This course is an opportunity to engage in simulated commercial arbitration and negotiation in Japan as part of an intervarsity Team Australia. It provides students with a dynamic opportunity to develop their legal, cross-cultural and presentation skills in an authentic, team-based environment. Students elect to participate either in the English-language or the Japanese-language division of the competition.
The topics covered in this course vary depending on the problem presented and may include:
- Private International Law;
- Choice and conflict of laws;
- Substantive cross-border legal matters;
- UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracting;
- UNCITRAL Rules of Commercial Arbitration;
- Comparative private law;
- Arbitration; and
- Commercial negotiation.
Advanced Japanese language skills (for Japanese-language division participants only) are required.
To develop their knowledge and skills, students will engage in a range of learning activities that develop their negotiation and commercial analytical skills, oral and written advocacy for arbitration, and effective cross-cultural communication in a legal context.
Please note that admission into this course is via an application process. Applications open in May of every year with interviews scheduled for early June.
Please see https://www.teamaustralia-inc.net/applications for more information.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Outline, summarise and synthesise a coherent and advanced knowledge of the underlying principles and significant norms of the international commercial law covered in the course to provide solutions to complex legal issues.
- Select and apply a range of communication skills and apply critical thinking in order to moot as if an advocate at an international commercial arbitration, demonstrating adaptability in practice and competition moots by taking a range of positions within the advocacy team and on either side of the legal dispute.
- Select and apply a range of communication skills and creative thinking to negotiate as a member of a team undertaking a commercial negotiation, demonstrating adaptability in practice and competition negotiations by taking a range of positions within the negotiation team and on either side of the legal dispute.
- Outline, summarise and synthesise a clear and coherent exposition of knowledge and ideas to a moot competition judge
- Analyse, review, consolidate and synthesise knowledge to provide solutions to complex problems, demonstrating intellectual independence.
- Independently plan and conduct legal research on international commercial law and produce written memoranda for the international competition.
- Recognise the importance of reflective practice and critically analyse the student's own learning experience.
Work Integrated Learning
Simulation/Virtual
Mooting is an excellent way for students to apply learned legal knowledge and analysis. The simulated scenarios allow students to select and apply a range of communication skills and apply critical thinking in order to moot as if an advocate at an international commercial arbitration. Students are provided with the opportunity to demonstrate adaptability in moots by taking a range of positions within the advocacy team and on either side of the legal dispute and are required to analyse, consolidate and synthesise knowledge to identify and provide solutions to complex problems in a practical way.
Other Information
Please note that admission into this course is via an application process. Applications open in May of every year with interviews scheduled for early June.
Please see https://www.teamaustralia-inc.net/applications for more information.
Indicative Assessment
- The proposed means of assessment for this course will provide students with at least two pieces of assessment, including one piece during the teaching period. More information about the means of assessment, including the relationship between the assessment and the learning outcomes of the course, will be available in the class summary and on the course WATTLE page. (100) [LO 1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
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Workload
- Classes offered in non-standard sessions will be taught semi-intensively with compulsory contact hours of approximately 36 hours of face to face teaching. The course will also require advanced preparation through assigned readings. In total, it is anticipated that the hours required for completion of this course (class preparation, teaching and completion of assessment) will not exceed 120 hours.
- Classes offered during semester periods are expected to have three contact hours per week. Students are generally expected to devote at least 10 hours overall per week to this course. In total, it is anticipated that the hours required for completion of this course (class preparation, teaching and completion of assessment) will not exceed 120 hours
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Inherent Requirements
Not applicable
Requisite and Incompatibility
You will need to contact the ANU Law School to request a permission code to enrol in this course.
Prescribed Texts
Students must rely on the approved Class Summary which will be posted to the Programs and Courses site approximately two weeks prior to the commencement of the course. Alternatively, this information will be published in the Program course list when known.
Preliminary Reading
Students must rely on the approved Class Summary which will be posted to the Programs and Courses site approximately two weeks prior to the commencement of the course.
Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
Commonwealth Support (CSP) Students
If you have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). More information about your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.
- Student Contribution Band:
- 34
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are a domestic graduate coursework student with a Domestic Tuition Fee (DTF) place or international student you will be required to pay course tuition fees (see below). Course tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.
Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $5280 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $6360 |
Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links
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Class summaries, if available, can be accessed by clicking on the View link for the relevant class number.
Second Semester
| Class number | Class start date | Last day to enrol | Census date | Class end date | Mode Of Delivery | Class Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8806 | 21 Jul 2025 | 28 Jul 2025 | 31 Aug 2025 | 24 Oct 2025 | In Person | N/A |