Corporations Law PG (11438.1)

Please note these are the 2021 details for this unit
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Corporations Law PG
Available teaching periods Delivery mode Location
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EFTSL Credit points Faculty
0.125 3 Faculty Of Business, Government & Law
Discipline Study level HECS Bands
Canberra Law School Post Graduate Level 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)
This unit provides a comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the law relevant to corporations and their regulation. The main topics examined include incorporation of a company; the corporate constitution and corporate governance; directors' duties and shareholders' remedies; the corporation's obligations to outsiders in contract; corporate finance and fundraising; corporate insolvency and winding-up. Students will also become acquainted with many more sophisticated issues of policy and practice that are applicable to companies.

This unit may be co-taught with an undergraduate version of the unit.


Learning outcomes

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


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 the Juris Doctor, Master of Laws, Master of Legal Studies or Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies courses.

Students must have passed 11431 Foundations of Law and Justice G AND 11434 Contract Law G or equivalent.

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

11222 Law of Business Associations 11404 Law of Business Associations PG 11280 Corporations Law

Equivalent units

6780 Corporations Law G

Assumed knowledge

A basic knowledge of Australian legal system and contract law.
Year Location Teaching period Teaching start date Delivery mode Unit convener
Not available

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 (OUP, 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, 2018). 

P M Redmond, Companies and Securities Law: Commentary and Materials (ThomsonReuters, 5th ed, 2009).

Robert Baxt, Ashley Black and Pamela Hanrahan, Australian Securities Law, (LexisNexis Butterworths, 9th ed, 2017).

Jason Harris, Anil Hargovan and Michael Adams, Australian Corporate Law, (LexisNexis Butterworths, 6th ed, 2018).

Harris J and Murray M, Keay's Insolvency, (ThomsonReuters, 9th ed, 2016).

Harris J, Company Law:Theories, Principles and Applications (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2012).

Jason Harris, Butterworths Questions and Answers: Corporations Law (LexisNexis, 3rd ed, 2009).

R Tomasic, J Jackson and R Woellner, Corporations Law, Principles, Policy and Process (Butterworths, 4th ed, 2002).

 

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 request for an extension in writing before the due date (unless impossible) setting out in detail the genuine and exceptional reason for requesting the extension.  If there is a medical or counselling reason for the extension request it must be accompanied by a medical or counselling certificate which clearly states:

  • 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.

Supplementary assessment

 

 

Students must apply academic integrity in their learning and research activities at UC. This includes submitting authentic and original work for assessments and properly acknowledging any sources used.

Academic integrity involves the ethical, honest and responsible use, creation and sharing of information. It is critical to the quality of higher education. Our academic integrity values are honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage.

UC students have to complete the Academic Integrity Module annually to learn about academic integrity and to understand the consequences of academic integrity breaches (or academic misconduct).

UC uses various strategies and systems, including detection software, to identify potential breaches of academic integrity. Suspected breaches may be investigated, and action can be taken when misconduct is found to have occurred.

Information is provided in the Academic Integrity Policy, Academic Integrity Procedure, and University of Canberra (Student Conduct) Rules 2023. For further advice, visit Study Skills.

Participation requirements

Participation requirements

It is an expectation that students will attend all classes and that non-attendance be the exception. However, where possible all lectures will be recorded and where possible streamed through Moodle.

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

To calculate your unit fees see: How do I calculate my fees?.The online UC Co-op Textbook Search is available for purchasing text books.

Work placement, internships or practicums

None, not relevant to this unit.