LAW 724 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dispute Settlement Body, Treaty 2, Ernest Hemingway

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Law and Business
• Course: LAW 724
• Professor: Daniele Bertolini

Document Summary

Lecture 1 5: international public law (trade law: sources of law, wto-gatt between canada, us and mexico, nafta basically all countries, eu, gatt exceptions. Lecture 6 11: international private law: canada import-exports. When reading a case you are looking for the issue. To solve the issue, apply the legal rule: legal reasoning argument the judge uses to support the judges choice in applying the rule, holding result of all of this / summary of argument. Issue: facts (parties, complaint, procedural history, holding, rule of law, reasoning, concurring/dissenting opinion. Case: estate of hemingway v. random house inc. Issue: whether common-law copyright is applicable to conversational speech. Or whether conversational speech is protected by common-law copyright. Publisher (defendant: tangible form palmer v de witt, common-law copyright covers things in writing or tangible form, following this rule, conversational speech is not covered by common-law copyright.