C11129v3 Graduate Certificate in International Trade Law
CRICOS code: 032350B
Load credit points: 24
Course EFTSL: 0.5
Faculty/institute responsible: Law
Location: City campus
Overview
Course aims
Career options
Additional admission requirements
Course duration and attendance
Course structure
Course completion requirements
Course diagram
Articulation with UTS courses
Other information
Overview
The UTS International Trade Law program allows lawyers and other professionals to extend their knowledge and gain expertise in the expanding and dynamic area of international trade law.
Course aims
The course identifies a range of topics which underpin current and ongoing areas of study in international trade law, namely:
- multilateral liberalisation of trade in goods and services – GATT 1994, GATS and WTO
- the role of regional trading blocs – NAFTA, ASEAN, EU, CER, MERCOUSOR
- exceptions to liberalisation – agriculture, textiles and clothing, sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures, and music and film
- anti-dumping and countervailing duties in a global economy
- foreign investment and the multilateral investment agreement
- regulation of financial markets – the Asian experience
- international commercial arbitration
- dispute resolution and the WTO, and
- intellectual property and trade – TRIPS.
Career options
Career options include legal practitioner or adviser to government or business specialising in international trade.
Additional admission requirements
Applicants require a Bachelor's degree.
Course duration and attendance
The course can be completed in a minimum of one semester of full-time or one year of part-time study.
Course structure
Two streams are available within the International Trade Law program.
- Students who hold an undergraduate legal qualification commence with a core introductory subject (6 credit points) followed by an additional three subjects (18 credit points).
- Students who hold an undergraduate degree in a discipline other than Law commence with two core introductory subjects (12 credit points) followed by an additional two subjects (12 credit points).
The list of subjects from which the options are chosen can be found under the Master of International Trade Law (C04149) entry.
Subjects are regularly timetabled but not all subjects listed are offered in any one semester. Timetabled subjects are offered subject to sufficient student interest. The current timetable can be found at:
Course completion requirements
| Select one of the following: | 24cp | |
| STM90112 Law graduate entrant stream | 24cp | |
| STM90113 Non-law graduate entrant stream | 24cp | |
| Total | 24cp |
Course diagram
Articulation with UTS courses
Graduate Certificate candidates may internally transfer to the Master of International Trade Law (C04149). Candidates are not awarded the Graduate Certificate but subjects undertaken within the Graduate Certificate are applied towards the Master's course.
Other information
Further information is available from:
(CRICOS Provider No: 00099F)
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