Program Information

Location

Paris, France

Term

Summer

Dates

Saturday, June 21, 2025 to Saturday, July 19, 2025

Language

English

Area of Focus

Social Sciences

Distributional Requirements

Fulfills So distributional requirement

Structure

Study Center

Course Number

ECON S276

Credits

2 Yale credits

Instructor

Sarath Sanga (Yale University)  

Prerequisites

None

Description

What happens when commerce crosses borders? What are the economic impacts of differing standards of enforcement and proof? How is legal harmony achieved? This joint summer program brings together faculty and students from Yale University, Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), and ESSEC Business School for case study and on-site modules at the International Court of Commercial Arbitration. If international trade is in your future, this program provides a breadth of understanding no internship can match.

Professor Sarath Sanga will teach Law and Economics of the International Commercial Order. This course will examine how parties engaging in economic exchange often organize their relationships through written and oral contracts. Students will study, with particular emphasis on economic efficiency, the design of these contracts and the body of law that governs them. The curriculum develops through a substantive theoretical component and a practical component, with on-site modules at the International Court of Commercial Arbitration in Paris. This program takes the existing institutions of trade and contract law seriously - students will, for instance, develop familiarity with everyday trading practices and basic legal rules of exchange - and then asks whether and how they facilitate efficient trade. A principal topic of the program will be contractual solutions to the hold-up problem. Starting from seminal articles in the bilateral trade literature and the literature on breach remedies, the program will introduce students to the most recent developments of the field.

详情链接：https://studyabroad.yale.edu/programs/yale-summer-session-paris-law-economics