International private law and international trade law / International private law and international trade law

The Academic Board of Law, Odense
Teaching activity id: 8941001.
Teaching language: English.ECTS / weighting: 5 ECTS / 0.083 full-time equivalent.
Examination language: English.
Exam activity id: 8941002.Approved: 13-03-12.
Period: Autumn 2012.
Grading: Internal grading.
Assessment: 7-point scale.
Offered in: Odense.
Subject director:
Kristina Maria Siig, Department of Law.

Prerequisites:
Formueret 1. year should be passed - or similar qualifications.
Purpose:
Purpose: The course takes its factual starting point in international sales transactions and the international transport of goods. Additionally the course discusses areas of law closely connected with this, such as the relevant rules on choice of, distribution channels, finance of the sale of the goods etc. The course should be seen as an extension to the first year sales law and contract law course and as a supplement to the laws of obligation. 
Furthermore, it introduces the students to courses in English. The course provides the knowledge of how basic international sales transactions take place and their legal implications, and provides the students with skills in order to solve legal conflicts within that area of law. Furthermore, through lectures and tutorials it provides the students with the competence of making a short presentation of a legal problem in a foreign language. 

Content - Key areas:
International trade law is a conglomerate of many different legal disciplines which, when applied to a given dispute, become a distinct legal discipline. This introductory course will concentrate on the legal regluation of some of the core areas: 
  • International sale and purchase of goods, including the regulation in the Convention on International Sale of Goods (CISG), INCOTERMS 2010 and UCCP 600 
  • International distribution channels, 
  • International carriage of goods, focusing mainly on contracts for carriage of goods by sea and road, and 
  • Choice of law in international trade transactions, focusing mainly on the Rome I Regulation. 

Goals description (SOLO taxonomy):
The course aims at enabling the student to indentify and describe the problems of a legal nature which may arise i international trade law transactions. The students are expected to be able to compare different rules and to draw lines from the different regulations so that the subject becomes a coherent whole. The interfaces and nexus between the different regulations is in focus. The student will be expected to use the above skills partly to solve a given case partly to be able to describe, analyse and discuss a given legal problem and present this analysis in an oral form under the application of presentation media of its own choice.
Literature:
Joseph Lookofsky, Understanding CISG, latest edition (presently 3rd ed 2008) 
Falkanger, Bull & Brautaset, Scandinavian maritime Law, latest edition (presently 3rd ed. ), chapter 14, pp. 268-277, and pp. 329-333.
ICC Handbook on INCOTERMS 2010, p. 4-11, 15-19, 60-65, 75-81 and 90-100. 

In addition literature will include primary texts such as the relevant convention texts etc. and the hand-outs presented at class/BlackBoard. 

Time of classes:
Autumn.
Form of instruction:
Class, tutorials and class discussions are all conducted in English. 

Case-oriented lectures, 24 lectures taught in 2*45 minutes per week in 12 weeks. 3 lectures taught by student instructors. The students are strongly advised to attend all classes. 

Work load 
The work load is estimated to be thus: 
Lectures: 24 
Preparation for lectures: 50 
Tutorials: 3 
Preparation for tutorials: 12 
Preparation for exams: 45 
Exam: 1 
Total: 135 

Time of examination:
Ordinary examination take place in January (December for exchange students) and June. Re-examination takes place in February. 

Participation in re-examination requires that you have participated in the ordinary examination in the same examination period. 

Examination conditions:
None apart from the above.
Form of examination for the certificate:
Oral presentation.

Supplemental information for the form of examination:
Oral examination based on a 10 minute oral presentation by the student followed by a 5 minute oral examination. The oral presentation will be in one of 5 topics published 2 weeks before the examination date. At the exam the students will be asked to present one of the prepared 5 topics. The student is allowed to include a media format, e.g. a power point, a printed outline or overhead projection in the oral presentation.

Programmes:
HA(jur.)
5th semester, mandatory. Offered in: Odense
Jura
5th semester, mandatory. Offered in: Odense