Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - Barcelona

International Contract Law

• code 10037
• course 3
• term Semester 2
• type OB
• credits 2

Main language of instruction: Spanish

Other languages of instruction: Catalan, English

Head instructor

Lc. Ramon GARCIA-TORRENT - rgarciatorrent@uic.es

The subject of Law International Contracts intended to make students take an initial contact with the legal aspects of global trade and business in a global and diverse international community, and, especially, to become familiar with the English language and the terms used in the international contracts.

To do this, legal texts emanating from supranational institutions and bodies will be analyzed not only in the field of the European Union but in the wider world trade. The language of instruction will be English.

No procede

Know and understand the legal framework of international contracts and trade.

Understand and get familiar with economic documentation and customary documentation in international trade operations.

Work independently and plan and organize their learning.

Acquire legal terminology in the English language capacity in matters relating to international contracts.

Knowing the sources of law in international contracts (treaties, private systems, principles and scope of autonomy) and contractual mechanisms for resolving disputes (judicial and non-judicial mechanisms: mediation and arbitration).

• 11 - To acquire skills for autonomous learning
• 27 - To skillfully use terminology and linguistic structures in English related to Law
• 28 - To be able to read and understand bibliography and other legal texts in English
• 29 - To be able to gather and interpret economic documentation

1. Know and understand the legal framework of international contracts and mechanisms for resolving international commercial disputes.

2. Be able to interpret and understand common economic documentation and documentation in the trade.

3. Be able to work independently and to plan and organize their learning.

4. Get the ability to speak in English in matters relating to the appropriate legal terminology in commercial matters.

1. The exchange of goods and services. International trade. The phenomenon of globalization. Its effects on the international contracts and in the markets. The free movement within the European Union.

2. The international contract. Sources. Tendency to unification. New Lex Mercatoria and UNIDROIT Principles. Rome I. The Vienna Convention.

3. Content, writing and usual clauses in international contracts.

4. E-commerce. State contracts. Consumer contracts.

5. The capital companies in the global market. Groups of companies, joint ventures and M & A International. Risks.

6. Solutions to disputes in international contracts: private international arbitration.

 -A.-L. Calvo Caravaca y J. Carrascosa González (Directores), Derecho del Comercio Internacional, Colex, 2012.

-J. C. Fernández Rozas, R. Arenas García y P.A. de Miguel Asensio, Derecho de los Negocios Internacionales, Iustel, 2013.

-P. Llanez González, E-contratos, Bosch, 2004.

-S. Sánchez Lorenzo (Editor), Derecho contractual comparado, Thomson Reuters, 2013.

-R. C. Feenstra y A. M. Taylor, Comercio internacional, Reverté, 2011.

-D. G. Papa y L. Elliott, International trade and the successful intermediary, Gower, 2009.

-B. M. Hoekman y M. M. Kostecki, The political economy of the world trading system, Oxford, 2009.

-A. M. Rugman y T. L. Brewer, The Oxford handbook of international business, Oxford, 2001.