International Dispute Resolution

International Dispute Resolution - Professor George Foster

• Course Number: LAW-543
• Course Type: Foundational
• Credits: 3
• Enrollment Limit: Determined by Registrar
• Description: This course explores the different methods available for resolving international disputes and their relative advantages and disadvantages. At the outset the course examines various ways in which U.S. civil litigation changes when there is an international element involved, covering such issues as sovereign immunity, parallel domestic and foreign proceedings, the act of state doctrine, and taking discovery from foreign parties and witnesses. The focus then turns to international arbitration, covering both commercial and treaty-based proceedings. This phase of the course examines legal, strategic and practical issues that arise at each stage of an arbitration, including the drafting of pleadings, the selection of arbitrators, discovery, and witness examinations. These issues are made more concrete by applying them in the context of a hypothetical case. The course also covers the international enforcement of court judgments and arbitral awards and the drafting of dispute resolution agreements.

  International Dispute Resolution is a required course for the International Law Certificate and an elective course for both the Business Law Certificate and the Certificate in Energy, Innovation, and Sustainability Law.

• Prerequisite: none
• Evaluation Method: Final exam
• Capstone: no
• WIE: no