INTER 950
International Air and Space Law (2) This course will examine with an international perspective the legal status of national air space and outer space and the legal problems surrounding man's activities in these environments. The law governing international and domestic air transport will be surveyed, and the course will conclude with a look at law on the "high frontier."
Effective: Spring 2007
INTER 951
Introduction to Transnational Law and Legal Issues (3) This course will introduce the student to the nature of transnational law and to issues that lawyers will confront when legal isues transcend national borders. The course commences with an examination of the legal complexities of interactions (including economic transcations, civil litigation, and movement of people) in which national law, international law and private law may all simultaneously play a part. It examines the way in which private law, national law and international play a role in a number of different sorts of transactions, from simple organizations in regulating private behavior on a global basis.
Effective: Summer 2011
INTER 952
Law of the Sea (2) Address all central aspects of the law of the sea as a branch of public international law.
Effective: Summer 2007
INTER 953
Law of Treaties (2) Treaties are the foundation of public and private international law and national foreign affairs law. This course examines: historical development of law of treaties; concept of treaty; treaty as source of international and national law; stages of concluding treaty; reservations; accession to treaties, functions of depositary; publication of treaties; breach of treaty obligations; invalidity, termination, and suspension of treaties; denunciation and other withdrawal from treaties; treaties and jus cogens; treaties and customary rules of international law; treaties and third States; treaties and municipal law; interpretation of treaties; languages and authentic texts of treaties.
Effective: Summer 2011
INTER 954
Foreign Investment in Russia and the CIS (2) Addresses principal aspects of the legal framework for foreign investment in Russia and other CIS countries.
Effective: Summer 2007
INTER 958
Comparative Constitutional & Public Law (3) The principal objective of this course is to provide students with a greater understanding of how their country's body of constitutional law is shaped by history, institutions, and current values. The comparative project, by focusing on narrow differences between two very similar countries, allows students to move beyond an acceptance of basic premises of constitutional law as "natural" or "inherent." As an important dividend, students will gain basic knowledge of foundational concepts in the legal landscape of their country's largest trading partner, hopefully providing students with a comparative advantage in seeking employment with government offices and private firms whose clients engage in substantial cross-border transactions.
Effective: Summer 2011
INTER 959
Russian Law (2) This 2-credit course is concerned with the development of the law, legal system, and legal institutions of what is popularly known as Russia but also correctly and officially known as the Russian Federation within the boundaries presently occupied and, historically, within the boundaries of the Russian Empire. By "law" we mean formal legislation, customary rules, relevant international legal rules, legal doctrine, and anything else regarded by the Russian State or by Russian jurists as comprising part of the "law." For our purposes "legal institutions" encompassess all law enforcement agencies or any other agencies of the State or empowered by the state which are concerned with the law in any manner whatsoever, including educational institutions.
Effective: Summer 2011
INTER 961
Asylum and Refugee Law (3) This class surveys the laws of political asylum and related protection for those fleeing danger in their home countries. It examines asylum and refugee law and policy in the United States, and sets forth the legal grounds for barring someone from asylum. It also explores the politics driving immigration policy, including asylum and refugee policy, and the federal agencies that implement those policies.
Effective: Summer 2011
INTER 965
Immigration Law (3) This course is intended to provide students with a general knowledge of immigration law, including such critical subjects as the constitutional powers of the federal government over immigration matters, admission and exclusion, entry, deportation, and political asylum.
Effective: Summer 1999
INTER 966
International Litigation and Arbitration (3) This course is intended to acquaint students with the impact of globalization upon the process of litigation. It focuses upon the adjudicatory resolution of disputes created by international contracts and global business transactions through the standard legal trial process and arbitration. Various basic topics are treated, including (1) the certification and training of international lawyers; (2) the liability exposure of multinational enterprises; (3) the State as an actor in global commerce; (4) problems of comparative jurisdiction, service of process and evidence-gathering, proof of foreign law, and the enforcement of foreign judgements; (5) the extraterritorial application of national law; and (6) attempts to establish a transborder law and legal process. The course also provides a thorough introduction to international arbitration and investor- state arbitration.
Effective: Fall 2011
INTER 968
Comparative Antitrust Law (3) This course focuses on the antitrust law of the European Union and selected other jurisdictions. It will cover international mergers, monopolies, price fixing cartels, distribution restraints, and related topics. The course examines principles of comity and cooperation among international enforcers investigating cases with a multi-national impact. We also review the antitrust laws of other selected jurisdictions, focusing on proposed and recently enacted competition laws including those of selected new entrants to the European Union and China, and on laws of other jurisdictions with an important impact on U.S. firms such as Japan. Finally, the course will consider issues such as advising multi-mational clients, obtaining discovery internationally, and litigating complex cases.
Effective: Summer 2011
INTER 969
International Organizations (2) International organizations play an influential role in the world today. Just a few of the fields they address are peacemaking and peacekeeping, labor relations, food production and distribution, education, health, economic development, monetary affairs, international trade, civil aviation, tele- communications, protection of intellectual property and nuclear energy. This course will examine lawmaking and regulation by international organizations, the regulatory impact of governance by these organizations, issues of legal personality, membership, participation, rights of members and termination of membership, as well as enforcement and dispute settlement. Focus will be on the United Nations and its specialized agencies, including the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, UNESCO and the Inter- national Labor Organization.
Effective: Summer 2002
INTER 971
International Law (3) This course introduces students to key concepts and doctrines of international law. It examines the sources of international law such as custom and treaty, the bases of international jurisdiction, issues of statehood, recognition and succession, nationality, international agreements, and United States participation in the international legal system. The course provides students with the basics needed for both public and private international law practice.
Effective: Spring 2011
INTER 973
Comparative Corporate Law (2) This course attempts a comparative analysis of American and European approaches to the regulation of business enterprises operating in corporate form. The goal is to provide the student with a basic understanding of the fundamental, and perhaps fundamentally different, approaches taken by governments in the United States and in the European communities to the regulation of the corporation. The course materials concentrate on the formal sources of law and thereafter highlight some ways in which the difference in approach is manifested in actual regulation.
Effective: Summer 2000
Prerequisite:
CCLAW 963
INTER 974
Civil Law From Empire to Union (3) The most important issue of Civil Law today is its Worldview and its perspectives on Citizenship as well as on International Justice. In other words, particularities of the Civil Law sustain a worldview that stems from Roman Law-traditions and parctices of the Roman Empire. These pertain to more recent legal developments taking place in a unifying Europe. The profiles of the major functionaries in today's Civil Law domain: judges, attorneys, EU civil servants and administrators mirror such traditions. This course is not restricted to a traditional comparative perspective. Means are provided for a correct and effective transnational communication between legal professionals. To study Civil Law and EU Law implies an approach, understanding and management of the electronic means to communicate with its citizens, institutions and courts. The EU website is an outstanding instrument to understand the structures within lawyers must operate.
Effective: Summer 2011
INTER 975
History of the Western Legal Tradition (3) This course will provide an overview of Western legal systems in ancient, medieval, early modern and modern times.
Effective: Summer 2010
INTER 976
Maritime Law (3) Initial consideration of peculiarly American Admiralty jurisdiction and practice, after which a survey of substantive rules of the general maritime law respected by shipping and trading nations is essayed. Carriage of goods by water (including bills of lading, charter parties, and general average), collisions, salvage, and seafarers' personal injuries are treated as discrete subjects with warranties of seaworthiness, applicability of multilateral treaties, harmonizing effects of worldwide London insurance markets, and modern English precedent being recurring themes.
Effective: Spring 2002
INTER 984
International Commercial Arbitration (3) By some measures up to 90% of all international and transnational contracts include agreements to resolve disputes between the parties through arbitration. For all its success, the international arbitration system is not a simple organism. It is the product of a complex interaction of national laws, contractual agreements, specialized procedural rules, and international treaties, customs and norms. The system is designed to balance party autonomy with the sovereign and transnational regulatory interests that are implicated in disputes. This course explores the amalgam of sources that undergrid the international arbitration system, as well as the strategic considerations, practical skills and policy implications that are involved.
Effective: Summer 2011
INTER 997
Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given on a topical or special interest subject which may be offered infrequently; several different topics may be taught in one year or term.
Effective: Summer 2006
INTER 997A
Energy, International Security, and the Global Economy (3) This course explores the economic, political, and strategic implications of ongoing trends and structural shifts in global energy markets. it focuses especially on international markets for crude oil and natural gas; attention is also devoted to nuclear energy, the international nuclear industry, and nonproliferation challenges. Students will develop a deep appreciation of the role of energy, and especially hydrocarbon-based energy in contemporary international affairs.
Effective: Fall 2013 Ending: Fall 2013 Future: Fall 2013
INTER 997A
Transnational Law (3) The course centers on issues that lawyers and policymakers confront when legal and related policy activities transcend national borders and trigger alternative or supplemental governance systems. Students will be introduced to the methodology of transnational law, the sources of law, the system characteristics of transnational law, and specific policy and practice focus of the field, which all touch on emerging issues of globalization. The course commences with an examination of framework issues in transnational law, including distinguishing features of this field and relationship to domestic law, international and comparative law. The bulk of the course then examines transnational public and private law systems, including the Rome Statute (transnational criminal law), transnational constitutional frameworks, international finance, human rights governance systems, international private standard setting, and systems of soft law governance.
Effective: Spring 2014 Ending: Spring 2014 Future: Spring 2014
INTER 997B
Introduction to Research Design (3) This course provides an accessible approach to developing the research, empirical and analysis skills necessary for International Affairs careers and research. The approach is hands-on, with a focus on providing practical skills for evaluation real-world arguments and policies. The course has three objectives. First, to provide a background that prepares students for the required Multi-Sector and Quantitative Analysis (INTAF 803) core course by giving them a solid foundation in research design and analysis. Second, to familiarize students with a variety of International Affairs methods (e.g. experiments, social networks, and data sources) not covered in other core- classes. Third, to provide law and other students sufficient knowledge of social science approaches to participate effectively in SIA courses.
Effective: Fall 2013 Ending: Fall 2013 Future: Fall 2013
INTER 997C
International Environmental Negotiations (3) Major environmental issues with considerable controversy, uncertainty, or immediacy will be examined in detail (for example: climate change, pandemic flue virus, or a major natural disaster, etc.). After extended study in the substance of the topics, various negotiations techniques (positional, principled, and hybrid practical approaches), and the decision-making process in the international community, and a number of short role playing activities and practice negotiations, a simulation game will be conducted based on one of the topics. Teams of students will take on the roles of nations, or extranational organizations (for example USA, China, India, Russia, EU, Group of 77, OPEC, UN, WHO, etc.). They will develop positions based on the most current scientific information, existing policy and negotiated agreements.
Effective: Fall 2013 Ending: Fall 2013 Future: Fall 2013
Last Import from UCM: May 18, 2013 3:00 AM