JUR1230 – International Commercial Law: contracts, applicable law and arbitration
Course description
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
Course content
Are parties to international commercial contracts completely free to regulate their relationship or to ensure that the transaction is governed by a set of rules fully agreeable to them? Is their freedom enhanced if they chose to submit disputes to arbitration? This course explains how the legal framework interacts with the parties’ freedom to contract in an international context. Students are expected to take active part in the course, since a part of the course will be dedicated to case studies.
Learning outcome
This course gives the tools to properly appreciate how far the drafting of an international contract may go, as well as to evaluate whether a claim based on an international contract is likely to be enforceable according to its terms or not, including in arbitration.
Admission
Students who are admitted to study programmes or individual courses at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for by registering a study plan in StudentWeb.
International applicants, if you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information
about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.
Nordic applicants that are accepted to study programmes or individual courses at UiO can be admitted to this course.
Prerequisites
Recommended previous knowledge
Please note that lectures and curriculum for this course is aimed at students at master degree level.
However, the achievement requirements are adjusted for students who take the subject at bachelor degree level.
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with JUR5230
- 10 credits overlap with VALCOMM – Internasjonal forretningsjus (discontinued)
- 10 credits overlap with JUXCOMM – Internasjonal forretningsjus (discontinued)
- 10 credits overlap with JUTCOMM – International Commercial Law (discontinued)
- 10 credits overlap with PILCOMM – International Commercial Law (discontinued)
- 10 credits overlap with MARLCOMM – International Commercial Law (discontinued)
- 10 credits overlap with JUVOCOMM
- 10 credits overlap with JUS5230 – International Commercial Law: contracts, applicable law and arbitration
Teaching
The course will consist primarily of lectures and group exercises.
Language of teaching for this course is English. This means that all
communication during lectures/seminars will be in English, and all
literature and auxiliary materials are in English.
Examination
24 hour home exam, maximum 2000 words.
Footnotes should be included in the word count of the main text. Not included in this count: front page (title etc.), summary, table of contents and references (bibliography). (If relevant for the paper).
Assignments/papers with text exceeding the word limit will not be accepted.
Use of sources and rules for citing:
Familiarize yourself with the use of sources and citations in legal writing. In an exam situation, using other people’s material without declaring it in a clear manner may be considered cheating or an attempt at cheating. You must cite any sources you draw on.
Your exam paper must be your own independent work. Exam candidates are not permitted to communicate about the exam question(s) or distribute draft answers or exam answers.
If you break the rules, you may be suspected of cheating or attempted cheating.
Language of examination
The examination text is given in English, and you submit your response in English.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.
Marking criteria for written examination
This guide is used by examiners for grading elective courses at the Faculty of Law.
Explanations and appeals
Resit an examination
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Resitting an examination.
- There are special rules for resitting a passed examination in the master's programme in Law.
Withdrawal from an examination
It is possible to take this exam up to 3 times. If you withdraw from the exam after the deadline or during the exam, this will be counted as an examination attempt.
There are special rules for resitting a passed examination in the master's programme in Law.
Special examination arrangements
Application form, deadline and requirements for special examination arrangements.
Evaluation
The course is subject to continuous evaluation. At regular intervals we also ask students to participate in a more comprehensive evaluation.
Other
The language for this course is English. Students enrolled in the Masterprogrammet i rettsvitenskap
must pass one
English subject as part of their degree, this course will meet these
obligations.
This subject is taught at Bachelor's level. The subject is also taught at Master's level (10 ECTS credits), see JUS5230 – International Commercial Law: contracts, applicable law and arbitration
Please see the chapter above, regarding overlap. For instances of overlap, credits will be deducted on the subject at Bachelors's level.
The course may be integrated by the knowledge achieved in the course on JUR1240 – Comparative Private Law (BA) (discontinued), where the main features of the law of contracts in the most important legal families are analysed and compared. Also the course JUR1280 – Internasjonal privatrett gives knowledge that is relevant, and in part overlapping in respect of the question of the choice of the applicable law and of the choice of forum; however, this course is in the Norwegian language.