Summer School der St. Mary's University School of Law in Innsbruck
Die Kurse entsprechen Lehrveranstaltungen, wie sie für den Lehrbetrieb an einer amerikanischen Universität typisch sind. Abgesehen davon, dass alle Vorlesungen in englischer Sprache gehalten werden, wird von den Studierenden auch erwartet, dass sie sich auf jede einzelne Stunde gezielt vorbereiten. Dazu werden im Voraus sogenannte reading assignments aufgegeben, also eine bestimmte Anzahl von Fällen oder anderen Texten, die von den Studierenden vorab gelesen werden müssen. Potentielle TeilnehmerInnen an einer solchen summer school seien also schon jetzt darauf hingewiesen, dass eine bewerbung nur dann für sie sinnvoll sein kann, wenn die entsprechende Bereitschaft zu intensivem Arbeiten besteht.
Neben den Lehrveranstaltungen gibt es auch einige field trips und social events.
Teilnahmemöglichkeit für Innsbrucker Studierende
Auch heuer haben wieder acht Studierende die Möglichkeit, an diesem Programm teilzunehmen, ohne tuition fees zu bezahlen. Dazu ist eine bewerbung bis zum 3. Mai 2024 bei Univ.-Prof. Dr. Bernhard A. Koch, LL.M., nötig. Das nötige bewerbungsformular kann hier heruntergeladen werden. Prüfungen müssen keine abgelegt werden, es gibt allerdings auch keine Anrechnungsmöglichkeiten für das hiesige Studium!
Programm 2024
Folgende Lehrveranstaltungen werden im Sommer 2024 angeboten:
- International Business Transactions (Albert Hermann Professor of Law — Prof. Richard Flint, St. Mary’s University)
This course will focus on the legal aspects of the most important forms of international commercial sales transactions, including the documentary sales transaction. The course includes an overview of the principal institutions involved in international sales transactions as well as of the principal forms of international commercial activity. It focuses primarily on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods; UCC articles 2, 5 and 7; the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act; the Federal Bill of Lading Act, the UCP 600 (International Chamber of Commerce, Uniform Customs and Practices for Documentary Credits) and the International Chamber of Commerce INCOTERMS. It will also include discussion of other applicable treaties, conventions, and laws concerning the international commercial sales of goods; the laws governing the transportation of goods in international commerce; and the financing of international sales transactions. - Lawyering Abroad: Basic Concepts Of European Legal Systems (Professor Bernhard A. Koch, University of Innsbruck)
Students in this course will be introduced to the core elements of European legal systems and to their structural dissimilarities with American legal systems. Emphasis will be placed on major differences between common law and civil law approaches, and examples will be drawn from the laws of Germany, France, and other countries. Particular attention will be given to the practical aspects of lawyering, such as finding the law and communicating with foreign counsel. - International Juvenile Law (Prof. Stephanie Stevens, St. Mary´s Univeristy)
The idea of a separate system for juveniles began in the United States in 1899 and has spread to most countries. We will read seminal cases that paved the way for separate juvenile systems and discuss what rights children have available within those justice systems. This will provide the opportunity to compare and contrast a few countries treatment of children in the justice system. Specifically, we will review the laws of a few countries to discuss the difference in age limits and punishment limits. - International Commercial Arbitration (Prof. Rishi Batra, St. Mary’s University)
Today, international commercial arbitration has become the norm for dispute resolution in most international business transactions. This introductory course is designed to equip students with a thorough understanding of the principles and practices of arbitration in the international commercial context. This course examines the legal framework governing international commercial arbitration, the key institutions involved, and the process of arbitration from the initiation of proceedings to the enforcement of awards. Students will engage with critical issues related to the arbitration agreement, the role of arbitrators, and the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards across different jurisdictions. - International Criminal Justice (Prof. Emeritus Geary Reamey, St. Mary’s University)
This course studies selected aspects of criminal procedure used in the world’s major legal systems, including certain international criminal tribunals. The learning objectives, or goals, of the course are: to learn select procedural rules and their applications in certain countries within the common-law (adversarial) tradition; the so-called “civil-law” (non-adversarial) tradition; a socialist or communist legal tradition; and a religion-based tradition; to become familiar with and compare the ways in which traditional and non-traditional legal systems function procedurally; why they choose to function in those ways; and how those procedures differ from, and are similar to, those of other legal systems; to study and learn the ways in which countries within the same legal tradition may apply that procedural tradition differently, and why they do so; to learn and compare the procedural characteristics of ad hoc and permanent international criminal tribunals with each other, and with the procedures employed by legal systems of various nation states; and to consider and design a procedural structure for the adjudication of criminal cases using features selected or adapted from existing legal regimes.
Zeitplan
Die Lehrveranstaltungen finden in zwei Blöcken jeweils von Montag bis Donnerstag Vormittag statt (Ausnahme: Der Kurs "International Business Transactions" wird über die gesamten fünf Wochen angeboten).
First Session (1. Juli - 16. Juli 2024)
| 08:00 a.m.-09:10 a.m. | International Business Transactions | R. Flint |
| 09:20 a.m.-10:30 a.m. | Lawyering Abroad | B.A. Koch |
| 10:40 a.m.-11:50 a.m. | International Juvenile Law | S. Stevens |
Second Session (17. Juli - 1. August 2024)
| 08:00 a.m.-09:10 a.m. | International Business Transactions | R. Flint |
| 09:20 a.m.-10:30 a.m. | International Commercial Arbitration | R. Batra |
| 10:40 a.m.-11:50 a.m. | International Criminal Justice | G. Reamey |