Corporations Law (11280.1)

Please note these are the 2021 details for this unit
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Available teaching periods Delivery mode Location
View teaching periods On-Campus
Flexible
 UC - Canberra, Bruce
EFTSL Credit points Faculty
0.125 3 Faculty Of Business, Government & Law
Discipline Study level HECS Bands
Canberra Law School Level 2 - Undergraduate Intermediate Unit Band 4 2021 (Commenced After 1 Jan 2021)
Band 4 2021 (Commenced After 1 Jan Social Work_Exclude 0905)
Band 5 2021 (Commenced Before 1 Jan 2021)
On completion of this unit, students will be able to understand all basic principles of corporations law likely to be encountered in practice including those relevant to: the incorporation process and constitution; duties and liabilities of officers; rights and remedies of members/shareholders; corporate contracts and corporate liabilities and tort and crime; corporate finance and fundraising; corporate insolvency and winding-up. The students will also be able to analyse and apply these principles in complex factual situations to reach rational, reasoned legal conclusions. This unit may be co-taught with a G version of the unit.

Learning outcomes

After successful completion of this unit, students will be able to: 1. Identify and explain the essential features of corporations law;
2. Critically analyse law reform proposals and policy issues associated with corporations law; and
3. Use legal reasoning and critical analysis to apply the law to solve corporations law problems.


Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
2. UC graduates are global citizens - behave ethically and sustainably in their professional and personal lives
1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development


Prerequisites

This unit is only available to students in a Bachelor of Laws course. Students must have passed 11251 Foundations in Law and Justice AND 11277 Contract Law.

Corequisites

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.
Availability for enrolment in 2022 is subject to change and may not be confirmed until closer to the teaching start date.
Year Location Teaching period Teaching start date Delivery mode Unit convener
2021 UC - Canberra, Bruce Semester 1 08 February 2021 On-Campus Dr Benedict Sheehy
2022 UC - Canberra, Bruce Semester 2 01 August 2022 Flexible Dr Benedict Sheehy
The information provided should be used as a guide only. Timetables may not be finalised until week 2 of the teaching period and are subject to change. Search for the unit timetable.

Required texts

Prescribed texts

The materials listed below are the prescribed texts and legislation.  Students will need access to all these materials for the purposes of completing the course of study in the unit.

Andrew Clarke, Corporations Law: Concepts, Cases and Culture (Oxford Univesrity Press, 2020) 

Benedict Sheehy, 'Explaining the Corporation to Students and Other Non-specialists: A Graphic Approach,' (2016) 40 (2) University of Western Australia Law Review 69. 

 Recommended texts

   Elizabeth Boros and John Duns Corporate Law, 3rd ed., (2013) Oxford University Press

Robert P Austin and Ian M Ramsay, Ford, Austin and Ramsay's Principles of Corporations Law (LexisNexis Butterworths, 17th ed, 2019).

P M Redmond, Companies and Securities Law: Commentary and Materials (ThomsonReuters, 7th ed, 2009).

P Hanrahan, I Ramsay, G Stapledon, Commercial Applications of Company Law (Oxford, 2019)

Submission of assessment items

Special assessment requirements

There are no special assessment requirements for this unit. All assignments are required to be submitted by the due date.  There is no requirement for lecturers to mark assessment items that are submitted late.

If for any reason you are unable to do an assignment by the due date you must submit to the lecturer, a formal written request for an extension using the university's form for such. Please note that the university's extension policy requires strict adherence and will be followed including the requirements for documentary evidence such as medical or counselling certificate which clearly state:

  • that you were unfit to complete the assignment;
  • the date of the medical or counselling consultation; and
  • the period for which you were / are / will be unfit to complete the assignment.

Participation requirements

Participation requirements

It is an expectation that students will attend all classes whether online or in person and that non-attendance be the exception.  Where possible lectures will be recorded and streamed through Canvas.

Required IT skills

Required IT skills

Students are also assumed to have basic IT skills, such as word processing, familiarity with the Internet sufficient to use e-mail, and access unit information and research databases.

In-unit costs

In-Unit Costs

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Work placement, internships or practicums

None, not relevant to this unit.

Incompatible units

  • 6631 Government and Corporate Contracting PG 7587 Public Companies Law PG 9690 Corporate Law and Practice PG

Equivalent units

7024 Corporations Law

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