International contracts and arbitration
1
2022-2023
03220549
Law
Portuguese
Face-to-face
15.0
Elective
3rd Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Business Law/Civil Procedure.
Teaching Methods
Methodology: The teacher will give oral classes about the subjects. Students will be invited to discuss the subject. Students must prepare in advance short speeches about one particular theme. The teacher will previously give the students court decisions, foreign and Portuguese laws and some problems to be studied.
Evaluation: continuous evaluation, including the preparation and presentation of a written paper.
Learning Outcomes
Purposes:
a) Analysis of problems concerning international commercial contracts and arbitration that where not studied during 1st. Cycle;
b) Make clear the national and international legal regime in what concerns international commercial contracts;
c) Achieving knowledge about some of the most frequent international commercial contracts;
a) Achieving knowledge about the national and international law on arbitration as well as about some of the most frequently used arbitration rules
Competencies:
b) Knowledge about up-to-date international commercial contracts and arbitration problems;
c) Knowledge about practical themes;
d) Wide vision about subjects that will allow students to prepare a Master Thesis concerning matters which are not often studied or not studied at all, stimulating rigorous investigation and analysis;
e) Critical view about how Portuguese and International Law deals with some problems, suggesting alternative ways.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
PART I – International Commercial Contracts
Types of international commercial contracts
Statutory law and international law related to international commercial contracts
Contracting procedures
Typical clauses
Applicable law
Analysis of some international commercial contracts
PART II - International Commercial Arbitration
Advantages of the international commercial arbitration
Ad hoc and institutionalized arbitration
International and national discipline
The arbitration convention
Arbitrability
Autonomy of the arbitration clause and the Kompetenz-Kompetenz principle
The applicable law: the merits and the process
The decision
A few especially complex themes.
Assessment Methods
Evaluation
Evaluation: continuous evaluation, including the preparation and presentation of a written paper: 100.0%
Bibliography
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Pinheiro, Luís de Lima, Direito comercial internacional, Almedina, Coimbra, 2005
Soares, Maria Ângela/Ramos, Rui Moura, Do contrato de compra e venda internacional, DDC, 1981,p.73-290
Almeida, Carlos Ferreira de, Meios jurídicos de resolução de conflitos económicos, Boletim da Faculdade de Direito de Bissau, 2, 1993, p.173 e ss.
Correia, Ferrer, «Da arbitragem comercial internacional», RDE, 1984/1985, p.e ss.
Fouchard, Gaillard, Goldman, On international Commercial Arbitration, The Hague, 1999
Hanotiau, B., Complex arbitrations. Multiparty, multicontract, multi-issue and class actions, The Hague, 2005
Pinheiro, Luís de Lima, Arbitragem transnacional. A determinação do estatuto da arbitragem, Almedina, Coimbra, 2005