JUR1230 – International Commercial Law (BA)
Course description
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
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Course content
The course aims at providing an understanding of the legal framework that governs international business transactions. The parties are not completely free to regulate their relationship or to ensure that the transaction is governed by a set of rules fully agreeable to them. This course explains how the legal framework restricts the parties’ freedom to contract in an international context. It gives therefore 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.
Students are expected to take active part in the course, since a part of the course will be dedicated to case studies.
Learning outcome
On completion of this course, the student should be able to:
- Identify sources of regulation that are applicable to international business transactions: international conventions, national law, commercial practices and other forms of “soft law”;
- Evaluate the extent to which the parties may derogate from the above mentioned rules in their contracts;
- Understand the mechanisms of choice of forum and choice of law, permitting to identify the law applicable to the contract;
- Appreciate the effectiveness of these rules in case the parties have chosen to submit any dispute regarding their transaction to international arbitration.
See ‘Detailed course information’ regarding requirements and syllabus.
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
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
In the spring semester 2022, the exam will be a 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 (with name and 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.
Examination support material
All support materials will be permitted throughout the exam
Use of sources and rules for citing
The standard rules on cheating and plagiarism apply to assignments. This means that you must provide a reference whenever you draw upon another person’s ideas, words or research in your answer to the exam question(s). You cannot copy text directly from textbooks, journal articles, court judgments etc. without highlighting that the text is copied.
Thus, pieces of text quoted verbatim from these and other sources must be italicised or otherwise highlighted so that it is obvious that the pieces of text are quotes.
Example of highlighting in a text:
"Laurent Bailay and Bernard Van der Lande propose to define a mobile payment as a “payment for products or services between two parties for which a mobile device, such as a mobile phone, plays a key role in the realization of the payment”. (European Commission, GREEN PAPER Towards an integrated European market for card, internet and mobile payments, page 5)"
Failure to cite sources or highlight quotes in your exam answer may be considered as evidence of 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
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), 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.