose is to provide students with the necessary tools to understand and analyze the nature, role and effects of the law of international trade, regulation, proceedings and decision-making. To that end, the first sessions will lay the necessary grounds, that is, introduce overall discussion on current challenges to the multilateral trade system. Then we will look at the challenges to the regional trade. Lastly we will focus on more specific issues affecting law of international trade.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Knowledge and understanding: - demonstrate general knowledge and understanding of basic notions of law of international trade; - demonstrate extensive knowledge and understanding of main current challenges to law of international trade.
- Skills and abilities: - demonstrate the ability to find, select and evaluate law of international trade, as well as relevant case law; - demonstrate a solid understanding of the main challenges to the multilateral trade system as well as to trade within the regional trade agreements.
- Students should gain the following competences: - ability to describe legal problems and situations in the field of law of international trade; - ability to work with and interpret primary operative tests.
- Students should gain the following competences: -ability to work with information (search, evaluate, use information, necessary for fulfillment of scientific and professional tasks, from various sources, including application of the systematic approach); -ability to search, analyze, and work with legally relevant information by using the juridical, comparative and other specific methods.
Course Contents
- WTO Dispute Settlement
- Tariffs and non-tariff barriers in modern international tradeThe section covers the main international trade disciplines on market access and addresses the most fundamental border measures as applied in modern international trade. It addresses the frequently used border regulatory instruments, such as tariffs, tariff classification, renegotiation of tariff bindings, tariff rate quotas, customs valuation, quantitative restrictions and the other like measures. It also addresses the peculiarities of the WTO rules regulating these matters for industrial and agricultural products and services.
- Subsidies and state aid in modern international trade lawThe section aims at developing comprehensive understanding of international rules on subsidies and state support in light of the developing jurisprudence of the WTO Dispute Settlement Body. It is based on the key provisions of the GATT, the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing measures and the Agreement on Agriculture, and covers a number of conceptual problems that have arisen in the application of these agreements in their interplay.
- Technical Barriers to Trade
- Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
- Modern Challenges to the Multilateral Trade System
Assessment Elements
- Written assignmentWritten exam by the end of the course section. Assessment can be performed via the LMS platform with using the video conference platforms. In such cases, in the course of assessment forms student must have a laptop or a PC with a stable Internet connection and working (turned on) video camera. Failure to fulfil these conditions as well as the instructions of the professor including ensuring proper control procedures (checking identity card of the student, status of the workplace, etc.) is equivalent to absence at the control element and is graded as 0.
- In-class presentationThis assessment component includes a 10-minute in-class presentation during one of the classes that serves to help steering the discussion of the relevant topic. Tentative topics per each session are presented further in the syllabus.
- Written testThe WTO case law test takes form of a test of 10 multiple choice questions with at least 4 answer options for each. The test is aimed at checking the student’s knowledge and understanding of the positions of the Dispute Settlement Body. Return to the previous questions of the test and changing the answers is not possible. The number of the correct answers (correct answer options indicated by a student) is equal to the grade for the test. The WTO case law test is closed book; students could not use any materials. The duration of the test is 10 minutes. The test may be performed via the LMS platform or otherwise online with using the video conference platforms. In such cases, in the course of assessment student must have a laptop or a PC with a stable Internet connection and working (turned on) video camera. Failure to fulfil these conditions as well as the instructions of the professor including ensuring proper control procedures (checking identity card of the student, status of the workplace, etc.) is equivalent to absence at the control element and is graded as 0.
- Oral InterviewOral assessment takes form of an interview. In the course of an interview, a student is asked to answer two practical questions covered in class or in the assigned self-study materials. Any follow-up questions could be also asked in the course of the interview. The use of any materials and devices is not permitted during the interview. ny follow-up questions could be also asked in the course of the interview. The use of any materials and devices is not permitted during the interview. Oral interview may be performed via the LMS platform or with using the other video conference platforms. In such cases, in the course of assessment forms student must have a laptop or a PC with a stable Internet connection and working (turned on) video camera. Failure to fulfil these conditions as well as the instructions of the professor including ensuring proper control procedures (checking identity card of the student, status of the workplace, etc.) is equivalent to absence at the control element and is graded as 0.
Interim Assessment
- 2026/2027 4th module0.7 * Written assignment + 0.3 * In-class presentation
- 2027/2028 1st module0.7 * Oral Interview + 0.3 * Written test
- 2027/2028 3rd module0.75 * Written assignment + 0.25 * In-class presentation
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- A digest of WTO jurisprudence on public international law concepts and principles, Cook, G., 2015
- The law and policy of the World Trade Organization : text, cases and materials, Bossche Van den, P., 2018
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Climate border adjustments and WTO law : extending the EU emissions trading system to imported goods and services, Will, U., 2018