International Business Transactions
SLN #: 18769Course Prefix: LAW-768
Course Section: 1001
Credit Hours: 3
Instructor(s): Kittrie
Course Books: View List of Books
Course Description:
This course, which will focus on U.S. regulation of International Business Transactions (IBT), will feature leading U.S. practitioners as guest speakers. The course will be of particular interest to students who want to learn about, and potentially work on, how the U.S. can and does use law to promote environmental, human rights, health, national security, foreign policy, cyber security, intellectual property, and other policy objectives in foreign countries.
The U.S. government's newly aggressive regulation of international business transactions, for these and other policy reasons, has made this a field in which U.S. and foreign companies are hiring thousands of attorneys and other risk and compliance management professionals. The U.S. government is also hiring in this field.
As part of enforcing these new laws, the U.S. government has imposed billions of dollars in fines on U.S. and foreign companies. Such companies are vastly increasing their hiring of attorneys in this arena both to avoid further penalties and under pressure from various non- governmental advocates in the growing corporate social responsibility movement.
The course will be taught by Professor Orde Kittrie, an expert on these topics, online from Washington, DC. The DC venue will facilitate guest presentations by several of the U.S.’s leading practitioners in this arena, including persons who have led these issues for the U.S. government.
The course will address U.S. laws on specific issues including the following:
-- U.S. trade restrictions designed to promote health, product safety, child labor, and environmental protections overseas;
-- U.S. laws designed to prevent the current theft by U.S. adversaries of hundreds of billions of dollars a year in U.S. private sector intellectual property;
-- U.S. efforts to fight overseas corruption and human rights abuses;
-- U.S. financial penalties on companies transacting with state sponsors of terrorism;
and
-- U.S. export controls aimed at preventing adversary nations from acquiring U.S. weapons and other cutting- edge technologies.
The final grade will be based on class participation (to include any assigned in-class presentations) and a paper on a topic regarding U.S. regulation of international business transactions.
Additional Information:
Credit Hours: 3
Graduation Writing Requirement: No
Flexible/Upper-Level Writing Requirement: Yes
Skills Requirement: No
Simulation Course: No
Experiential Learning: No
Seminar: Yes
Special Withdrawal Course: No
Limited Enrollment Number: 16
Final Exam Given: No
Attendance Policy: Per Statement Of Student Policies
Teaching Method: ASU Sync
* The law school has a policy that is used to calculate credit hours. Please see the Statement of Student Policies.