International Economic Law

3 credits · Law School

This course will survey the rules of public international law as they relate to the cross-border movement of goods, services, and money. We will study how rules of public international law emerged for regulating something called an “international” or a “world” economy, and the ways in which this body of rules came to assume increasingly technical character over the twentieth century. The course will primarily focus on bodies of rules known as international trade law, and international investment law, but we will also consider other rules—such as labor regulations—that touch upon economic governance. The course will survey legal doctrine on questions of non-discrimination, expropriation of investments, fair and equitable treatment of investments, tariff barriers, non-tariff barriers, and intellectual property; as well as procedures for international dispute settlement. [3]