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BTX5160

Faculty of Business and Economics

18 September 2017 25 November 2024
Monash University

Postgraduate - Unit

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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LevelPostgraduate
FacultyFaculty of Business and Economics
Organisational UnitDepartment of Business Law and Taxation
OfferedCaulfield Summer semester B 2013 (On-campus block of classes)
Coordinator(s)Professor John Gillespie

Synopsis

The unit will introduce students to the theories about the globalization of law. Using a series of cases studies it aims to show how global laws are adopted and reinterpreted in key domestic legal systems in Asia. The unit will also demonstrate the local constraints on the globalization of law and offer reasons why legal and regulatory systems in Asian are not necessarily converging with those in the West.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

  1. develop an understanding of the historical, economic and political context of domestic legal systems in selected Asian countries (China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan)
  2. acquire in depth knowledge and a critical interest in the interaction between global regulation and domestic regulation in developing countries in Asia
  3. gain a greater insight into the role of global regulation in the Asia Pacific region;
  4. critically apply acquired analytical legal skills to a research project of the students choice
  5. develop general legal research and academic skills, and
  6. develop presentation skills, both verbal and written, involving the communication of abstract ideas.

Assessment

Within Semester Assessment: 60%
Examination (take home): 40%

Chief examiner(s)

Professor John Gillespie

Contact hours

Intensive -block unit, 39 hours contact hours per semester.