LAWS371-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

International Investment Law and Arbitration

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

The course examines selected problems in international investment law and arbitration relevant to a New Zealand context.

This course complements LAWS338 (World Trade Law). In LAWS338, we deal with the international trade rules as set out in the WTO Agreement. These rules apply almost universally. In this course, we will cover international investment agreements, which are bilateral, such as Chapter 11 of the New Zealand-China Free Trade Agreement, or regional, such as Chapter 9 of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.

We will address the substantive rules, ie the interpretation and application of investment treaties, expropriation, standards of protection, as well as the procedural rules, ie the settlement of disputes (state vs state and investor vs state).

LAWS371 and LAWS338 together belong to the broader area of international economic law.

Restrictions

LAWS333 and ILAP634

Co-requisites

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 09:00 - 10:00 A5 Lecture Theatre
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Friday 09:00 - 10:00 A4 Lecture Theatre
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct

Course Coordinator

Christian Riffel

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Essay TBC 40%
Final Exam TBC 60%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $946.00

International fee $4,850.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 10 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Faculty of Law .

All LAWS371 Occurrences

  • LAWS371-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025