The aim of the course is to present the mosaic system of domestic and international supervision over the financial market from the EU perspective and outside of it. The European Union has been active within the financial sector, in particular after the financial crises of 2009. Students will learn about institutions involved in the European supervision, e.g. European Central Bank as well as they will be taught about various regulations over financial market. While an emphasis is placed on a step-by-step review of each subject-matter, the theoretical part is supplemented with practical exercises enabling students to strengthen their legal skills in drafting financial contracts which match the regulatory background.
- Teacher: Jaroslaw Beldowski
International Commercial Arbitration (ICA) is one of the essential methods for resolving disputes in a globalised world. Annually disputes worth billions of euros are solved not through litigation, but by a panel of arbitrators or a single arbitrator.
ICA course helps students to understand how to draft arbitration agreements, how choose between ad hoc and institutional arbitration and how to choose among different arbitration institutions, how to select arbitrators and how take part in arbitration proceedings, using all the different tools that they provide to council (e.g., request evidence, preliminary measures, involve experts, etc.) and finally how to enforce or oppose an arbitral award before national courts.
- Teacher: Aleksandrs Fillers
- Teacher: Toms Krūmiņš