units

LAW7275

Faculty of Law

18 September 2017 09 May 2024
Monash University

Postgraduate - Unit

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2012 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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LevelPostgraduate
FacultyFaculty of Law
OfferedCity (Melbourne) Trimester 1 2012 (Day)
City (Melbourne) Trimester 2 2012 (Day)
City (Melbourne) Trimester 3 2012 (Day)

Notes

For postgraduate Law discontinuation dates, please see http://www.law.monash.edu.au/current-students/postgraduate/pg-disc-dates.html

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
Corporate personality
  1. The corporation as a separate legal entity
  2. Piercing the corporate veil
Corporate structure
  1. Corporate finance
  2. Maintenance of Capital
  3. The corporate constitution
Corporations and the outside world
  1. Corporate contracting
Corporate mortality
  1. Insolvency, voluntary administration and winding-up.

Outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit 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%.

Chief examiner(s)

Ms Karen Wheelwright (Trimester 1)
Ms Lisa Robinson (Trimester 2)
Mr Scott Wotherspoon (Trimester 3)

Contact hours

2.5 hours per week x 12 weeks

Prerequisites

LAW7212 or LAW7470

Co-requisites

LAW7269

Prohibitions

LAW4171