Магистратура
2026/2027
Профессиональные навыки юриста: карьера в сфере международного бизнеса
Статус:
Курс по выбору (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:
24
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course is about what a lawyer in international business actually does — less the doctrine, more the practice. It is built for lawyers who work, or want to work, at the intersection of law and business: turning legal complexity into decisions the business can act on, operating across unfamiliar jurisdictions without local qualification, and using AI as a working tool without taking on its risk.
The starting premise is that a strong lawyer in a global company is an enabler, not a blocker. Over six sessions, participants move from listing risks to delivering solutions — learning to speak the language of the business, to read the numbers, unit economics, and product metrics behind a deal, and to write the short, clear memos and opinions that decision-makers actually use.
A substantial part of the program is devoted to AI. One session covers the foundations in depth — what large language models do well, where they fail, and how to build verification into everyday work — but AI runs through the entire course: drafting, due diligence, document review, research, and the design of a personal AI playbook. Participants also work through real cross-jurisdictional cases across the China–EU–US matrix, learning to judge which tasks they can run themselves and where local counsel is essential.
The course closes on career and management: running a legal function, building the reputation and network that increasingly matter more than formal experience, and understanding how AI is reshaping a lawyer's trajectory.
Every session pairs theory with individual and group assignments and the analysis of real cases from international practice. Selected sessions feature guest experts.
Prerequisites
• Completion of a bachelor's-level programme in law or an equivalent legal background
• English language proficiency at minimum C1 level (course is taught and assessed in English)
• Basic familiarity with contractual practice in any jurisdiction
• No prior experience with AI tools is required; relevant tools and access will be introduced during the course
Use of AI in preparing this programme: in preparing this Programme of the Discipline, the author used Anthropic's Claude for final text proofreading.
Learning Objectives
- Main objective: to equip future and practicing lawyers with the practical skills required to operate effectively at the intersection of law and international business — combining business literacy, cross-jurisdictional competence, and confident, responsible use of AI tools — and to give them frameworks for sustaining a career through ongoing professional change.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- The student must know the principal differences between the lawyer-as-enabler and lawyer-as-blocker modes of operation, and the business expectations behind each; the basic vocabulary of financial and product metrics (P&L, unit economics, key SaaS / consumer metrics) sufficient to read a deal in business terms.
- The student must know the legal limits and reputational risks of practicing across the China–EU–US matrix without local qualification; the current capabilities, limitations, and confidentiality risks of large language models applied to legal work; the structural elements of a modern legal function: roles, processes, vendor management, legal operations.
- The student should be able to translate a complex legal question into a short, executive-ready memo or opinion; determine which cross-jurisdictional tasks can be handled directly and which require local counsel, and document the reasoning; select, brief, and supervise external counsel in unfamiliar jurisdictions, accounting for cultural factors.
- The student should be able to apply AI tools to drafting, document review, due diligence, and legal research while maintaining verification and confidentiality controls; evaluate one's own career trajectory against current shifts in the legal profession.
- The student will be able to Have skills in producing short, structured legal communications for non-legal audiences; building and maintaining a personal AI playbook for legal work; constructing a cross-jurisdictional risk map for a given business question; designing and managing a legal function or workstream in a small international business context.
- The student demonstrates the capacity to engage substantively with practical legal problems in a live setting, contribute to collective reasoning, and absorb material through discussion and exercise rather than only through written work.
- The student demonstrates the ability to deliver a short, useful, structured legal work product; to make and defend a reasoned scoping decision on a cross-jurisdictional matter; and to use AI tools with verification and editorial control.
- The student demonstrates integrated mastery of the course: a coherent personal method for working with AI as a legal professional, applied to a real-style cross-jurisdictional task, and presented as a portfolio piece.
Course Contents
- 1. The Lawyer in Global Business: Enabler, not Blocker
- 2. AI Foundations for Legal Work
- 3. Cross-Jurisdictional Practice without Local Qualification
- 4. Working with International Counsel and Partners
- 5. International Business with a Russian Element: Risk and Compliance
- 6. Career Strategy and Managing the Legal Function
Assessment Elements
- In-class participation and case discussionActive engagement in case discussions, group work, and hands-on exercises during each of the six sessions. Includes preparation for case discussion (advance reading where assigned), substantive contribution to group work, and constructive participation in plenary discussion. Retake: not applicable. Participation grade is accumulated across the six sessions and reflects live engagement; it cannot be reproduced after the fact.
- Individual practical assignments (three assignments)Three short individual deliverables, due across the course, each requiring a 1–3 page written work product addressing a realistic scenario. Each assignment is graded independently on the 10-point scale. • Assignment 1 — Business memo. Convert a long legal analysis into a one-page executive memo for a CEO. Tests business literacy and writing skill. • Assignment 2 — Cross-jurisdictional map. Given a multi-jurisdictional scenario in the China–EU–US matrix, produce a structured analysis of which tasks the in-house lawyer can run directly, which require local counsel, and on what reasoning. • Assignment 3 — AI-assisted work product. Use an AI tool to draft a legal work product (clause, due diligence checklist, or short research note) and submit both the raw AI output and the student's revised version, with a brief commentary identifying what the student caught, corrected, or refused to accept.
- Final projectA portfolio deliverable combining (a) a personal AI playbook for legal work — a structured document specifying the student's chosen tools, workflows, verification steps, and confidentiality controls for at least four categories of legal task — and (b) a single business-ready work product on a chosen cross-jurisdictional scenario demonstrating the playbook applied. Expected total length: 8–15 pages.
Interim Assessment
- 2026/2027 2nd module0.5 * Final project + 0.2 * In-class participation and case discussion + 0.3 * Individual practical assignments (three assignments)
