Course: International Economic Law

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Course title International Economic Law
Course code MEP/NIEL
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Bureš Pavel, JUDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Lectures: 1. International economic law. General presentation of the field. Subjects of international economic law. Interferences with other fields of law. 2. Law of international Exchange. Institutional Framework. 3. Historical development from GATT to WTO. 4. Dispute settlement mechanism. WTO and other fields of international law. 5. International Exchange of goods and services. 6. Regional regimes of international Exchange (NAFTA, ECOWAS, Mercosur, ASEAN, APEC) 7. International Law of FI. State contracts, oil concessions. Doctrinal disputes about the character of States contracts 8. The notion of Investment - economic and legal point of view. The notion of FI. 9. The diplomatic protection as a mean to FI protection. The ICJ case-law on diplomatic protection. 10. Bilateral and Multilateral Investment Treaties. 11. The neutralization of States´ normative jurisdiction. State clauses on stabilization. Umbrella clauses. 12. International Centre on Settlements of Investments Disputes (ICSID). ICSID Arbitration and other types of arbitration. Seminars: 1. Panoply of international instruments on international Exchange. 2. Case study on WTO dispute settlement mechanism. 3. Notion of investment in BITs and in tribunals' case-law. 4. Promotion and protection of foreign investments. 5. Case study on umbrella clauses. 6. Case study on ICSID jurisdiction.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training)
Learning outcomes
International economic law is one of the discipline witnessing a quick development and fact of being overlapped by other area of law such as: international commercial law, law of intellectual properties, international commercial arbitration, law of international financial institution. The course covers a basic approach of international economic relations and focuses especially on free-trade regimes, WTO and NAFTA systems in their substantial and procedural aspects, and more over international regulation of foreign investment, their promotion, protection and international investment law disputes.
Student will gain general knoledge of instituions and branches of international economic law.
Prerequisites
Completion of this course is conditioned upon the completion of Public International Law I. and Public International law II.
MEP/NMPV

Assessment methods and criteria
Mark

Continuous control of knowledge in seminar lessons (reading, tests), seminar paper, colloquium
Recommended literature
  • Dolzer, R., Schreuer, Ch. (2012). Principles of International Investment Law, 2nd edition. Oxfod University Press.
  • Herdegen, M. (2013). Principles of International Economic Law. Oxford University Press.
  • Jackson, John H. (2007). The Jurisprude of GATT and the WTO, Insights on Treaty Law and Economic Relations. Cambridge University Press.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Law Study plan (Version): Law (2010) Category: Law, legal and public administration proceeding 5 Recommended year of study:5, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Law Study plan (Version): Law (2010) Category: Law, legal and public administration proceeding 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Law Study plan (Version): Law (2010) Category: Law, legal and public administration proceeding 4 Recommended year of study:4, Recommended semester: Winter