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Course: 2025/2026

Compliance and sustainability in transnational settings

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

EPD

Coordinating teacher: ARROYO VENDRELL, TATIANA

Department assigned to the subject: Private Law Department

Type: Compulsory

ECTS Credits: 5.0 ECTS

Course: 1º

Semester: 2º

Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)

Degree in Law.

Objectives

Combining an advanced understanding of contractual solutions and private interest composition with national regulations protecting third-party interests and the public interest, and their impact in a transnational environment, with the aim of providing legal and strategic advice in situations where the regulatory environment is decisive, ensuring rigorous compliance with the law. Ensuring an advanced understanding of the ethical dimension of the lawyer's role, the function of regulatory compliance, and the principles of sustainability, and their deep integration and interweaving in the provision of strategic advice in international transactions and disputes.

Learning Outcomes

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Description of contents: programme

1. Criminal liability of legal entities and regulatory compliance: the crime prevention model, and its implementation in companies. 2.- Compliance, sanctions and international embargoes and their impact on multinational companies. 3.- Compliance and prevention of money laundering. 4.- Sustainability in the corporate sphere. a) Sustainability and transparency b) Sustainability and corporate governance 5.- Sustainable finance a) Financial regulation and sustainability: taxonomies, risks and disclosure obligations b) Sustainability, products and financial and informational intermediaries

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.

Assessment System

% end-of-term-examination/test 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%.

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