This course consists of 11 sessions dedicated to providing a thorough and practical introduction to students with no legal background to public and private law aspects of the global trading system, as well as to the basic legal principles underlying European economic integration.

The aim of the course is to give a good, practical-based understanding of how business works in the European Union environment, and to present the paralell basic principles on the level of international law. It is not intended to give students a thorough, in-depth analysis of EU rules and regulations, but rather to provide them with an intelligent approach to the many business and commercial areas affected by EU & international law in practice.

 Learning Objectives

    *   To understand the basic legal principles underlying the World Trade Organization and the EU.

    *   To use the basic principles of EU law & International business law, applying them to different  areas of law. Students will thus study the Single European Market (four freedoms – goods, workers, capital, and services (and the right to establishment) – as well as competition law, consumer protection and basics of European corporate law.

    *  In each case, students will be introduced to actual cases to exemplify how the European Court of Justice, the EU's court, and the Appellate Bodies at the WTO, have used their powers to create and interpret the law, and the practical impacts of their decisions. Other relevant areas of international commercial law will also be explored, such as the international protection of intellectual property rights, principles of international contract law, choice of law, and principles of international commercial arbitration.

    * To give business students a basic understanding of how law, particularly EU law & International law, impinges upon the work of any business organization whether sole trader to multinational.