Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza

The different teaching blocks will be organised through a blend of different components:  reading and study materials, video lectures, presentations with vocal comment, streaming lessons, in presence or virtual room  (Webex) sessions for interaction with students, assignments of reaction papers, students’ in presence or online presentations etc.

All the materials will be made available  through the teaching platform (moodle)

A more precise balance of the different components is dependent on the evolution of health restrictions and will be communicated to the students before the commencement of the course.

It is therefore essential and compulsory that all the students enrol in the teaching platform to have full access both to materials, discussions and communications

Written exam consisting of four open-ended questions. Answers will be graded on the basis of completeness and accuracy of information, as well as of the capacity to use specific legal terminology. 

In case exams take place online due to the sanitary emergency, the written exam will be replaced by an oral exam.

The programme will be divided in two modules.

The first module will concern international trade law and will deal with:

- the institutional aspects of the WTO, including the dispute settlement system and main actors; - non discrimination; - the discipline of tariff measures ; - the discipline of non-tariff measures; - non-trade issues; regional trade agreements 

The second module will concern international investment law, covering the following topics: 

- evolution of the international system of investment protection;- sources of investment law; - subjects and beneficiaries of international investment law; - standards of investment treatment (non-discrimination, expropriation, full protection and security, fair and equitable treatment, minimum standard of treatment); - exceptions, and counter-claims against investors; - means of solving controversies.

1) For attending students: material uploaded on Moodle

2) For non-attending students, parts 1,3,4 of the followig textbook:

Qureshi, Ziegler, International Economic Law, Sweet and Maxwell, 4th edition, 2019.