Learning outcomes. The aim of the course is to give a general overview of international legal rules and institutions governing the economic financial and trade relationships between States. The course is designed to offer conceptual tools to understand the international legal foundations of world ec-onomy governance which is deeply modifying the notion of state sovereignty . A special concern of the course is the in-depth understanding of some specific selected areas of trade law.
Programme. The object of the course is the study of the basic legal problems of international relationships in the field of economics. The firs part of the course examines the basic structure of the most important international economic organizations (IMF, World Bank, WTO) and their interrelationship. The second part is focused on the substantive aspects of the law of the WTO with specific reference to the rules of trade in goods, in services and on trade related aspects of intellectual propriety rights, the law of regional integration and the application of rules through case law.