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LAWS6059: International Business Law
2025 unit information
The objective of this unit is to provide students with an introduction to a number of areas of international business law and to provide an opportunity to study some of those areas in more detail. It begins with an examination of the concept of free trade, the international structures and organizations that have been created to foster the liberalization of international trade, and the scope of the law relating to international business transactions. The unit highlights the importance of ethics in international business and introduces students to the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1977 (US) and the Bribery Act 2010 (UK). It then focuses on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale Goods (CISG), followed by a consideration of International Commercial Terms (Incoterms 2020) and carriage of goods, especially carriage of goods by sea. The unit then deals with the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (UCP600), financing of exports and methods of doing business in foreign markets, including through agents and distributors and international licensing transactions. Other topics may vary from year to year and may include an introduction to international tax, the World Trade Organization (WTO), including anti-dumping and countervailing duties law and international dispute settlement, especially international commercial arbitration. Refer to the Sydney Law School timetable - https://canvas.sydney.edu.au/courses/4533/pages/postgraduate-lecture-timetable
Unit details and rules
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Sydney Law School
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Law |
| Credit points | 6 |
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LAWS3438 or LAWS5138 |
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Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. critically analyse laws related to the international sale of goods, carriage of goods, and the financing of international sales transactions.
- LO2. evaluate different methods for entering into business transactions in another country and justify an optimal approach.
- LO3. critically evaluate the essentials of international commercial arbitration and develop a detailed argument for their application in given contexts.
- LO4. conduct thorough research in the area of international business transactions law, and proficiently advise on the application of key aspects of international business transactions to real-world scenarios.
Unit availability
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal evening | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Intensive May - June 2025
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Block mode | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Intensive October - November 2025
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Block mode | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Semester 2b 2025
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Block mode | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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