LAW 7284 - Int’l Comm Arbitrat Advocacy

3 Credit Hours

Description
This is an elective course. A doctrinal and skills course training students as advocates in international commercial arbitration. The course will begin with an introductory description of the world’s principal arbitral institutions and a discussion of the main treaties, statutory materials and “soft law” (including ethical codes) which regulate international commercial arbitration and dispute resolution. Next, the course will look quickly the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (“CISG”) and similar compilations. These introductory sessions will be followed by intensive research and writing exercises and oral presentations by students pertaining to hypothetical arbitrations arising under the CISG.