LAWS371-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018

International Investment Law and Arbitration

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 16 July 2018
End Date: Sunday, 18 November 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 27 July 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 12 October 2018

Description

The course examines selected problems in international investment law and arbitration relevant to a New Zealand context. Alternate year offering.

In recent years, International Investment Law has been one of the most dynamic areas of international law. The course will address
• the substantive rules, i.e. the interpretation and application of investment treaties, expropriation, standards of protection, the Overseas Investment Act, as well as
• the procedural rules, i.e. the settlement of disputes, in particular the controversial investor-state dispute settlement.

Together with LAWS338 (World Trade Law) and LAWS370 (Problems in International and Regional Trade), this course belongs to the broader area of International Economic Law.

Learning Outcomes

  • Students will be expected to gain a solid knowledge of the relevant legal framework as well as to develop their capacity to critically analyse issues and developments in this field. The present course will be of interest to students wanting to know more about the international investment rules and their impact on business and public policy, and to broaden their knowledge of international law.  

    Upon successful completion of this course and in accordance with the graduate profile of the Bachelor of Laws degree, students will be able to:

    Assessment task: Essay
  • Carry out independent research and communicate the findings of their research in written form
  • Understand and explain the interplay between investment rules and other legal instruments
  • Locate relevant primary materials
  • Subject those primary materials to critical analysis and use them to create an argument based on international law
  • Relate the knowledge acquired to current matters of international concern

    Assessment task: Final exam
  • Identify legal issues in factual scenarios and construct legal responses to those issues
  • Understand, interpret, apply and critique relevant legal instruments of investment law
  • Read, understand, interpret and critique treaties and the rules relating to their operation

Prerequisites

(i) LAWS101 and (ii) LAWS110; RP: LAWS324

Restrictions

LAWS333 and ILAP634

Co-requisites

Recommended Preparation

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Christian Riffel

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Essay 21 Sep 2018 35%
Final Exam 65%


This course may be assessed by way of an essay (worth 35%) and a final exam (worth 65%).

The assessment in this course will be confirmed in the first week of lectures.

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Dolzer, Rudolf. , Schreuer, Christoph; Principles of international investment law ; Second edition;

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $790.00

International fee $3,600.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 10 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Faculty of Law .

All LAWS371 Occurrences

  • LAWS371-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018
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