LAW2102 - Contract B

Leader: Semester Two: Kwame Mfodwo

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2007 (Day)

Synopsis

Contract law addresses the broad concepts, principles and rules used to determine the content of binding promises and as appropriate, defeasibility or enforcement in a market economy. The unit is taught paying due attention to critiques of contract law as well as the policy factors influencing various forms of contracting. A practical skills and ethics research component is also provided.

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

Tutorial Preparation and Participation: 10%; Examination (3 hours writing time plus 30 minutes reading and noting time): 90%

Contact hours

Three hours of lectures per week and one hour tutorial per week from weeks 6-12.

Prerequisites

LAW1100 OR LAW1101 and LAW1102 or LAW1104; LAW2101

Co-requisites

LAW1100 or LAW1101 and LAW1102 or LAW1104

Prohibitions

LAW2100