Globalization and the development of the international trade and culture relations provide the effect of the increase of the transnational banking and finance operations. The majority of the banking organizations uses an international (обычаи) in their relations with the other banking organizations in the other jurisdictions.

All these trends in the international trade focuse the problem of the development and studying of the discipline of the law of international transactions. 

 Thus, students aim to obtain the knowledge’s and necessary competencies for their future participation in the legal support of the banking transactions with foreign element to, protect the interests of clients, banks, banking organizations with a highly professional manner in different countries.

The principal objective of this course is to enhance students' knowledge of M&A transactions. This course focuses to the role of legal regulation in the evaluation, preparation and execution of different types of the M&A transactions. The course will allow students to gain in-depth understanding of mechanics and procedures that may be followed in this course.

The objectives of the course are:

1. To define the scope and practical application of the set of rules, known as private international law [hereinafter - PIL]

2. To define a conceptual apparatus of PIL:

- What are the characteristics of “law” IPL has.

- The meaning of “international” in the term “private international law”.

- The meaning of “private” in the term “private international law”.

3. To identify the subject of public relations regulated by IPL.

4. To establish a method by which IPL relations are regulated and its differences from the methods of regulation of international public law relations and those [relations] of civil legal nature.

5. To identify normative structure of IPL: conflict of laws [structure, types], the rules of substantive law, procedural rules, types of references in international private law.

6. To give a concept of international private law containing the so-called “foreign element”. Give a scientific definition of the so-called “foreign element”.

7. To give a concept and identify types of collisions in international private law. Show how conflicts are resolved in practice and the role the definitions: «lex fori», «ad causae» and «autonomous qualification» play.

8. To identify the legal concept of “reservation of public order” as a means of limiting the conflict rule, if it is referred to the law of a foreign country.

9. Today’s basic principles of IPL in historical retrospect of their origin and development.

10. To show the correlation of international public and private international law. To prove the inferiority of the so-called “theory of transformation” of international law in national law.

11. To characterize the sources and subject composition of IPL.

12. To prove that IPL is a complete and unique in its kind intersystem body of law.

13. To describe the history and development of IPL: evolution of views on the necessity and inevitability of applying foreign law to regulate IPL relationships.

14. To identify the current status and perspective of development of international private law in the light of globalization.

The principal objective of this course is to enhance students' knowledge of legal regime applicable to international business transactions, including sources of regulation applicable to transactions. The course will allow students to gain in-depth understanding of cross-border commercial contracts, their principal features and principles involved in their drafting and implementation as well as resolution of disputes arising thereof.

The course is structured as a series of lectures followed by seminars during which the relevant topics are to be further developed and debated. Significant emphasis is put on self-preparation of students to seminars, which will include, inter alia, extensive reading on the topics to be discussed during the seminars.

The aim of the discipline is to familiarize the students with the categorical apparatus that allows to describe the problem of protection of competition environment and consumer protection in regional economy with regard to the examination of those rules of European Union, Northern and Latin America, Asian, African and Russian laws which arise when a case contains foreign elements.

The discipline is also aimed at the introduction of various sources of normative and doctrinal nature in this regard (jurisdiction, applicable law, and decree enforcement) in order to give an idea about various legal means to protect and respect sound competition and consumers.

This course provides the students with a business focused exploration of laws that impact on customers and competitors. The legal risks arising from the competition and consumer laws under study including misleading or deceptive conduct, unfair sales techniques, pricing strategies, consumer guarantees, selling strategies and collusion are analysed in the context of legal impact on a business, its directors, management and staff. 

The goals and objectives of the discipline are to form at future specialists theoretical knowledge of the basic institutes of the international insurance and the insurance law and also to teach students to realize in practice the knowledge while solving controversial issues under the insurance and reinsurance contract.

1. Purposes and objectives of the course:

To develop in students practical skills of drafting foreign economic contracts (foreign trade agreements).

2. Place of the course in the structure of the general academic program:

The study of the course requires deep knowledge of the civil law of the Russian Federation, civil and commercial law of foreign states and international private law. It requires common understanding of the principles of regulation of tax and customs law, methods of formal logic, unbiased feasibility and cost effectiveness of actions.

Allows taking a job as a corporate lawyer or a lawyer of the law firm specializing in the preparation of this category of contracts.