Larry Cata Backer - Professor of Law

Transnational Law

The course will introduce the student to the nature of transnational law and to issues that lawyers will confront when legal issues transcend national borders. The course commences with an examination of the legal complexities of interactions (including economic transactions, civil litigation, and the movement of people) in which national law, international law and private law may all simultaneously play a part. It examines the way in which private law, national law and international play a role in a number of different sorts of transactions, from simple commercial contracts, to the role of states in regulating activity beyond their borders and international organizations in regulating domestic issues, to the role of private law to regulating private behavior on a global basis.

Course Proposal and Outline

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