Subjects 2009
International Trade Law 730634
- Credited Courses: Graduate Diploma in Environment, Energy and Resources Law L07; Graduate Diploma in International Economic Law 891; Graduate Diploma in International Law 323; Graduate Diploma in Transnational Law 333; Master of Commercial Law 504; Master of Laws (LLM) 502; Master of Public and International Law 511
Objectives
A student who has successfully completed this subject should:
- Be aware of the legal problems that arise from international commercial transactions
- Understand how the law of sale of goods, negotiable instruments, carriage of goods, securities, taxation and dispute settlement is affected when goods and services are traded across national boundaries
- Be familiar with the ways in which trading parties resolve or reduce problems created by the international nature of their relationship
- Understand how international conventions, treaties and intergovernmental agreements promote, regulate and restrain trade
- Be aware of the various ways in which government regulation may affect international commercial transactions
- Be familiar with different types of marketing structure used in international trade, and Australian law relating to each type.
Syllabus
Principal topics will include:
- The contracts by which trade in goods takes place: Sale, transport, payments, insurance
- Marketing and licensing structures: Distributors, agency, franchising, licensing, transfer of technology
- The impact upon trade of international institutions and agreements: The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization
- Impediments to, and regulation of, international trade: Anti-dumping, duties, antitrust
- Regulation of international investment
- Conflict of laws issues in international trade
- Resolution of disputes in international trade litigation, arbitration, alternative dispute resolution and the recognition of foreign judgments and awards.
