- Docente: Elisa Baroncini
- Credits: 7
- SSD: IUS/13
- Language: English
- Moduli: Elisa Baroncini (Modulo 1) Elisa Baroncini (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in
Law (cod. 9232)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Legal Studies (cod. 9062)
Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 9232)
Course contents
Introduction to International Economic Law: International Trade Law; International Investment Law; International Financial Law
The Multilateral Trade System: the WTO
The dispute settlement mechanism of the WTO
The crisis of the WTO Appellate Body
The most favoured nation clause
The national treatment principle
GATT Article XX: trade & non-trade values
GATT Article XXI: national security
The WTO TBT Agreement
The precautionary principle and the SPS Agreement
The New Government Procurement Agreement
Tha General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)
The Trade-Related Intellectueal Property Rights Agreement (TRIPs)
Reforming the WTO
The New generation of EU Free Trade Agreements: from Singapore to Canada, from Korea to the United States
The EU / UKraine and the EU / South Korea panel reports
The EU / China Comprehensive Agreement on Investments
Transparency & International Economic Law
Concept of investment and investors
Principles of non discrimination and of fair and equitable treatment
Direct & indirect expropriation
Interpretation and Application of Investment Treaties
Investment dispute settlement mechanisms (ICSID; UNCTAD; UNCITRAL)
From ISDS to the project for a Multilateral Investment Court
Transparency in investment arbitration proceedings
Investment & sustainability issues: protection of foreign investment & environmental and human rights protection
Readings/Bibliography
For students attending the lectures the programm will be developed during the course, an the materials will be provided during the lectures.
For students not attending the lectures:
Peter Van den Bossche, Denise Prévost, Essentials of WTO Law, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2021
M. Sornarajah, The International Law on Foreign Investment, Cambridge University Press, 2020
Teaching methods
Lectures
For students who did not previously attend a course of International Law, we advise the following reading: Jan Klabbers, International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Assessment methods
oral exam
Teaching tools
materials indicated during the lectures, power point presentations, videos
Office hours
See the website of Elisa Baroncini
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.