Course Brief
I.课程目标及性质（Objective and Nature of This Course）
国际贸易法成案分析（货物买卖法成案节选）旨在培养学生掌握将货物买卖法应用于实践的能力，培养国际视野与竞争力。
Cases study on international trade law (section: international sales of goods) is aimed to develop the capacity of students to apply the international sales of goods to the practice. It helps to develop the international horizon and competitiveness of the students.
本课程为选修课。
The nature of this course is a selective course of law.
II.课程预期效果（Expected Outcome of This Course）
通过学习此课程，学生将熟悉国际贸易法（尤其是国际货物买卖法）规则与案例，具备将规则运用于国际实务，并解决国际贸易争端的基本能力。这些效果具体包括：
After completion of this course, the students are expected to be familiar with cases and practices of international trade law (particularly the sales of goods). They are also familiar with the application of the rules into practice and have the basic capacity of solving the international trade disputes. These effects include:
1. 使学生对国际贸易法的法律框架及思维方式有感性认识
1. To enable the students to have perceptual knowledge about the construction of and the method of reasoning of international trade law.
2. 使学生大致熟悉国际贸易法案例制度；
2. To help the students to have preliminary knowledge of trade law cases.
3. 使学生基本掌握查找、消化、分析与运用国际贸易判例的方法；
3. To help the students to obtain the basic technique of searching, digesting, analyzing and utilizing trade law cases or precedents.
4. 在今后法学理论研究方面，使学生有能力驾驭英文案例；
4. To help the students to be capable of handling legal cases and precedents in the future study of the theory of Law.
5.在今后实践中，指引学生学会如何应用国际贸易法规则;
5. To guide students on how to apply international trade rules to the practices.
6. 拓展学生的国际视野，提高法律与专业外语等方面的综合竞争力，明确职业发展方向。
6.To broaden the international horizon of the students, to enhance their competitiveness in terms of legal knowledge and legal English, and to guide them in terms of their future career development.
III.授课目标和学时学分（Teaching Target and Credits）
本课程针对法学和相关专业各年级本科学生。
This course is open for undergraduate students specialized in law and related subjects.
本课程30学时，计2学分。
It is of 30 classes and 2 credits.
IV.与其他课程的关系（Linkage between This Course and the Others）
建议选修本课程学生此前已完成国际经济法、民商法、国际私法、国际公法的学习。本课程主要涉及国际经济法、民商法（合同法）、国际私法（民商事法律适用）、国际公法（国际经济组织）等领域。
To highly recommend students selecting this course to have completed their courses on international economic law, civil and commercial law, private international law, and public international law. The main part of this class involves studying in the field of international economic law, civil and commercial law (contract law), private international law (applicable law in civil and commercial affairs), and public international law (international economic organizations).
V.授课方式（Teaching Methods）
因本课程内容丰富，但课时数非常有限仅为30学时，为避免讲授在较短时间里流于肤浅介绍，在每年度开课前，给学生提供授课模块菜单，学生根据菜单提出授课内容建议，针对大部分学生的意见确定和细化课程主要内容。
The substance of this course is very broad and informative, but the course schedule is compressed into 30 hours only. Therefore, prior to the school term every year, we offer our students with the model and selection for our school curriculum, and based on which the students make their choice and give us their suggestion. We will then pinpoint and extract the principal substance from the course according to their feedback. Our lectures will be focused on some particular subject to meet the real needs.
课程主要授课方式：
1.课堂讲授（lectures）
2.案例分析（case studies）
课程其他授课方式
3.讨论课（seminars）
4.学生陈述（presentation）
5.模拟法庭（moot court）
通过多种灵活多样的方式，提高教学质量，最大程度调动学生兴趣，以及积极性和主动性。
课程讲授全程使用幻灯片，投影仪、教学电脑、话筒、白板等教学工具。
The course would also be supported by the presentation slides in the form of PowerPoint, projectors, computers, microphones, and whiteboard.
VI.师资力量（Teaching Staff）
授课教师主要来自于365备用线路检测国际法学院教师，不乏一些我校最早几批获得双语教学资格的教师。大多数教师具有丰富双语教学经验，大多具有美国、英国、加拿大、日本、德国、澳大利亚、瑞士、荷兰等国海外留学和工作经历，能承担授课模块菜单所有课程的中英文讲授任务。此外，还有部分外聘教师及外籍教师。
The course would be taught by the faculty members from International Law School, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, including those who are one of the first groups of certified SWUPL bilingual teachers. The vast majority of them have rich experience in bilingual teaching, and/or teaching/study experience abroad in the USA, United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, or Netherlands. It makes them more capable of teaching all the classes using Chinese and English language in this program. Moreover, there are some foreign teachers from the leading university schools to joint us in this program.
VII.教材及参考资料（Textbooks and Reference Materials）
教材：Ray August, International Business Law（国际商法）, 高等教育出版社2002年版。
主要参考资料
1.Michael Pryles, Jeff Waincymer, Martin Davies, International Trade Law: Commentary and Materials (国际贸易法——评论与材料), 2nd edition, Lawbook Co. 2004.
2.莫世健，International Commercial Law, 中国法制出版社2004年版。（国际商法）
3.（美）拉尔夫?弗尔瑟姆、迈克?戈登和约翰?史帕诺戈, 《国际商事交易》（International Business Transactions）,第7版，法律出版社, 2005。（国外引进全英文原版教材）
4.Michael R. Czinkota, Fundamentals of International Business（国际商事基础）, 北京大学出版社2004年版。
5.Larry A. DiMatteo, The Law of International Business Transactions（国际商事交易法）, 北京大学出版社2004年版。
6.Richard Schaffer, International Business Law and its Environment（国际商法与其环境）, 6th Edition, West Thomson Learning, 2004.
VIII.教学内容（Course Contents）
Class 1-Chapter 1 Introduction
Class 2-Chapter 2 International Commercial Terms
Section 1 Introduction and Summary of Incoterms 2000
Section 2 EXW, FCA, FAS
Case study on EXW: Damage caused by a fire accident in EXW contract
Case study on FCA: “Dirty bags case”
Class 3-Chapter 2 International Commercial Terms (Cont.)
Section 3 FOB, CFR
Case study on FOB
Case study on CFR
Class 4-Chapter 2 International Commercial Terms (Cont.)
Section 4 CIF, CPT, CIP & D group
Case study on CIF -- Insurance Interests
Case study on CIF or not?
Case study: Tsakiroglou & Co. Ltd. v. Noblee Thorl G. m. b. H. (House of Lords)
Class 5-Chapter 3 International Law of Sales of Goods
Section 1 Introduction of Conventions
Section 2 Transactions Covered In CISG
Case study: Zhuguang Oil Company v. Wuxi Zhongrui Group Corporation (Higher People's Court of Jiangsu Province)
Case study: Asante Techonologies, Inc. v. PMC-Sierra, Inc. (United States District Court, Northern District of California)
Case study: Audiencia Provincial de Baleares, 15 June 2001.
Class 6-Chapter 3 International Law of Sales of Goods (Cont.) Cont.
Section 3 Contractual Issues Excluded From the Coverage of the Convention
Case study: Amit Israeli v. Dott. Gallina S.r.l., Dario Gallina and David Gallina (United States District Court, Western District of Wisconsin)
Case study: China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (Beijing, [Case No. M20060454])
Case study: Olivaylle Pty Ltd v Flottweg GmbH & Co KGAA
Class 7-Chapter 3 International Law of Sales of Goods (Cont.)
Section 4 Interpreting the Convention
Case study: Cour de Cassation [Supreme Court] - Commercial chamber, 13 February 2007
Case study: Tribunale di Padova, Sezione Distaccata di Este
Class 8—Chapter 3 International Law of Sales of Goods (Cont.)
Section 5 Interpreting the Sales Contract
Case study: Mcc-Marble Ceramic, Inc. v. Ceramica Nuova D’Agostin OSpa (United States Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Case study: Orthotec, LLC v. Eurosurgical, S.A.
Class 9-Chapter 3 International Law of Sales of Goods (Cont.)
Section 6 Formation of the Contract
Case study: United Technolo-Gies International, Inc. v. Magyar Légi K?zlekedési Vállalat (Hungary, Metropolitan Court of Budapest)
Case study: Filanto, Spa v. Chilewich International Corp. (United States District Court, Southern District of New York)
Case study: United Technologies International Inc. Pratt and Whitney Commercial Engine Business v. Magyar Légi K?zlekedési Vállalat (Málev Hungarian Airlines) (Hungary, Metropolitan Court Budapest)
Class 10—Chapter 3 International Law of Sales of Goods (Cont.)
Section 7: General Standards for Performance
Case study: Appellate Court (Oberlandesgericht) Koblenz [1 U 486/07]
Case study: Magellan International Corporation, Plaintiff v. Salzgitter Handel GmbH (United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division)
Class 11—Chapter 3 International Law of Sales of Goods (Cont.)
Section 8: Seller's Obligations
Case study: A.G.A Firm v. Shanghai Yixuan Import & Export Co Ltd and Foshan Gena Cleaning Instruments Manufacturers Co Ltd. (Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court)
Case study: Ajax Tool Works, Inc., Plaintiff, v. Can-Eng Manufacturing Ltd. (United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division)
Case study: Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof), Civil Panel VIII, [VIII ZR 268/04]
Class 12—Chapter 3 International Law of Sales of Goods (Cont.)
Section 9 Buyer's Obligations
Case study: The natural gas case (Austrian Supreme Court)
Case study: Geneva Pharmaceuticals Technology Corp. v. Barr Laboratories, Inc., Brantford Chemicals Inc., Bernard C. Sherman, Apotex Holdings Inc., Apotex Inc. and Sherman Delaware, Inc. (United States District Court, Southern District, New York)
Case study: Apothecon, Inc., Plaintiff, v. Barr laboratories, Inc., Brantford Chemicals Inc., Bernard C. Sherman, Apotex Holdings Inc., Apotex Inc. and Sherman Delaware, Inc. (United States District Court, Southern District, New York)
Class 13—Chapter 3 International Law of Sales of Goods (Cont.)
Section 10 The Passing of Risk
Case study: Prime Packers, Inc. v. Northarn Food Trading Co. (United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, Chicage)
Case study: Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Higher People’s Court
Case study: Appellate Court (Oberlandesgericht) Schleswig-Holstein [3 U 54/01]
Class 14-Chapter 3 International Law of Sales of Goods (Cont.)
Section 11 Remedies
Case study: The shoe seller’s case (Germany, Court of Appeals, Frankfurt am Main)
Case study: Downs Investments Pty. Ltd. v. Perwaia Steel Sdn Bhd (Australia, Supreme Court of Queensland)
Class 15-Chapter 3 International Law of Sales of Goods (Cont.)
Section 12: Excuses for Nonperformance
Case study: Nuova Fucinati, Spa V. Fondmetall International AB (Italy, Civil Court of Monza)
Case study: Iron ore case (China International Economic & Trade Arbitration Commission)
