SAMPLE SYLLABI

Three sample syllabi follow from some of the courses I have offered in the past: Contract Law at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Corporate Criminal Law at Nanterre University, Paris France, and Law and Economics at Humboldt University, Berlin. These syllabi will be the basis for three of the courses I propose to offer in Ukraine. They will be updated to bring in materials in Russian and Ukrainian as well as current issues specifically facing Ukraine. These syllabi incorporate the documents listed in the bibliography file by reference. The materials in the bibliography provided are integral to these syllabi. Most of the materials linked though not all were authored by the applicant, Eric Engle. Almost all are linked to the internet, and all can be found on the internet, usually at SSRN.


CONTRACT LAW SYLLABUS: HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY BERLIN 2010-2014

This syllabus is the basis for the course proposed on contract law for international business.


COURT CASES
Ryno v. Tyra Zivich v. Mentor Sutton v. Warner Doherty v. Doherty Insurance Agency, Inc. Parker v. 20th Century Fox C & H v. Sun Ship O’Neill v. Gallant Hadley v. Baxendale Sharick v. SE University of the Health Sciences Super Valu Stores v. Peterson Union Carbide v. Oscar Mayer Foods Miller v. Newsweek Joc Oil v. Con Edison Co.
Hamer v. Sidway
Lucy v. Zehmer
MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co.
Webster v. Blue Ship Tea Room, Inc.
Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co.

Case Reader:

Calamari, Contracts http://lscontent.westlaw.com/images/content/CalamariContracts.pdf
Contract Law Outiline
Contract Forms: Covenents Not to Compete

Confidentiality agreements: http://www.ipwatchdog.com/tradesecret/simple-confidentiality-agreement/
One sided contract clauses: http://www.expertlaw.com/library/business/contract_clauses.html
Mistake - in fact; in law. -unilateral; mutual
Holders in Due Course: Kaw Valley v. Riddle
Battle of the Forms Chart



Corporate Crime in International Context: Universite Paris X Nanterre La Defense 2017


Inquisitorial versus Adversarial Criminal Justice Systems

Custom and Codification; treaty ratification
Tort and Crime https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1020453

Standard of Proof

Corporate Criminal Capacity
    National Laws US UK FR GER

        https://ssrn.com/abstract=1020457
        https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1727331
    International Law https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1702470
    Violations / Ordnungswidrigkeiten

Elements of Crime - Tatbestand
    Mens Rea - Schuldbewusstsein
        General Intent
        Specific Intent - Dolus Specialis
    Actus Reus - Handlung

Courts
    International Courts
        Tribunals - Nuremburg, Tokyo, ICTR, ICTY
        ICC

            https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2259266
            https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2318403
    National Courts

Jurisdiction
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1020512
    In Personam
        Passive Personality Principle
        Active Personality Principle
        Protective Principle
    In Rem
        Forfeiture
       
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1899311
    Extra-territorial
    Universal
   
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1020457

Crimes against the person
    Jus Cogens Crimes:
        Piracy, Slave Trade,
        Genocide, War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity
    Torture, Child soldiers? Terrorism?
   
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1560902
    https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1564753


Crimes against property
    Extortion
    Fraud
    Bust out Bankruptcy
    Counterfeit https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1538073
    Forgery
    Tax Evasion / Fraude Fiscale /
Steuerhinterziehung

Financial Crimes
    Money Laundering
    Insider Trading (Stock Fraud)
       
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1271868
        https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1125642
    Market Manipulation
    Pump-and-Dump
    Churning
    RICO
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1020470
    Bribery FCPA, UN Conv., UKABA https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1702470
    Greenmail https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1020466

Inchoate Crimes
    Conspiracy
    Complicity (Aiding and Abetting; Accomplice; Accessory)
    Attempt
    Misprision/Concealing a Crime
    Obstruction of Justice

Extradition
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1499198
    Double Criminality
    Constitutional Prohibitions of Extradition; Capital Punishment and Extradition
    Extradition Treaties

Piercing/Lifting the Corporate Veil (Durchgriffshaftung)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1655983

Corporate Governance
     Corporate Social Responsibility
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1020517
     Shareholder Activism https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1020505
https://ssrn.com/abstract=1655983
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1020505


This is a list of
powerpoint files for the lectures. They are all links and can be clicked to open.
10InchoateCrimes.odp
10aFiduciary.ppt
ParisXNanterreTranscript.pdf
icc.txt
8aRICO.ppt
METHODOLOGY.odp
3Courts.odp
4Jurisdiction.odp
12Extradition.odp
Links.html
Chine
5JusCogens.odp
14GrauerMarkt.ppt
7CrimesAgainstProperty.odp
METHODOLOGY.ppt
bogachev-pa-ne-01.pdf
syllabus.html
6Fraud.odp
8bAntitrust_Law.ppt
HeadOfStateImmunity.txt
15viking-1.ppt
2CorporateCriminalCapacity.odp
8FinancialCrimes.odp
SPWiki-master
index.php
1Comparison_Harmonisation.odp
11PiercingTheCorporateVeil.odp
ParisIISorbonneLawSchoolTranscript.pdf
week2
src
papadopoulos-filings.zip
13corps.ppt
ICC.html

How to write a seminar paper http://mindworks.altervista.org/consim/methodological-advice-about-writing-your-papers


PAPER TOPICS
Look at some aspect of any of these issues in national, EU, or international law. I don't recommend to do a comparison: pick one legal system and work within it.
Paper ideas :
I am looking for a well structured argument well supported by facts and legal authority.
Possible topics (we refine them in person or by email) -- you look at any of these in the law of One country Or the EU Or International law Or EU and National law Or EU and International law. The jurisdictional boundary there limits your topic to something manageable.

Insider trading
Greenmail
Toxic torts
Main office liability for subsidiaries
Main office liability for sub-contractors
Tax Evasion
Market Manipulation
Pump-and-dump
Fraud
Deferrals of Prosecution
Digital financial fraud
Art fraud
Counterfeiting
Insurance fraud (bust out bankruptcy)
blood diamonds
conflict palm oil
contemporary piracy (e.g. Somalia, Malaysia also Caribbean)
Bribery
Arms smuggling
Drug smuggling
Inchaote Crimes (in national law)

MORE TOPICS
1) FCPA, UK Antibribery Act, OECD
2) Sanctions of course and dealing with OFAC rules and European rules
) securities fraud, insider trading, 10-b-5, National Australia Bank,
4) RICO
5) Export controls, BIS sanctions and deemed exports
6) Anti-monopoly law if you are dealing with EU law, since they are stricter than in the US
7) Corporate compliance
8) Financial Operations in conflict zones

a) Airbus scandal
b) VW Diesel emissions scandal
With these it would be a case study which also highlights the relevant laws.
c) Sanctions regimes / sanctions busting 
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/passing-magnitsky-act-opens-the-floodgates-for-other-countries-1.4379434

LAW AND ECONOMICS, PERICLES LAW INSTITUTE MOSCOW RUSSIA 2010


This syllabus is the basis for the course in law and economics to be offered as part of this exchange.


Description:


This course will introduce students to the basic analytical tools used in economic analysis of the law. Specifically, it covers: cost-benefit analyses; risk/reward probability analysis; marginal utility; theories of value; theories of justice; theories of the firm; capital markets; policy analysis; macroeconomic analysis relevant to taxation, budgets, monetary policy; and basic macroeconomic and microeconomic theory in the particular context of the legal practice.


READING LIST AND STRUCTURE OF LECTURES


  1. INTRODUCTION TO LAW AND ECONOMICS – 2 lectures


Lecture 1: Theories of Justice


Plato, The Republic

Aristotle, Law and Justice: The Tragic Hero Northern Kentucky Law Review, Vol. 35, pp. 1-18, 2008 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1125782
Cicero, De Republica


Skills: How to footnote, why to footnote, what is plagiarism, how and why to avoid plagirism.


Lecture 2: Law and Economics - Overview

Law and Economics, 2 Journal Jurisprudence 49, 29-60 (2009). 


Concepts: Keynesians, Austrian Economics, Neoliberalism

Topics: Fiscal Policy, Budgetary Policy, Monetary Policy

Methods: Cost / Benefit analyses


Skills: How to perform legal research, how to write a seminar paper. Problematique, thesis statement, outlining.


Contemporary Legal Thought – 1 lecture


Editorial, Contemporary Legal Thought, 6 J. Juris. 116-120, 259 (2010).

http://www.jurisprudence.com.au/juris6/engle_editorial.pdf
http://www.jurisprudence.com.au/juris6/engle_postscript.pdf

Skills: How to footnote, why to footnote, what is plagiarism, how and why to avoid plagirism.

Skills: How to perform legal research, how to write a seminar paper.


Corporatism: The Social-Market – 1 Lecture


A Viking We Will Go! Neo-Corporatism and Social Europe, 11 German Law Journal No. 6, 633-652 (2010).


A Social-Market Economy for Rapid Sustainable Development, 2 Gujarat National Law University, Journal of Law, Development, and Politics, 42-62 (2009).


Trade Policy – 1 Lecture


Columbia & Venezuela: Commerce Cures , Harvard International Law Journal Digest Comment, November 15th, 2009


The Professionalization Thesis: The TBR, the WTO and World Economic Integration Currents: International Trade Law Journal, Vol. 11, No. 16, Winter 2002


Taxation – 2 Lectures


Concepts & terms

proportional tax, progressive tax, regressive tax, negative tax

exoneration, deduction, tax credit

amortization, straight, declining

tax incidence

taxable base, (marginal) tax rate

tax ceiling, tax floor

adjusted gross income

excise tax

fiscal transparency

user fees

tax strike


Ecotaxes and the European Union, European Environmental Law Review. E.E.L.R. 2007, 16(11), 298-303. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1272190

The EU Means Business: A Survey of Legal Challenges and Opportunities in the New Europe, 4 DePaul Bus. & Com. L.J 351-399 (2006).


Optional:

L'Interprétation du Droit par l'Exemple de la Convention Fiscale Franco-Américain:

Peut-on Modéliser le Droit Fiscal par l'Informatique? , 131 Rev. Fiscalité. Européenne. & Dt. Int'l. des Affaires 43-51 (2001).

Les Ecotaxes en France, 85 pages.

La theorie et histoire de la fiscalite aux USA: La nouvelle orthodoxie economique, 229 pages.


Capital Markets - 1 Lecture


Insider Trading in U.S. Law, Oklahoma City Law Review, 32 Okla. City U. L. Rev. 37-85 (2007).

Global Norm Convergence: Capital Markets in U.S. and E.U. Law, 21 European Business Law Review 465–490 (2010). http://ssrn.com/abstract=1271868


Corporate Governance – 1 lecture


Corporate Social Responsability: Market Based Remedies for International Human

Rights Violations? , 40 Willamette L. Rev. 103-121 (2003).


What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: Human Rights, Shareholder Activism and SECReporting Requirements, 57 Syracuse L. Rev. 63-96 (2006).


Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction – 2 Lectures


U.S. Corporate Liability for Torts of (Foreign) SubsidiariesU.S. Corporate Liability for Torts of (Foreign) Subsidiaries 23 May Corporate Counsel Review, 15-42 (2004).


Extraterritorial Corporate Criminal Liability: A Remedy for Human Rights Violations? St. John's J. Legal Comment. 287-337 (2006).


Can RICO Protect Human Rights? A Computer Analysis of a Semi-Determinate Legal Question, 3 J. High Tech. L. 1-23 (2004).


Intellectual Property – 1 Lecture


When is When is Fair Use Fair? A comparison of E.U. and U.S. Intellectual Property Law, 15 Transnat'l Law. 187-225 (2002).