COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COMMON RULES OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
EKH 7059 COMMON RULES OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Law of Economics Non-Thesis (Evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR HACI CAN

Offered to

Law of Economics Non-Thesis (Evening)

Course Objective

Objective of this course is primarily to provide information about fulfillment of the required provisions in international commercial relations and selection of the applicable law to those relations. International carriage of goods, incoterms, methods of payment in international sales of goods and dispute settlement in international commercial arrangements are some other issues within the scope of this course. Additionally multilateral international agreements governing issues mentioned above will be examined comprehensively in course s extent.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students must have ability to decide and select the applicable law of (disputes deriving from the) International Commercial Contracts,
2   to give information about principles of European Contract Law concerning international commercial contracts, UNDROIT principles and United Nations Convention on Contracts for International Sales of Goods signed in Vienna in 1980
3   to express information about potential international commercial disputes and settlement of those disputes
4   to articulate methods of payment in international commerce and documents used in international trade law
5   to specify generally International Commercial Institutions and their contribution to international law

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 International commercial contracts
2 International carriage of goods
3 Dispute settlement in international trade
4 INCOTERMS
5 Regulations in foreign exchange law
6 Methods of payment used in international trade
7 Letter of guarantee in international practice
8 Midterm Exam
9 Financing methods international trade
10 Customs regime
11 Import and export transactions
12 Company types affiliated in international trade
13 Foreign capital investments in Turkey
14 International trade institutions

Recomended or Required Reading

Ekşi, Nuray: Milletlerarası Ticaret Hukuku, Beta, Istanbul 2010.
Atamer, Yeşim M. (ed.): Milletlerarası Satım Hukuku, Istanbul 2008.
Doğan, Vahit: Banka Teminat Mektupları, 4. baskı, Ankara 2011.
Şanlı, Cemal: Uluslararası Ticari Akitlerin Hazırlanması ve Uyuşmazlıkların Çözüm Yolları, 4. bası, Istanbul 2011.
Zeytin, Zafer: Milletlerarası Mal Satım Sözleşmeleri (CISG) Hukuku, Seçkin, Ankara 2011.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing, discussion, case study, seminar or homework.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + STT* 0.40 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.40 + RST* 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

haci.can@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday: 12.30-13.30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparing presentations 1 20 20
Preparation for midterm exam 1 30 30
Preparation for final exam 1 40 40
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 146

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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