The aim:
1. To provide constituent elements of the international trade law.
2. To familiarise student with elements of the WTO system.
3. To familiarise student with common commercial policy of the EU and EU common commercial policy.
4. To provide basic grounding in legal aspects of regional trade agreements.
5. To familiarise student with dispute settlement in the field of international trade law.

Acquired knowledge:
1. Student knows particular elements of the international trade law.
2. Student knows genesis of WTO and understand reasons of transition from GATT to WTO.
3. Student knows basic elements of EU common commercial policy.
4. Student knows interactions between WTO system and EU common commercial policy.
5. Student knows issues related to regional trade agreements.
6. Student knows issues of the international dispute settlement.

Acquired skills:
1. Student is able to identify legal rules relevant for matters of the international trade.
2. Student understands interactions between various legal regimes of the international trade law.

Acquired social skills:
1. Student understands legal aspects of the international trade.
2. Student accepts the complex character of the international trade law and its significance for global wealth.

Course contents: 
1. Introduction to the international trade law.
2. Genesis of WTO.
3. Genesis of EU common commercial policy.
4. EU customs union and free movement of goods.
5. GATT.
6. GATS.
7. TRIPS.
8. WTO-EU relations.
9. Regional trade agreements.
10. Settlement of disputes in field of WTO and regional trade agreements.

Recommended reading: 
1. Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO Legal System, Bartels L., Ortino F., Oxford Scholarship Online. Oxford 2012.
2. The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law, Bethlehem D., Van Damme I., McRae D., Neufeld R., Oxford University Press. Oxford 2009.
3. The substantive law of the EU: the four freedoms, C. Barnard, Oxford University Press. Oxford 2010.

Additional reading:
1. WTO: institutions and dispute settlement, Wolfrum R., Stoll P-T., Kaiser K., Martinus Nijhoff PMartinus Nijhoff Publishersublishers. Leiden 2006.
2. The World Trade Organization: law, practice and policy, Matsushita M., Schoenbaum T.J., Mavroidis P.C., Oxford University Press. Oxford 2009.