LAWS73-770 Juris Doctor / LLM | International Banking Regulation has acquired more importance than ever in the wake of the global financial crisis, the commitment by the United States and other leading nations to concerted action to restructure, tighten and modernize transnational bank regulation, and the new prominence of the G20 as a central forum for the promotion and coordination of comprehensive financial regulatory reform. International banking regulation will review: - the growth of international banking and the relationship of law and regulation to this industry;
- the evolution of international forums and regulatory organizations;
- the major domestic systems of bank regulation and their interaction with the international regime, including US regulation of foreign bank operations and the foreign operations of US banks;
- the leading models of foreign supervision and regulation of transnational banking;
- primary concerns for regulating international banking activity, including bank entry and exit, systemic risk, sovereign & political risk, LDC debt, development finance, secrecy, laundering, terrorism & other crime, and sovereign wealth funds.
The subject grade will be based on attendance, class performance and a final examination.
Subject Outline Link | Lawrence G Baxter
Weeks 5-6 |
LAWS13-630 LLB LAWS77-630 Juris Doctor / LLM | European & International Labour & Employment Law. This subject explores the development of international and European labour and employment law. It examines how the “European social model”, as opposed to the Anglo-Saxon model, mirrors the international model and has generated European Union wide standards. The course focuses on the International Labour Organisation and on the European Union. It offers both a general introduction and more advanced exploration of topical issues such as migration, discrimination, worker participation, and the conflicts between free market and labour protection laws. The course pursues with a historical overview of the political and legal roots of the famed European social model, with particular emphasis on its international origin. Drawing from its pivotal role in the creation of the single European market, the course will then explore EU labour and employment law through topics that illustrate both its market making, market correcting and market embracing function. The following topics will be covered: - The position of social policy in the founding treaties and the emergence of a European labour movement complete with European-wide collective bargaining agreements.
- Issues with a focus on business relevance, such as: the relationship between social rights and the free internal market, employee protection in a transfer or restructuring of companies, information and consultation rights, the European company, and the exponential rise of employment discrimination law.
- An introduction to the basic constitutional framework of the EU, and familiarized with the essential characteristics of EU-law, including the pseudo-federal nature of the EU, supremacy of EU law, the theory of enumerated powers and subsidiarity, and the functioning of the European Court of Justice as a genuine supreme court.
Subject Outline Link | Marc de Vos
Intensive - Weeks 5, 6 & 10 |
