International Trade Law
Code
MM114
Department
Área de Ensino
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Maria Helena Brito
Weekly hours
4.5
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
International Trade Law deals with the study of principles and rules that govern international commercial transactions, i.e., commercial transactions having relevant connections with different systems of law.
Students must discover the plurality of sources and of methods as a distinguishing feature of International Trade Law.Subject matter
I. Sources of law in International Trade Law.
II. International commercial contracts.
1. The concept of international contract. The law applicable to international commercial contracts. The Rome Convention and the Rome I Regulation on the law applicable to contractual obligations. The UNIDROIT Principles of international commercial contracts and the Principles of European contract law.
2. International sale of goods. The Vienna Convention on the international sale of goods. Incoterms.
3. International agency. The Hague Convention on agency.
4. International leasing and international factoring.
III. International litigation.
1. The Brussels I Regulation and the 1968 Brussels Convention on jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgements in civil and commercial matters.
2. International commercial arbitration. The 1958 New York Convention. International arbitration under Portuguese Law 63/2011.Bibliography
BRITO, Maria Helena – Direito do Comércio Internacional, Coimbra, 2004
BRITO, Maria Helena – “Portugal”, in Derecho de los contratos internacionales en Latinoamérica, Portugal y España, Madrid, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, 2008, p. 665-733
DALHUISEN on Transnational Comparative, Commercial, Financial and Trade Law, 4ª ed, Oxford, Portland, 2010
FERNÁNDEZ ROZAS, José Carlos & O. – Derecho de los negocios internacionales, Madrid, 2007
GALGANO, Francesco, MARRELLA, Fabrizio – Diritto del commercio internazionale, 2ª ed, Padova, 2007
GILDEGGEN, Rainer – Internationale Handelsgeschäfte. Eine Einführung in das Recht des grenzüberschreitenden Handels, 4ª ed., München, 2012
HOUTTE, Hans van – The Law of International Trade, 2ª ed, London, 2002
JACQUET, Jean-Michel & O. – Droit du commerce international, Paris, 2007
LIMA PINHEIRO, Luís – Direito comercial internacional, Coimbra, 2005
LIMA PINHEIRO, Luís – Arbitragem transnacional. A determinação do estatuto da arbitragem, Coimbra, 2005Teaching method
Classes of this discipline are taught in an interactive system. Based on the theoretical knowledge acquired in the first classes concerning the sources and the methods of International Trade Law, students shall present interactive displays about subjects comprised in parts II e III of the program.