Globalization and international law

Academiejaar: 2007-2008 Code opleidingsonderdeel: MREC0710 Semester: 1e semester Studiepunten: 3 Uren Studietijd: 84 Uren theorie: Uren praktijk: 30,00 Uren andere: Deeltijds programma: Titularis(sen) Georgios Pavlakos Taal waarin de cursus wordt gedoceerd: Engels Info semesterexamen: verplicht semesterexamen in januari Info contractrestrictie: 1. Aanvangscompetenties (begintermen) *Algemene competenties *Volgtijdelijkheid 2. Eindcompetenties (eindtermen) 3. Inhoud This course looks at the impact of globalisation, and more specifically of economic globalisation, on international law. The emphasis of traditional international law on relationships between States is challenged by the impact of many other actors on international economic relations. These actors include intergovernmental organisations that support economic globalisation, such as the World Trade Organisation and the international financial institutions, and  private actors that organise across borders, such as  transnational corporations and international non-governmental organisations.  It has been argued that in order to deal with the change in international economic relations,  international law is insufficient, and that instead one should move towards a law regulating global economic relationships that includes both elements of public and private law at different levels of regulation ranging from the global to the domestic, and elements of self-regulation by non-State actors.  International dispute settlement in particular currently attempts to come to terms with globalisation, i.e. by increasingly allowing non-State actors to intervene in inter-State dispute settlement as friends of the court, by reassessing the confidential nature of State-corporate arbitration when the results of such an arbitration have a direct impact on living conditions in the State concerned, or by devising new forms of arbitration between various non-State actors. A special section of the course will deal with efforts of the law (again at the various levels) at orienting economic relations towards achieving human development.  4. Werkvormen Contactmomenten: Hoorcolleges Werkcolleges 5. Evaluatievormen Schriftelijk werkstuk: met mondelinge toelichting Presentatie 6. Noodzakelijk studiemateriaal 7. Facultatief studiemateriaal 8. Studiebegeleiding laatste aanpassing: laatste aanpassing: 26/09/2007 11:13 sophie.verfaillie