Trade Law
INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW – Semester 2, 2013
SEMINAR BOOKLET
Your Weekly Reading/Seminar Guide, including Topic Recap Questions and Exam Style Problem Questions
This Booklet provides a brief outline of the seminar programme, topic revision questions and problem questions. The questions are designed to focus your reading and test your understanding of each topic.
Your lecturer/tutor will tell you which problem questions will be addressed in class. You should prepare your responses to these questions in advance of the seminars. However, you are advised to consider all questions in your own time to help you through the unit and prepare yourself for the exam.
Materials and Readings
This guide provides a guide to what materials and readings you will need each week and directs you to where you can find the materials and readings you need.
Essential Primary Materials: You should download these materials from Moodle and ensure you have a copy for class. You should make hard copies of these materials as you may wish to refer to them in the open book exam.
Essential Readings: These readings must be completed prior to the relevant seminar.
Further Reading: These readings will deepen your understanding of the topic or supplement the lectures and are especially recommended if you are having difficulty with a topic.
References to Mo are to the prescribed text: John Mo, International Commercial Law (5th Ed) (2013)
Schedule of Seminars
Week | Topic | Page No. | 1 | Introduction | 3 | 2-3 | International Trading System | 4 | 4-5 | International Contracts for the Sale of Goods | 8 | 6-7 | International Carriage of Goods by Sea | 13 | 8 | Marine Insurance | 17 | 9 | International Air Carriage | 20 | 10 | International Payments | 22 | 11 | International Dispute Settlement (Arbitration) | 25 | 12 | Revision | 27 |
Week 1
An Introduction to International Trade Law
Essential Materials
Unit Guide
Seminar Booklet (This
SEMINAR BOOKLET
Your Weekly Reading/Seminar Guide, including Topic Recap Questions and Exam Style Problem Questions
This Booklet provides a brief outline of the seminar programme, topic revision questions and problem questions. The questions are designed to focus your reading and test your understanding of each topic.
Your lecturer/tutor will tell you which problem questions will be addressed in class. You should prepare your responses to these questions in advance of the seminars. However, you are advised to consider all questions in your own time to help you through the unit and prepare yourself for the exam.
Materials and Readings
This guide provides a guide to what materials and readings you will need each week and directs you to where you can find the materials and readings you need.
Essential Primary Materials: You should download these materials from Moodle and ensure you have a copy for class. You should make hard copies of these materials as you may wish to refer to them in the open book exam.
Essential Readings: These readings must be completed prior to the relevant seminar.
Further Reading: These readings will deepen your understanding of the topic or supplement the lectures and are especially recommended if you are having difficulty with a topic.
References to Mo are to the prescribed text: John Mo, International Commercial Law (5th Ed) (2013)
Schedule of Seminars
Week | Topic | Page No. | 1 | Introduction | 3 | 2-3 | International Trading System | 4 | 4-5 | International Contracts for the Sale of Goods | 8 | 6-7 | International Carriage of Goods by Sea | 13 | 8 | Marine Insurance | 17 | 9 | International Air Carriage | 20 | 10 | International Payments | 22 | 11 | International Dispute Settlement (Arbitration) | 25 | 12 | Revision | 27 |
Week 1
An Introduction to International Trade Law
Essential Materials
Unit Guide
Seminar Booklet (This
References: to Mo are to the prescribed text: John Mo, International Commercial Law (5th Ed) (2013) * Laurence Boisson De Chazournes and Makane Moise Mbengue, ‘GMOs and Trade: Issues at Stake in the EC Biotech Dispute’, Review of European Community and International Environmental Law (2004) 13(3) 289 (Library Reading List) * Rafiq M Islam, International Trade Law of the WTO (2006) * Trebilcock and Howse, The Regulation of International Trade Law (2005) (Chapters 1, 2 & 3)