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Course: 2024/2025

Transational Liability

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Master in International Advocacy (Plan: 370 - Estudio: 334)

EPD

Coordinating teacher: LASTIRI SANTIAGO, MONICA

Department assigned to the subject: Private Law Department

Type: Compulsory

ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

Course: 1º

Semester: 2º

Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)

International Private Law, Corporate Law

Skills and learning outcomes

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Description of contents: programme

1.- Climate and environmental litigation 2.- Liability for trafficking and exploitation of people and dangerous working conditions 3.- Liability for economic and corporate crimes: corruption, market manipulation and money laundering 4.- Cybercrime liability SDGs and democratic principles and values related with the programme: Sustainability and climate change (1, 2), human rights and fundamental rights (1, 2, 4), gender equality (1, 2), equal treatment and non-discrimination (1, 2).

Learning activities and methodology

LEARNING ACTIVITIES AF1 Theory lectures AF2 Practical lectures AF3 Theorico-practical lectures AF6 Group project AF7 Individual project METHODOLOGY MD1: Lectures by the teacher with the support of audiovisual and computerized means in which the basic concepts of the subject shall be explained and the basic bibliography shall be recommended to complete the students knowledge. MD2: Critical Reading of texts recommended by the teacher: newspapers articles, reports, handbooks and/or academic papers, for their discussion in class or to consolidate the knowledge on the subject. MD3: Solving cases, problems, etc. posed by the teacher individually or in groups. MD4: Briefing and discussion in class, moderated by the teacher, of matters related to the content of the subject, as well as practical cases. MD5: Preparation of individual or group papers and briefings. TUTORING: Students will have access to tutorials with the person responsible for coordinating the subject. With the tutoring it is intended to organize the teaching and learning processes that are based on the interaction between the student and the teacher in order to: (i) Guide the autonomous and group work of the students (ii) Deepen in different aspects of the subject (iii) Guide the academic and comprehensive training of the student. The tutorials will take place at the time and under the conditions determined by the teacher in Aula Global.

Assessment System

% end-of-term-examination 40
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 60

EVALUATION SYSTEMS BY MATTER

SE1   Participation and engagement in class
SE2   Individual or group Works done during the course
SE3   Final exam


Evaluation
systems	Minimum weigh (%)	             Maximum weigh (%)
SE1	                     20%	                                   30%
SE2	                     40%	                                   50%
SE3	                     20%	                                   40%

The Master in International Advocacy is an on-site taught master's degree. Therefore, students are required to attend all the theoretical and practical classes that the master has programmed. A student may only be absent for no reason from a maximum of 15 per cent of the classroom hours (i.e. not the sessions or days) in each subject. In case of excused absences, the total maximum will be 25%. If the student hold an absence greater than those indicated, a "0" will be computed on the continuous evaluation rating. Likewise, the absences lower than those percentages may be taken into account when it comes to modulate downward the qualification of the continuous evaluation, especially if it includes a participation note. 

In the extraordinary call the weight will be: Final examination: 60% and continuous evaluation: 40%.

Basic Bibliography

AHERN. The Rome II Regulation on the Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations: A New International Litigation Regime. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. 2019
GAILHOFER et al. (eds.). Corporate Liability for Transboundary Environmental Harm: An International and Transnational Perspective. Springer. 2023
GIMPEL-HINTEREGGER. Environmental liability and ecological damage in European law. Cambridge University Press. 2008
GRUNER. Corporate Criminal Liability and Prevention. Law Journal Press. 2017
MACCHI. Business, Human Rights and the Environment: The Evolving Agenda. Springer. 2022
PIETH & IVORY. Corporate Criminal Liability. Emergence, Convergence, and Risk. Springer. 2011

Additional Bibliography

GOBERT & PASCAL. European Developments in Corporate Criminal Liability. Routledge. 2011
MAGNUS (ed.). Brussels Ibis Regulation: Commentary. Otto Schmidt. 2016
SJAFJELL & BRUNER. The Cambridge Handbook of Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability. Cambridge. 2019
TECHERA et al. (eds.). Routledge Handbook of International Environmental Law. Routledge. 2021
WILDERSPIN. European Private International Law of Obligations. Sweet & Maxwell. 2023

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.