| This one-year, full-time programme is inter-disciplinary in nature. Students have 20 hours of lectures and/or seminars a week (4 days of 5 hours each) with time for assignments. They are also required to complete a dissertation paper during the second semester on a relevant trade and/or investment topic. The South African component provides the students with an introduction to international trade and investment law, with an African focus. It covers a variety of issues relating to international trade and investment, including an introduction to basic principles of international economics. The advanced courses offered by the overseas partner universities provide students with the opportunity to specialise. | |
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 First semester First semester curriculum components: - General introduction and overview: legal research and writing (as well as general aspects of project management); computer skills; basic communication through short presentations.
- Accounting and International Development Economics: Includes basic accounting, reading financial statements, introduction to economic theory, international trade, agricultural economics and investment.
- Introduction to International Law: focus on public and private law; state responsibility, treaties, sovereignty, nationalisation, private international law, international development of law.
- Global and Regional Economic Institutes: includes an overview of global political institutions and changing functions, context of Africa in the New World order, role of UNCTAD (development in Africa, independence), African Development Bank, IMF, role and function of the EU in African development.
- Regulation of International Trade: WTO - general introduction, concept of free trade, agriculture, dumping etc.
- International Intellectual Property Law and Transfer of Technology: TRIPS, WIPO, WTO etc., licensing, pharmaceuticals.
- Forms of International Business: international sales, international finance, competition.
- Regulation of Foreign Investment in Africa: private and public aspects; agreements and privatisation, international insolvencies.
- Dispute Settlement in International Business Transactions: overview of public and private aspects, arbitration, WTO dispute settlement system, ICSID.
- International Business and environmental and social considerations: includes international environmental law, ethics, human rights etc.
- Introduction to European Union Law.
- Introduction to African Economic Relations, including GSP, AGOA, EPA, Cotonou, SA/EU TDCA, etc. African Regional and Sub-Regional Organisations: AU, PTA, SADC etc.;
- Implementation of International Economic Agreements into Domestic Law in Africa.
- The role of Africa and African Lawyers in International Trade Negotiations and the role of lawyers in International Economic and Business Transactions.
Second semester Students spend the first part of the full-time one-year degree in South Africa (with alternate intakes at the University of Pretoria and the University of the Western Cape), and they have the option, depending on available funding, of spending the second semester at one of the assigned overseas partner universities. Curriculum Download the 2009 curriculum at the University of Pretoria
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LecturersClasses are presented by leading local and international specialists from various diverse fields, resulting in a comprehensive multi-disciplinary academic experience for students. The primary instructors/lecturers include leading academics from the law faculties and related departments at UWC and UP, as well as from partner universities. Specialists from international organisations such as the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD) and the World Bank lecture on the programme. Modules are also presented by practising lawyers and representatives from South African institutions including the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and the competition tribunal.
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