International and European Financial Law and Sustainable Development

The course seeks to provide participants with in-depth knowledge and critical understanding of the institutions, rules and principles of the international financial system, as well as of key legal and policy issues arising from the phenomenon of economic and financial globalization of the World, above all, in light of the current economic and financial crisis. The objectives of the International Financial Law course are: 1) to study some of the major trends in the legal regime governing interstate relationships in the monetary, economic and financial sectors; 2) to offer a theoretical and practical introduction to the main legal issues arising from the globalisation of the world economy and its current crisis; 3) to analyze the activities of international governmental and non-governmental organizations and private economic and trade actors in the field of international financial law.

At the end of the course students will - have an advanced knowledge of the topics analysed during the lectures; - have a profitable understanding of the subject and its fundamental principles; - develop critical skills for objective analysis of international economic legal and policy issues, and of its interactions with other areas of international law; - acquire method of reasoning suitable to develop, in an autonomous way, more articulated and complex legal questions in the field of the International financial and economic-monetary law in view of the legal and economic emerging principles connected to the phenomenon of sustainable development.