Learning objectives

The course is included in the learning area on Internationalization of the markets. The course aims to provide students with the legal framework relating to the international trade and investment law in the context of the globalized world economy (World Trade Organization, bilateral investment treaties, and free trade agreements).
At the end of the course, students will be able to identify, outline and explain the basic principles that apply in international trade matters. They will be able also to identify, evaluate and compare standards and investment protection procedures in different countries.
Students will also acquire the ability to face and solve practical problems typical of the professional context in which they will operate, thus orienting their competence to the goal of contractual compliance and to the prevention of the judicial conflicts. Students will also be able to verify the practical and applicative consequences of the theoretical and regulatory framework and to set, in written and oral form (and also through group work, written exercises and the method of Problem Based Solving - PBS), the solution to concrete issues, using the appropriate and specific disciplinary vocabulary, adopting the correct lines of reasoning and argumentation, and formulating autonomous judgments. The teaching method used is functional to the continuous learning and updating of acquired knowledge.