International Commercial Law

  • Credits: 4
  • Ending: Examination
  • Range: 2P + 2C
  • Semester: summer
  • Faculty of Economic Informatics

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Teaching results

The main goal of the course is to clarify the main principles of international trade law and international trade.
Knowledge and understanding: Students will gain knowledge of the basic specifics of international commercial law, its sources, and methods of regulating legal relations with a foreign element in commercial relations. Students are then able to apply the acquired knowledge in specific cases arising in practice or in the further study of international economic relations.
Skills: The student will acquire skills in the use of various sources of international business law - international and domestic origin, public and private - can analyze and apply them in a specific situation in the regulation of legal relations with a foreign element.
Competences: After completing the course the student will acquire competencies in the field of regulation of legal relations with a foreign element, material and contractual rights, thanks to which he is able to solve situations arising in international economic relations.

Indicative content

1. CONCEPT AND SUBJECT MATTER OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW
• The concept and subject of International private law
• Definition of International Commercial Law
• Subject of the International Commercial Law
• Basic conceptual definition of institutes - foreign element, conflict of legal orders
2. SOURCES OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW
• Sources of International Commercial Law
• application priority of sources
3. SOURCES OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW II.
• auxiliary sources - international business practices, form contracts and business conditions, international rules of interpretation (INCOTERMS), principles of international trade agreements (UNIDROIT, PECL)
4. SPECIFICS OF SELECTED LEGAL SYSTEMS - CONTINENTAL LEGAL SYSTEM
• the basic features of the continental legal system
• structure of sources and their hierarchy - (constitution), law, by-laws, legal custom, principle of justice, business customs, general legal principles
• Structure of the continental legal system - public and private law, areas of the continental legal system (Romanesque, Germanic, Nordic, socialist)
5. SPECIFICS OF SELECTED LEGAL SYSTEMS - ANGLO-AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM
• basic features of the Anglo-American legal system
• structure of sources - precedent, legal law, customary law, legal literature, general legal principles; US Constitution, acts of executive power
• common law and equity
• the judiciary
6. SUBJECTS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW
• States – subject of international public law, regulator, trader
• International organizations
• Natural persons
• Legal entities
• Eligibility, Conflict of laws rules on eligibility, multiple citizenship, nationality of legal entities
7. RIGHTS IN REM IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE
• Ownership, possession, rights in rem to other people's property
• Establishment and termination of rights in rem
• Conflict of laws rules related to rights in rem,
8. OBLIGATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE I.
• Elements of obligations
• Types of obligations
• Origin and termination of obligations
• Legal acts, requisites of validity of legal acts
• Contracts, requisites of contracts
• Conflict of laws rules related to obligations
9. OBLIGATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE II. - INTERNATIONAL PURCHASE AGREEMENT
• Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)
• Obligations of the seller and the buyer according to CISG
• Claims for breach of contract in a material and insignificant manner
• INTERNATIONAL WORK CONTRACT
10. OBLIGATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE III.
• MANDATE CONTRACT,
• COMMISSION CONTRACT,
• COMMERCIAL AGENCY CONTRACT,
• BROKERAGE CONTRACT, etc.
11. OBLIGATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE IV. - TRANSPORT CONTRACTS.
• CONTRACT ON TRANSPORT OF GOODS,
• International rail transport (COTIF - CIV, CIM),
• international road transport (CMR),
• international air transport (Montreal Convention),
• international maritime transport,
• international inland waterway transport (CMNI)
• CONTRACT ON RENTAL OF VEHICLE,
• CONTRACT ON THE OPERATION OF THE VEHICLE
• Other types of contracts
12. SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE
• judicial settlement of disputes
• arbitration proceedings
• mediation
13. INTERNATIONAL PROCEDURE LAW
• Jurisdiction of the courts - general - general rule, exclusive general jurisdiction; special - alternative, exclusive special jurisdiction
• Obstacle to the case - litis pendentis
• Recognition and enforcement of judgments of courts of other Member States

Support literature

Support literature:
WINKLER, M., HARAKAĽOVÁ, D., HOLUB, D., JURKOVIČOVÁ, L., KROPAJ, M., MAGUROVÁ, H., SLEZÁKOVÁ, A., VAČOKOVÁ, L., VETERNÍKOVÁ, M. 2021. Právo v medzinárodnom obchode. 1. vydanie. Bratislava : Wolters Kluwer SR s. r. o., 2021. ISBN 978-80-571-0320-2.
CSACH, K., GREGOVÁ ŠIRICOVÁ, Ľ., JÚDOVÁ, E. 2018. Úvod do štúdia medzinárodného práva súkromného a procesného. 2. vydanie. Bratislava : Wolters Kluwer SR s. r. o., 2018. ISBN 978-80-8168-783-9.

LYSINA, ŠTEFANKOVÁ, ĎURIŠ, ŠTEVČEK. Zákon o medzinárodnom práve súkromnom a procesnom. Komentár. 2011. C.H. Beck. ISBN 978-80-7400-415-5
MARTYNIV, H. 2012. Medzinárodné právo obchodné pre ekonómov. Bratislava : Ekonóm,
2012. ISBN 978-80-225-3414-7.
MARTYNIV, H. 2011. Kúpna zmluva v medzinárodných obchodných vzťahoch (1. vyd.). Bratislava: Ekonóm. 2011. ISBN 978-80-225-3167-2.
ĎURIŠ, M. A ŠTEVČEK M. 2005. Základy medzinárodného práva obchodného pre ekonómov. Bratislava: Ekonóm. 2005. 149 s. ISBN 8022520659.
ROZEHNALOVÁ, N. 2010 Právo mezinárodního obchodu. 3., aktualiz. a dopl. vyd. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, Česká republika, 2010. 549 s. ISBN 9788073575625
VETERNÍKOVÁ, M., HOLUB, D., KROPAJ, M. 2017. Základy obchodného práva pre ekonómov. Wolters Kluwer, 2017. 312 s. ISBN 9788081687273.
AUGUST, R. 2012. International Business Law: International Edition. Pearson Education Limited, 2012. ISBN 0273768611.

Requirements to complete the course

20% continuous control of studies in class (active participation, control questions, assignments for individual work, test), 20% final test, 60% oral exam

Student workload

participation in lectures 22 h, participation in seminars 22 h, preparation for seminars 12 h, preparation for the final test 18 h, preparation for the exam 30 h

Language whose command is required to complete the course

Slovak

Date of approval: 10.02.2023

Date of the latest change: 13.01.2022