Law & Economics Courses

International relations are shifting as multilateral trade and cooperation are being renegotiated between countries, such as the US and the UK, and trade blocks. Meanwhile, China is launching the New ...

The Public International Law course will look at the role of international law in responding to today's global challenges. Together, we will examine the nature and function of international law, i...

Interested in learning about human rights? This one-week introduction course focuses on the major features of international human rights law. It begins by examining the philosophical and political bas...

This summer school course will focus on the recent issues and challenges the EU's legal system encounters. As the world is experiencing change with an intensity that seems unprecedented, also...

This course deals with the effects of European Competition Law on the behavior of businesses in the European Union (EU). An effective common market within the EU requires a fair and undistorted compet...

Oceans are essential for maintaining life on earth. The current regime for the oceans is built on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982 (LOSC). This framework convention div...

In this summer school course the focus will be on the recent and controversial issues the EU's trade law and policy is confronted with. For example, the response of the EU to the globally growing ...

The financial crisis of 2008 shook up the world and was coined as the worst financial crisis since the 1930’s Great Depression. Only a year later, the European Sovereign Debt Crisis destabilized...

Failing Corporate governance of financial institutions has often been mentioned as an important cause of the crisis. Consequently, having a deeper understanding how Corporate boards are formed and how...

New technologies are constantly testing well-established principles of financial law. Investors and other users of financial services can take advantage of new FinTech opportunities to have better ser...

Many executives say they use M&A as a means to consolidate or expand the market position of their firm or increase its production efficiency. Most mergers and acquisitions, however, fail to create...

This course offers you a challenging introduction to conflict resolution and mediation skills. The main focus of the course is to make you familiar with the backgrounds of human conflict beh...

Students will learn how issues of sustainability are dealt with in the legal order at the international, national and at the European Union level. The summer school will address how the law can b...

Are you interested in the role of law in international affairs, and in particular in the way States make use of the law to cooperate in the shared exploitation of the oceans? This intensive and intera...

This course deals with the highlights of Law & Economics and Europe. In the first part of this course, European Competition Law and its relationship with the economy are discussed. In the second p...

Corporations and Mergers and Acquisitions (M and A) provide excellent case studies for Law and Economics. This special track deals with these two subjects. We will deal with the underlying causes of t...