This course is designed to improve your ability to negotiate contracts in multi-cultural settings, and draft clear and efficient multi-jurisdictional contracts.
It will teach you about international commercial dispute resolution (including loopholes in the law and tactics they allow for) and how such tactics and other risks can be covered in contracts to prevent non-performance and disputes.
You will learn to draft contracts with accessible language to increase their performance and preventative effectiveness, as well as to strengthen business relations. You will also learn science-based negotiation techniques, effective in cross-border and domestic contexts, for use during contract pre-drafting and drafting.
The course brings together training from multiple jurisdictions, experience in international commercial transactions, and knowledge from related key areas like psychology, and cultural and individual differences. You will improve your understanding of international law, cross-border litigation, psychology, and cultural studies. This combination of knowledge from different disciplines is essential for negotiating and drafting high-quality contracts.
On this course
Issues in cross-border commercial transactions
- Assessing, among others, legislative, political, and judicial risks
- Performance
- Cultural differences
International commercial litigation
- Litigating in practice, including tactics used in multinational litigation
- Conflict of laws/private international law
- Jurisdiction and other issues
Reasoning in commercial courts
- Understanding the reasoning of commercial courts, and using this knowledge to negotiate and draft contracts
- Differences in reasoning in domestic matters
- How differences in reasoning affect drafting and negotiations
Psychology (organisational and other): individuals, groups, and cultures
- Psychological processes affecting negotiations
- What individual, group, and cultural differences (perceived or real) mean for negotiations
Key negotiating knowledge and techniques
- Negotiation methods and style
- Understanding psychological processes which affect human behaviour
- Negotiations and personality
- Multi-cultural negotiations
- Using knowledge of individual differences in negotiations
- “Mind bugs” and negotiations
Key drafting knowledge and techniques
- Effective use of negotiations in contract drafting
- Risk assessment and planning techniques
- Contract drafting techniques
- Using clear and concise language
- Effective use of contract templates
- Minimising the use of contract templates to reduce the problems they can cause
- Specific international commercial contracts in different areas of practice, including the sale of goods and commercial finance
- Cross-border asset-based lending
Who is this course for
This course is particularly suitable for lawyers, negotiators, or business people working in international business.
it is also suitable for students, those considering a career change to international business, and anyone else wishing to understand international business transactions and how to prevent disputes during negotiations and drafting.
Related courses
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Decision Making and the Mind: Weaknesses, Biases, and Persuasion – A one-day course suitable for anyone wishing to learn about persuasion and mind influences and how they penetrate our mind to affect decision making. Understanding of psychological processes is at the core of decision making and communication and is essential to effective public speaking.
Intermediate Public Speaking – a one-day course for those who wish to take their public speaking to a more advanced level.
Fees
£750
Booking information
Disability Support
We are committed to providing reasonable teaching adjustments for students with disabilities that may impact on their learning experience. If you require adjustments, please complete the relevant section on the booking form and also contact us at shortcourses (@gold.ac.uk) so we can respond to your requests as soon as possible.
Please note that our short courses sell-out quickly, so early booking is advisable.
Discounts
- 10% when a participant enrols for more than one of our courses (at the same time)
- 20% off for UK students
- 25% off for members of the UK Law and Society Association (UKLSA)
- If five people register from the same institution for the same intake, the fifth place is free
- Goldsmiths students, staff and alumni can email us for current discounts
As a University, we are able to offer our courses at minimum prices, and free of VAT - to make knowledge available to as wide an audience as possible.
Please see the AIR homepage for information on our refund policy.
Starting date, Monday 19 Oct 2020
10am-5pm | 5 days
Enquiries
If you have any questions about this course please contact air (@gold.ac.uk) or call +44 (0)20 7078 5468.
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Location
Senate House, University of London, Bloomsbury
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