
International Trade Law
Program: Bachelor of Business and Administration (Specialisations: Business, Finance, Governance)
ECTS: 5
Lecturer: Michał Stępień
Email: michal.stepien@uwr.edu.pl
Type: Compulsory
Level: Elementary
Lecture
Number of hours: 2h X 8 weeks = 16 hours (1 semester)
Classes
Number of hours: 2h X 7 weeks = 14 hours (1 semester)
Biography of the Professor
Assistant in the Department of International and European Law, an author of scientific publications on theory of International Law, EU Law and sources of International Law, a reporter of The Yearbook of Diplomatic and Consular Law. He is especially interested in problem of fragmentation of International Law and judicial settlement of international disputes. He is also a member International Law Association – Polish Branch. He lists his main hobbies as cycling and developing of embedded operating systems.
Requirements for passing a course
Written exam, two questions from the list below, to pass a student needs 50 %.
Exam questions
1. Establishment of GATT
2. The WTO: functions and structure
3. EU Customs Union
4. GATS
5. TRIPS
6. WTO-EU Relations
7. Institution of WTO Settlement Dispute System
8. Jurisdiction and applicable law in WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding
9. Remedies and compliance in WTO Dispute Settlement
10. WTO and Collective Security Issues
11. Most Favoured Nation Treatment
12. National Treatment
13. Barriers to Market Access for Goods
14. Subsidies and Countervailing Duties
15. Anti-dumping
16. Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade
17. The WTO Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement)
18. Government Procurement
19. Export Measures and Control
Books
-The Oxford handbook of international trade, Ed. by D.Bethlehem [et al.], Oxford University Press, 2009
-WTO: institutions and dispute settlement, Ed. by R.Wolfrum, P-T. Stoll, K. Kaiser, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, 2006
-M.Matsushita, T.J. Schoenbaum, P.C. Mavroidis, “The World Trade Organization: law, practice and policy”, Oxford University Press, 2009
Sources
-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
-Marrakesh Agreement establishing the World Trade Organizations
-WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding
-Treaty on European Union
-Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
-General Agreement on Trade in Services
-Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
-Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement)
All legal acts are available at:
1. https://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/legal_e.htm
2. https://prawo.uni.wroc.pl/node/28199