International Trade Law

6 ECTS / Semester / English

Learning Outcomes

  • To acquire the essential knowledge regarding International Economic Law (IEL) and economic European Union Law;
  • To encourage students' critical and comparative reflection on the interpretation and application of IEL and EU Law;
  • To spread students awareness as to the importance of the economic analysis of Law;
  • To demonstrate the particular relevance of the decisions of international courts enforcing IEL and of the European Court of Justice;
  • To show the relationship between IEL and national and EU Law Skills to acquire;
  • To identify the field-matters governed by IEL and EU Law, as well as the relevant regulatory instruments;
  • To find the relevant case law decisions for each field-matter;
  • To debate the several arguments that emerge out of the specific problems that arise daily in international and European economic relations;
  • To understand the interests at issue and to propose concrete legal solutions adapted to each problem.

Syllabus

INTRODUCTION

  1. History of international and European economic integration;
  2. WTO: institutions and objectives. Relationship with the EU;
  3. Fundamentals of International and Integration Economics.

PART I - INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN TRADE LAW

  1. Principles on trade in goods (GATT). Comparative analysis of EU rules on free movement of goods and article 110.º TFEU;
  2. Commercial Defence Measures (safeguard, antidumping and countervailing measures). Comparison with the EU State Aid regime;
  3. Fundamental principles of trade in services (GATS). Comparison with the freedom to provide services (EU);
  4.  Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and International investment (TRIMS);
  5. Dispute resolution (WTO) and the question of direct effect of WTO Law in the EU

PART II: THE INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN MONETARY SYSTEM

  1. The International Monetary Fund;
  2. The free movement of capital and the Economic and Monetary Union.

 

Faculty

Professor(a) Associado(a)
Licenciado em Direito (1996), mestre em Teoria e Ciência Política (1999) e doutor em Direito (2012) pela Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Exerce…