International Trade Law is a postgraduate module that examines the legal dimensions of cross-border commerce from both a private international law and a substantive law perspective. The module opens with a historical and theoretical introduction to the lex mercatoria and the globalisation of trade, before addressing jurisdiction in international civil and commercial disputes, the private international law of property, contract, and prescription, and the methodological foundations of comparative law. Against this comparative backdrop, students engage with the substantive rules governing international sales transactions, including the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), Incoterms 2020 and the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, as well as the law of international trade finance, with particular attention to documentary letters of credit. The module further examines the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments under both South African common law and emerging international instruments such as the Hague Judgments Convention of 2019 and concludes with a detailed treatment of international commercial arbitration, including the International Arbitration Act 15 of 2017 and the UNCITRAL Model Law. Throughout, students are exposed to primary sources from multiple legal systems and encouraged to develop the critical, comparative and transnational reasoning skills essential for legal practice and scholarship in an increasingly interconnected global economy.