Kursübersicht "International Business Law and its Environment"

Lehrende(r) der Kurseinheit: Dr. Karen A. Sauls (CCU), Coastal Carolia University

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Objectives

International Business Law and Its Environment provides a framework for understanding both international business and the legal environment in which it operates. Students will examine the legal relationship between countries as they set the “rules of the game” for world trade in goods and services. Course includes an understanding of intellectual property licensing and protection among various nations. Students will study the regulation of the international marketplace and be able to identify different approaches that nations have taken in regulating foreign business penetration.

Contents

Part 1: Introduction to International Business Law and Its Environment Part 2: The Basics of International Trade Law Part 3: Regulation of the International Marketplace

Student Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

1. Understand international business from a legal perspective, including 3 major forms of international business: trade (importing and exporting); licensing agreements and legal protection of patents, copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property.
2. Explain sources of international law, including custom, treaties, and international conventions; and the role of intergovernmental organizations in developing international standards and legal codes.
3. Discuss the settlement of disputes via litigation and arbitration in international business transactions.
4. Understand basic principles of international trade and tariff law, the role of the World Trade Organization, and processes for resolving trade disputes between countries.
5. Examine laws that keep markets open to foreign competition, discuss nontariff barriers and examine “trade liberalization,” through which countries negotiate freer and fairer methods of trade.
6. Debate issues of free trade versus protectionism.
7. Examine customs and tariff laws that govern the relationship between a U.S. importer and the U.S. government as it applies to foreign firms that export into the U.S.
8. Understand trade sanctions and other controls to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction and missile technology, to fight international terrorism, and to further human rights.
9. Examine the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and trade issues affecting the Western Hemisphere and understand how it fits with the principles of global trade.
10. Understand trade in the European Union, which has a level of economic integration far greater than NAFTA.
11. Understand issues that arise once an enterprise retains an agent abroad, triggering the host country’s requirements for agency relationships, as well as its laws relating to advertising and marketing.
12. Compare agreements through which a U.S. enterprise is paid for permitting a foreign entity to use its intellectual property and how other countries regulate these arrangements to protect intellectual property on behalf of its own nationals.
13. Consider political risks associated with committing capital resources in a foreign country, including subjecting the investing firm and its employees to the full array of the host country’s corporate, currency, and tax laws.
14. Discuss a variety of labor laws which define relationships between employees and employers.
15. Learn basic principles of international environmental law.
16. Study situations when foreign penetration becomes so dominant that the investors become subject to another country’s antitrust or competition laws.

Date	Topic	Assignment
Week 1	International Business Law and its Environment	Read Chapters 1, 2 & 3.
Week 2	The Basics of International Trade Law	Read Chapters 9 and 10.
Week 3	The Basics of International Trade Law	Read Chapters 11, 12 & 13.
Week 4	The Basics of International Trade Law and Regulations of the International Marketplace	Read Chapters 14, 15 & 16.
Week 5	Regulations of the International Marketplace	Read Chapters 14, 15 & 16.
Week 6	Regulations of the International Marketplace	Read Chapters 19 & 20.
Week 7	Regulations of the International Marketplace	Read Chapter 21.

Methods

Individual and group assignments, teaching interaction during class, case studies, discussions, and simulations.

Prerequisites

Formal: Full-time students in the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences.

Academic: Students must be able to function in an English-speaking environment.

Assessment

• Individual research assignment (60%)
• Active participation and discussion during class (40%)

Art	Datum der Leistungserbringung	Prüfungsanmeldung
(bitte Zeitangabe ...Min)		Ende 1. HS*	Ende 2. HS*	individuelles Datum
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Präsentation	tt.mm.jj			tt.mm.jj
Hausarbeit	tt.mm.jj			tt.mm.jj
Andere	tt.mm.jj		X	tt.mm.jj

* Prüfungsamt Termine

Bewertung

Siehe Modulbeschreibung.

Reading

Richard Schaffer, Filiberto Agusti, Lucien J. Dhooge, International Business Law and Its Environment, 10th ed. ISBN: 978-1-30597259-9