Study Law Abroad: China Program
Curriculum Schedule - China 2010
| Course Dates | Time | Classroom | Course | Professor | Exam Date | |
| May 31 - June 10 |
8:30-10:00 | TBC-tba | Cooper | June 11 8:30-9:30 a.m. | ||
| May 31 - June 10 |
10:15- 10:45 |
TBC-tba | Introduction to Chinese Law | Leonhard | ||
| May 31 - June 10 |
11:00- 12:30 |
TBC-tba | Comparative Health Law | Blum | June 11 9:45-10:45 a.m. | |
| June 14 - 17 | 8:45- 9:45 |
TBC-tba | Public International Law | Fr. Araujo | ||
| July 14 - 17 | 10:00- 12:00 |
TBC-tba | Introduction to Chinese Law | Leonhard | ||
| June 21 - 24 | 8:45- 10:45 |
TBC-tba | Public International Law | Fr. Aruajo | June 25 8:30-9:30 a.m. | |
| June 21 - 24 | 11:00- 11:30 |
TBC-tba | Introduction to Chinese Law | Leonhard | June 25 10:00-11:00 a.m. | |
Introduction to Chinese Law and Legal System (Leonhard)
This course aims to provide students with an overview of the modern Chinese legal and political systems. As an economy and society in transition, China has undergone tremendous changes and is facing many challenges while it seeks to transition into a China style market economy. Our class discussion will focus on the issues that China is trying to address and the pitfalls of which international legal practitioners should aware when representing clients doing business in China or with Chinese companies. The course consists of two components (with a little Chinese culture, language and survival tips sprinkled in as appropriate): 1. an overview of the historical foundations of Chinese Law and the present legal system and political institutions in China; and 2. a brief introduction to China's General Principles of Civil Law.
Comparative Health Law (Blum)
This course will explore how the public sector in a number of contries is dealing with populations based health issues spawned by development. Broad topics will include internal migration, aging, dietary changes and environmental health and safety. The focus in these broad areas will be on current and evolving government policies and laws drawn from China, Japan, Korea and North America.
Introduction to International Business Transactions (Cooper)
This survey course explores four important questions:
1. What sources must be consulted by the lawyer whose clients conduct business transnationally? 2. How are these sources interpreted, and by whom? 3. When and how should local counsel be utilized effectively? 4. How are international business disputes best resolved?
Emerging Issues in Public International Law (Fr. Aruajo)
Over the past several decades, largely within the context of international organizations, the global legal community has faced complications posed by the threat of terrorism and the reemergence of genocide. As a result of these developments, there has been a reexamination of the traditional role of the sovereign state as the constitutive element of public international law. Consequently, there is an emerging trend to regard, at least by some, the need to augment the role of the sovereign state with that of the international organization to respond to these new global challenges. A principle illustration of this is the concept of the "responsibility to protect." Readings will be taken from primary sources (especially documents of international organizations) as well as contemporary secondary sources, principally scholarly articles. Students will be required to purchase a short book that introduces the major topics of public international law.
