VSFS:N_MPrO International business law - Course Information

N_MPrO International business law

Extent and Intensity

2/1. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

doc. JUDr. Martin Janků, CSc. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. JUDr. Martin Janků, CSc.
Department of Law – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Olga Soušková

Timetable of Seminar Groups

N_MPrO/vPPPH: Sat 24. 2. 14:00–15:30 S11, 15:45–17:15 S11, Sat 10. 3. 14:00–15:30 S11, 15:45–17:15 S11, Sat 24. 3. 14:00–15:30 S11, 15:45–17:15 S11, M. Janků

Prerequisites

Prerequisite is successful passing of the sourses Private Law 1 and Provate Law 2

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The aim of the course is to provide students with basic concepts and institutes of international trade law, which will orient them in the levels of the legal relations, i.e. between States (international organizations) to each other, between States and private individuals (traders) and between traders with each other The legal regulation of these relationships is based on several areas of sources – public international law (and its subregion of the international economic law), the law of the European Union and national (national) laws of individual States. At the same time the course presents the selected legislation emerging from concrete sources — the International Conventions adopted within the framework of the World Trade Organization (GATT, GATS), direct regulation of certain international business transactions (Convention on the Law of the International Sale of Goods-CISG), colision rules for relations between merchandisers within the EU (Brussels I Regulation Brussels I bis, Rome) and the national rules for the settlement of conflict of laws (Private International Law Act ).

Learning outcomes

After passing the course the student will be able to: - identify and summarize important features of the main areas of international trade transactions; - identify and describe the main domestic and foreign sources, their mutual relationship and preferences; - apply the principial legal rules to practical problems emerging in relations between traders; - compare and define differences in the types of regulation of international trade transactions

Syllabus

• 1: international private and international trade regulation právoúrovně 2: international commercial transactions 3: the World Trade Organization (WTO) 4: General Agreement on trade and tariffs (GATT) 5: General Agreement on trade in services (GATS), the agreement on intellectual property rights (TRIPS) 6: the EU's common commercial policy (CCP) 7: European private and commercial law – of the Brussels and Rome 8: Vienna Convention on international sales of goods (CISG) 9: international trade terms INCOTERMS 10: international arbitration and arbitration courts 11: Awards, enforcememńt of awards (New York Convention 1958) 12: cooperation between EU States in the judicial decision of trade disputes

Literature

required literature
• JANKŮ Martin: WTO a právo světového obchodu. 1. vyd. Praha, 2019, C.H.BECK, 250 s.

recommended literature
• ROZEHNALOVÁ Naděžda: Právo mezinárodního obchodu 3. vydání Praha. Wolters Kluwer, 2010

Teaching methods

Lectures and seminars in full-time study; tutorials in part-time study; compulsory seminar participation is 75% in full-time study, compulsory tutorial participation is 50% in part-time study.

Assessment methods

Course ends with a written exam test. Successful completion of the test, shall be subject to the right by answering questions from at least 60%   a total of 30 closed questions, type 1 of n or m of n

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin KS/semestr.

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