This course introduces the fundamentals of patents, trademarks, and copyrights, with emphasis on developing international standards of intellectual property protection. This course uses the 1980 Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods to examine the fundamentals of modern commercial law, including contract formation, interpretation, and application. This course studies the history and evolution of the E.U., addressing how its legislative, administrative, and judicial organs are contributing to the harmonization of members' domestic laws. This course focuses on how private parties in different countries address and resolve disputes, focusing on commercial litigation and arbitration, with special emphasis on drafting arbitration agreements, resolving disputes thereunder, and obtaining enforcement of arbitral awards. This course examines the economic and legal prerequisites for the institution of bankruptcy or reorganization proceedings, including a comparative review of European, Russian, and U.S. insolvency law.
Special emphasis is given to judicial oversight of the administrative process.
This course explores the sources of public international law, its application in domestic courts, the law of treaties, the recognition of states and governments, state responsibility for the treatment of aliens, the peaceful settlement of disputes, and the use of armed force. Special attention is given to United Nations law. This course examines the legal status of newspapers, radio and T.V., the Internet, and other media of mass communications in Armenia, other post-Soviet countries, the United States, and Europe. This course develops advocacy skills, thereby showing how lawyers and other citizens, by making reasoned and persuasive arguments to courts, administrative tribunals, and other bodies, can help those bodies formulate and articulate reasoned decisions that illuminate the law and promote its healthy evolution. This is a course in trial practice.