Legal Studies

This course covers the basics of negotiating, making and interpreting international commercial contracts principles and techniques. This course is divided into two parts: general and sub-theories. The general part covers an introduction to international business contracts, international business cooperation Identical structure, language features of international commercial contracts, translation of international commercial contracts, interpretation of international commercial contracts the negotiation of international commercial contracts. The sub-theory part is about the principles, main clauses of the main types of international commercial contracts. Paragraph production and reference texts are introduced one by one. Involving international sales contracts, international commercial agency contracts, national International investment contracts, international commercial loan contracts, etc.

This course provides students with an understanding of the logistics and substance of public international law, that is, the law that applies to how states relate to other states and some non-state actors in global politics. It asks what laws exist in the global political arena and how those laws affect the structure, content, and outcomes of global political, social, and economic interactions. As such, the course explores both what international law is (how it comes to be, and when and how it matters), as well as various places in which international law might matter in the international arena (both in terms of the structure of the international arena and issues that arise in contemporary international relations).

European Union (EU) competition law, along with US antitrust law, are two main streams in the world's competition law, each having their own unique features influenced by various economic theories. This course analyzes the basic framework of global competition law and the leading principles and cases of EU competition law.

In practice, economic evidence submitted by economic consultants is facilitated before the EU courts. The class examines real case experience throughout the term. 

In an era of technology, health crisis, and transnational thinking, this course covers cutting edge issues such as gender discrimination through algorithms, sexual harassment after #metoo, reproductive rights and strategic litigation, and how feminist legal theory questions the way the law is constructed and applied according to stereotypical views of identity and systemic discrimination. The course investigates how queer theory influences the legal field by rejecting a binary view of identity and encompassing issues challenging LGBTQI groups. It explores what is learned from these various legal standpoints while encountering changes in family, criminal, and employment law; whether queer theory influences gender law; and whether there are new ways to consider legal concepts such as consent, personal autonomy, and intersectionality.