Overview
This paper introduces students to the multilateral legal rules governing international trade with particular focus on the World Trade Organisation. There will also be a focus on recent challenges to the multilateral system arising out of events including the US China trade war and the Covid-19 pandemic.
About this paper
Paper title | Special Topic: International Trade Regulation |
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Subject | Law |
EFTS | 0.1 |
Points | 15 points |
Teaching period | Summer School (On campus) |
Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $730.20 |
International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- 96 LAWS points
- Pre or Corequisite
- Any 200-level LAWS paper not already passed
- Limited to
- LLB, LLB(Hons)
- Notes
- Not all optional papers will be available in any given year.
- Eligibility
- LLB and LLB(Hons) students (Otago) will be eligible to enrol in this paper if they meet the prerequisite regarding second-year Law papers.
- Contact
- law@otago.ac.nz
- More information link
- Teaching staff
- Textbooks
Course materials are provided.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Lifelong learning, Scholarship, Communication, Critical thinking, Ethics, Information literacy, Research, Self-motivation.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
- Knowledge of the basics of trade policy and of the objections to and sources of opposition to liberalised trade
- Knowledge of how economic and political forces have shaped trade policy in New Zealand and elsewhere and how they may shape future policy
- Knowledge of the institutional framework of international trading relations
- Knowledge of the core components of international trade rules as they affect New Zealand and its trading partners
- Knowledge of important World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement cases in areas of trade studied
- The ability to analyse the application of international trade rules to the types of factual situations that may be faced by the New Zealand government and New Zealand exporters
- The ability to adapt knowledge and understanding of WTO rules to the regional and bilateral contexts