Leader: Carmel Mulhern

Offered

City (Melbourne) Trimester 1 2008 (Day)
City (Melbourne) Trimester 2 2008 (Day)

Synopsis

Introduction

1. Introduction to the course and overview of company law
2. Australian company law - history and regulation
3. Comparison with other types of business association and types of company under the corporations law

4. The corporation as a separate legal entity
5. Piercing the corporate veil

6. Corporate finance
7. Maintenance of Capital
8. The corporate constitution

9. Corporate contracting

10. Insolvency, voluntary administration and winding-up.

Objectives

Students who successfully complete this course will have:

1. knowledge and understanding of the formation, financing and dissolution of corporations, and the relationship between corporations and the outside world;
2. knowledge and understanding of legislation and policy in these areas of corporate law;
3. an ability to think critically about the impact of these concepts, principles, legislation and policy on the social and economic context in which they operate;
4. an ability to apply these concepts, principles, legislation and policy to hypothetical fact situations;
5. the opportunity to conduct independent research in corporate law and for the results of that research to form a substantial proportion of the assessment for the subject.

Assessment

Final examination (2 hours plus 30 minutes reading time): 70%; assignment (2,500-3,000 words): 30%.

Contact hours

2 hour seminar per week x 12 weeks

Co-requisites

LAW7269

Prohibitions

LAW4171