LAW7263

Overview of corporate law ( 6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL)

Leader: Dr John Howe

Offered:
City First semester 2005 (On-campus)

Synopsis: This unit is designed for students who have not studied Australian corporate law in a law school environment. It can be undertaken as a single unit. It also provides the necessary background for students wishing to undertake any of the other corporate law units in the LLM program, all of which are specialised and assume familiarity with Australian corporate law. The unit will begin by examining the history and development of Australian corporate law and theories of corporate regulation. It will then move on to examine both the internal governance of the corporation (including directors' duties and shareholders' remedies) and the relationship betwen the corporation and the outside world.

Objectives: Students will understand corporations and financial regulation; develop oral communication skills and skills of presentation of legal concepts, rules and argument in an interactive seminar context; develop legal research and writing and legal argument skills.

Assessment: Research assignment (3,750 words): 50%; Take-home examination paper (3,750 words): 50%.