International Commercial and Investment Arbitration

Aims of the course
· Acquiring knowledge of the principles, rules and praxis governing international commercial and investment arbitration;
· Developing the skills to apply the acquired knowledge to civil, commercial and investment disputes referred to international commercial and investment arbitration;
· Making autonomous judgments on international commercial arbitration legal issues;
· Acquiring basic knowledge of the principal tools of written and oral legal advocacy, including the ability to convincingly argue a case, to draft a legal memorandum, to plead in front of a tribunal.

At the end of the course students
· will have an advanced knowledge of:
- Fundamental features of international commercial and investment arbitration
- Distinction between arbitration and other forms of ADR (such as mediation, expert determination, mini-trials)
- The application of this method of settling dispute in key economic areas, such as international contracts, company law, competition law, IP law, foreign direct investment
· They will acquire a method on:
- Critical legal thinking
- Analysis of case law
- Solving complex legal problems by practical sessions of case analysis, discussion and moot courts
- Written and oral legal advocacy