6105 - Private International Law
Course information
- Title
- Private International Law
- Course number
- 6105.23
- Academic year
- 2024-2025
- ECTS
- 10.00
- Level
- Master
- Faculties
- History and Social Sciences
- Educations
- Master of Laws (LL.M.), MA in Law
- Prerequisites
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with adequate component of law.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Registration
- Students in a program are automatically enrolled. Students of a single subject, apply through the student affairs office lss@setur.fo
- Beginning date
- Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- End date
- Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Academic content
- Purpose
- The objective of the course is to gain understanding of private international law concepts to enable students to apply them in practical cases and situations. Furthermore, it aims at encouraging reflections on human rights implications of the various private international law solutions and to compare solutions from various jurisdictions and to critically assess one’s own.
- Learning outcomes
- After completing this course, the students shall be able to: - Know and use the main concepts of private international law in an accurate manner. - Identify the main problems of private international law in relation to jurisdiction, applicable law and recognition. - Compare various solutions given to private international law issues in different jurisdictions, including decentralised states. - Reflect on the human rights implications of various options to private international law. - Gain an overall view of private international law in the areas of family matters and commercial matters. - Present and formulate arguments in a correct manner both orally and in written.
- Content
- The course comprises the following parts: 1. GENERAL PART OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW – MAIN CONCEPTS AND PROBLEMS: - Jurisdiction, choice of law and recognition and enforcement. Choice of law rule. Connecting factor, types of connecting factors. - Characterisation of the issue, characterisation of the connecting factor, evasion of law (fraude a lá loi), forum shopping, preliminary question, renvoi, public policy (ordre public), proof of foreign law, multi-legal states of territorial and personal basis. The Rigsfællesskab as a decentralised state. 2. PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW IN FAMILY MATTERS (marriage formation and dissolution) 3. PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW IN CONTRACTUAL MATTERS.
- Learning and teaching approaches
- Approx. 40 confrontation hours. The course consists of discussion-based lectures, work in groups and presentations, case-based learning and application of the acquired knowledge to cases/situations. The course is taught and examination held in the English language.
Assessment
- Assessment method
- Examination and learning are interconnected in a process of continuous evaluation. There will be two case-based take-home assignment, each counting 30% (30 hours) and a research-based comparative essay counting 40% of the total. One overall grade is given. It is a precondition for passing the overall course that all three home assignments have been passed.
- Examination (internal/external)
- Internal
- Grading scale
- 7-scale
- Exam date/dates
- Home assignment nr 1 will be handed the students the 13th of March at 12.00 and is due the 14 of March at 12.00. Homeassignment nr 2 is due the 22nd of May at 12.00. Homeassignment nr 3 be handed the students the 5th of June at 09.00 and is due the 6th of June at 09.00.
- Deadline for withdrawal from exam
- Monday, January 27, 2025
Academic responsibility and teachers
- Academic responsibility
- Bárður Larsen
- Teachers
- José María Lorenzo Villaverde, Bárður Larsen