International Private Law and International Trade Law
Study Board of Law
Teaching language: English
EKA: B620005102
Censorship: Second examiner: None
Grading: 7-point grading scale
Offered in: Odense
Offered in: Spring
Level: Bachelor
Course ID: B620005101
ECTS value: 5
Date of Approval: 04-10-2022
Duration: 1 semester
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Aim and purpose
The course takes its factual starting point in international sales transactions and the international transport of goods.
In addition, specific banking law transactions in relation to this are dealt with.
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.
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.
Content
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 UCP 600
- International carriage of goods, focusing mainly on contracts for carriage of goods by sea and road, and
- Choice of law in international sales transactions.
Description of outcome - Knowledge
Knowledge:
The student should have knowledge of the different sources of law that apply to the transport and international sales of goods transactions, and their internal hierarchy and application.
Description of outcome - Skills
The student should be able to identify and describe the problems of a legal nature which may arise in 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.
Description of outcome - Competences
The student will be expected to use the above knowledge and skills partly to solve a given case partly to be able to describe, analyze 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
The following literature is used as a starting point in the course.
Joseph Lookofsky, Understanding CISG, latest edition (the whole book)
Siig, Bought or Sold (chapter 3 of Legal risk management in shipping), may be obtained separately at https://itunes.apple.com/dk/book/bought-or-sold/id917283073?mt=11
Falkanger, Bull, Brautaset, Scandinavian Maritime Law, the Norwegian perspective, latest edition, chapter 14.1.-14.11, this will be available on ItsLearning.
Literature will include primary texts such as the relevant convention texts etc. (including the CISG, the INCOTERMS 2020, the CMR Convention, NSAB 2015 and the UCP 600), the Maritime Code Chapter 13), standard contracts used in the trade and the hand-outs presented at class/ItsLearning.
Information regarding further literature will follow at the start of the course.
The extent of the literature is expected to be approximately 250-350 pages.
Teaching Method
The course represents a mixture of lectures and blended learning activities. The lectures are case-oriented lectures and group work should be expected. To achieve the full benefit of the course focus should be had on preparing the case studies. The students are furthermore urged to form study groups - either virtual or actual - for preparing the case studies.
Workload
Scheduled classes:
Workload:
7 hours per Saturday for 3 Saturdays.
Workload:
1 ECTS is equivalent to 27 working hours. An estimated retail distribution of the workload of an average student can be:
Lectures: 21 hours
Preparation for lectures: 69 hours
Preparation for exams: 45 hours
Exam: 1 hour
Preparation for exams: 45 hours
Exam: 1 hour
Total: 135 hours.
Examination regulations
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Ordinary examination takes place in June.
Re-examination takes place in August.
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Oral examination
Censorship
Second examiner: None
Grading
7-point grading scale
Identification
Student Identification Card - Date of birth
Language
English
Duration
20 minutes
ECTS value
5
Additional information
Oral examination based on a 5 minute oral presentation by the student followed by a 10 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 such like of their own choice in their presentation.
EKA
B620005102
External comment
NOTE - This course is identical with the former course 9321501, International Private Law and International Trade Law, part time / International Private Law and International Trade Law, deltid.
Used examination attempts in the former identical course will be transferred.
Courses that are identical with former courses that are passed according to applied rules cannot be retaken.
Courses offered
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2026 | Mandatory | Jura BA på deltid optaget fra og med 1. september 2021 og til og med 31. august 2024 | Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) | Odense | 4 |
| Spring 2026 | Mandatory | Jura BA på deltid optaget fra pr. 1. september 2024 til og med 31. august 2025 | Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) | Odense | 4 |
| Spring 2026 | Mandatory | Jura BA på deltid optaget fra pr. 1. september 2025 og fremefter | Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) | Odense | 4 |
| Spring 2025 | Mandatory | Jura BA på deltid optaget fra og med 1. september 2021 og til og med 31. august 2023 | Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) | Odense | 4 |
| Spring 2025 | Mandatory | Jura BA på deltid optaget fra pr. 1. september 2024 til og med 31. august 2025 | Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) | Odense | 4 |
| Spring 2024 | Mandatory | Jura BA på deltid optaget fra og med 1. september 2021 og til og med 1. september 2023 | Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) | Odense | 4 |