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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
The first term of this course will focus on problems lawyers face when developing relationships and resolving disputes that transcend national boundaries. Cross-nation negotiations entail not only differences in substantive laws but also assumptions about the role of law in negotiations and about proper procedures in reaching agreements. We will survey a broad range of difference between countries around the world and provide general guidelines for coping in a foreign legal culture. The main teaching method of this term of the course will involve negotiation simulation exercises, supplemented by lectures, discussions, and assigned readings. The second term of the course will examine the practice of international arbitration in a global environment. It will cover international arbitration institutions, model rules and procedures. Department consent is required. Instructor: Vidman
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
This course will examine and contrast the taxation systems of the U.S., Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Mainland China. It will also be policy oriented. Instructor: Staff
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to international taxation of business transactions. It will explain basic income tax concepts, and the principal rules of the U.S. taxation system relating to international business. The course will also give an overview on the indirect taxation issues linked to international transactions. Instructor: Staff
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3.00 Credits
A study of the special problems that arise when the significant facts of a case are connected with more than one jurisdiction, including recognition and effect of foreign judgments, choice of law, and the United States Constitution and conflict of laws. Instructor: Michaels or Reppy
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
This course will begin by tracing the rise of global corporate actors and the international framework that makes them possible. It will discuss differences in the law and regulation of corporate governance in the United States, in contrast with European systems. Instructor: Staff
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
This course will be a comparative survey of constitutionalism in various Asian countries. It focuses specifically on Sri Lanka, and the constitutional issues that have contributed to exacerbation of the island's ethnic conflict. The general themes of the course will be constitutional design in plural societies. Instructor: Staff
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2.00 Credits
International banking regulation will review the United States regulation of foreign bank operations and the foreign operations of US banks; leading models of foreign supervision, and regulation of transnational banking; the leading international institutions responsible for developing and deploying international regulatory standards; and the interaction of domestic and international financial regulation and their symbiotic evolution and prospects. Instructor: Baxter
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2.00 Credits
The first part of this course will deal with the international conventions for the protection of heritage, such as those of UNESCO concerned with its management in time of conflict, and those dealing with illicit traffic, as well as others which have an impact on cultural heritage protection such as the Convention on Bio-diversity and that on Endangered Species. The second part of this course will focus on "cultural diversity" in the context of globalization. This course will try to find answers to these questions focusing on two fields of law. Instructor: Staff
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to issues of the origin, definition, and application of transnational principles in the interrelated fields of collective security, human rights protection, and enforcement of norms. Department consent required. Instructor: Staff
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course will consider differing national perspectives on international law. The first term of the course will focus on U.S. views of international law. This portion of the course will consider the distribution of authority within the U.S. legal system over questions relating to international law, the extent to which international law is cognizable by U.S. courts, and the U.S. position on substantive topics such as international human rights law, international criminal law, the use of force, and nuclear non-proliferation. The second term of the course will focus on views of international law in East Asia, especially in China and India, as rising powers with different identities, one democratic, the other authoritarian, but both with a colonial past and still developing countries. It will consider the approaches of India and China to the law of the United Nations Charter, attitudes about state sovereignty, self-determination and human rights, questions of territorial and maritime boundaries, and efforts to address the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Department consent is required. Instructor: C. Bradley
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