How Would You Compare the Issues in This Simulation to the Domestic Legal Issues Discussed in Your Week One Readings? How Should Companies Resolve Domestic and International Issues Differently?

From the chapters in week one’s readings and the scenario that was presented in the simulation, it appears that the only real difference between international and domestic issues are how they are handled. In the simulation, the employee had to come up with a decision that was beneficial for the American company as well as the foreign company. This is the same when two domestic companies decide that they are going to work together. They have to decide on a contract that benefits them both and on other issues, such as how they will resolve an issue if one should occur. Both international and domestic entities seem to prefer the arena of arbitration and mediation to actually going to court. For international issues, there is an institution known as The World International Property Organization (WIPO) that is located in Geneva, Switzerland and it, “created an arbitration center for arbitration related to intellectual property such as patents, trademarks, and copyrights” (Melvin, p. 639). One huge difference is the laws that are used in different countries when issues are taken to arbitration. African and Asian countries use what is known as civil law systems. They do not want the courts to use cases of similar background to be used as a basis for a decision in another case. The courts in these countries go by the code law only. Countries such as the United States and Australia use the common law system, which is the exact opposite of civil law systems. These countries prefer the courts to base decisions on previous decisions of cases that addressed the same or similar issue. There is also the religious-based legal system which is when laws are directly based on