Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Economics
- Organization
- GTK Department of Management and Business Law
- Code
- GTI22AN811EN
- Title
- International Business Law
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- Published semester
- 2024/25/2
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- This course is designed for non-law students. So the classes focus on the understanding of the legal background for states to business negotiations at an international level. The main topic of the International Trade Law Course is the operation of the WTO, the disupte settlements, the considerations of states entering into trade treaties and the enforcement thereof. The objective is to demonstrate how rational business decisions are to be made in a legal environment and what kind of issues are to be considered in the decision-making. The course focuses on cases, explanations, argumentations and interpretations necessary for a manager in the business decisions. Students are welcome to discuss issues in class. Learning outcomes to recognize legal problems (not to solve them) to understand the gist of the attitude of lawyers (judges), negotiators to understand the basics of legislation and interpretation to be able to read basic legal documents to make business decisions and argue with regard to basic legal aspects to carry out business negotiations with regard to basic legal aspects to cooperate and coordinate with peers in preparing a joint project
- Course content
- Topics Basic reasoning in legal thinking The conflicts of actors in the law of international trade laws Preferential trade agreements, the nature of BREXIT and the WTO How to settle dusiputes in international trade, the need for reform Balance between agricultural trade and health safety concerns, environmental protection globalization v. protectionism, problems of state ownership in trade, etc. trade wars v negotiations, diplomacies, alternative dispute settlements 1 09.12. 2022 Monday 08:15-09:45 Q303 INTRO: GATT – WTO System of the Treaties – Structure and decision-making 2 09.26. 2022 Monday 08:15-09:45 Q303 History – Texts – Sources of law and principles ofInterpretations – debates (EU, Japan, USA) – WTO – GATT 3 10.03. 2022 Monday 08:15-09:45 Q303 Dispute settlement / Reforms and Appellate Body reforms (USA in focus) – debates 4 10.10. 2022 Monday 08:15-09:45 Q303 Most favoured nation treatment (MFN) National treatment (NT) – debates 5 10.17. 2022 Monday 08:15-09:45 Q303 Agricultural trade – health / food safety – Environment – debates 6 11.14 2022 Monday 08:15-09:45 Q303 Preferential trade agreements – Brexit / No Deal problems / aftermaths, hindsight – debates - Problems of protectionism; 7 11.21. 2022 Monday 08:15-09:45 Q303 Anti-dumping laws – debates 8 11.28. 2022 Monday 08:15-09:45 Q303 Subsidies and countervailing duties – debates 9 12.05. 2022 Monday 08:15-09:45 Q303 Problems of state ownership (China in focus) – State owned trading – debates 10 12.12. 2022 Monday 08:15-09:45 Q303 Trade in Services (GATS) (education – health care – telecommunication), state sovereignty / national budget problems – debates 11 VIDEO class Intellectual Property (TRIPs) - copyrights, patents, pharmaceutical/farming problems of developing countries 12 VIDEO class Trade policy, labour standards and human rights / Developing countries – Doha Round, Bali package –(India, Turkey and China in focus)
- Assessment method
- The general examination and assessment requirements of the courses offered by the Faculty of Economics are available at: https://gtk.elte.hu/en/erasmus/general Grades For “offered grades” 60-69 satisfactory (3), 70-84 good (4), 85-100 excellent (5). For examination: 50-54 sufficient (2), 55-69 satisfactory (3), 70-84 good (4), 85-100 excellent (5). Points received during the term are not added to the exam points.
- Bibliography
- Reading materials suggested but not limited to: Mitsuo Matsushita - Thomas J . Schoenbaum - Petros C. Mavroidis - Michael Hahn: The World Trade Organization. Law, Practice, and Policy (3rd edition). Oxford UP. 2015. (ELTE Library) Selected parts -- (accessible at moodle) Michael J. Trebilcock – Joel Trachtman: Advanced Introduction To International Trade Law. Elgar Advanced Introductions. Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA. 2020. 250.p. ELTE library - Selected parts -- (accessible at moodle) Notes: Pétervári, Kinga: WTO 2021. Legal texts, Agreements, cases (moodle) slides of the classes (moodle)