Faculty of Law, The University of West Indies at Mona

LA33A Trade Relations Law 1: The Private Law of International Trade
	1 . General The completion of either Law of Contract (LL.B. Old Regulations) or of both Law of Contract I and Law of Contract II is a prerequisite for this course. This course will be taught either in the second Semester of the second year of the LL.B. programme or in the first or second Semester of the third year of that programme. This course is an optional course. 2. Course Objective This course is designed to provide an introduction to the special legal problems of private law associated with foreign trade. It forms a pair with Trade Relations Law II, which examines the public international law aspects of foreign trade law. The content of each of the two courses is nevertheless designed so that each course is capable of being studied independently of the other. 3. Course Content i. The Private International Law of Contract ii. International Payments iii. Carriage of Goods by Sea iv. Carriage of Goods by Air v. International Arbitration vi. Recognition of Foreign Judgments 4. Method of Teaching This course will be taught in two lectures and one tutorial per week. Each lecture will be of one hour's duration and the tutorial will also be of one hour's duration. 5. Method of Assessment 96 This course will be assessed by way of a two-hour final examination at the end of the semester. Students will be required to answer three questions, one of which may be a compulsory question from a total of six questions.