This module is a study of the use of trusts in the modern world of private estate planning and commercial transactions.

This is an advanced trusts course and...

International and Commercial Trusts Law (LAWS0328)

This module is a study of the use of trusts in the modern world of private estate planning and commercial transactions.

This is an advanced trusts course and students must have previously studied the common law of trusts in order to enrol. Students with an interest in commercial law and litigation will enjoy this module, and so will those who want to take an advanced private law course.

The module has been designed to sit alongside the modules on Restitution of Unjust Enrichment and on Commercial Remedies, and students can take all three of these in conjunction without any significant repetition of material.

International law of foreign investment is a field of public international law that primarily addresses the treatment of investment by States, and settlement...

International Law of Foreign Investment (LAWS0239)

International law of foreign investment is a field of public international law that primarily addresses the treatment of investment by States, and settlement of disputes between investors and States.

The module comprehensively addresses international law of foreign investment protection. This field of international law is expressed in international treaties and customary law obligations and largely implemented through investor-State arbitration, disciplines and structures the manner in which States treat foreign investments and investor. This module introduces the student to the more important aspects of the discipline, including its scope, content of the substantive obligations and exceptions, procedure of investor-State dispute settlement, and conceptual questions raised by the relationship between investment law and other fields and values in international law.

International and Commercial Trusts Law (LAWS0119)

This module is a study of the use of trusts in the modern world of private estate planning and commercial transactions.

This is an advanced trusts course and students must have previously studied the common law of trusts in order to enrol. Students with an interest in commercial law and litigation will enjoy this module, and so will those who want to take an advanced private law course.

The module has been designed to sit alongside the modules on Restitution of Unjust Enrichment and on Commercial Remedies, and students can take all three of these in conjunction without any significant repetition of material.

 