School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2023 Units. All assessment changes will be published by 20th February 2023. All students are reminded to check the handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    International Trade Law
  • Unit Code

    LAW4110
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Cecilia ANTHONY DAS

Description

This unit provides an introduction to international trade law. The unit is designed for students with no prior knowledge of the area, though completion of LAW4108 International Law would be an advantage. The unit surveys trade law from the creation of private contractual relationships of parties, the international carriage of goods, through to the legal regulation of trade. Students will be introduced to the Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and related legal rules and institutions relevant to the Wilhelm C Vis International Mooting Competition.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will have two blocks of two days of contact including lectures and tutorial exercises. A moot exercise may be scheduled outside the contact hours depending on class numbers.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from LAW2350, LAW3608, MAN3457

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply the CISG to a problem question.
  2. Describe the contractual law created by the CISG.
  3. Discuss the effect of trade policy as expressed by anti-dumping rules, and international bodies.
  4. Discuss the management of risk in international trade; particularly in payment systems.
  5. Explain the contractual effect of various INCOTERMS; (Standard contractual terms used to create contracts across languages).
  6. Identify the principles expressed by various international trade agreements and relate those principles to Australian society.
  7. Identify the role and effect of the arbitration in international trade:
  8. Outline the differences between domestic Australian contract law and the contract law defined by the CISG.

Unit Content

  1. Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.
  2. INCOTERMS.
  3. Regional trade agreements and policy.
  4. Dispute resolution institutions and arbitration.
  5. International trade bodies: World Trade Organisation (WTO) and United Nations (UN).
  6. Anti-dumping regulation.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures will be used to introduce content, concept and principles relevant to the subject and provide direction to students in research. Tutorials will allow students to develop oral and written responses to lecture and research materials, and students are encouraged to work collaboratively in informal groups. There will be an emphasis on research and critical analysis of legal instruments and political responses to the subject. Students will be expected to exhibit an ability to undertake relevant self-directed research to generate and evaluate ideas and appreciate multiple perspectives. Students are required to apply appropriate skills in oral and written communication.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ParticipationParticipation in tutorial exercise including a written submission and moot exercise20%
Research PaperResearch Paper30%
ExaminationFinal examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ParticipationParticipation in tutorial exercise including a written submission and moot exercise20%
Research PaperResearch Paper30%
ExaminationFinal Exam50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    International Trade Law
  • Unit Code

    LAW4110
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Cecilia ANTHONY DAS

Description

This unit provides an introduction to international trade law. The unit is designed for students with no prior knowledge of the area, though completion of LAW4108 International Law would be an advantage. The unit surveys trade law from the creation of private contractual relationships of parties, the international carriage of goods, through to the legal regulation of trade. Students will be introduced to the Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and related legal rules and institutions relevant to the Wilhelm C Vis International Mooting Competition.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students will have two blocks of two days of contact including lectures and tutorial exercises. A moot exercise may be scheduled outside the contact hours depending on class numbers.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from LAW2350, LAW3608, MAN3457

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply the CISG to a problem question.
  2. Describe the contractual law created by the CISG.
  3. Discuss the effect of trade policy as expressed by anti-dumping rules, and international bodies.
  4. Discuss the management of risk in international trade; particularly in payment systems.
  5. Explain the contractual effect of various INCOTERMS; (Standard contractual terms used to create contracts across languages).
  6. Identify the principles expressed by various international trade agreements and relate those principles to Australian society.
  7. Identify the role and effect of the arbitration in international trade:
  8. Outline the differences between domestic Australian contract law and the contract law defined by the CISG.

Unit Content

  1. Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.
  2. INCOTERMS.
  3. Regional trade agreements and policy.
  4. Dispute resolution institutions and arbitration.
  5. International trade bodies: World Trade Organisation (WTO) and United Nations (UN).
  6. Anti-dumping regulation.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures will be used to introduce content, concept and principles relevant to the subject and provide direction to students in research. Tutorials will allow students to develop oral and written responses to lecture and research materials, and students are encouraged to work collaboratively in informal groups. There will be an emphasis on research and critical analysis of legal instruments and political responses to the subject. Students will be expected to exhibit an ability to undertake relevant self-directed research to generate and evaluate ideas and appreciate multiple perspectives. Students are required to apply appropriate skills in oral and written communication.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ParticipationParticipation in tutorial exercise including a written submission and moot exercise20%
Research PaperResearch Paper30%
ExaminationFinal examination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ParticipationParticipation in tutorial exercise including a written submission and moot exercise20%
Research PaperResearch Paper30%
ExaminationFinal Exam50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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