LAW2101

Contract A ( 6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL)

Leader:

Offered:
Clayton First semester 2006 (Day)

Synopsis: Contract law addresses the broad concepts, principles and rules used to determine the content binding promises and as appropriate, their defeasibility or enforcement in a market economy. It is taught in two units - Contract A and B. The unit is taught paying due attention to critiques of contract law as well as the policy factors influencing various forms of contracting.

Objectives: At the conclusion of the unit, students should have achieved the following learning outcomes: (1) a coherent, critical and policy-aware understanding of the principles and rules of the law of contract; (2) a well developed ability to extract and evaluate principles and rules from primary and secondary law sources (cases, statutes, textbooks, articles and other writings about contract law); (3) a well developed ability to use these principles and rules to solve selected problems in examinations and other settings; (4) a well developed understanding of the dynamic nature of the law of contract; (5) a reasonable level of understanding of trajectories for further evolution of contract law's principles and rules.

Assessment: Assignment (2500 words): 30% plus examination (2 hours writing time plus 30 minutes reading and noting time): 70%

Contact Hours: Three hours of lectures per week and one hour tutorial per fortnight

Corequisites: LAW1100 or LAW1101 and LAW1102

Prohibitions: LAW2100