Law and Global Markets International Business Program 2022/2023 Year CEA & UPF Hybrid - Barcelona

This selective course seeks to bring the student closer to legal aspects of international business. Firstly, the course will introduce the different traditions and legal families across the board, with special attention of course to the classical distinction between Civil Law and Common Law. Secondly, the course reviews in depth the framework of the Business Law already presented in the Obligatory courses in the GNMI. Special attention will be brought to the interaction between Companies and Consumers and, as a result, to Competition Law in a broad perspective. Finally, this course will also introduce some relevant legal notion to understand the actors? behaviour in the context of the digital markets and the digital platforms economy where the traditional relations between consumers/users and producers/suppliers have been eroded for the benefit of new forms of interaction and transactions B2B, B2C, etc.

All in all, this elective course aims at providing the students with an overall knowledge on the aforementioned topics, but with no further intention to discuss procedural elements which clearly fall out of the scope of their future professional careers. In so doing, the course will offer the students a plethora of different in-class and out-class activities of blended pedagogical methods.