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| Semester | spring semester 2024 |
| Course frequency | Irregular |
| Lecturers | Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer (k.nadakavukaren@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | Whether you are interested in climate change, human rights, development, new technologies and innovation, business, or dispute resolution, you are encouraged to take international investment law. This course examines the international regulation of investment protection, which is to say that it takes up all sorts of questions relating to how states treat foreigners and foreign-owned property. The issues we discuss have no right or wrong answers, and they are constantly evolving. but there are basic principles that we will apply to debate likely outcomes. During the semester we will see how the specific problems that foreigner face when they are active in another state's economy were addressed in history before turning to the current legal framework. Our focus, however, will be on today's increasingly complex system of investment treaties and customary law relating to how a government must or must not treat foreign property-owners in their territory. There will be plenty of time to examine - and to question - the decision of adjudicators and to think about how the system as a whole can be improved. |
| Learning objectives | Students should be able to: - recount the historical development of investment protection - explain the need for international minimum standards of investment protection - identify the jurisdictional requirements for starting investor-State dispute settlement proceedings - discuss the legal elements of expropriation and point out the differences between legal/illegal and direct/indirect expropriations - make a convincing argument on when the fair and equitable treatment standard would be appropriately applied - explain the other standards of investment protection - identify weaknesses in the international system of investment protection - discuss the differences in investment insurance schemes |
| Bibliography | Besides the materials that will be posted on the internet for downloading, the students must access one textbook: Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer, International Investment Law, 3d edition (Edward Elgar, 2020). One copy is available in the Jus-Bibliothek. The book is also available for purchase online (Amazon.de or e-elgar.com) |
| Admission requirements | proficiency in English is required, as lectures are in English and the reading materials are in English. Speaking German, however, is permitted in class. |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Course auditors welcome |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Monday | 12.30-14.00 | Juristische Fakultät, Seminarraum S11 HG.47 |
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 26.02.2024 | 12.30-14.00 | Juristische Fakultät, Seminarraum S11 HG.47 |
| Monday 04.03.2024 | 12.30-14.00 | Juristische Fakultät, Seminarraum S11 HG.47 |
| Monday 11.03.2024 | 12.30-14.00 | Juristische Fakultät, Seminarraum S11 HG.47 |
| Monday 18.03.2024 | 12.30-14.00 | Juristische Fakultät, Seminarraum S11 HG.47 |
| Monday 25.03.2024 | 12.30-14.00 | Juristische Fakultät, Seminarraum S11 HG.47 |
| Monday 01.04.2024 | 12.30-14.00 | Ostern |
| Monday 08.04.2024 | 12.30-14.00 | Juristische Fakultät, Seminarraum S11 HG.47 |
| Monday 15.04.2024 | 12.30-14.00 | Juristische Fakultät, Seminarraum S11 HG.47 |
| Monday 22.04.2024 | 12.30-14.00 | Juristische Fakultät, Seminarraum S11 HG.47 |
| Monday 29.04.2024 | 12.30-14.00 | Juristische Fakultät, Seminarraum S11 HG.47 |
| Monday 06.05.2024 | 12.30-14.00 | Juristische Fakultät, Seminarraum S11 HG.47 |
| Monday 13.05.2024 | 12.30-14.00 | Juristische Fakultät, Seminarraum S11 HG.47 |
| Monday 20.05.2024 | 12.30-14.00 | Pfingstmontag |
| Monday 27.05.2024 | 12.30-14.00 | Juristische Fakultät, Seminarraum S11 HG.47 |
| Modules |
Specialization Module: International (Start of studies before 01.02.2021) (Master's Studies: Business Law) Specialization module: International Law (Master's Studies: Law (bilingue)) Specialization module: International Law (Master's Studies: Law) Vertiefungsmodul Global Europe: Handel und Unternehmen in der Globalisierung (Master's Studies: European Global Studies) Wahlbereich Master Rechtswissenschaft (EUCOR): Empfehlungen (Master's Studies: Law (Eucor)) |
| Assessment format | lecture examination |
| Assessment details | there will be an oral exam at the end of the semester; the level of class preparation will also be taken into account in the final grade |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Registration: course registration |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | 1-6 0,01 |
| Repeated registration | one repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Law, studiendekanat-ius@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Öffentliches Recht |