Sydney Law School Handbook 2018
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Welcome 1 Compulsory unit of study descriptions 31 Sydney Law School Undergraduate Units of Study 31 Resolutions of the Senate 3 Compulsory units of study 31 Resolutions of the Senate 3 Elective unit of study table 35 Resolutions of the Faculty 5 Resolutions of The University of Sydney Law 5 Elective unit of study descriptions 39 School for coursework awards Part 1 Elective Units of Study 39 Part 1: Course enrolment 5 Part 1 Masters Level Elective Units of Study 48 Part 2: Unit of study enrolment 5 Part 2 Jurisprudence Units of Study 56 Part 3: Studying and assessment 6 Part 2 Masters©s Level Jurisprudence Units of 58 Part 4: Progression, results and graduation 7 Study Part 5: Other 7 Doctorates 59 Bachelor of Laws 9 Doctor of Laws 59 Bachelor of Laws 9 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) 59 Course resolutions 9 Doctor of Juridical Studies 61 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws 11 Doctor of Juridical Studies 61 Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Law 11 Course resolutions 61 Course resolutions 11 Part 1: Preliminary 61 Part 2: Admission requirements 61 Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws 15 Part 3: Candidature 61 Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws 15 Part 4: Requirements 61 Course resolutions 15 Part 5: Enrolment and progression 62 Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws 19 Part 6: Examination 62 Bachelor of Economics/Bachelor of Laws 19 Part 7: Other 62 Course resolutions 19 Master of Criminology (Research) 63 Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor 23 Master of Criminology (Research) 63 of Laws Course resolutions 63 Bachelor of Engineering Honours combined 23 Part 1: Preliminary 63 degrees Part 2: Admission requirements 63 Bachelor of Engineering Honours combined 23 degrees Part 3: Candidature 63 Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of 23 Part 4: Requirements 63 Arts Part 5: Enrolment and progression 63 Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of 23 Part 6: Examination 64 Commerce Part 7: Other 64 Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of 23 Science Master of Laws (Research) 65 Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of 23 Course rules 65 Design in Architecture Master of Laws (Research) 65 Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of 23 Laws Course resolutions 65 Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of 23 Part 1: Preliminary 65 Project Management Part 2: Admission requirements 65 Course Resolutions 23 Part 3: Candidature 65 Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws 27 Part 4: Requirements 65 Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws 27 Part 5: Enrolment and progression 66 Course resolutions 27 Part 6: Examination 66 Part 7: Other 66 Compulsory unit of study table 29
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Juris Doctor 67 Environmental Law 125 Juris Doctor 67 Graduate Diploma in Environmental Law 125 Course resolutions 67 Master of Environmental Law 125 Course resolutions 125 Units of study 69 Environmental Law 127 Units of study 71 Units of study 127 Juris Doctor Compulsory Units of Study 71 Environmental Law 129 Juris Doctor 75 Units of study 129 Units of study 75 Global Law 131 Units of study 77 For continuing students only 131 Juris Doctor Electives Units of Study 77 Units of study 131 Part 1- International, Comparative, and 77 Transnational Electives Units of Study Health Law 139 Part 1 - Master©s Level Electives (International, 79 Graduate Diploma in Health Law 139 Comparative, and Transnational) Master of Health Law 139 Juris Doctor 87 Course resolutions 139 Units of study 87 Health Law 141 Juris Doctor 89 Units of study 141 Units of study 89 Health Law 143 Part 2- Elective Units of Study 89 Units of study 143 Part 2- Master©s Level Electives 95 International Law 145 Juris Doctor 99 Graduate Diploma in International Law 145 Units of study 99 Master of International Law 145 Juris Doctor 101 Course resolutions 145 Units of study 101 International Law 147 Part 3- Jurisprudence Units of Study 101 Units of study 147 Part 3- Masters Level Electives (Jurisprudence) 102 International Law 151 Administrative Law and Policy 105 Units of study 151 Master of Administrative Law and Policy 105 Course resolutions 105 International Taxation 153 Administrative Law and Policy 107 Units of study 153 Units of study 107 Jurisprudence 157 Business Law 109 Graduate Diploma in Jurisprudence 157 Master of Jurisprudence 157 Graduate Diploma in Business Law 109 Course resolutions 157 Master of Business Law 109 Course resolutions 109 Jurisprudence 159 Business Law 111 Units of study 159 Units of study 111 Jurisprudence 161 Business Law 115 Units of study 161 Units of study 115 Labour Law and Relations 163 Criminology 119 Master of Labour Law and Relations 163 Course resolutions 163 Graduate Diploma in Criminology 119 Master of Criminology 119 Labour Law and Relations 165 Course resolutions 119 Units of study 165 Criminology 121 Law and International Development 167 Units of study 121 Units of study 167 Criminology 123 Master of Laws 171 Units of study 123 Graduate Diploma in Law 171 ii Contents
Master of Laws 171 Course resolutions 171 Master of Laws 173 Units of study 173 Graduate Diploma in Law 179 Units of study 179 Taxation 185 Graduate Diploma in Taxation 185 Master of Taxation 185 Course resolutions 185 Taxation 187 Units of study 187 Taxation 189 Units of study 189 Commercial Law 191 Units of study 191 Corporate, Securities and Finance Law 193 Units of study 193 International Business Law 195 Units of study 195 Units of study A-E 199 Sydney Law School postgraduate units of study 199 A-E Units of study F-J 207 Sydney Law School postgraduate units of study 207 F-J Units of study K-O 215 Sydney Law School postgraduate units of study 215 K-O Units of study P-T 219 Sydney Law School postgraduate units of study 219 P-T Units of study U-Z 225 Sydney Law School postgraduate units of study - 225 U-Z Index by alpha code 227
Index by name 233
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iv Welcome Welcome
An education at We are a leading research-based law school, ranking first in Australia University of Sydney Law and sixth internationally as measured by the Social Sciences Research School prepares you for Network (SSRN). We also have one of the largest enrolments of PhD a varied and exciting candidates in law in the country and remain strongly committed to career in a range of research-based teaching and learning. professional settings. Both the Sydney LLB and There are now more opportunities to engage in overseas study at the Sydney JD, along Sydney Law School than ever before. Students in the LLB and JD with our specialist can engage in exchange study with our partners in North America, master©s degrees and Europe and Asia. Masters students can sample offshore study in graduate diplomas, locations including China, Nepal, Japan, Malaysia and Indonesia, or develop the skills needed in the United Kingdom, Germany or the Netherlands through the to work in a national, Sydney Law School in Europe Program. transnational and Legal studies open up many opportunities. While you might choose international legal to practise as a barrister or solicitor, our graduates also become environment. corporate counsel, government policy advisers, teachers, business The Sydney LLB, executives, novelists, journalists and artists. Many graduates work delivered as a combined law degree, continues to be one of Australia's with international organisations, such as the United Nations or the most sought-after degree programs. Our alternative pathways ensure World Bank, or with pro-bono legal services. Indeed, well over 50 that each year we welcome students from a wide range of percent of our law graduates do not practise in the traditional legal backgrounds, whether they be school leavers or those who have profession within a few years of graduating. transferred after recent tertiary study. I hope you enjoy your studies at University of Sydney Law School and Our postgraduate coursework program in law is one of the largest in benefit from the `complete university experience' that Sydney has to Australia, and offers a wide range of units of study. About 80 percent offer. of these units are taught intensively, a popular and rigorous form of Best wishes, teaching that permits candidates to complete the face-to-face teaching coursework of a unit in a short period of time. Professor Joellen Riley The University of Sydney Law School
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Resolutions of the Senate 3 Combined degrees 1 Degrees, diplomas and certificates of the Code Course title Abbreviation Credit points University of Sydney Law School BPARTLAW Bachelor of Arts* BA/LLB 240 and Bachelor of (1) With the exception of the Doctor of Laws and the Doctor of Laws^ Philosophy, the Senate, by authority of the University of Sydney Act 1989 (as amended), provides and confers the Dalyell following degrees, diplomas and certificates, according to BPCOMLAW Bachelor of BCom/LLB 240 the rules specified by the University of Sydney Law School. Commerce* and Bachelor of Laws^ The Doctor of Laws and the Doctor of Philosophy are provided and conferred according to the rules specified by Dalyell the Senate and the Academic Board. BPECNLAW Bachelor of BEc/LLB 240 (2) This list is amended with effect from 1 January, 2011. Economics* and Bachelor of Laws^ Degrees, diplomas and certificates no longer open for admission will be conferred by the Senate according to the Dalyell rules previously specified by the University of Sydney Law BUENGLAW Bachelor of BE/LLB 288 School. Engineering^ and 2 Degrees Bachelor of Laws^ Dalyell Code Course title Abbreviation Credit points BPSCILAW Bachelor of BSc/LLB 240 Science* and RHLAWLAW Doctor of Laws LLD Published work Bachelor of Laws^ RPPHDLAW Doctor of PhD Research Philosophy *may be awarded with honours following a further year of study RPJURSTD Doctor of Juridical SJD Research ^may be awarded with honours in an integrated program Studies 4 Graduate diplomas RMCRIMIN Master of MCrim Research Criminology Code Course title Abbreviation Credit points RMLAWLAW Master of Laws LLM Research GNCMMLAW Graduate Diploma GradDipCommLaw 24 MAADMLAP Master of MALP 48 in Commercial Administrative Law Law (2) and Policy GNCOSFLA Graduate Diploma GradDipCorpLaw 24 MABUSLAW Master of MBL 48 in Corporate, Business Law Securities and Finance Law (2) MACRIMIN Master of MCrim 48 Criminology GNCRIMIN Graduate Diploma GradDipCrim 24 in Criminology MAENVLAW Master of MEnvLaw 48 Environmental GNENVLAW Graduate Diploma GradDipEnvLaw 24 Law in Environmental Law MAENSCLA Master of MEnviSciLaw 48 Environmental GNHEALAW Graduate Diploma GradDipHL 24 Science and Law in Health Law MAGLBLAW Master of Global MGlobL 48 GNINBULA Graduate Diploma GradDipIntBusL 24 Law (1) in International Business Law (2) MAHEALAW Master of Health MHL 48 Law GNINTLAW Graduate Diploma GradDipIL 24 in International MAINBUAL Master of MIntBus&Law 48 Law International Business and Law GNJURISP Graduate Diploma GradDipJur 24 in Jurisprudence MAINTLAW Master of MIL 48 International Law GNLAWLAW Graduate Diploma GradDipLaw 24 in Law MAINTTAX Master of MIntTax 48 International GNTAXATN Graduate Diploma GradDipTax 24 Taxation (2) in Taxation MAJURISP Master of MJur 48 Jurisprudence (1) Last semester of admission: Semester 2, 2016 (2) Last Semester of admission: Semester 2, 2017 MALBLARE Master of Labour MLLR 48 Law and Relations MALAINDE Master of Law and MLawIntDev 72 International Development (2) MALAWLAW Master of Laws LLM 48 MATAXATN Master of Taxation MTax 48 MAJURDOC Juris Doctor JD 144 BGLAWLAW Bachelor of Laws^ LLB 144
^may be awarded with honours in an integrated program (1) Last semester of admission: Semester 2, 2016 (2) Last Semester of admission: Semester 2, 2017
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Resolutions of The University of Sydney 4 Credit for previous study Law School for coursework awards (1) The Coursework Rule specifies the general conditions for the granting of credit for previous study towards courses in These resolutions apply to all undergraduate and postgraduate this School. Advice regarding the granting of credit for coursework award courses in the School, unless specifically indicated undergraduate courses and the Juris Doctor can be found otherwise. Students enrolled in postgraduate research awards should in the relevant course resolutions. Postgraduate students consult the resolutions for their course. These resolutions must be may apply for credit for units of study completed outside the read in conjunction with applicable University By-laws, Rules and School. Previous study may include study completed prior policies including (but not limited to) the University of Sydney to enrolment. At the discretion of the Head of School and (Coursework) Rule 2014 (the ©Coursework Rule©), the resolutions for Dean, such credit may be granted on the following conditions: the course of enrolment, the University of Sydney (Student Appeals (a) Postgraduate students must complete at least 50% of their against Academic Decisions) Rule 2006 (as amended), the Academic course requirements from units of study listed in the table Honesty in Coursework Policy 2015 and the Academic Honesty of units specified for their course. Procedures 2016. Up to date versions of all such documents are (b) Where students outside the University of Sydney Law available from the Policy Register: http://sydney.edu.au/policies. School are permitted to transfer their enrolment to a In the context of these resolutions, "postgraduate" refers to Advanced postgraduate course in the University of Sydney Law Learning and Professional Master©s degrees and Graduate Diplomas. School, the Head of School and Dean may grant credit for It does not refer to the Juris Doctor which is identified by name where previous studies of up to 50% of the requirements of their appropriate. course. (c) Subject to paragraph (a), the Head of School and Dean Part 1: Course enrolment may permit postgraduate students to satisfy up to 25% of 1 Enrolment restrictions their course requirements from units of study previously completed in the School on a non-award basis. The value (1) Except with the permission of the Head of School and Dean, of credit may not exceed 25% of the student©s course a student may not enrol in units of study with a total value of requirements. more than 24 credit points per semester. Further to this, (d) Credit will not be given for units of study which are or have undergraduate and Juris Doctor students may not enrol in been credited towards the award of another course, except: more than 12 credit points in the summer session or 6 credit (i) postgraduate students who have graduated with a graduate points in the winter session. diploma previously awarded by the University of Sydney (2) Units of study in excess of a student©s award course Law School, may apply to have relevant units from that requirements will be taken on a full fee, non-award basis. graduate diploma credited towards a master's degree in For undergraduate and Juris Doctor students the results from the University of Sydney Law School; and these non-award units will not be included in the calculation (ii) Master of Laws students who are Bachelor of Laws or of the WAM. Juris Doctor graduates or graduands of the University 2 Time limits of Sydney and who have completed Sydney Law School (1) A student must complete all requirements for a master©s LAWS6000/JURS6000 units of study as part of their degree within 6 calendar years from first enrolment. Part Bachelor of Laws or Juris Doctor courses, may apply to time students should ensure their enrolment pattern allows have up to 24 credit points of such units of study credited completion within the maximum time. towards a Master of Laws. (2) A student must complete all requirements for a graduate (e) Postgraduate students may not enrol in units of study for diploma within 3 calendar years from first enrolment. Part credit to a course which are, in the opinion of the Head of time students should ensure their enrolment pattern allows School and Dean, substantially similar to other units of completion within the maximum time. study for which credit has been given. (3) A student must complete all requirements for the Juris Doctor (f) The subject matter of the units of study for which credit is degree within ten calendar years from first enrolment. sought must, in the opinion of the Head of School and (4) A student must complete all requirements for a bachelor©s Dean, be sufficiently relevant to the course of study in degree (including combined degrees) within ten calendar which the student is currently enrolled. years from first enrolment. (g) The work completed for the other course must, in the (5) Periods of suspension, exclusion or lapsed candidature will opinion of the Head of School and Dean, be of a sufficient be added to maximum completion times except that no standard. completion time will exceed 10 years from first enrolment. (h) Credit may not be given for previous or current work which (6) Credit will not be granted for previous studies older than 10 takes the form of a supervised or unsupervised years at the time of first enrolment. independent research project. However, this provision (7) If a postgraduate student is admitted with credit, the School does not apply to a coursework unit that is assessed partly will determine a reduced time limit for completion of the award or wholly by a research paper. course. (i) Postgraduate students who are given such credit are not 3 Suspension, discontinuation and lapse of thereby exempted from fulfilling the requirements for that award course, including the completion of any compulsory candidature units that currently apply. The Coursework Rule specifies the conditions for suspending or discontinuing candidature, and return to candidature after these Part 2: Unit of study enrolment events. The Rule also defines the circumstances when 5 candidature is deemed to have lapsed. Students should pay Details on Units of Study careful attention to the significant dates in these processes and (1) All units will be offered as either one semester in duration or their effect on results and financial liability. Students should refer in intensive mode. An undergraduate unit and a Juris Doctor to the relevant course resolutions for further detail on the criteria unit will require 39 hours of tuition for core units and between for approving suspensions of candidature. 26 and 39 hours for electives, and a postgraduate unit will require approximately 26 hours of tuition.
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(2) Undergraduate and Juris Doctor students must satisfy the (a) The assessment regime of each unit of study will include Jurisprudence requirement of their award courses by more than one form of assessment, or at least the option successfully completing an elective from the relevant of a second form of assessment. Jurisprudence table (Part 2 of the Undergraduate Table and (b) The total number of assessable words for a unit of study Part C of the Juris Doctor Table). A unit is included in the assessed by assignments and/or take-home exams is Jurisprudence tables if theoretical reflection on law as such 6000 words. is its primary goal. (c) Sit-down exams should not exceed 2 hours, unless a 6 Postgraduate students enrolling in units of study longer time has been approved by the Pro-Dean. other than those specified for their course (d) "Free form" class participation must not amount to more than 10% of total assessment, but "structured class (1) Subject to paragraph (b), the Head of School and Dean may participation" may be weighted more heavily. A mark will permit postgraduate students to satisfy up to 25% of their not be assigned for free-form class participation where course requirements from units of study within the University class size exceeds 25. of Sydney Law School but outside the table of units specified (e) Jointly assessed work must be approved by the Pro-Dean for their course, subject to the student demonstrating: and must not exceed 30% of total assessment. (a) that they have the relevant academic or professional (2) Juris Doctor: background to undertake the unit(s); (a) The assessment regime of each unit of study will include (b) the relevance of the unit(s) to their studies. more than one form of assessment, or at least the option (b) Postgraduate students must complete at least 50% of their of a second form of assessment. course requirements from units of study listed in the table (b) The total number of assessable words for a unit of study of units specified for their course. assessed by assignments and/or take-home exams is 7 Postgraduate students enrolling in Juris Doctor 6000 words. units of study (c) Sit down exams should not exceed 2 hours, unless a longer time has been approved by the Pro-Dean. (1) Postgraduate students may, with the permission of the Head (d) "Free form" class participation must not amount to more of School and Dean, enrol in one designated Juris Doctor than 10% of total assessment, but "structured class unit for credit towards the elective requirements of their award participation" may be weighted more heavily. A mark will course subject to the following conditions: not be assisgned for free-form class participation where (a) The unit of study would enhance their area of specialisation class size exceeds 25. or otherwise contribute to their program of postgraduate (e) Jointly assessed work must be approved by the Pro-Dean, learning. Approval will not be granted where a suitable unit and must not exceed 30% of total assessment. is taught within the postgraduate program. (3) Postgraduate: please refer to individual unit outlines. (b) Students may not enrol in the unit of study, Foundations 11 of Law, or equivalent unit. Attendance (2) Students will be required to comply with any alternative (1) Students are required to attend a minimum of 70% of assessment requirements imposed (normally including a timetabled activities for a unit of study. Participation in a research paper representing no less than 60% of the minimum number of assessment items or days of class may assessment requirements for the unit of study). be included in the requirements specified for a unit of study. 8 Cross-institutional study The Head of School and Dean may determine that a student fails a unit of study or is excluded from sitting the final The Head of School and Dean may permit a student to complete examination because of unsatisfactory attendance. a unit of study at another recognised institution and have that unit (2) In the case of serious illness, injury or misadventure, a credited to the student©s course requirements. Cross-institutional student may have their attendance requirement reduced or study is available subject to the following terms, unless specified waived by the relevant lecturer, subject to the student in the course resolutions: meeting all assessment requirements and providing (1) the unit of study is not used to satisfy any compulsory satisfactory supporting documentation. requirement; and (3) Students are required to be in attendance at the correct time (2) the unit of study content is not taught in any corresponding and place of any formal or informal examinations. elective unit of study in the School; or Non-attendance on any grounds insufficient to claim special (3) the student is unable, for good reason, to attend a consideration will result in the forfeiture of marks associated corresponding unit of study in the School; and with the assessment. (4) the unit of study is taught in English at the required level and 12 offered as part of an equivalent award course at the other Late submission policy institution; (1) It is expected that, unless an application for special (5) the unit of study is substantially equivalent in the number of consideration has been approved, students will submit all face-to-face teaching hours and in assessment requirements assessment for a unit of study on the due date specified. If as to units offered by the School. Permission cannot be an extension has been granted and the assessment is granted for units conducted on a ©distance© or online basis. submitted within the period of extension, no academic penalty (6) the results from the cross-institutional unit(s) will not be will be applied to that assessment task. included in the calculation of a student©s WAM. (2) If an extension is either not sought, not granted or is granted 9 International exchange but work is submitted after the extended due date, the relevant lecturer may not accept the work. A retrospective (1) The School encourages undergraduate and Juris Doctor extension will only be granted in special circumstances, and students to participate in international exchange programs. will take into account not only the reasons why the work was (2) The following conditions apply: late, but also why the request was late. (a) Undergraduate and Juris Doctor students are only eligible (3) The following penalty applies, unless a different regime is to undertake a law exchange in their final year; set out in the unit outline: (b) Students are not permitted to undertake more than one The late submission of an assessment which has not been semester on exchange; granted an extension will attract a penalty of 10% of the (c) Students are not permitted to undertake any of their total marks allocated to that assessment per calendar day compulsory requirements, including Jurisprudence, on or part thereof. exchange; (4) All penalties will be enforced as consistently as possible. If (d) Results from the exchange will not be included in the the application of the penalty is to result in an overall fail calculation of a student©s WAM. grade for a unit of study, lecturers retain discretion to review the whole of a student©s performance and all of the Part 3: Studying and assessment circumstances in deciding whether or not to award a bare 10 Assessment guidelines pass. Lecturers may set a deadline after which no work will be accepted, which is normally the date they intend to return (1) Undergraduate: the marked assessment to students.
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13 Word limit policy scholarships; admission to honours; and to calculate a final graduating rank for undergraduate and Juris Doctor students. (1) The total word count for essays/written work should exclude (2) The WAM is calculated on results obtained at the University the bibliography, footnote numbers and footnote citations, of Sydney only. Units which have been credited from other but discursive footnotes and quotations are included. law schools, or units undertaken on a student exchange (2) In undergraduate and Juris Doctor units of study, an program, will not be included in the WAM calculation. assessment which exceeds the word limit will attract a penalty (3) The University WAM is calculated using the following formula: of 10% of the total marks allocated to that assessment for every 100 words (or part thereof) over the limit (unless a WAM = sum(Wc x Mc) different regime is set out in the unit outline or assessment sum(Wc) instructions). Postgraduate students should refer to individual unit outlines. Where Wc is the unit of study credit points x the unit weighting 14 Special consideration for illness, injury or and Mc is the mark achieved for the unit. Units of study with a result of Absent Fail (AF) or Discontinue - Fail or (DF) are misadventure assigned a mark of zero, for the purpose of the WAM calculation. (1) Special consideration is a process that affords equal Units of study assessed on a pass/fail basis are not counted. opportunity to students who have experienced circumstances (4) The weight of a unit of study is assigned by the owning that adversely impact their ability to complete an assessment Faculty or School. In this School units are weighted with a task in a unit of study. The Coursework Rule provides full value of one. details of the University policy. The School©s policies and procedures for applying for special consideration are Part 5: Other described on the School website and in unit of study outlines. 19 (2) When a student experiences serious illness, injury, or Special Permission misadventure that affects their ability to participate in The Head of School and Dean may vary these resolutions for a assessment items, they may complete an application for particular student in exceptional circumstances. special consideration.When the circumstances are so severe 20 Transitional provisions as to make completion of the unit(s) of study impossible, it may be more appropriate for the student to apply to (1) These resolutions apply to students who commenced their discontinue from the units with permission. candidature on or after 1 January, 2017. (3) If a student disagrees with the outcome of an application for (2) Subject to sub-rule (3), students who commenced prior to 1 special consideration they should follow the steps outlined January, 2017will complete the requirements in accordance in the policy for appeals against academic decisions. with the resolutions in force at the time of their 15 commencement, provided that requirements are completed Concessional pass by 1 January, 2022. The School may specify a later date for In this School, the grade PCON (Concessional Pass) is not completion or specify alternative requirements for completion awarded. of candidatures that extend beyond this time. 16 Re-assessment (3) For all students who commenced their candidature prior to 1 January 2017, satisfactory progress will be determined (1) The School does not offer opportunities for reassessment according to the requirements stated in clause 17 of these other than on the grounds of approved special consideration. resolutions. However, at the discretion of the Head of School and Dean, an undergraduate or Juris Doctor student may be offered a supplementary exam if they have met all of the following conditions: (a) the student has failed no more than one unit of study; and (b) the unit is a compulsory unit of study; and (c) the unit of study was undertaken in what would otherwise be the student©s final semester. (2) All supplementary exams will be taken within two weeks of the release of marks. Part 4: Progression, results and graduation 17 Satisfactory progress (1) The School will monitor students for satisfactory progress towards the completion of their award course. Under the University©s Student Academic Progression policy, the School aims to identify students at academic risk; alert them to their status; provide assistance to these students; and track their progress once identified. (2) In this School, a student enrolled in an award course administered by the University of Sydney Law School will be deemed not to have made satisfactory progress in any semester for any of the following reasons: (a) (i) where the student is enrolled in a Bachelor of Laws or Juris Doctor degree: the student successfully completes only 50 percent or less of the credit points for which they were enrolled as at the relevant census date; and (a) (ii) for all other students: the student successfully completes less than 50 percent of the credit points for which they were enrolled as at the relevant census date; (b) they fail a unit of study more than once; (c) they achieve an average mark of less than fifty for all law units undertaken; (d) they fail to meet progression requirements as listed in the course resolutions. 18 Weighted Average Mark (WAM) (1) The Weighted Average Mark is used by the University as one indicator of performance. In this School the University WAM is used to determine eligibility for prizes and
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Bachelor of Laws limited by available resources and entry is competitive. A higher WAM may be necessary for entry in any given year. These resolutions must be read in conjunction with applicable (2) To qualify for the award of the Honours degree, a candidate University By-laws, Rules and policies including (but not limited to) must successfully complete 144 credit points taken from the the University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2014 (the ©Coursework Sydney Law School Undergraduate Table, comprising: Rule©), the Coursework Policy 2014, the Resolutions of the School, (a) 102 credit points of compulsory units of study; and the University of Sydney (Student Appeals against Academic (b) 30 credit points of elective units of study, of which a Decisions) Rule 2006 (as amended), the Academic Honesty in maximum of 24 credit points are taken from Part 1 and a Coursework Policy 2015 and the Academic Honesty Procedures 2016. minimum of 6 credit points are taken from Part 2; and Up to date versions of all such documents are available from the Policy (c) 12 credit points of Honours dissertation units of study. Register: http://sydney.edu.au/policies. (3) Students may apply to take up to a maximum of 24 credit points of LAWS6000/JURS6000 units of study as elective Course resolutions units of study. 1 Course codes (a) enrolment in LAWS6000/JURS6000 units of study will be subject to availability and any unit pre-requisites or Code Course title assumed knowledge, which may include relevant industry experience or prior specialist study. BGLAWLAW-01 Bachelor of Laws (b) enrolment in LAWS6000/JURS6000 units is only permitted after a candidate has completed 96 credit points towards 2 Attendance pattern the Bachelor of Laws. The attendance pattern for this course is full time only. (c) students may only enrol in LAWS6000/JURS6000 units 3 Admission to candidature listed in the Bachelor of Laws Elective units of study Table. (4) The award of Honours also requires the completion of the Admission to this course is available through a combined degree combined degree in the standard minimum full time duration program only. The degrees combined with the Bachelor of Laws for that combined program. The grade of Honours will be are: determined by the candidate©s Honours WAM (HWAM). (a) Bachelor of Arts (5) The HWAM is calculated from a minimum of 96 credit points (c) Bachelor of Commerce of Law units of study, including all compulsory and elective (e) Bachelor of Economics units of study undertaken at the University of Sydney, with (f) Bachelor of Engineering the exception of the unit of study Foundations of Law. The (i) Bachelor of Political, Economic and Social Sciences Honours units carry a weighting of two while all other units (h) Bachelor of Science carry a weighting of one. 4 Requirements for the pass degree 6 Award of the degree (1) The units of study that may be taken for the course are set (1) The Bachelor of Laws is awarded in the grades of either out in the Sydney Law School Undergraduate Table. Pass or Honours. The Honours degree is awarded in either (2) To qualify for the award of the pass degree, a candidate must First Class or Second Class, as specified below successfully complete 144 credit points taken from the Description HWAM Sydney Law School Undergraduate Table, comprising: (a) 102 credit points of compulsory units of study; and Honours Class I HWAM >= 80 (b) 42 credit points of elective units of study, of which a Honours Class II (Division 1) 75 <= HWAM < 80 maximum of 36 credit points are taken from Part 1 and a minimum of 6 credit points are taken from Part 2. Honours not awarded HWAM <75 (3) Students may apply to take up to a maximum of 24 credit points of LAWS6000/JURS6000 units of study as elective (2) Candidates in the Honours program who do not meet the units of study. requirements of the award of Honours, but who in all other (a) enrolment in LAWS6000/JURS6000 units of study will be respects have satisfied the requirements for the degree, will subject to availability and any unit pre-requisites or be awarded the pass degree. assumed knowledge, which may include relevant industry (3) Each semester Pass and Honours graduands will be ranked experience or prior specialist study. together by WAM to determine a graduation merit ranking. (b) enrolment in LAWS6000/JURS6000 units is only permitted This ranking is not recorded on testamurs or transcripts. after a candidate has completed 96 credit points towards 7 University medal the Bachelor of Laws. A candidate who qualifies for first class honours may be awarded (c) students may only enrol in LAWS6000/JURS6000 units a University medal.The medal is awarded at the discretion of the listed in the Bachelor of Laws Elective units of study Table. School Honours Committee to the highest achieving candidate(s) (4) A candidate may substitute one compulsory unit of study whose work is of outstanding merit. with one elective unit of study in each semester of their 8 Cross-institutional study penultimate year. Where such a replacement has occurred, a candidate must enrol in the deferred compulsory unit(s) in In addition to the provisions for cross-institutional study described their final year of the program. A candidate may not enrol in in the resolutions of the University of Sydney Law School, more than two electives in total in their penultimate year. cross-institutional study is only available under the following terms: 5 Requirements for the Honours degree (a) Candidates are not permitted to undertake any compulsory unit or Part 2 elective (Jurisprudence) on a (1) Honours in the Bachelor of Laws is available to meritorious cross-institutional basis; students who complete an alternative set of units of study in (b) Candidates must have completed a minimum of 48 credit the final year of the program. Admission requires a minimum points towards the Bachelor of Laws before undertaking WAM of at least 75 in compulsory Law units of study any cross-institutional study; completed to that point, with the exception of the unit of study (c) Candidates can receive a maximum of 24 credit point for Foundations of Law. Results in elective units will not be cross-institutional study; included in the WAM. Places in the Honours program are
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(d) Candidates must satisfy the usual progression rules and maximum enrolment requirements; (e) Candidates who apply in their penultimate year cannot enrol in more than 12 credit points of cross-institutional study in that year. 9 Suspension, discontinuation and lapse of candidature (1) Candidates are entitled to suspend their law candidature for one year.The Head of School and Dean may permit a further suspension of one year in exceptional circumstances. Suspensions exceeding two years in total will not be approved except in cases of serious illness or misadventure. (2) Candidates will not be permitted to suspend in order to complete another award course unless they can provide evidence that the award course can be completed within two years and they have not previously suspended. 10 Credit for previous study (1) The following credit provisions apply to the Bachelor of Laws only. Credit for non-law units is covered by the resolutions for the degree combined with the Bachelor of Laws. (2) A candidate may be granted a maximum of 48 credit points towards the requirements of the Bachelor of Laws. Of these, a maximum of 24 credit points of non-specific credit may be granted in lieu of elective units (excluding the compulsory Jurisprudence requirement). (3) A candidate may be granted credit for law units of study under the following conditions: (a) The unit of study was offered as part of a Bachelor of Laws or equivalent award course within a law school at an approved institution; and (b) The unit consists of equivalent face-to-face teaching hours and similar assessment requirements as units offered by the School. (4) A candidate may not be granted credit for units of study: (a) for which the result is Terminating Pass, Conceded Pass or equivalent; or (b) which were conducted on a distance or online basis; or (c) which have been relied upon to qualify for the award of another degree or qualification.The only exceptions made are for units of study which were undertaken as part of a Combined Law degree program and credited toward the non-law component of that program, or units taken as part of a completed overseas legal qualification (5) Candidates who have completed a law degree or equivalent professional legal qualification from a recognised law school outside Australia may be granted up to 42 credit points of non-specific credit, but will be required to complete all compulsory units listed in the University of Sydney Law School Undergraduate Table. 11 Transitional provisions (1) These resolutions apply to candidates who commenced their candidature on or after 1 January, 2017. (2) Subject to sub-rule (3), candidates who commenced prior to 1 January, 2017 should complete the requirements in accordance with the resolutions in force at the time of their commencement, provided that requirements are completed by 1 January, 2022. The School may specify a later date for completion or specify alternative requirements for completion of candidatures that extend beyond this time. (3) For all students who commenced their candidature prior to 1 January 2017, eligibility for the award of Honours will depend upon the time at which the student completes the requirements for the award of the degree. Notwithstanding sub-rule (2), where a student completes those requirements after 31 July 2022, the award of Honours will be solely determined according to the requirements stated in clause 5 of these resolutions.
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Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Law disadvantaged applicants and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants. Applicants are ranked by merit and offers These resolutions must be read in conjunction with applicable for available places are issued according to the ranking. University By-laws, Rules and policies including (but not limited to) Details of admission policies are found in the Coursework the University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2014 (the ©Coursework Policy. Rule©), the Coursework Policy 2014, the Resolutions of the Faculty of (2) Admission to the Dalyell stream requires achievement of a Arts and Social Sciences and the University of Sydney Law School, minimum tertiary admission rank (ATAR) set by the Board the University of Sydney (Student Appeals against Academic of Interdisciplinary Studies, or equivalent. Decisions) Rule 2006 (as amended), the Academic Honesty in 6 Requirements for award Coursework Policy 2015 and the Academic Honesty Procedures 2016. Up to date versions of all such documents are available from the Policy (1) The units of study that may be taken for this combined degree Register: http://sydney.edu.au/policies. are set out in: (a) Table A for the Bachelor of Arts; Course resolutions (b) the University of Sydney Law School Undergraduate Table; (c) Table S of the Shared Pool for Undergraduate Degrees; 1 Course codes and (d) Table O of the Shared Pool for Undergraduate Degrees. Code Course title In these resolutions, except where otherwise specified, Table A, Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws the University of Sydney Law School Undergraduate Table, Table S and Table O mean Table A, the University of Sydney Law 2 Attendance pattern School Undergraduate Table, Table S and Table O as specified here. The attendance pattern for this course is full time only. (2) To qualify for the award of the pass combined degrees, a 3 Streams candidate must complete 240 credit points, comprising: (1) The Bachelor of Arts in this combined degree is available in (a) a major (48 credit points) from Table A as set out in Section the following streams: 7 below; (a) Dalyell. (b) 12 credit points of units from the Open Learning (2) Completion of a stream is not a requirement of the Bachelor Environment as set out in Table O; of Arts. The requirements for the completion of each stream (c) 36 credit points of elective units from Table A or Table S; are as specified in Table A for the Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor (d) if enrolled in a stream, complete the requirements for the of Advanced Studies or, in the case of the Dalyell stream,in stream as specified in Table A; and Table S of the Shared Pool for Undergraduate Degrees. (e) 144 credit points of Law units of study as specified in the Candidates wishing to transfer between streams should University of Sydney Law School Undergraduate Table, contact the Student Centre. Candidates who qualifyfor the of which 48 credit points are Combined Law compulsory Dalyell stream may complete that stream while also units of study for Years 1, 2 and 3 of the combined degree completing another stream. and are credited towards the requirements for both the (3) With the permission of the Faculty of Arts Social Sciences Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Laws. and the University of Sydney Law School, candidates for the (3) Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts: combined Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degree To qualify for the award of the Bachelor of Arts, a candidate must may undertake the Politics and International Relations, complete 144 credit points, comprising: International and Global Studies stream or the Media and (a) 96 credit points specified in 6 (2) (a)-(e) above; and Communications stream in the Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of (b) 48 credit points of Combined Law compulsory subjects Advanced Studies, as listed in the degree resolutions, by from years 1, 2 and 3 from the University of Sydney Law fulfilling requirements for the first 144 credit points of the School Undergraduate Table which shall take the place stream in the Bachelor of Arts and then suspendingtheir of the compulsory minor specified in the resolutions for enrolment in the combined Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of the Bachelor of Arts. Laws degree and enrolling in the Bachelor of Advanced (4) Requirements for students in the Bachelor of Arts and Studies to complete the requirements of the stream before Bachelor of Laws who also enrol in the Bachelor of Advanced proceeding with the Bachelor of Laws. Studies: 4 Cross-faculty management For candidates completing the Bachelor of Arts in a combined degree with the Bachelor of Laws who enrol in the Bachelor of (1) Candidates will be under the general supervision of the Advanced Studies to complete astream or honours, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences until the end of the requirement in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies for completion semester in which they complete requirements for the of a second major shall be met by the 48 credit points of Law Bachelor of Arts. After completion of requirements for the units specified in 6 (3) (b) above. Bachelor of Arts, students will be under the supervision of (5) Requirements for the Bachelor of Laws: the University of Sydney Law School. To qualify for the award of the Bachelor of Laws, a candidate (2) The Deans of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and must complete 144 credit points taken from the University of the University of Sydney Law School shall jointly exercise Sydney Law School Undergraduate Table, comprising: authority in any matter concerned with the combined course (a) 102 credit points of compulsory units of study as specified not otherwise dealt with in these resolutions. in the University of Sydney Law School Undergraduate 5 Admission to candidature Table; and Admission to this course is on the basis of a secondary (b) 42 credit points from the Elective Unit of Study Table school leaving qualification such as the NSW Higher School (undergraduate) for the University of Sydney Law School, Certificate (including national and international equivalents), of which a maximum of 36 credit points are taken from tertiary study or an approved preparation program. English Part 1, Elective Units of Study or as specified in 6 (5) (c) language requirements must be met where these are not below, and a minimum of 6credit points are taken from demonstrated by sufficient qualifications taught in English. Part 2, Jurisprudence Units of Study. Special admission pathways are open for educationally
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(c) Students may apply to take up to a maximum of 24 credit of Sydney Law School; and enrolling in the Bachelor of points of advanced learning Master©s units of study as Advanced Studies and taking an embedded honours elective units of study component; or (i) Enrolment in Master©s units of study will be subject to (b) by enrolling in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies and availability and any unit pre-requisites or assumed undertaking an embedded honours component after knowledge, which may include relevant industry experience completion of both degrees in the combined program. or prior specialist study. (4) Admission to the embedded honours component in the (ii) Enrolment in Master's units is only permitted after a Bachelor of Advanced Studies is by permission of the candidate has completed 96 credit points towards the relevant honours coordinator or head of department after the Bachelor of Laws. completion of 144 credit points and the requirements as laid (iii) Students may only enrol in Master's units listed in the out above for the Bachelor of Arts, including at least one Bachelor of Laws Elective units of study Table. major or program and 12 credit points from Table O. 7 Majors and Programs Admission requires a major of study of equivalent depth with a WAM of at least 70 in the area of the proposed honours (1) Completion of a major from Table A is a requirement for this component. Applicants for admission to an embedded combined degree. honours component must also meet any requirements for (2) With the permission of the Faculty, candidates have the honours set by the relevant department, school or faculty as option of completing a program with an embedded major set out in the relevant resolutions. from Table A and to complete the program, of enrolling (5) To qualify for the Bachelor of Arts and an embedded honours concurrently in the Bachelor of Advanced studies to complete component in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies, a candidate requirements where necessary. must complete the requirements for the Bachelor of (3) Requirements for majors are as specified in the Learning Advanced Studies (noting clause 9 (6) below) but include 48 and Teaching Policy and in the degree resolutions And Table credit points of honours units at 4000 level as specified by A for the Bachelor of Arts. the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences for the relevant 8 Progression rules honours area, including: (1) Candidates in a combined law program must successfully (a) any compulsory units specified by the Faculty of Arts and complete LAWS1006 Foundations of Law before enrolling Social Sciences for the honours component as specified in any other Bachelor of Laws units of study. in Table A for the Bachelor of Arts; (2) Candidates are required to complete Bachelor of Laws units (b) an honours research project of 12 ± 36 credit points as in the order listed in the University of Sydney Law School specified in Table A for the Bachelor of Arts; and Undergraduate Table. (c) honours coursework to the value of 12 ± 36 credit points (3) Except with permission of the Dean of the University of as specified in Table A for the Bachelor of Arts. Sydney Law School, candidates must complete the (6) For candidates completing the Bachelor of Arts in a combined requirements for the Bachelor of Arts before proceeding to degree with the Bachelor of Laws and also completing an Year Four of the combined degree with Bachelor of Laws. embedded honours component in the Bachelor of Advanced (4) Progression within a major or program: Studies, the requirement in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies (a) Except with the permission of the relevant program, major for completion of a second major shall be met by the 48 credit or minor coordinator, candidates must pass all 1000-level points of Law units specified in 6 (3) (b) above. units of study within a major (except a language major) or (7) The grade of honours awarded on the basis of an embedded program, before proceeding to 2000-level units within component in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies will be thatmajor, program or minor, or else undertake those determined by an honours mark calculated from work in the 1000-level units concurrently with the 2000-level units. embedded honours component as specified in Table A for Except with the permission of the relevant program or the Bachelor of Arts. major coordinator, candidates must pass all 2000-level (8) Honours in the Bachelor of Laws is available to meritorious units of study within amajor (except a language major) or students who complete an alternative set of units of study in program, before proceeding to 3000-level units, or else the final year of the combined degree program. Admission, undertake those 2000-level units concurrently with the requirements and calculation of the honours grade are as 3000-levelunits. set out in the resolutions for the Bachelor of Laws. (b) Candidates in a language major commence a major at a 10 Award of the degree level commensurate with their previous ability as (1) The Bachelor of Laws is awarded in the grades of either determined by the Faculty and must complete lower level Pass or Honours. units before completing the next higher level or else (2) Candidates who successfully complete the Bachelor of Arts undertake those lower level units concurrently with the as specified in clause 6 (3) and also complete an embedded next higher level. honours component or a stream in the Bachelor of Advanced (5) Progression within the Dalyell Stream: Studies as specified in clause 9 (4) or clause 9 (5) shall be Candidates in the Dalyell Stream may proceed in the Bachelor awarded the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Advanced of Arts according to the resolutions of the Bachelor of Arts, Studies with the appropriate stream or honours. Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Advanced Studies and Table S. (3) Candidates for the Bachelor of Arts with an embedded 9 Requirements for award with Honours honours component in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies (1) Honours is available to meritorious candidates in the Bachelor with honours who do not meet the requirements for honours of Laws and in an area of study within in the Bachelor of Arts but who meet the requirement for the pass degree, may be by enrolling in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies and taking awarded the relevant degrees for which they fulfil an embedded honours component. requirements at pass level. (2) Candidates undertaking an honours component within the (4) Honours in the Bachelor of Arts with an embedded honours Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences must complete the component in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies taken as requirements for the honours course full-time over part of a combined degree with the Bachelor of Laws as twoconsecutive semesters. If the Faculty is satisfied that a specified in 9 above is awarded in classes ranging from First student is unable to attempt the honours component on a Class to Third Class in accordance with the following table full time basis and if the Associate Dean so recommends, and the resolutions of the Faculty of Arts and Social permission may be granted to undertake honours part-time. Sciences. For candidates undertaking an honours component with the A student who will be awarded Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, admission, requirements achieves an honours honours... and award of honours are according to these resolutions and mark in the range... the Resolutions of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. 1 80 honours mark 100 First Class (3) Candidates who qualify to undertake honours in the Bachelor of Arts may elect to enrol in the honours program: 2 75 honours mark < 80 Second Class / Division (a) by suspending candidature from the Bachelor of Laws 1 degree for one year, with the permission of the University
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A student who will be awarded (3) Candidates who commenced prior to 1 January, 2018 may achieves an honours honours... complete the requirements in accordance with the resolutions mark in the range... in force at the time of their commencement, provided that the requirements are completed by 1 January, 2027. 3 70 honours mark < 75 Second Class / Division 2 4 65 honours mark < 70 Third Class
(5) Honours in the Bachelor of Laws may be awarded in First Class or Second Class in accordance with the Resolutions of the Bachelor of Laws. (6) For candidates qualifying for the Dalyell Stream, the words ªDalyell scholarº will be inserted below the degree name on the testamur. 11 Cross-institutional study Cross-institutional study is available in this course subject to the terms set out in the Resolutions of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences during the first 144 credit points of the program and subsequently subject to the terms set out in the Resolutions of the University of Sydney Law School. 12 International exchange The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the University of Sydney Law School encourage candidates in this course to participate in international exchange programs subject to the terms set outin the Resolutions of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences during the first 144 credit points of the combined degree and subsequently subject to the terms set out in the Resolutions of the University of Sydney Law School. 13 Course transfer (1) A candidate may withdraw from the combined degree program and elect to transfer to the Bachelor of Arts by written application to the Faculty of Arts and SocialSciences, and complete the requirements in accordance with the resolutions governing that degree at the time of transfer. Candidature in the Bachelor of Laws will cease in these circumstances. (2) With the permission of the Faculty of Arts and the University of Sydney Law School, suitably qualified candidates may, after completing requirements for the Bachelor of Arts as specifiedin 6 (3) and 6 (4), defer progression to the Bachelor of Laws and undertake an embedded honours component in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies and then continue to the Bachelor of Laws. (3) A candidate who has suspended enrolment in the combined degree to enrol in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies to complete requirements honours or a stream may abandon the Bachelor of Advanced Studies and return to the combined Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws. (4) A candidate who has suspended enrolment in the combined degree to enrol in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies to complete requirements honours or a stream may abandon the Bachelor of Advanced Studies and return to the combined Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws. 14 Credit for previous study Credit transfer is subject to the relevant provisions of the Coursework Policy and the Resolutions of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the University of Sydney Law School. 15 Transitional provisions (1) These resolutions apply to students who commenced their candidature after 1 January, 2018 who are not seeking credit for prior study and students who commenced their candidature prior to 1 January, 2018 who elect to proceed under these resolutions. (2) Candidates who commence candidature after 1 January, 2018 who are seeking credit for prior study should note that the University does not undertake to offer 3000level units in the Bachelor of Arts prior to 2020 and that it may not be possible to complete requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree before the end of Semester 2of that year. Where a student in the Bachelor of Arts proceeding under these resolutions applies for and is granted credit and wishes to complete the degreebefore 1 January 2020, the student will be offered the opportunity to complete the combined degree in a sequence that matches the availability of units in line withthese resolutions.
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14 Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws
Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of In these resolutions, except where otherwise specified, Table A, the University of Sydney Law School Undergraduate Table, Table Laws S and Table O mean Table A, the University of Sydney Law These resolutions must be read in conjunction with applicable School Undergraduate Table, Table S and Table O as specified University By-laws, Rules and policies including (but not limited to) here. the University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2014 (the ©Coursework (2) To qualify for the award of the pass combined degrees, a Rule©), the Coursework Policy 2014, the Resolutions of the University candidate must complete 240 credit points, comprising: of Sydney Business School and the University of Sydney Law School, (a) 24 credit points of core units from Table A for the Bachelor the University of Sydney (Student Appeals against Academic of Commerce; Decisions) Rule 2006 (as amended), the Academic Honesty in (b) a major (48 credit points) from Table A for the Bachelor of Coursework Policy 2015 and the Academic Honesty Procedures 2016. Commerce as set out in Section 7 below; Up to date versions of all such documents are available from the Policy (c) 12 credit points of units from the Open Learning Register: http://sydney.edu.au/policies. Environment as set out in Table O in the Shared Pool for Undergraduate Degrees; Course resolutions (d) a minimum of 12 credit points of elective units from Table A for the Bachelor of Commerce or Table S in the Shared 1 Course codes Pool for Undergraduate Degrees; and (e) 144 credit points of Law units of study as specified in the Code Course title University of Sydney Law School Undergraduate Table, Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of which 48 credit points are Combined Law compulsory of Laws units of study for Years 1, 2 and 3 of the combined degree and are creditedtowards the requirements for both the 2 Attendance pattern Bachelor of Commerce and the Bachelor of Laws. The attendance pattern for this course is full time only. (3) Requirements for the Bachelor of Commerce: 3 To qualify for the award of the Bachelor of Commerce, a candidate Streams must complete 144 credit points, comprising: (1) The Bachelor of Commerce in this combined degree is (a) 96 credit points specified in 6 (2) (a) ± (d) above; and available in the following streams: (b) 48 credit points of Combined Law compulsory subjects (a) Dalyell. from years 1, 2 and 3 from the University of Sydney Law (2) Completion of a stream is not a requirement of the Bachelor School Undergraduate Table which shall take the place of Commerce. The requirements for the completion of the of the compulsory minor specified in the resolutions for Dalyell stream are as specified in Table S of the Shared Pool the Bachelor of Commerce. for Undergraduate Degrees. (4) Requirements for the Bachelor of Laws: 4 Cross faculty management To qualify for the award of the Bachelor of Laws, a candidate must complete 144 credit points taken from the University of Candidates will be under the general supervision of the Sydney Law School Undergraduate Table, comprising: University of Sydney Business School until the end of the (a) 102 credit points of compulsory units of study as specified semester in which they complete requirements for the in the University of Sydney Law School Undergraduate Bachelor of Commerce. After completion of requirements for Table; and the Bachelor of Commerce, students will be under the (b) 42 credit points from the elective Unit of Study Table supervision of the University of Sydney Law School. (undergraduate) for the University of Sydney Law School, (2) The Deans of the Business School and the University of of which a maximum of 36 credit points are taken from Sydney Law School shall jointly exercise authority in any Part 1, Elective Units of Study or as specified in 6 (5) (c) matter concerned with the combined course not otherwise below, and a minimum of 6credit points are taken from dealt with in these resolutions. Part 2, Jurisprudence Units of Study. 5 Admission to candidature (c) Students may apply to take up to a maximum of 24 credit (1) Admission to this course is on the basis of a secondary points of advanced learning Master©s units of study as school leaving qualification such as the NSW Higher School elective units of study. Certificate (including national and international equivalents), (i) Enrolment in Master©s units of study will be subject to tertiary study or an approved preparation program. English availability and any unit pre-requisites or assumed language requirements must be met where these are not knowledge, which may include relevant industry experience demonstrated by sufficientqualifications taught in English. or prior specialist study. Special admission pathways are open for educationally (ii) Enrolment in Master's units is only permitted after a disadvantaged applicants and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait candidate has completed 96 credit points towards the Islanderpeople. Applicants are ranked by merit and offers Bachelor of Laws. for available places are issued according to the ranking. (iii) Students may only enrol in Master's units listed in the Details of admission policies are found in the Bachelor of Laws Elective units of study Table. CourseworkPolicy. 7 Majors (2) Admission to the Dalyell Stream requires achievement of a (1) Completion of a major from Table A for the Bachelor of minimum tertiary admission rank (ATAR) set by the Board Commerce is a requirement for this combined degree. of Interdisciplinary Studies or above in or equivalent standard. (2) Requirements for majors are as specified in the Learning 6 Requirements for award and Teaching Policy and Table A for the Bachelor of (1) The units of study that may be taken for this combined degree Commerce. are set out in the following tables: (3) The majors available as first majors in the Bachelor of (a) Table A for the Bachelor of Commerce; Commerce and Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Advanced (b) Tables O (the Open Learning Environment) and S in the Studies are: Shared Pool for Undergraduate Degrees; and (a) Accounting (c) the University of Sydney Law School Undergraduate Table. (b) Banking (c) Business Analytics
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(d) Business Information Systems Sydney Business Schools for the relevant honours area, (e) Business Law including: (f) Finance (a) any compulsory units specified by the Sydney Business (g) Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management Schools for the honours component as specified in Table (h) International Business A for the Bachelor of Commerce; (i) Management (b) an honours research project of 12 ± 36 credit points as (j) Marketing. specified in Table A for the Bachelor of Commerce; and 8 Progression rules (c) honours coursework to the value of 12 ± 36 credit points as specified in Table A for the Bachelor of Commerce. (1) Candidates in a combined law course must successfully (d) For candidates completing the Bachelor of Commerce in complete LAWS1006 Foundations of Law before enrolling a combined degree with the Bachelor of Laws and also in any other Bachelor of Laws units of study. completing an embedded honours component in the (2) Candidates are required to complete Bachelor of Laws units Bachelor of Advanced Studies, the requirement in the in the order listed in the University of Sydney Law School Bachelor of Advanced Studies for completion of a second Undergraduate Table. major shall be met by the 48 credit points of Law units (3) Except with permission of the Dean of the University of specified in 6 (3) (b) above. Sydney Law School, candidates must complete the (e) The grade of honours awarded on the basis of an requirements for the Bachelor of Commerce before embedded component in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies proceeding to Year Four of the combined degree with will be determined by an honours mark calculated from Bachelor of Laws. work in the embedded honours component as specified (4) Progression within a major in Table A for theBachelor of Commerce. Enrolment and progression within a major is governed by the (7) Honours in the Bachelor of Laws is available to meritorious progression rules specified for the major in Table A. students who complete an alternative set of units of study in (5) Progression with the Dalyell Stream the final year of the combined degree program. Admission, Candidates in the Dalyell Stream may proceed in the Bachelor requirements and calculation of the honours grade are as of Commerce according to the resolutions of the Bachelor of set out in the resolutions for the Bachelor of Laws. Commerce, Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Advanced Studies 10 and Table S. Award of the degrees 9 Requirements for award with Honours (1) The Bachelor of Commerce is awarded in the grade of Pass. (2) The Bachelor of Laws is awarded in the grades of either (1) Honours is available to meritorious candidates in the Bachelor Pass or Honours. of Laws and in the Bachelor of Commerce. (3) Candidates who successfully complete the Bachelor of (2) Honours in the Bachelor of Commerce is available by Commerce as specified in 6 suspending enrolment in the Bachelor of Commerce and (4) and also complete an embedded honours component with Bachelor of Laws and taking an embedded honours the Bachelor of Advanced Studies shall: component in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies in an (a) if they have not already graduated, be awarded the additional year of full time study, or by enrolling in the Bachelor ofCommerce/Bachelor of Advanced Studies with Bachelor of Advanced Studies after the completion of thepass honours; degree. (b) if they have already graduated, be awarded the Bachelor (3) Candidates undertaking an honours component within the of Advanced Studies with honours. Business School must complete the requirements for the (4) Candidates for the Bachelor of Commerce with an embedded honours component full-time over two consecutive semesters. honours component in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies If the School is satisfied that a student is unable to attempt with honours who do not meet the requirements for honours the honours component on a full-time basis and if the but who meet the requirement for the pass degree, may be Associate Dean so recommends, permission may be granted awarded the relevant degrees for which they fulfil to undertake honours part-time over four consecutive requirements at pass level. semesters. For candidates undertaking an honours (5) Honours in the Bachelor of Commerce with an embedded component with the BusinessSchool, admission, honours component in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies requirements and award of honours are according to these taken as part of a combined degree with the Bachelor of resolutions and the Resolutions of the Business School. Laws as specified in 9 above is awarded in classes ranging (4) Candidates who qualify to undertake honours in the Bachelor from First Class to Third Class in accordance with the of Commerce may elect to enrol in the honours program: following table and the resolutions of theBusiness School. (a) by suspending candidature from the Bachelor of Laws degree for one year, with the permission of the University A student who will be awarded of Sydney Law School; and enrolling in the Bachelor of achieves an honours honours... mark in the range... Advanced Studies and taking an embedded honours component; or 1 80 honours mark 100 First Class (b) by enrolling in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies and 2 75 honours mark < 80 Second Class/Division 1 undertaking an embedded honours component after completion of both degrees in the combined program. 3 70 honours mark < 75 Second Class/Division 2 (5) Admission to the embedded honours component in the 4 65 honours mark < 70 Third Class Bachelor of Advanced Studies is by permission of the relevant honours coordinator after the completion of 144 (6) Honours in the Bachelor of Laws may be awarded in First credit points and the requirements for the Bachelor of Class or Second Class in accordance with the Resolutions Commerce, including a major, degree core and 12 credit of the Bachelor of Laws. points from the Open Learning Environment. Admission (7) Candidates for the award of the Honours degree who do not requires an Annual Average Mark of at least 65 in units of meet the requirements, and who have not already graduated, study completed to that point, and an Annual Average Mark will be awarded the pass degree. of at least 70 across 2000 and 3000-level units of study in 11 Cross-institutional study the major subject area of the proposed honours component. (1) Cross-institutional study is available in this course subject Applicants for admission to an embedded honours to the terms set out in the Resolutions of the University of component must also meet any requirements for honours Sydney Business School during the first 144 credit points of as set out in the relevant resolutions. the combined degree and subsequently to the terms set out (6) To qualify for the award of the Bachelor of Commerce with in the Resolutions of the University of Sydney Law School. an embedded honours component in the Bachelor of 12 Advanced Studies with honours, a candidate must complete International exchange the requirements for the Bachelor of Advanced Studies (1) The Business School and University of Sydney Law School (noting 9 (7) below) but include 36 ± 48 credit points of encourage candidates in this course to participate in honours units at 4000 level or above as specified by the international exchange programs subject to the terms set out in the Resolutions of the University of Sydney Business
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School during the first 144 credit points of the combined degree and subsequently subject to the terms set out in theResolutions of the University of Sydney Law School. 13 Course transfer (1) A candidate may withdraw from the combined degree program and elect to transfer to the Bachelor of Commerce by written application to the Business School, and complete the requirements in accordance with the resolutions governing that degree at the time of transfer. Candidature in the Bachelor of Laws will cease in these circumstances. (2) A candidate who has suspended enrolment in the combined degree to enrol in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies to complete requirements honours or a stream may abandon the Bachelor of Advanced Studies and return to the combined Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws. 14 Credit for previous study (1) Credit transfer is subject to the relevant provisions of the Coursework Policy, the Resolutions of the Business School and the University of Sydney Law School and the University of Sydney Business School Credit Provisions. 15 Transitional provisions (1) These resolutions apply to students who commenced their candidature after 1January, 2018 who are not seeking credit for prior study and students whocommenced their candidature prior to 1 January, 2018 who elect to proceed underthese resolutions. (2) Candidates who commence candidature after 1 January, 2018 who are seeking credit for prior study should note that the University does not undertake to offer 3000 level units in the Bachelor of Commerce prior to 2020 and that it may not be possibleto complete requirements for the Bachelor of Commerce degree before the end ofSemester 2 of that year. Where a student in the Bachelor of Commerce proceedingunder these resolutions applies for and is granted credit and wishes to complete thedegree before 1 January 2020, the student will be offered the opportunity tocomplete the combined degree in a sequence that matches the availability of units inline with these resolutions. (3) Candidates who commenced prior to 1 January, 2018 may complete the requirements in accordance with the resolutions in force at the time of their commencement, provided that the requirements are completed by 1 January, 2027.
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18 Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws
Bachelor of Economics/Bachelor of Laws disadvantaged applicants and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants. Applicants are ranked by merit and offers These resolutions must be read in conjunction with applicable for available places are issued according to the ranking. University By-laws, Rules and policies including (but not limited to) Details of admission policies are found in the Coursework the University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2014 (the ©Coursework Policy. Rule©), the Coursework Policy 2014, the Resolutions of the Faculty of (2) Admission to the Dalyell stream requires achievement of a Arts and Social Sciences and the University of Sydney Law School, minimum tertiary admission rank (ATAR) set by the Board the University of Sydney (Student Appeals against Academic of Interdisciplinary Studies, or equivalent. Decisions) Rule 2006 (as amended), the Academic Honesty in 6 Requirements for award Coursework Policy 2015 and the Academic Honesty Procedures 2016. Up to date versions of all such documents are available from the Policy (1) The units of study that may be taken for this combined degree Register: http://sydney.edu.au/policies. are set out in: (a) Table A for the Bachelor of Economics; Course resolutions (b) the University of Sydney Law School Undergraduate Table; (c) Table S of the Shared Pool for Undergraduate Degrees; 1 Course codes and (d) Table O of the Shared Pool for Undergraduate Degrees. Code Course title In these resolutions, except where otherwise specified, Table A, BPSCILAW-01 Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor the University of Sydney Law School Undergraduate Table, Table of Laws S and Table O mean Table A, the University of Sydney Law School Undergraduate Table, Table S and Table O as specified 2 Attendance pattern here. The attendance pattern for this course is full time only. (2) To qualify for the award of the pass combined degrees, a 3 candidate must complete 240 credit points, comprising: Streams (a) a program in Economics (72 credit points) as specified in (1) The Bachelor of Economics/Bachelor of Advanced Studies Table A for the Bachelor of Economics as set out in Section in this combined degree is available in the following streams: 7 below; (a) Dalyell. (b) 12 credit points of units from the Open Learning (2) Completion of a stream is not a requirement of the Bachelor Environment as set out in Table O; of Economics. The requirements for the completion of each (c) 12 credit points of elective units from Table A or Table S; stream are as specified in Table A for the Bachelor of (d) if enrolled in a stream, complete the requirements for the Economics/Bachelor of Advanced Studies or, in the case of stream as specified in Table A; and the Dalyell Stream, in Table S of the Shared Pool for (e) 144 credit points of Law units of study as specified in the Undergraduate Degrees. Candidates wishing to transfer University of Sydney Law School Undergraduate Table, between streams should contact the Student Centre. of which 48 credit points are Combined Law compulsory Candidates who qualify for the Dalyell Stream may complete units of study for Years 1, 2 and 3 of the combined degree that stream while also completing another stream. and are credited towards the requirements for both the (3) With the permission of the Faculty of Arts and Social Bachelor of Economics and the Bachelor of Laws. Sciences and the University of Sydney Law School, (3) Requirements for the Bachelor of Economics candidates for the combined Bachelor of Economics and To qualify for the award of the Bachelor of Economics, a candidate Bachelor of Laws degree may undertake the Economics must complete 144 credit points, comprising: stream in the Bachelor of Economics/Bachelor of Advanced (a) 96 credit points specified in 6 (2) (a)-(e) above; and Studies, as listed in the degree resolutions, by fulfilling (b) 48 credit points of Combined Law compulsory subjects requirements for the first 144 credit points of the stream in from years 1, 2 and 3 from the University of Sydney Law the Bachelor of Economics and then suspending their School Undergraduate Table which shall take the place enrolment in the combined Bachelor of Economics and of the compulsory minor specified in the resolutions for Bachelor of Laws degree and enrolling in the Bachelor of the Bachelor of Economics. Advanced Studies to complete the requirements of the stream (4) Requirements for students in the Bachelor of Economics and before proceeding with the Bachelor of Laws. Bachelor of Laws who also enrol in the Bachelor of Advanced 4 Cross-faculty management Studies For candidates completing the Bachelor of Economics in a (1) Candidates will be under the general supervision of the combined degree with the Bachelor of Laws who enrol in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences until the end of the Bachelor of Advanced Studies to complete a stream or honours, semester in which they complete requirements for the the requirement in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies for Bachelor of Economics. After completion of requirements for completion of a second major shall be met by the 48 credit points the Bachelor of Economics, students will be under the of Law units specified in 6 (3) (b) above. supervision of the University of Sydney Law School. (5) Requirements for the Bachelor of Laws (2) The Deans of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and To qualify for the award of the Bachelor of Laws, a candidate the University of Sydney Law School shall jointly exercise must complete 144 credit points taken from the University of authority in any matter concerned with the combined course Sydney Law School Undergraduate Table, comprising: not otherwise dealt with in these resolutions. (a) 102 credit points of compulsory units of study as specified 5 Admission to candidature in the University of Sydney Law School Undergraduate Admission to this course is on the basis of a secondary Table; and school leaving qualification such as the NSW Higher School (b) 42 credit points from the Elective Unit of Study Table Certificate (including national and international equivalents), (undergraduate) for the University of Sydney Law School, tertiary study or an approved preparation program. English of which a maximum of 36 credit points are taken from language requirements must be met where these are not Part 1, Elective Units of Study or as specified in 6 (5) (c) demonstrated by sufficient qualifications taught in English. below, and a minimum of 6credit points are taken from Special admission pathways are open for educationally Part 2, Jurisprudence Units of Study.
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(c) Students may apply to take up to a maximum of 24 credit from Table O. Admission requires a WAM of at least 70 in points of advanced learning Master©s units of study as units of study completed to that point, and a major or study elective units of study of equivalent depth in the area of the proposed honours (i) enrolment in Master©s units of study will be subject to component. availability and any unit pre-requisites or assumed (5) To qualify for an award in the Bachelor of Economics and knowledge, which may include relevant industry experience an embedded honours component in the Bachelor Advanced or prior specialist study. Studies, a candidate must complete the requirements for the (ii) enrolment in Master©s units is only permitted after a Bachelor of Advanced Studies (noting clause 9 (7) below), candidate has completed 96 credit points towards the but include 48 credit points of honours units at 4000 level Bachelor of Laws. comprising five coursework seminars and a thesis. (iii) students may only enrol in Master©s units listed in the (6) For candidates completing the Bachelor of Economics in a Bachelor of Laws Elective units of study Table. combined degree with the Bachelor of Laws and also 7 Programs completing the embedded honours component in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies, the requirement in the Completion of a program in Economics (72 credit points) as Bachelor of Advanced Studies for completion of a second specified in Table A for the Bachelor of Economics is a major shall be met by the 48 credit points of Law units requirement for this combined degree. specified in 6 (3) (b) above. 8 Progression rules (7) The grade of honours awarded on the basis of an embedded (1) Candidates in a combined law program must successfully component in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies will be complete LAWS1006 Foundations of Law before enrolling determined by an honours mark calculated from work in the in any other Bachelor of Laws units of study. embedded honours component as specified in Table A for (2) Candidates are required to complete Bachelor of Laws units the Bachelor of Economics. in the order listed in the University of Sydney Law School (8) Honours in the Bachelor of Laws is available to meritorious Undergraduate Table. students who complete an alternative set of units of study in (3) Except with permission of the Dean of the University of the final year of the combined degree program. Admission, Sydney Law School, candidates must complete the requirements and calculation of the honours grade are as requirements for the Bachelor of Economics before set out in the resolutions for the Bachelor of Laws. proceeding to Year Four of the combined degree with the 10 Award of the degree Bachelor of Laws. (1) The Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws are (4) Progression within a major or program awarded in the grades of either Pass or Honours. Except with the permission of the relevant program or major (2) Candidates who successfully complete the Bachelor of coordinator, candidates must pass all 1000-level units of study Economics as specified in 6 (3) and also complete an within a program, before proceeding to 2000- level units within embedded honours component or a stream with the Bachelor that program, or else undertake those 1000-level units of Advanced Studies as specified in clause 6 (4) or clause concurrently with the 2000-level units. Except with the permission 9 (2) shall be awarded the Bachelor of Economics and of the relevant program or major coordinator, candidates must Bachelor of Advanced Studies with the appropriate stream pass all 2000-level units of study within a program before or honours. proceeding to 3000-level units, or else undertake those 2000-level (3) Candidates for the Bachelor of Economics with an embedded units concurrently with the 3000-level units. honours component in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies (5) Progression within the Dalyell Stream with honours who do not meet the requirements for honours Candidates in the Dalyell Stream may proceed in the Bachelor but who meet the requirement for the pass degree, may be of Economics according to the resolutions of the Bachelor of Arts, awarded the relevant degrees for which they fulfil Bachelor of Economics/Bachelor of Advanced Studies and Table requirements at pass level. S. (4) Honours in the Bachelor of Economics with an embedded 9 Requirements for award with Honours honours component in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies (1) Honours is available to meritorious candidates in the Bachelor taken as part of a combined degree with the Bachelor of of Laws and in an area of study in Economics by additional Laws as specified in 9 above is awarded in classes ranging enrolment in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies and taking from First Class to Third Class in accordance with the an embedded honours component. following table and the resolutions of the Faculty of Arts and (2) Candidates undertaking an honours component within the Social Sciences. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences must complete the A student who will be awarded requirements for the honours course full-time over two achieves an honours honours... consecutive semesters. If the School is satisfied that a mark in the range... student is unable to attempt the honours component on a 1 80 honours mark 100 First Class full time basis and if the Associate Dean so recommends, permission may be granted to undertake honours part-time 2 75 honours mark < 80 Second Class / Division over four consecutive semesters. For candidates undertaking 1 an honours component with the Faculty of Arts and Social 3 70 honours mark < 75 Second Class / Division Sciences, admission, requirements and award of honours 2 are according to these resolutions and the Resolutions of 4 65 honours mark < 70 Third Class the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. (3) Candidates who qualify to undertake honours in the Bachelor (5) Honours in the Bachelor of Laws may be awarded in First of Economics may elect to enrol in the honours program: Class or Second Class in accordance with the Resolutions (a) with the permission of the University of Sydney Law School of the Bachelor of Laws. and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, by suspending (6) Candidates for the award of the Honours degree who do not candidature from the Bachelor of Laws degree for one meet the requirements, and who have not already graduated, year, with the permission of the University of Sydney Law will be awarded the pass degree. School; and enrolling in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies (7) For candidates qualifying for the Dalyell Stream, the words and taking an embedded honours component; or ªDalyell scholarº will be inserted below the degree name on (b) by enrolling in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies and the testamur. undertaking an embedded honours component after 11 Cross-institutional study completion of both degrees in the combined program. Cross-institutional study is available in this course subject to the (4) Admission to the embedded honours component in the terms set out in the Resolutions of the Faculty of Arts and Social Bachelor of Advanced Studies is by permission of the Sciences during the first 144 credit points of the combined degree relevant honours coordinator or head of department after the and subsequently subject to the terms set out in the Resolutions completion of 144 credit points and the requirements for the of the University of Sydney Law School. Bachelor of Economics, including a program in Economics with an embedded Economics major and 12 credit points
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12 International exchange The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the University of Sydney Law School encourage candidates in this course to participate in international exchange programs subject to the terms set out in the Resolutions of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences during the first 144 credit points of the combined degree and subsequently subject to the terms set out in the Resolutions of the University of Sydney Law School. 13 Course transfer (1) A candidate may withdraw from the combined degree program and elect to transfer to the Bachelor of Economics by written application to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and complete the requirements in accordance with the resolutions governing that degree at the time of transfer. Candidature in the Bachelor of Laws will cease in these circumstances. (2) A candidate who has suspended enrolment in the combined degree to enrol in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies to complete an embedded honours component or a stream may abandon the Bachelor of Advanced Studies and return to the combined Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws. 14 Credit for previous study Credit transfer is subject to the relevant provisions of the Coursework Policy and the Resolutions of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the University of Sydney Law School. 15 Transitional provisions (1) These resolutions apply to students who commenced their candidature after 1 January, 2018 who are not seeking credit for prior study and students who commenced their candidature prior to 1 January, 2018 who elect to proceed under these resolutions. (2) Candidates who commence candidature after 1 January, 2018 who are seeking credit for prior study should note that the University does not undertake to offer 3000 level units in the Bachelor of Economics prior to 2020 and that it may not be possible to complete requirements for the Bachelor of Economics degree before the end of Semester 2 of that year. Where a student in the Bachelor of Economics proceeding under these resolutions applies for and is granted credit and wishes to complete the degree before 1 January 2020, the student will be offered the opportunity to complete the combined degree in a sequence that matches the availability of units in line with these resolutions. (3) Candidates who commenced prior to 1 January, 2018 may complete the requirements in accordance with the resolutions in force at the time of their commencement, provided that the requirements are completed by 1 January, 2027.
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22 Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of Laws Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of Laws
Bachelor of Engineering Honours combined Faculty strongly recommends full time enrolment as the preferred option for all undergraduate students unless degrees exceptional circumstances exist. 3 Streams Bachelor of Engineering Honours combined (1) Completion of a stream is a requirement of the Bachelor of degrees Engineering Honours and students in combined degrees are subject to the stream requirements in the Bachelor of Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of Engineering Honours course resolutions. Arts (2) Students in the Bachelor of Engineering Honours combined degrees can change the stream of the Bachelor of Engineering Honours portion of their combined degree in Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of accordance with the same requirements specified in the Commerce Bachelor of Engineering Honours resolutions. (3) Flexible First Year Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of Students gaining entry to any of the Bachelor of Engineering Science Honours combined degrees may also choose to undertake the Flexible First Year program under the same requirements as Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of specified in the Bachelor of Engineering Honours resolutions. Design in Architecture (4) Within the Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of Design in Architecture, the Bachelor of Engineering Honours is available only in the Civil Engineering stream. For all other Bachelor of Engineering Honours combined Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of degrees, the streams available for the Bachelor of Laws Engineering Honours are listed under the course resolution for the Bachelor of Engineering Honours. Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of (5) The Bachelor of Science degree is available in the following streams: Project Management (a) Health These resolutions must be read in conjunction with applicable (b) Medical Science University By-laws, Rules and policies including (but not limited (c) Dalyell to) the University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2014 (the (6) The Bachelor of Arts degree is available in the following ©Coursework Rule©), the Coursework Policy 2014, the Resolutions streams: of the Faculty, the University of Sydney (Student Appeals against (a) Dalyell Academic Decisions) Rule 2006 (as amended), the Academic (7) The Bachelor of Commerce degree is available in the Honesty in Coursework Policy 2015 and the Academic Honesty following streams: Procedures 2016. Up to date versions of all such documents are (a) Dalyell available from the Policy Register: http://sydney.edu.au/policies. (8) Completion of a stream is not a requirement of the Bachelor of Science, the Bachelor of Arts, or the Bachelor of Course Resolutions Commerce. The requirements for the completion of each 1 stream are as specified in Table A for the relevant degree, Course codes or, in the case of the Dalyell stream, Table S of the Shared Code Course title Pool for Undergraduate Degrees. (9) Candidates wishing to transfer between streams should BHENGART Bachelor of Engineering Honours and contact the Student Centre. Candidates who qualify for the Bachelor of Arts Dalyell stream may complete that stream while also BHENGCOM Bachelor of Engineering Honours and completing another stream. Bachelor of Commerce 4 Cross-Faculty Management BHENGDAR Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of Design in Architecture (1) Candidates in the combined Engineering and Law courses BHENGLAW Bachelor of Engineering Honours and will be under the general supervision of the Faculty of Bachelor of Laws Engineering and Information Technologies until the end of BHENGPRM Bachelor of Engineering Honours and the semester in which they complete the requirements for Bachelor of Project Management the Bachelor of Engineering Honours.They will then be under the supervision of the University of Sydney Law School. BHENGSCI Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Science Candidates in all other combined degree programs will be under the general supervision of the Faculty of Engineering 2 Attendance Pattern and Information Technologies for the duration of the combined program. (1) The attendance pattern for the following programs is full-time (2) The Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Information only. The attendance pattern for all other Bachelor of Technologies and the Dean of the Faculty hosting the Engineering Honours combined courses is full time or part associated combined degree shall jointly exercise authority time. in any matter concerned with the combined course not (a) Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of Design otherwise dealt with in these resolutions. in Architecture 5 Admission to Candidature (b) Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of Laws (2) Part time students must still satisfy appropriate enrolment (1) Admission to these degrees is on the basis of a secondary progression and are subject to the same degree time limits school leaving qualification such as the NSW Higher School as full time students. International students are required to Certificate (including national and international equivalents), follow the enrolment pattern as specified by their visa. The tertiary study or an approved preparation program. English
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language requirements must be met where these are not (iii) 12 credit points of units of study in the Open Learning demonstrated by sufficient qualifications taught in English. Environment as listed in Table O; and Special admission pathways are open for mature aged (iv) where appropriate, additional electives from Table A of applicants who do not possess a school leaving qualification, the degree in which the candidate is enrolled or Table educationally disadvantaged applicants and for Aboriginal S; and Torres Strait Islander applicants. Applicants are ranked (v) If enrolled in a stream, complete the requirements for the by merit and offers for available places are issued according stream as specified in Table A of the degree in which the to the ranking. Details of admission policies are found in the candidate is enrolled. Coursework Rule. (4) For the Bachelor of Design in Architecture component of a (2) Admission to the Dalyell stream requires achievement of a combined degree: minimum tertiary admission rank (ATAR) set by the Board (a) Candidates must complete 96 credit points of units of study of Interdisciplinary Studies or above in or equivalent standard. from the Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Civil) and 6 Requirements for Award Bachelor of Design in Architecture - Architecture Table. (5) For the Bachelor of Laws component of a combined degree (1) To qualify for the award of the combined degree: candidates must complete 144 credit points of Law units of (a) For all Bachelor of Engineering Honours combined degrees study taken from the University of Sydney School of Law except the Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor Undergraduate Table, comprising: of Laws, a candidate must complete 240 credit points and (a) 102 credit points of compulsory units of study; and satisfy any additional requirements specified in the (b) 42 credit points of elective units of study, of which a following clauses. maximum of 36 credit points are taken from Part 1 and a (b) For the Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of minimum of 6 credit points are taken from Part 2. Laws combined degree, a candidate must complete 288 (c) Students may apply to take up to a maximum of 24 credit credit points and any additional requirements specified in points of LAWS6000/JURS6000 units of study as elective the following clauses. units of study: (c) Where the requirements specified in the following clauses (i) enrolment in LAWS6000/JURS6000 units of study will be account for less than the total required credit, candidates subject to availability and any unit pre-requisites or must complete additional units of study (not including assumed knowledge, which may include relevant industry general electives) from the relevant Bachelor of experience or prior specialist study. Engineering Honours specialist stream table subject to (ii) enrolment in LAWS6000/JURS6000 units is only any conditions specified in that table as may be necessary permitted after a candidate has completed 96 credit to satisfy the requirements of the degree. points towards the Bachelor of Laws. (2) For the Bachelor of Engineering Honours component of a (iii) students may only enrol in LAWS6000/JURS6000 combined degree: units listed in the Bachelor of Laws Elective units of (a) The units of study that may be taken for the Bachelor of study Table. Engineering Honours component of the combined degree (6) For the Bachelor of Project Management component of a are set out in the tables of units of study for the Bachelor combined degree: of Engineering Honours single degree; (a) Candidates must complete the core and elective units of (b) Except where varied by other clauses of these resolutions, study as set out in the Bachelor of Project Management all candidates must complete a minimum of 144 credit Unit of Study Table. points comprising: 7 (i) 36 credit points from the Engineering Core Table, including Majors and Programs all required units; (1) For the Bachelor of Engineering Honours component of a (ii) 108 credit points from the Engineering Stream Core combined degree: Table pertaining to the specialist stream being (a) The conditions for awarding of a major, and the majors undertaken, including all required units; available, are the same as for the Bachelor of Engineering (c) The Faculty Board may approve, based on appropriate Honours degree. academic justification, a list of approved unit alternatives. (b) Where a candidate wishes to complete a major, and that These alternatives specify, for particular Engineering major requires completion of additional credit points stream / combined degree combinations, units within the beyond the standard requirements, then such enrolment normal requirements for the Bachelor of Engineering will be allowed for the first major to be completed, up to Honours component of the combined degree that can be 24cp in total, provided the candidate utilises all allowed replaced by specified alternative units that would form part elective components in satisfying the requirements of the of the normal program for single degree students in that major. stream. (2) For the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of (3) For the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Commerce component of a combined degree: Commerce component of a combined degree: (a) Completion of a major or a program which contains a major (a) The units of study that may be taken are set out in Table from Table A of the degree in which the candidate is A for the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science or Bachelor enrolled is a requirement. The majors and programs of Commerce degrees, and Table S and Table O of the available and requirements for completing the majors and Shared Pool for Undergraduate Degrees. programs are as specified in Table A of the degree in which (b) In these resolutions Table A refers to Table A of the the candidate is enrolled. Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of 8 Requirements for Honours Commerce according to the degree in which the candidate (1) Honours in the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science or is enrolled as a component of one of the combined Bachelor of Commerce is available to meritorious candidates degrees, (respectively) Bachelor of Engineering Honours as part of the combined degree with the Bachelor of and Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Engineering Honours Engineering Honours by enrolling in the Bachelor of and Bachelor of Science, or Bachelor of Engineering Advanced Studies and taking an embedded honours Honours and Bachelor of Commerce; Table S and Table component, after completing 240 credit points and satisfying O refers to Table S and Table O as stated here. requirements for the combined degree. (c) Candidates must complete 96 credit points in the Bachelor (2) For candidates completing the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of of Arts, or the Bachelor of Science or the Bachelor of Commerce or Bachelor of Science in a combined degree Commerce including: with the Bachelor of Engineering Honours and also (i) any required degree core units as set out in Table A of the completing an embedded honours component in the Bachelor degree in which the candidate is enrolled; and of Advanced Studies, the requirement in the Bachelor of (ii) a major (48 credit points) or a 3-year program with an Advanced Studies for completion of a second major shall be embedded major (except for the Professional Accounting deemed to be met by the 144 credit points of Engineering Program) from Table A of the degree in which the units specified in 6 (2) above. candidate is enrolled; and
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(3) The grade of honours awarded on the basis of an embedded (b) except with permission of the Dean of the University of component in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies will be Sydney Law School, candidates must complete the determined by an honours mark calculated from work in the requirements for the Bachelor of Engineering Honours embedded honours component as specified in the relevant before proceeding to Year Five of the Bachelor of Laws. faculty resolutions and degree resolutions for the honours (3) Progression within the Dalyell Stream component taken and Table A for the degree in which the (a) With the permission of the Dalyell coordinator, candidates candidate was enrolled as a component of the combined in the Dalyell Stream may attempt units at higher levels degree. than the usual sequence. 9 Award of the Degrees (b) Candidates must achieve an Annual Average Mark at a level determined by the Board of Interdisciplinary Studies (1) Candidates will be awarded a separate testamur for the in each year of study or over for each 48 credit-point block Bachelor of Engineering Honours and for the partner bachelor to continue in the Dalyell Stream. Candidates who do not degree. maintain an Annual Average Mark at the level determined (2) Candidates who successfully complete the Bachelor of Arts, by the Board of Interdisciplinary Studies may continue in Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Commerce component any other stream into which they were admitted, major, as specified in 6 (3) and also complete an embedded honours program or minor but will not remain in the Dalyell Stream. component with the Bachelor of Advanced Studies shall be (4) Progression within the Bachelor of Science (Medical Science) awarded the Bachelor of Advanced Studies separately with Stream honours in the appropriate discipline. Students in this stream will be required to meet the progression (3) Candidates for the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science or requirements for the stream. Bachelor of Commerce with an embedded honours 12 component in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies with honours Transitional Provisions who do not meet the requirements for honours but who meet (1) These resolutions apply to students who commenced their the requirement for the pass degree, may be awarded the candidature on or after 1 January 2018. relevant degrees for which they fulfill requirements at pass (2) Students who commenced their candidature prior to 1 level. January 2018 may: (4) The award grades, and the criteria for the grades, are as (a) complete the requirements in accordance with the defined in the resolutions for the constituent degrees. resolutions governing their candidature immediately prior (5) Candidates for the award of the Bachelor of Design in to these changes; or Architecture (Honours) who do not meet the requirements, (b) where approved by the Faculty, elect to proceed under and who have not already graduated, will be awarded the these resolutions provided appropriate programs of study Bachelor of Design in Architecture pass degree. can be identified. For the Bachelor of Science, Bachelor (6) The Bachelor of Laws can be awarded in the grades of either of Commerce and Bachelor of Arts, transitional Pass or Honours. Honours in the Bachelor of Laws is arrangements will be as specified in the relevant set of awarded in First Class or Second Class in accordance with resolutions. the resolutions of the Bachelor of Laws. 10 Course Transfer (1) For the Bachelor of Engineering Honours combined with Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Design in Architecture and Bachelor of Project Management, a candidate may abandon the combined program and elect to complete either the Bachelor of Engineering Honours or the associated combined degree in accordance with the resolutions governing that degree. (2) For the Bachelor of Engineering Honours combined with Bachelor of Laws, a candidate may withdraw from the combined degree program and elect to transfer to the Bachelor of Engineering Honours, by written application to the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, and complete the requirements in accordance with the resolutions governing that degree at the time of transfer. Candidature in the Bachelor of Laws will cease in these circumstances. (3) For the Bachelor of Engineering Honours combined with Bachelor of Commerce a candidate may abandon the combined program and elect to complete either the Bachelor of Engineering Honours or the Bachelor of Commerce in accordance with the resolutions governing that degree. Transfer from a combined degree to the Bachelor of Commerce is also conditional on the student having met the entry requirements of the Bachelor of Commerce in force at the time of their enrolment in the combined degree. (4) Completion of the abandoned degree in the future will require a new application for admission to that course and completion in accordance with the resolutions governing that degree. (5) A candidate who has enrolled in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies to complete requirements for an embedded honours component or a stream may abandon the Bachelor of Advanced Studies and return to the combined degree. 11 Progression Rules (1) General progression rules for the combined degrees are covered by the resolutions of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies. (2) Candidates in a combined law program: (a) must successfully complete LAWS1006 Foundations of Law before enrolling in any other Bachelor of Laws units of study;
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Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws (b) the University of Sydney Law School Undergraduate Table; (c) Table S from the Shared Pool for Undergraduate Degrees; These resolutions must be read in conjunction with applicable and University By-laws, Rules and policies including (but not limited to) (d) Table O of the Shared Pool for Undergraduate Degrees. the University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2014 (the ©Coursework (e) In these resolutions, except where otherwise specified, Rule©), the Coursework Policy 2014, the Resolutions of the Faculty of Table A, the University of Sydney Law School Science and of the University of Sydney Law School, the University Undergraduate Table, Table S and Table O mean Table of Sydney (Student Appeals against Academic Decisions) Rule 2006 A, the University of Sydney Law School Undergraduate (as amended), the Academic Honesty in Coursework Policy 2015 and Table, Table S and Table O as specified here. the Academic Honesty Procedures 2016. Up to date versions of all (2) To qualify for the award of the pass combined degrees, a such documents are available from the Policy Register: candidate must complete 240 credit points, comprising: http://sydney.edu.au/policies. (a) a major (48 credit points) from Table A for the Bachelor of Science as set out in Section 7 below; Course resolutions (b) 12 credit points of mathematics degree core units of study 1 Course codes as set out in Table A (students may count the units from their major to fulfil this requirement); and Code Course title (c) 12 credit points of junior science elective units of study (excluding Mathematics) as set out in Table A (students BPSCILAW-02 Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws may count the units from their major to fulfil this requirement); and 2 (d) 12 credit points of units from the Open Learning Attendance pattern Environment as set out in Table O in the Shared Pool for The attendance pattern for this course is full time only. Undergraduate Degrees; 3 Streams (e) a minimum of 24 credit points of elective units or units taken towards a program from Table A for the Bachelor of (1) The Bachelor of Science in this combined degree is available Science or Table S in the Shared Pool for Undergraduate in the following streams: Degrees; (a) Dalyell. (f) if enrolled in a stream, complete the requirements for the (2) Completion of a stream is not a requirement of the Bachelor stream as specified in Table A; and of Science. The requirements for the completion of each (g) 144 credit points of Law units of study as specified in the stream are as specified in Table A for the Bachelor of Science University of Sydney Law School Undergraduate Table, or, in the case of the Dalyell Stream, in Table S of the Shared of which 48 credit points are Combined Law compulsory Pool for Undergraduate Degrees. units of study for Years 1, 2 and 3 of the combined degree (3) Candidates wishing to transfer between streams should and are credited towards the requirements for both the contact the Student Centre. Bachelor of Science and the Bachelor of Laws. (4) Candidates who qualify for the Dalyell Stream may complete (3) Requirements for the Bachelor of Science that stream while also completing another stream. To qualify for the award of the Bachelor of Science, a candidate 4 Cross faculty management must complete 144 credit points, comprising: (1) Candidates will be under the general supervision of the (a) 96 credit points specified in 6 (2) (a) ± (f) above; and Faculty of Science until the end of the semester in which (b) 48 credit points of Combined Law compulsory subjects they complete requirements for the Bachelor of Science. from years 1, 2 and 3 from the University of Sydney Law After completion of requirements for the Bachelor of Science, School Undergraduate Table which shall take the place students will be under the supervision of the University of of the minor specified in the course resolutions for the Sydney Law School. Bachelor of Science. (2) The Dean of the Faculty of Science and the Head of School (4) Requirements in the Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of and Dean of the Sydney Law School shall jointly exercise Laws who also enrol in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies authority in any matter concerned with the combined course For candidates completing the Bachelor of Science in a combined not otherwise dealt with in these resolutions. degree with the Bachelor of Laws who enrol in the Bachelor of 5 Admission to candidature Advanced Studies to complete a stream or honours, the requirement in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies for completion (1) Admission to this course is on the basis of a secondary of a second major shall be met by the 48 credit points of Law school leaving qualification such as the NSW Higher School units specified in 6 (3) (b) above. Certificate (including national and international equivalents), (5) Requirements for the Bachelor of Laws tertiary study or an approved preparation program. English To qualify for the award of the Bachelor of Laws, a candidate language requirements must be met where these are not must complete 144 credit points taken from the Sydney Law demonstrated by sufficient qualifications taught in English. School Undergraduate Table, comprising: Special admission pathways are open for educationally (a) 102 credit points of compulsory units of study as specified disadvantaged applicants and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait in the University of Sydney Law School Undergraduate Islander people. Applicants are ranked by merit and offers Table; for available places are issued according to the ranking. (b) 42 credit points from the Elective Unit of Study Table Details of admission requirements are found in the (undergraduate) for the University of Sydney Law School, Coursework Rule and the Coursework Policy. of which a maximum of 36 credit points are taken from (2) Admission to the Dalyell Stream requires achievement of a Part 1, Elective Units of Study, or as specified in 6 (5) (c) minimum tertiary admission rank (ATAR) set by the Board below, and a minimum of 6 credit points are taken from of Interdisciplinary Studies or above in or equivalent standard. Part 2, Jurisprudence Units of Study; and 6 Requirements for award (c) Students may apply to take up to a maximum of 24 credit (1) The units of study that may be taken for this combined degree points of advanced learning Master©s units of study as are set out in: elective units of study. (a) Table A for the Bachelor of Science;
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(i) Enrolment in Master©s units of study will be subject to awarded the relevant degree or combined degree for which availability and any unit pre-requisites or assumed they fulfil requirements at pass level. knowledge, which may include relevant industry experience (4) Honours in the Bachelor of Laws may be awarded in First or prior specialist study. Class or Second Class in accordance with the Resolutions (ii) Enrolment in Master's units is only permitted after a of the Bachelor of Laws. candidate has completed 96 credit points towards the (5) Candidates for the award of the Honours degree who do not Bachelor of Laws. meet the requirements,and who have not already graduated, (iii) Students may only enrol in Master's units listed in the will be awarded the relevant pass degree. Bachelor of Laws Elective units of study Table. (6) For candidates qualifying for the Dalyell Stream, the words 7 Majors and Programs ªDalyell scholarº will beinserted below the degree name on the testamur. (1) Completion of a major from Table A for the Bachelor of 11 Science is a requirement for this combined degree. Cross-institutional study (2) Candidates have the option of completing a program with Cross-institutional study is available in this course subject to the an embedded major from Table A for the Bachelor of Science terms set out in the Resolutions of the Faculty of Science during of up to 72 credit points. the first 144 credit points of the Combined degree and (3) The majors and programs for the Bachelor of Science are subsequently subject to the terms set out in the Resolutions of as specified in the Learning and Teaching Policy and in the the University of Sydney Law School. degree resolutions and Table A for the Bachelor of Science. 12 International exchange 8 Progression rules The Faculty of Science and the University of Sydney Law School (1) Candidates in a combined law program must successfully encourage candidates in this course to participate in international complete LAWS1006 Foundations of Law before enrolling exchange programs subject to the terms set out in the Resolutions in any other Bachelor of Laws units of study. of the Faculty of Science during the first 144 credit points of the (2) Candidates are required to complete Bachelor of Laws units combined degree and subsequently subject to the terms set out in the order listed in the Sydney Law School Undergraduate in the Resolutions of the School ofLaw. Table. 13 Course transfer (3) Except with permission of the Head of School and Dean of (1) A candidate may withdraw from the combined degree the Sydney Law School, candidates must complete the program and elect to transfer to the Bachelor of Science by requirements for the Bachelor of Science before proceeding written application to the Faculty of Science, and complete to Year Four of the combined degree with the Bachelor of the requirements in accordance with the resolutions Laws. governing that degree at the time of transfer. Candidature (5) Progression with the Dalyell Stream in the Bachelor of Laws will cease in these circumstances. Candidates in the Dalyell Stream may proceed in the Bachelor (2) With the permission of the Faculty of Science and the of Science according to the resolutions of the Bachelor of Science, University of Sydney Law School, suitably qualified Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Advanced Studies and Table S. candidates may, after completing requirements for the 9 Requirements for award with Honours Bachelor of Science as specified in 6 (3) and 6 (4), defer (1) Honours is available to meritorious candidates in the Bachelor progression to the Bachelor of Laws and undertake an of Laws and in an area of study within the Bachelor of embedded honours component in the Bachelor of Advanced Science by enrolling in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies Studies and then continue to the Bachelor of Laws. and taking an embedded honours component after the (3) A candidate who has suspended enrolment in the combined completion of the pass Bachelor of Science degree. degree to enrol in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies to (2) Candidates who qualify to undertake honours in the Bachelor complete requirements honours or a stream may abandon of Science may elect to enrol in the honours program: the Bachelor of Advanced Studies and return to the combined (a) by suspending candidature from the Bachelor of Laws Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws. degree for one year, with the permission of the University 14 Credit for previous study of Sydney Law School, and enrolling in the Bachelor of Credit transfer is subject to the relevant provisions of the Advanced Studies and taking an embedded honours Coursework Policy and the Resolutions of the Faculty of Science component; or and the University of Sydney Law School. (b) by enrolling in the Bachelor of Advanced Studies and 15 undertaking an embedded honours component after Transitional provisions completion of both degrees in the combined program. (1) These resolutions apply to students who commenced their (3) For candidates completing the Bachelor of Science in a candidature after 1 January, 2018 who are not seeking credit combined degree with the Bachelor of Laws and also for prior study and students who commenced their completing an embedded honours component in the Bachelor candidature prior to 1 January, 2018 who elect to proceed of Advanced Studies, the requirement in the Bachelor of under these resolutions. Students who commenced their Advanced Studies for completion of a second major shall be candidature prior to 1 January, 2018 who elect to transfer met by the 48 credit points of Law units specified in 6 (3) (b) and proceed under these resolutions should note that the above. University does not undertake to offer 3000 level units of (4) Honours in the Bachelor of Laws is available to meritorious study prior to 2019 and that it may not be possible to students who complete an alternative set of units of study in complete requirements for the Bachelor of Science degree the final year of the Combined Law program. Admission, before the end of Semester 2 of that year or the single degree requirements and calculation of the honours grade are as before the end of Semester 2, 2019. set out in the resolutions for the Bachelor of Laws. (2) Candidates who commence candidature after 1 January, 10 Award of the degrees 2018 who are seeking credit for prior study should note that the University does not undertake to offer 2000 and (1) The Bachelor of Laws is awarded in the grades of either 3000-level units of study prior to 2019 and that it may not be Pass or Honours. possible to complete requirements for the Bachelor of (2) Candidates who successfully complete requirements for the Science degree before the end of Semester 2 of that year. Bachelor of Science as specified in 6 (4) and also complete Where a student in the Bachelor of Science proceedingunder an embedded honours component or a stream with the these resolutions applies for and is granted credit and wishes Bachelor of Advanced Studies shall be awarded the Bachelor to complete the degree before 1 January 2020, the student of Science and the Bachelor of Advanced Studies with the will be offered the opportunity to complete the Bachelor of appropriate stream or honours. Science degree under the resolutions that applied at 1 (3) Candidates who attempt the Bachelor of Science with an January 2017. embedded honours component in the Bachelor of Advanced (3) Candidates who commenced prior to 1 January, 2018 may Studies who do not meet the requirements for honours but complete the requirements in accordance with the resolutions who meet the requirement for the pass degree, may be in force at the time of their commencement, provided that the requirements are completed by 1 January, 2027.
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Sydney Law School undergraduate table of units of study Compulsory Units of Study Combined Law Year 1
LAWS1006 6 N LAWS1000 or LAWS5000 Semester 1 Foundations of Law LAWS1012 6 P LAWS1006 Semester 2 Torts N LAWS1005 or LAWS1010 or LAWS3001 or LAWS5001 LAWS1013 C LAWS1006 Semester 1 Legal Research I N LAWS1008 or LAWS1203 Semester 2 Semester 1 classes are for Combined Law candidates in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Semester 2 classes are for Combined Law candidates in the Business School and faculties of Architecture, Engineering and Science. Combined Law Year 2
LAWS1015 6 P LAWS1006 Semester 1 Contracts N LAWS1002 or LAWS2008 or LAWS5002 Summer Main LAWS1014 6 P LAWS1006 and LAWS1012 Semester 1 Civil and Criminal Procedure N LAWS5003 or LAWS2006 LAWS1016 6 P LAWS1006 and LAWS1014 Semester 2 Criminal Law N LAWS1003 or LAWS2009 or LAWS5004 Combined Law Year 3
LAWS1023 6 P LAWS1006 Semester 1 Public International Law N LAWS1018 or LAWS2005 or LAWS5005 Summer Main LAWS1021 6 P LAWS1006 Semester 2 Public Law N LAWS1004 or LAWS2002 or LAWS3003 or LAWS5007 Summer Main LAWS1017 6 P (LAWS1010 or LAWS1012) and LAWS1015 Semester 2 Torts and Contracts II N LAWS5006 LAWS1019 P LAWS1013 Semester 1 Legal Research II N LAWS1008 or LAWS1022 Semester 2 Semester 1 classes are for Combined Law candidates in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Semester 2 classes are for Combined Law candidates in the Business School and faculties of Architecture, Engineering and Science. Combined Law 4/5
Students in the Bachelor of Engineering Honours/Law do not undertake any law units in Year 4 and enrol in the Bachelor of Laws in Year 5, after completion of their first degree. For all other Combined Law streams, students enrol in the Bachelor of Laws in Year 4, after completion of their first degree. Students may substitute one compulsory unit with one elective unit in each semester of their penultimate year, deferring the compulsory unit(s) to final year. Students cannot enrol in more than two elective units in their penultimate year. LAWS2010 6 P LAWS1021 Semester 1 Administrative Law C LAWS2011 N LAWS2002 or LAWS5010 LAWS2011 6 P LAWS1021 Semester 1 Federal Constitutional Law N LAWS1004 or LAWS3000 or LAWS3003 or LAWS5011 LAWS2012 6 P LAWS1006 Semester 1 Intro to Property and Commercial Law N LAWS2004 or LAWS2007 or LAWS5008 LAWS2013 6 N LAWS1001 or LAWS3002 or LAWS3004 or LAWS5009 Semester 1 The Legal Profession Summer Main LAWS2014 6 N LAWS2003 or LAWS5014 Semester 2 Corporations Law Summer Main LAWS2015 6 A LAWS2012 Semester 2 Equity N LAWS2004 or LAWS5015 Summer Main LAWS2016 6 P LAWS1006 and LAWS1014 Semester 2 Evidence N LAWS2006 or LAWS5013 Summer Main LAWS2017 6 P LAWS2012 Semester 2 Real Property N LAWS2007 or LAWS5012 Combined Law 5/6
LAWS2018 6 N LAWS2005 or LAWS1018 or LAWS5017 Semester 1 Private International Law A Semester 2
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provides background which is assumed knowledge in many other Sydney Law School Undergraduate units. The aims of the course are composite in nature. The course Units of Study examines the rules that regulate the creation, terms, performance, breach and discharge of a contract. Remedies and factors that may Compulsory units of study vitiate a contract such as misrepresentation are dealt with in Torts and Contracts II. The central aim of the course is to provide an LAWS2010 understanding of the basic principles of contract law and how those Administrative Law principles are applied in practice to solve problems. Students will Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Andrew Edgar / Prof Mary develop the skills of rules based reasoning and case law analysis. A Crock (daytime stream), Dr Emily Hammond (evening stream) Session: second aim is to provide students an opportunity to critically evaluate Semester 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks (daytime stream), and make normative judgments about the operation of the law. 1x3hr seminar/wk for 13 weeks (evening stream) Prerequisites: LAWS1021 Corequisites: LAWS2011 Prohibitions: LAWS2002 or LAWS5010 Successful completion of this unit of study is a prerequisite to the Assessment: 2000wd essay (40%) and 2hr open book final exam (60%) Mode elective unit Advanced Contracts. of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening LAWS2014 Administrative Law is the study of the relationships of individuals and Corporations Law organisations with government.This unit examines the legal principles Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Olivia Dixon (daytime stream), Prof which apply to those relationships with the aim of developing an Graeme Cooper, Prof Michael Dirkis (evening stream) Session: Semester 2, understanding of how government is held accountable.The unit builds Summer Main Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks (daytime stream), on topics studied in Public Law, including the constitutional 1x3hr seminar/wk for 13 weeks (evening stream) Prohibitions: LAWS2003 or underpinnings of administrative law, judicial review and open LAWS5014 Assessment: Compulsory interim exam (20%) and final 2hr exam (80%) (daytime stream). MId-semester test (20%) and 3hr final open-book exam government. In the Administrative Law unit, the focus is on the grounds (80%) (evening stream). Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day of judicial review and judicial remedies, the jurisdiction of the courts, the public/private distinction and merits review. The unit seeks to This unit of study considers the legal structure of the corporation as develop students¿ understanding of how the values of openness, an organisational form for both public and proprietary companies. It rationality, fairness and participation in government decision-making is designed as an introduction to both the general law of corporations are promoted through Administrative Law. and the Australian regulatory context. The focus of this unit is on the nature of the corporation and its governance structure.The unit covers LAWS1014 issues such as the implications of the company as a separate legal Civil and Criminal Procedure entity, power to bind the company, duties of directors, and Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Louise Boon-Kuo Session: shareholders rights and remedies. Students will be required to evaluate Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture and 1x2hr tutorial/week for 10 weeks critically existing corporate law and reform proposals, with particular Prerequisites: LAWS1006 and LAWS1012 Prohibitions: LAWS5003 or reference to legislative policy and underpinning theory. LAWS2006 Assessment: 2 x class participation (20%) and 1 x 1200wd interim assignment (20%) and 1x 2hr final open-book exam (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day LAWS1016 Criminal Law This unit of study aims to introduce students to civil and criminal Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Thomas Crofts Session: procedure. It is concerned with the procedures relating to civil dispute Semester 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminar/week for 10 weeks. Prerequisites: resolution and criminal justice which are separate to the substantive LAWS1006 and LAWS1014 Prohibitions: LAWS1003 or LAWS2009 or hearing. The unit will consider the features of an adversarial system LAWS5004 Assessment: Class participation (10%), 1 x assignment (40%), 1 x 2hr exam (50%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day of justice and its impact on process. Recent reforms to the adversarial system of litigation will be explored. The civil dispute resolution part This unit of study is designed to introduce the general principles of of the unit will cover alternative dispute resolution, the procedures for criminal law in NSW, and to critically analyse these in their commencing a civil action, case management, gathering evidence contemporary social and political context. In order to achieve this, the and the rules of privilege. Criminal process will be explored by unit will consider a range of theoretical literature as well as critical reference to police powers, bail and sentencing. The course focuses commentary, and will focus on particular substantive legal topics in on practical examples with consideration of the applicable legislation, problem-centred contexts. Although the topic structure is necessarily ethics, and contextual and theoretical perspectives. selective, it is intended that students will gain a broad understanding of crime and justice issues, as well as of the applications of the criminal LAWS1015 law. Students will encounter problem-based learning and will be Contracts encouraged to challenge a range of conventional wisdom concerning Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Yane Svetiev Session: the operation of criminal justice.This unit of study is designed to assist Semester 1, Summer Main Classes: 2x2hr lectures and/or tutorials/week students in developing: (1) A critical appreciation of certain key Prerequisites: LAWS1006 Prohibitions: LAWS1002 or LAWS2008 or LAWS5002 Assessment: Class participation (10%) and 1800wd take-home concepts which recur throughout the substantive criminal law. (2) assignment (30%) and 2hr final exam (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal knowledge of the legal rules in certain specified areas of criminal law (lecture/lab/tutorial) day and their application. (3) preliminary knowledge of how the criminal law operates in its broader societal context. (4) An understanding of Contract law provides the legal background for transactions involving how criminal liability is determined. The course has a critical focus the supply of goods and services and is, arguably the most significant and will draw on procedural, substantive, theoretical and empirical means by which the ownership of property is transferred from one sources. The contradictions presented by the application of legal person to another. It vitally affects all members of the community and principle to complex social problems will be investigated. a thorough knowledge of contract law is essential to all practising lawyers. In the context of the law curriculum as a whole, Contracts
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LAWS2015 The topics covered in detail are: Trade and commerce, severance Equity and reading down, inconsistency, external affairs, defence, Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Patrick Parkinson Session: corporations, freedom of interstate trade, general doctrines of Semester 2, Summer Main Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks (daytime characterisation and interpretation, grants, revenue powers, excise stream), 1x3hr seminar/wk for 13 weeks (evening stream) Prohibitions: duties, and constitutional rights. LAWS2004 or LAWS5015 Assumed knowledge: LAWS2012 Assessment: Optional interim exam (20%) and 2 1/2 hr final closed book exam (80% or 100%) The course includes some material on the US Constitution to provide Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) points of comparison and contrast. evening
An appreciation of equitable principles and remedies is fundamental LAWS1006 to understanding the legal system and the law of property, taxation Foundations of Law and obligations.This unit of study explains the origins of the equitable Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Cameron Stewart Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1hr lecture and 1x2hr tutorial/week Prohibitions: jurisdiction and examines its role today. A substantial part of the unit LAWS1000 or LAWS5000 Assessment: Class participation (10%), 1 x group is dedicated to study of the law of trusts, including remedial presentation (10%), 1 x case analysis (30%) and 1 x essay (50%). Mode of constructive trusts. Other topics include fiduciary obligations, breach delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day of confidence, the doctrines of estoppel, and a study of the equitable This unit of study provides a foundation core for the study of law. The remedies of the injunction, an account of profits and equitable aim is to provide a practical overview of the Australian legal system, compensation. an introduction to the skills of legal reasoning and analysis which are LAWS2016 necessary to complete your law degree, and an opportunity for critical Evidence engagement in debate about the role of law in our lives. The course will introduce students to issues such as: (i) the development of judge Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Ms Miiko Kumar Session: Semester 2, Summer Main Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks (daytime stream), made and statute law, with a particular focus on English and Australian 1x3hr seminar/wk for 13 weeks (evening stream) Prerequisites: LAWS1006 legal history; (ii) the relationship between courts and parliament; (iii) and LAWS1014 Prohibitions: LAWS2006 or LAWS5013 Assessment: the role and function of courts, tribunals and other forms of dispute Optional interim exam or 2000wd research essay (30%) and 2hr final open-book resolution; (iv) understanding and interrogating principles of judicial exam (70% or 100%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening reasoning and statutory interpretation; (v) the relationship between law, government and politics; (vi) what are rights in Australian law, This unit of study aims to teach students the laws of evidence. The where do they come from and where are they going; (vii) the focus of this unit is on the operation of the laws of evidence in civil development and relevance of international law. The course focus and criminal trials. The unit considers the laws of evidence contained may be subject to change. in statute and the common law. Students will appreciate the significant law reform in this area. The unit considers the rules for adducing LAWS2012 evidence, then the rules of admissibility (relevance, hearsay, opinion, Intro to Property and Commercial Law tendency and coincidence, credibility, character, privilege and the Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Sheelagh McCracken Session: discretions to exclude evidence). Finally, there will be consideration Semester 1 Classes: 2x2-hr lectures/week (for 5 weeks) and 1x2-hr lecture of issues relating to proof.This unit will focus on the uniform Evidence and 1x2-hr tutorial/week (for 5 weeks) (daytime stream), 1x3hr seminar/wk for 13 weeks (evening stream) Prerequisites: LAWS1006 Prohibitions: Acts 1995 and develop students© skills in the area of statutory LAWS2004 or LAWS2007 or LAWS5008 Assessment: 1hr mid-term open-book interpretation. Further, the unit aims to introduce students to the exam (30%) and 2hr final open-book exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal contexts within which lawyers might encounter evidential issues in (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening the course of a trial. Consideration is also given to the ethical problems Property law and commercial law are two key sources of rights and that may arise in the conduct of a trial. Students are encouraged to obligations in modern western law. This unit provides an introduction think critically about the doctrines that govern the laws of evidence. to both areas of law, and shows how they are inter-related. The unit LAWS2011 is designed to offer an opportunity to consider the role they play in Federal Constitutional Law Australian society and to give a firm grounding in legal principle. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Peter Gerangelos (daytime The unit focuses on notions of "property", providing an introduction stream), Prof Anne Twomey (evening stream) Session: Semester 1 Classes: to real property (including the doctrine of tenure and estates, native 2x2hr lectures/week for 10 weeks (daytime stream), 1x3hr seminar/wk for 13 title and the doctrine of fixtures) and to personal property (including weeks (evening stream) Prerequisites: LAWS1021 Prohibitions: LAWS1004 ownership and possessory interests arising in the context of or LAWS3000 or LAWS3003 or LAWS5011 Assessment: Compulsory problem assignment (30%) and final 2 1/2hr exam (70%) (daytime stream), Optional commercial transactions such as sales and bailments as well as assignment (20%) and 2hr final open-book exam (80% or 100%) (evening security interests under the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 stream) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Normal (Cth)). The unit analyses the nature and classification of legal and (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening equitable interests in both real and personal property, exploring the The main objective of the course is to impart an understanding of the principles and formalities governing their creation, assignment and fundamentals of federal constitutional law through the study of key priority¿ranking. Additionally, the unit enables the development of judicial decisions on powers and prohibitions in the Commonwealth skills in interpreting statutes and in problem-solving. Constitution. In a one session course it is neither feasible nor desirable Textbooks to study all aspects of federal constitutional law. The course is Introduction to Property and Commercial Law compiled by Scott Grattan and designed to provide a general conceptual framework for solving Sheelagh McCracken, Thomson Reuters Australia, 3rd edition (forthcoming). problems about federal constitutional law by a detailed treatment of LAWS1013 selected topics. Legal Research I The course also aims to: Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Graeme Coss Session: Semester 1, Semester 2 - Provide analysis of the function of the High Court as the final arbiter Classes: 6x1-hr seminars Corequisites: LAWS1006 Prohibitions: LAWS1008 of constitutionality. or LAWS1203 Assessment: Satisfactory attendance, eLearning quizzes and in-class exam. Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day - Develop an understanding of the techniques of judicial review as Note: Semester 1 classes are for Combined Law candidates in the Faculty of applied in Australia. Arts and Social Sciences. Semester 2 classes are for Combined Law candidates - Encourage discussion on the adequacy of the Constitution as in the Business School and faculties of Architecture, Engineering and Science. Australia©s basic instrument of government and on the scope for This is a compulsory unit taught on a pass/fail basis. The aim of the ©reform© by interpretation. unit is to introduce students to finding and citing primary and secondary legal materials and introduce them to legal research techniques.These
32 Compulsory unit of study descriptions are skills which are essential for law students and will be required to nationality of claims and exhaustion of local remedies, (8) regulation be applied in other units. of the use of force in international relations, and (9) dispute settlement. Textbooks LAWS1019 Dixon, McCorquodale and Williams, Cases and Materials on International Law Legal Research II (6th edition) Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Graeme Coss Session: Semester 1, Semester 2 Classes: 4x2-hr seminars Prerequisites: LAWS1013 Prohibitions: LAWS1021 LAWS1008 or LAWS1022 Assessment: Satisfactory attendance and in-class Public Law exam Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Anne Twomey Session: Semester Note: Semester 1 classes are for Combined Law candidates in the Faculty of 2, Summer Main Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prerequisites: Arts and Social Sciences. Semester 2 classes are for Combined Law candidates LAWS1006 Prohibitions: LAWS1004 or LAWS2002 or LAWS3003 or in the Business School and faculties of Architecture, Engineering and Science. LAWS5007 Assessment: 1hr interim exam (30%) and 2hr final exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day This is a compulsory unit taught on a pass/fail basis. It is a continuation of Legal Research I and covers advanced search techniques and the This unit is designed to introduce students to the principles and use of Lexis.com, Westlaw International and other complex databases. structures that underpin constitutional and administrative law in The purpose of this unit is to further develop the skills students need Australia. It is broader than either of these subjects because its focus throughout their law degree, and to introduce students to the legal is on generic issues of governance and accountability, focusing on research skills required after graduation. questions of power: what power is exercised by whom, from what source, with what limits and how and by whom is the exercise of those LAWS2018 powers to be scrutinised. The unit begins with an introduction to the Private International Law A Constitution, its history, and the structures established by it, together Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Michael Douglas (semester 1) Prof with consideration of how to change both State and Commonwealth Vivienne Bath (semester 2) Session: Semester 1, Semester 2 Classes: 2x2-hr Constitutions. The unit then moves to consider the three arms of seminars/wk for 10 weeks (daytime stream), 1x3hr seminar/wk for 13 weeks government and related concepts such as representative and (evening stream) Prohibitions: LAWS2005 or LAWS1018 or LAWS5017 Assessment: Bath /Douglas groups: Optional take-home exam (20%) and 1 x responsible government. In the final topics for the unit, the various 2hr final closed-book exam (80%). Anderson groups: 45min interim exam (20%) mechanisms by which the executive can be made accountable are and 1 x 2hr final closed-book exam (80%) Mode of delivery: Normal considered, including by the Parliament, judicial review, and (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening investigative tribunals. Private international law (or conflict of laws) is the part of municipal law in every developed legal system which is concerned with legal LAWS2017 issues which have a connection with a foreign legal system. In Real Property essence, private international law is concerned with the transnational Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Scott Grattan Session: Semester dimension of private law as where, for example, proceedings are 2 Classes: 2x2hr lectures/wk for 5 weeks, and 1x2hr lectuer and 1x2hr tutorial/wk for 5 weeks Prerequisites: LAWS2012 Prohibitions: LAWS2007 brought in New South Wales for a tort committed in Malaysia, or for or LAWS5012 Assessment: Compulsory 1hr interim exam (30%) and final 2hr breach of a contract to be performed in New York or against a open-book exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, defendant in the People©s Republic of China. Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening This unit of study is a comprehensive general course which addresses Land law (or the law of "real property") has always played an important the three persistent issues in private international law: jurisdiction; role in the economic, social and political life of Australia. Australian choice of law and the recognition and enforcement of foreign real property law draws much of its principle from English real property judgments. Particular topics include: (1) Scope of private international law; but over the last 100 years in particular, Australian real property law (the concept of legal issues which have a connection with more law has begun to develop its own unique character.This is particularly than one legal system); (2) Personal jurisdiction (including the evident in two key aspects of modern Australian law: the Torrens discretionary non-exercise of jurisdiction and anti-suit injunctions); (3) system of land registration (which forms a large part of this unit of Substance and procedure (with particular reference to limitation of study) and the developing law of indigenous title to land (which is actions and damages); (4) Proof of foreign law; (5) Exclusionary studied in Introduction to Property and Commercial Law, but which doctrines (foreign revenue and penal laws, foreign governmental may surface occasionally in parts of this unit also). interests and foreign laws contrary to forum public policy); (6) Choice This unit considers in particular the following topics: priorities between of law in contract; (7) Choice of law in tort; (8) Comparative choice of competing interests in land (building on material from the introductory law in tort (with particular reference to the European Union, Canada unit, Introduction to Property and Commercial Law); the Torrens and the United States of America); and (9) Recognition and system of land registration; co-ownership of land (joint tenancies and enforcement of foreign judgments. tenancies in common); easements; covenants; leases and licences; mortgages. LAWS1023 Public International Law The unit, inter alia, aims to develop problem solving skills and skills in interpreting complex statutory provisions in the Real Property Act Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Emily Crawford Session: Semester 1, Summer Main Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week 1900 (NSW) and the Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW) Prerequisites: LAWS1006 Prohibitions: LAWS1018 or LAWS2005 or LAWS5005 Assessment: Mid-term test or assignment (20%) and 2hr final LAWS2013 exam (80%). Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day The Legal Profession The compulsory unit of study is an introduction to the general Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Simon Rice Session: Semester problems, sources and techniques of public international law.The unit 1, Summer Main Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks (daytime stream), 1x3hr seminar/wk for 13 weeks (evening stream) Prohibitions: LAWS1001 or surveys the fundamental rules and principles public international law LAWS3002 or LAWS3004 or LAWS5009 Assessment: 2000wd interim through an examination of the following topics (1) the nature, function assessment (40%) amd final take-home exam (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal and scope of public international law, (2) the sources of public (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening international law, (3) the law of treaties including principles of treaty The Legal Profession critically examines notions of legal interpretation, (4) the relationship between public international law professionalism and the regulation of legal services markets, legal and municipal law, (5) the extent of civil and criminal state jurisdiction, practice and practitioners. Part 1 of The Legal Profession examines (6) immunities from state jurisdiction including diplomatic privileges the nature of legal professionalism, the structure of the legal profession and immunities (7) state responsibility, including diplomatic protection, and the contours that shape legal services markets. Part 2 explores the regulation of the profession including historical challenges and
33 Compulsory unit of study descriptions diverse theoretical views and models of regulation are examined.The in tort, contract and under statute frequently overlap in practice. current regulatory regime in New South Wales is analysed in detail Equitable principles also play an important role in providing remedies focusing on recent changes and the impact of a National Legal in a contractual context. This course will also consider liability under Profession. Part 3 explores specific forms of legal practice, highlights the Australian Consumer Law. Core topics are: the major cultural and economic forces that challenge the parameters (a) Causation and remoteness of damage principles in contract law of legal professionalism and regulation of the profession. Alternative and the calculation of damages for breach of contract; ways of organising legal practice and the legal services market are (b) Vitiating factors and other factors affecting contracts, including: canvassed focusing in particular, on the impacts of modern technology unfair or unconscionable dealing; unfair terms in contracts; mistake and globalisation. Part 4 evaluates the lawyer-client relationship and and misrepresentation; duress; and undue influence. This topic suggests strategies to facilitate equality and effective communication includes a study of equitable as well as common law principles and in the delivery of legal services. Furthermore, it examines lawyers© statutory rights and remedies; duties to clients, the Court and third parties, and the ways in which the rules and principles of confidentiality and conflicts of interest shape (c) Liability and remedies for misleading or deceptive conduct under the advice and representation lawyers provide to clients. This unit of statute (in particular, under s 18 of the Australian Consumer Law); study demands active participation by students and ongoing critical (d) Trespass to Land including damage by aircraft; reflection of the issues raised throughout the semester. (e) Nuisance; (f) Intentional Interference with goods; LAWS1012 (g) Negligence Liability for property damage and pure economic loss Torts in tort, including liability for negligent misstatement, liability for Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Barbara McDonald Session: economic loss suffered by third parties rather than the primary victim, Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture and 1x1hr tutorial/week from week 1 Prerequisites: LAWS1006 Prohibitions: LAWS1005 or LAWS1010 or liability for defective construction; LAWS3001 or LAWS5001 Assessment: Assignment 1200 words (30%); tutorial (h) Proportionate liability where it applies to tort, contract and statutory participation (10%) and 2hr closed book exam (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal liabilities. (lecture/lab/tutorial) day Other topics may be studied to the extent class time allows. These This is a general introductory unit of study concerned with liability for topics may include: the intentional economic torts such as deceit; civil wrongs, with particular emphasis on torts protecting personal breach of statutory duty; illegality in contract. integrity, safety and freedom from personal injury. The unit seeks to examine and evaluate, through a critical and analytical study of primary and secondary materials, the function and scope of modern tort law and the rationale and utility of its governing principles. It also aims to build students© skills in problem solving and applying the law to hypothetical or real life situations. Particular topics on which the unit will focus include: 2017 Unit of Study Descriptions-updated 31/07/2017 Page 8 of 57 (a) The role and impact of tort law in modern society, in comparison with other fields of law; (b) The role of fault as the principal basis of liability in the modern law; (c) Historical development of the action of trespass and the action on the case and the contemporary relevance of this development; (d) Trespass to the person (battery, assault, and false imprisonment); (e) The modern action on the case for intentional injury; (f) Defences to intentional torts; (g) Development and scope of the modern tort of negligence, including detailed consideration of the principles underpinning a duty of care in a range of common situations, the determination of breach of duty and the issues of causation and scope of liability or remoteness of damage, with particular reference to personal and psychiatric injury; (h) Compensation for personal injuries, including special and alternative compensation schemes; (i) Defences to negligence; (j) Vicarious liability for the torts of others and non-delegable duties; (k) Joint and several liability for personal injury and contribution between wrongdoers; (i) Injuries to relational interests, including compensation to relatives of victims of fatal accidents; survival of actions following death; and actions by employers for injury to employees.
LAWS1017 Torts and Contracts II Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Barbara McDonald / Dr Kate Owens Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture and 1x1hr lecture/week for 10 weeks and 1x1hr tutorial/week for 9 weeks from week 2 Prerequisites: (LAWS1010 or LAWS1012) and LAWS1015 Prohibitions: LAWS5006 Assessment: 2000wd assignment (30%) and 2hr closed book exam (70%). Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
This unit aims to complete the study of tort law and contract law acquired in Torts and Contracts respectively and to encourage the integrated study of the law of civil obligations and remedies. Liabilities
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Elective Units of Study
Students must successfully complete 42 credit points from the elective units of study including: (a) a maximum of 36 credit points from Part 1- Elective Units of Study (b) a minimum of 6 credit points from Part 2- Jurisprudence Units of Study (c) no more than 24 Credit Points of master©s level elective units of study. Part 1 Elective Units of Study
LAWS3401 6 P LAWS1004 or LAWS3000 or LAWS3003 or (LAWS1021 and LAWS2011) Semester 1 Advanced Constitutional Law C LAWS2011 N LAWS3027 or LAWS5101 LAWS3402 6 P (LAWS1015 OR LAWS1002 OR LAWS2008) AND (LAWS2004 OR (LAWS2015 AND Semester 2 Advanced Contracts LAWS2012)) N LAWS3007 LAWS3403 6 Semester 2 Advanced Corporate Law LAWS3404 6 P LAWS1016 or LAWS1003 or LAWS2009 Semester 1 Advanced Criminal Law N LAWS5104 LAWS3408 6 P LAWS1018 or LAWS1023 or LAWS2005 Semester 1 Advanced Public International Law N LAWS3009 or LAWS5108 LAWS3409 6 P LAWS3047 or LAWS3412 Semester 2 Advanced Taxation Law N LAWS3013 or LAWS5109 LAWS3411 6 N LAWS3012 or LAWS5111 Semester 2 Anti-Discrimination Law LAWS3412 6 N LAWS3047 or LAWS5112 Semester 1 Australian Income Tax LAWS3413 6 P (LAWS1015 or LAWS1002) and (LAWS2004 or LAWS2015) Semester 1 Banking and Financial Instruments N LAWS3101 or LAWS5113 LAWS3068 6 N LAWS3014 or LAWS5368 Intensive Chinese Laws and Chinese Legal Enrolment in the Shanghai Winter School is by separate application to the Law School. December Systems LAWS3417 6 P LAWS2007 or LAWS2017 or LAWS5012 Semester 1 Commercial Land Law N LAWS5117 LAWS3419 6 N LAWS3016 or LAWS5119 Semester 2 Competition Law LAWS3422 6 P LAWS2007 or LAWS2017 Semester 1 Contract and Equity in Land Dealings N LAWS3017 and LAWS5122 LAWS3426 6 N LAWS3020 or LAWS5126 Semester 1 Criminology Semester 2 LAWS3478 6 N LAWS5178 Intensive Development, Law and Human Rights Enrolment in the Himalyan Field School is by separate application to the Law School. February LAWS3507 6 P LAWS1015 Semester 1a Energy Law: Renewables and Emerging Tech LAWS3430 6 C LAWS2002 or LAWS2010 Semester 1 Environmental Law N LAWS3024 or LAWS5130 LAWS3432 6 N LAWS3026 or LAWS5132 Semester 1 Family Law Semester 2 LAWS3435 6 N LAWS3005 or LAWS5135 Semester 2 Indigenous Peoples and Public Law LAWS3510 6 A Required knowledge will vary by project. Semester 1 Industry and Community Projects Semester 2 LAWS3445 6 P LAWS2003 or LAWS2014 Semester 1 Insolvency Law N LAWS3403 or LAWS5145 or LAWS5103 LAWS3503 6 N LAWS5203 Semester 2 Insurance Law and Risk LAWS3508 6 A Students are expected to have completed all core units with the exception of Private Semester 1 Interdisciplinary Project International Law A. Semester 2 N INDP3000 Enrolment in this unit of study is by special application. It is only available to students in their final year of study who have a WAM above 65. LAWS3437 6 P LAWS1015 or LAWS1002 or LAWS2008 Semester 2 International Commercial Arbitration N LAWS3092 or LAWS5137 LAWS3438 6 P LAWS1015 or LAWS1002 or LAWS2008 Semester 2 International Commercial N LAWS3072 or LAWS5138 Transactions
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS3434 6 P LAWS2005 or LAWS1018 or LAWS1023 Semester 2 International Human Rights Law N LAWS3034 or LAWS5134 LAWS3489 6 P LAWS1018 or LAWS1023 Intensive International Moot N LAWS3035 or LAWS3093 or LAWS5189 December Note: Department permission required for enrolment Intensive Enrolment in this unit of study will be by special application, and will be based on competitive February selection in accordance with the rules of the individual competition. Semester 1 LAWS3443 6 P (LAWS1002 or LAWS2008 or LAWS1015) and (LAWS2002 or LAWS1021) Semester 2 Interpretation N LAWS5143 LAWS3441 6 Semester 1 Introduction to Islamic Law LAWS3480 6 N LAWS3033 or LAWS3423 or LAWS5180 Semester 1 IP: Copyright and Designs LAWS3479 6 N LAWS3472 or LAWS3033 or LAWS3423 or LAWS5179 Semester 1 IP: Trademarks and Patents LAWS3444 6 N LAWS3076 or LAWS5144 Intensive Japanese Law Applications for the offshore intensive unit are by separate application to Sydney Law School. February LAWS3446 6 N LAWS3023 or LAWS5146 Semester 1 Labour Law LAWS3900 12 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 1 Law Honours Further information regarding the honours program, including eligibility requirements, workload, Semester 2 supervision and award, can be found at http://sydney.edu.au/law/cstudent/undergrad/honours_program.shtml. LAWS3044 24 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 1 Law International Exchange Electives Available to outbound exchange students only. Semester 2 LAWS3494 6 N LAWS5194 or LAWS6149 Intensive July Legal Systems in South East Asia Enrolment in the winter school is by application to the Law School. LAWS3428 6 N LAWS3059 or LAWS5128 Semester 2 Media Law: Defamation and Privacy Summer Main LAWS3452 6 N LAWS3046 or LAWS5152 Semester 1 Medical Law Semester 2 LAWS3499 6 P (LAWS2002 or (LAWS2010 and LAWS1021) or (LAWS5007 and LAWS5010)) and Semester 1 Migration, Refugees and Forced (LAWS1004 or LAWS3000 or LAWS3003 or LAWS2011 or LAWS5011) Migration C (LAWS2002 or LAWS2010 or LAWS5010) and (LAWS1018 or LAWS2005 or LAWS1023 or LAWS5005) N LAWS3045 or LAWS3458 or LAWS5158 or LAWS3453 or LAWS5153 or LAWS5199 LAWS3455 6 N LAWS3048 or LAWS5155 Semester 1 Policing, Crime and Society LAWS3457 6 N LAWS3015 or LAWS5157 Semester 2 Private International Law B LAWS3514 6 Semester 2 Race and the Law LAWS3509 6 Enrolment in this unit of study is by special application. Priority will be given to students in their Semester 2 Redfern Legal Centre Clinic final year of study. LAWS3460 6 N LAWS3052 or LAWS5160 Semester 1 Roman Law LAWS3484 6 P LAWS2012 Semester 2 Secured Transactions in Commercial N LAWS5184 Law LAWS3461 6 N LAWS4061 or LAWS5161 Intensive Social Justice Legal Clinic A Note: Department permission required for enrolment February Enrolment in this unit of study is by special application. Priority will be given to students in their Semester 1 final year of study. LAWS3431 6 N LAWS3025 or LAWS5131 Semester 2 Social Justice Legal Clinic B Note: Department permission required for enrolment Enrolment in this unit is by special application. Enrolment is restricted to students in their final year of study. LAWS3465 6 N LAWS3057 or LAWS5165 Semester 2 Sydney Law Review Note: Department permission required for enrolment Enrolment in this unit of study is by special application. For further information, please visit sydney.edu.au/law/slr. LAWS3483 6 N LAWS3440 or LAWS3086 or LAWS5183 or LAWS6218 Semester 2 War Law: Use of Force and Humanitarian Law Part 1 - Master©s Level Elective Unit of Study
LAWS6947 6 A Available to law graduates only Intensive July Advanced Obligations and Remedies Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6141 6 Intensive Asia Pacific Environmental Law August LAWS6165 6 Intensive April Biodiversity Law LAWS6105 6 Semester 2 Child Sexual Abuse: Diverse Perspectives LAWS6091 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May Chinese International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law.
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6320 6 This unit replaced LAWS6320 Climate Disaster Law. Intensive Climate Justice and Disaster Law September LAWS6314 6 Intensive Coastal and Marine Law March LAWS6128 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. March LAWS6222 6 Intensive Corporate Governance March LAWS6318 6 Intensive Corporate Innovation and Regulation December LAWS6140 6 Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. Intensive July Corp Soc Responsibility: Theory/Pol LAWS6032 6 Core unit for MCrim and GradDipCrim students and co-requisite for other criminology units. Semester 1 Crime Research and Policy LAWS6325 6 Intensive Crime, Responsibility and Policy September LAWS6193 6 Intensive May Criminal Justice: Prevention and Control LAWS6997 6 A Available to law graduates only. Students undertaking this unit must have a good working Intensive Cross-Border Deals knowledge of the Australian Corporations Act and the rules and practices applicable to securities October offerings and takeovers or the equivalent in their home jurisdiction. LAWS6889 6 Intensive May Death Law LAWS6066 6 Intensive Discretion in Criminal Justice October LAWS6852 6 A Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Intensive May Doing Business in China have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6355 6 Students who have previously completed both LAWS6191 Water Law and Climate Change Intensive Energy and Water Security Law and LAWS6163 Energy and Climate Law are not permitted to enrol in this unit. October LAWS6354 6 A students who do not hold an undergraduate law degree must have completed LAWS6252 Intensive Environ Planning and Impact Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit and LAWS6044 October Assessment Law Environmental Law and Policy (MEL only) N LAWS6043, LAWS6045, LAWS3430, LAWS5130 LAWS6041 6 Intensive Environmental Litigation August LAWS6307 6 N LAWS6230 or LAWS6869 Semester 1 Expert Evidence and Class Action Students without a law degree or equivalent may enrol in this unit but should be aware that Procedure the unit focuses on legal and evidentiary issues.This unit replaced LAWS6230 Expert Evidence and LAWS6869 Class Actions and Complex Litigation. LAWS6334 6 Intensive Gender Inequality and Development August LAWS6964 6 Intensive May Global Energy and Resources Law LAWS6920 6 Intensive July Global Health Law LAWS6214 6 Intensive Goods and Services Tax Principles September A LAWS6052 6 MHL students may select this unit as one of the three core units required in addition to Intensive Govt Regulation, Health Policy and LAWS6252. October Ethics LAWS6054 6 Core unit for Core unit for GradDipHL students. MHL students may select this unit as one of Intensive May Health Care and Professional Liability the three core units required in addition to LAWS6252. LAWS6022 6 Intensive May International and Comparative Labour Law LAWS6061 6 Intensive May International Environmental Law LAWS6037 6 Semester 1 International Import/Export Laws LAWS6932 6 Intensive May Law and Investment in Asia LAWS6047 6 Intensive Law of the Sea October LAWS6848 6 Intensive Law, Business and Healthy Lifestyles September LAWS6928 6 N LAWS3478, LAWS5178 Intensive April Law, Justice and Development This unit is compulsory for MLawIntDev students. LAWS6944 6 Intensive Market Manipulation and Insider November Trading LAWS6341 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive July Media Law: Comparative provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit Perspectives http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6877 6 Intensive Mental Illness: Law and Policy September
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6065 6 This unit replaced LAWS6065 Pollution and Contaminated Land. Intensive May Pollution, Corporate Liability and Govern LAWS6345 6 Intensive May Principles of Financial Regulation LAWS6194 6 Intensive April Punishment LAWS6317 6 It is recommended that students have some knowledge of corporate law and criminal law and Intensive April Regulation of Corporate Crime procedure, or have had practical experience in these areas. LAWS6888 6 Intensive May Risk, Fear and Insecurity LAWS6177 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive May Tax Treaties taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6119 6 Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective Intensive May The State and Global Governance or capstone unit. LAWS6109 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive UK International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. September LAWS6844 6 Intensive May US Corporate Law LAWS6171 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May US International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. LAWS6096 6 A LAWS6252 or a law degree and LAWS6071 (MLLR students) Intensive May Work Health and Safety: Law and Policy LAWS6063 6 A limited knowledge of law of treaties Intensive World Trade Organization Law I N LAWS3439 or LAWS5139 September LAWS6192 6 N LAWS6069 Intensive Young People, Crime and the Law October Part 2 Elective Units of Study
Candidates must complete a minimum of 6 credit points from Part 2 to satisfy the Jurisprudence requirements. LAWS3447 6 N LAWS3036 or LAWS5147 Semester 2 Law and Economics This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 2 requirement of the LLB. LAWS3512 6 N LAWS3462 Semester 1 Law and Social Theories LAWS3513 6 P LAWS1016 Semester 1 Philosophy of Criminal Law LAWS3475 6 This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 2 requirement of the LLB. Semester 2 Philosophy of International Law LAWS3454 6 N LAWS3459 or LAWS5154 Intensive July Philosophy of Law This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 2 requirement of the LLB. Enrolment is by separate Semester 2 application to the Law School. LAWS3495 6 N LAWS5195 Semester 2 The Rule of Law and its Value This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 2 requirement of the LLB. LAWS3471 6 N LAWS5171 Semester 2 Theories of Conscientious Obedience This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 2 requirement of the LLB. LAWS3468 6 N LAWS3077 or LAWS5168 Semester 1 Theories of Justice This unit satisfies the Juriprudence/Part 2 requirement of the LLB. LAWS3469 6 N LAWS3089 or LAWS5169 Semester 1 Theories of Law This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 2 requirement of the LLB. Part 2 Masters©s Level Jurisprudence Units of Study
LAWS6187 6 Intensive Functional Analysis of Law and Soc March Control LAWS6827 6 Semester 2 Legal Responsibility and Philosophy of Mind LAWS6338 6 Intensive May The Nature of the Common Law LAWS6316 6 Intensive June Theories of the Judiciary
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Part 1 Elective Units of Study LAWS3402 Advanced Contracts LAWS3401 Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Yane Svetiev Session: Advanced Constitutional Law Semester 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/wk Prerequisites: (LAWS1015 OR LAWS1002 OR LAWS2008) AND (LAWS2004 OR (LAWS2015 AND Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Peter Gerangelos Session: LAWS2012)) Prohibitions: LAWS3007 Assessment: Class presentation Semester 1 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prerequisites: (10%); 3 x 800wd reaction papers (30%); 1 5000wd research paper or final 2hr LAWS1004 or LAWS3000 or LAWS3003 or (LAWS1021 and LAWS2011) exam (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day Corequisites: LAWS2011 Prohibitions: LAWS3027 or LAWS5101 Assessment: Class-participation/presentation (20%); and 6000wd research The aim of the course is to build on the knowledge students have essay (80%): An option is available for students do a moot instead of the gained in the core contracts courses. The specific focus of the course research essay if they request to do so. Also, any student who requests it may be able to substitute the 6000wd research essay for a 4000wd research essay for this year will be the regulatory use of contracts and contract law. plus an exam 2.5 hours (40%). The class participation is redeemable. Mode of During the course we will study both how governments regulate delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day contractual relations and how contracts and contract law are used to The main purpose of this course is to build on the fundamental achieve policy goals. The course will be research-driven and the understandings achieved in Public Law and Federal Constitutional specific areas of study will be chosen to reflect current developments Law in order to provide a far broader and deeper understanding of in contract law both in Australia and internationally. Such case studies the subject. This will be achieved by, first, examining in depth the will be used to reflect in greater depth on some of the fundamental fundamental aspects and tenets of constitutionalism in the Australian principles and doctrines of contract law studied in the core course. context and from a more jurisprudential perspective. Reliance will be LAWS3403 placed on comparative jurisdictions, in particular the United States Advanced Corporate Law and the United Kingdom. A detailed analysis will first be attempted of the following major concepts in the more precise context of Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Kym Sheehan Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 x 2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Assessment: Class Westminster-based systems: the rule of law, parliamentary sovereignty, participation (10%), class presentation (20%), and either 4,500wd research the ambit of executive power and the precise status and principles of essay (70%) or final 2hr exam (70%). Mode of delivery: Normal responsible government, judicial review and constitutional rights, (lecture/lab/tutorial) day separation of powers, constitutional conventions, the reserve powers This unit of study has as its objective the exploration of contemporary of the Governor-General, the status of common law principles as issues concerning debt and equity finance in Australian public and fundamental constitutional guarantees. A principal focus will be the proprietary companies, with an emphasis on law reform in the areas nature and ambit of executive power, and the evolving jurisrprudence of the raising of corporate finance; the positions of shareholders and of the High Court on this question. The course will examine the creditors in the event of the company©s insolvency; as well as aspects evolving notion of parliamentary supremacy from Diceyan orthodoxy of external administration include receivership, voluntary to the more recent debates involving leading constitutional scholars administration, liquidation. in the UK and Australia. In relation to separation of powers, the different constitutional consequences which result when the doctrine LAWS3404 is entrenched in a written constitution (as in the US and Australia) on Advanced Criminal Law the one hand, and when it exists as a convention without being so Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Arlie Loughnan Session: entrenched, on the other, will be explored. The relationship between Semester 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/wk for 10 weeks. Prerequisites: executive and legislative power will be the principal focus. This will LAWS1016 or LAWS1003 or LAWS2009 Prohibitions: LAWS5104 enhance an understanding of the definition, nature and limits of judicial, Assessment: research proposal (pass/fail), 4000wd research essay (75%) and executive and legislative power and their inter-relationship, an issue class participation (25%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day which becomes particularly important at moments of constitutional This unit critically examines the criminal law, criminal justice institutions uncertainty and stress, especially at the crossroads of their power. and penal practices in the context of legal scholarly debates. Topics The functionalist/formalist debate will be examined to determine the to be considered in any one semester may include criminal most appropriate interpretive methodology with respect to the responsibility, capacity, gender and criminal law, corporate criminal application of the constitutional limitations which may emanate from liability, offence construction and trends in sentencing. In addressing the separation of powers. In so doing, the principal decisions of the these topics, the unit will attempt to respond to cutting edge High Court of Australia and other relevant courts in other jurisdictions. developments in the criminal law as they arise. Each topic forms the There will be an opportunity to evaluate major Australian constitutional lens through which larger or longer-term theoretical and others issues decisions in a detail not possible in the prerequisite and undergraduate are discussed. By contrast with the foundational unit, Criminal Law, courses. A principal underlying theme will be the extent to which the this unit does not adopt a content - driven approach to criminal law; tenets of constitutionalism are being complied with in Australia and instead, it adopts an explicitly critical socio-historical approach to the the extent to which they can be.The course will be enriched and made study of law, and draws on inter-disciplinary scholarship throughout. more presently relevant by the exploration of current developing Discussion of relevant academic scholarship forms a core part of the themes in constitutional law. The precise topics may vary from year subject matter of the course. to year. Depending on the topic, this may involve the introduction of completely new themes or the integration of developments with topics LAWS3408 already examined. Advanced Public International Law Textbooks Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Mary Crock, Prof Chester Brown Printed Materials prepared by the Convener Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prerequisites: LAWS1018 or LAWS1023 or LAWS2005 Prohibitions: LAWS3009 or LAWS5108 Assessment: 3,000wd essay (30%) and 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
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This unit provides an opportunity for students who are familiar with capital gains, fringe benefits, deductions and the treatment of capital the basic institutions and processes of public international law to expenditure, basic tax accounting principles, and legislative responses deepen their understanding by studying in greater detail than is to tax avoidance. The unit also introduces the key concepts used to possible in the introductory unit several areas of conceptual importance evaluate tax policy, including welfare economics, thereby providing and contemporary relevance. It follows that a prerequisite is the unit, students with a basic understanding of why taxation is of such LAWS1023 Public International Law or LAWS5005 Public International fundamental concern in modern democratic societies. This unit is a Law, or an equivalent unit undertaken at another institution. prerequisite for Advanced Taxation Law. The topics covered by this unit are: (1) the international law of the sea; (2) international environmental law; (3) international refugee law LAWS3413 and related human rights laws; and (4) the law of international Banking and Financial Instruments organisations and systems of monitoring and compliance in Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Roger Magnusson Session: international law.The different aspects of the course are tied together Semester 1 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prerequisites: (LAWS1015 or LAWS1002) and (LAWS2004 or LAWS2015) Prohibitions: using disasters, climate change and forced migration as unifying LAWS3101 or LAWS5113 Assessment: Three options: 1) 2,500wd assignment themes. One half of the course addresses issues that involve the (50%) and 1hr exam (50%); 2) 3,500 wd essay (50%) and 1 hr exam (50%); 3) interaction of nation states under international law, while the second 2hr exam (100%). Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day half deals with international law regulating the interaction of states This unit aims to provide students with: with natural persons. The chosen topics are specialised, substantive * An overview of the legal regulation and supervision of banks and areas of law which are of particular importance to global governance other Authorised Deposit-taking Institutions (ADIs); of resources, particularly for a large, ecologically diverse and maritime State such as Australia, and are extremely topical on the national and * An understanding of the legal basis of the relationship between international agendas. banks, ADIs and their customers, and an overview of the more common rights and duties that adhere to the banker/customer LAWS3409 relationship; Advanced Taxation Law * An introduction to negotiable instruments (cheques and bills of Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Micah Burch Session: Semester exchange), letters of credit and performance bonds, and guarantees; 2 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prerequisites: LAWS3047 or * An introduction to the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 and its LAWS3412 Prohibitions: LAWS3013 or LAWS5109 Assessment: 1hr in-class test (30%) and 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) impact on secured lending. day LAWS3068 This unit further pursues the goals of Australian Income Tax and is to Chinese Laws and Chinese Legal Systems be regarded as an extension of that unit. In particular, the unit surveys Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Vivienne Bath Session: Intensive some more advanced (and practically relevant) aspect of Australia©s December Classes: This unit is undertaken in intensive mode (3 weeks) in tax system, including special rules applicable to entities (partnerships, China. Teaching takes place in November/December in Shanghai as part of trusts, and companies) and their owners, international taxation, goods the Shanghai Winter School. Prohibitions: LAWS3014 or LAWS5368 and services tax (GST), business cost recovery mechanisms (trading Assessment: Optional interim 1500wd essay (20%) and final 2hr exam to be completed in Shanghai (80% or 100%). Mode of delivery: Block mode stock and depreciation), and tax administration. Together with Note: Enrolment in the Shanghai Winter School is by separate application to Australian Income Tax, these units provide a basic understanding of the Law School. the Australian tax system and a basis for further study and/or practice. This unit will provide students with an overall picture of the modern LAWS3411 Chinese legal system. It will develop a perception of its unique Anti-Discrimination Law character by tracing its role through major social epochs and the role Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Belinda Smith Session: of law in a socialist market economy. It will examine the concept of Semester 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: law as a political function and the implementation of law, not so much LAWS3012 or LAWS5111 Assessment: Class participation (10%) and online through courts, as through administrative fiats and authority, making short answer exam (25%) and 2hr exam (65%) Mode of delivery: Normal law essentially a function of politics and administration. The unit will (lecture/lab/tutorial) day illustrate these perceptions through the study of various legal regimes. The objective of this unit is to enable students to examine and develop Lecture topics may include: Chinese legal history; Chinese legal answers to the following questions: (i) What is discrimination and what system; Criminal law and procedure; Constitutional law; civil law and harm does it cause? (ii) How has the law been used in Australia to procedure; legal profession; administrative law; contract law; property address discrimination? (iii) What type of conduct does law; company law; intellectual property law; environmental Law; foreign anti-discrimination law prohibit? Specifically, which attributes are joint ventures; arbitration and mediation; foreign trade law and taxation protected, in what contexts and with what exceptions? (iv) What law. remedies can be sought for unlawful discrimination and how are these enforced? (v) What are the limits and future directions of LAWS3417 anti-discrimination law? The law as it operates will be examined, Commercial Land Law focussing on examples of particular attributes of discrimination (such Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Fiona Burns Session: as sex, race, disability, age, or family responsibilities), but considerable Semester 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prerequisites: attention is also paid to regulatory alternatives to explore how the law LAWS2007 or LAWS2017 or LAWS5012 Prohibitions: LAWS5117 Assessment: Structured class presentation (20%) and 2000wd research essay could be developed. (30%) and 1hr (30 mins reading time) open book exam (50%). NB Assessment subject to change and dependent on enrolment numbers. Mode of delivery: LAWS3412 Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day Australian Income Tax In terms of content, this unit aims to explore in greater depth some Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Micah Burch Session: Semester important aspects of the law of real property which the compulsory 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: LAWS3047 or LAWS5112 Assessment: Either [2hr optional mid-semester quiz (30%) and Real Property unit does not cover. The topics which will be covered 2hr final exam (70%)] or [final exam (100%)] Mode of delivery: Normal will be: leases (including covenants of leases, assignments of leases, (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening remedies of landlords, relief against forfeiture and subleases); possessory title; mortgages (with special attention on the rights and This unit introduces the Australian income tax system by exploring remedies of the mortgagor and mortgagee; reverse mortgages); the operation of the income tax statutes, the underlying principles options and if time permits strata and community titles. Students who which those laws seek to implement, and fundamental issues in tax wish to practise in the area of property law are encourage to consider policy. Topics covered include the concept and categories of income,
40 Elective unit of study descriptions studying this unit, because the matters covered are indispensable for LAWS3426 a career in property law. From a pedagogical perspective, the Criminology assessment is structured to improve the oral, research and Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Garner Clancey Session: Semester problem-solving skills of students. There will be a problem-solving 1, Semester 2 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: session at the end of the course. The classroom-style is structured to LAWS3020 or LAWS5126 Assessment: Class participation (10%), 1200wd paper on prison visit (30%), and 3000wd research essay (60%) Mode of encourage students to participate in discussion and to learn delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day collaboratively. This unit of study aims to introduce students to the theoretical issues LAWS3419 associated with the definition and explanation of crime, criminality and Competition Law crime control. Rationales for punishment are examined along with Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr David Howarth Session: Semester sentencing, and other possible responses to criminal behaviour are 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: LAWS3016 or explored. The unit considers the impact of criminal justice policy and LAWS5119 Assessment: 3000wd essay and peer review (30%) and 2hr exam practice on particular groups which may include juveniles, women, (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day Indigenous people, ethnic minorities and victims of crime. The This unit of study examines competition law and policy in Australia. regulation of particular types of offences such as hate crime are The central part of the course deals with Part IV of the Competition considered. Other topical issues are covered as they arise in and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth).The framework for analysis will include contemporary criminological debate. Students are expected to take a critical examination of the fundamental purposes of competition law part in visits to a gaol and/or a juvenile detention centre. policy. Some references will be made to the restrictive trade practices provisions of comparative jurisdictions. LAWS3478 Development, Law and Human Rights Topics include: (a) common law antecedents of competition law and history of competition law legislation; (b) National Competition Policy Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof David Kinley Session: Intensive February Classes: Taught internsively in January and February in Nepal. and legislation; (c) application of the Competition and Consumer Act Prohibitions: LAWS5178 Assessment: 1 x take-home assessment (50%) 2010 (Cth); (d) elementary economic theory of monopoly and the and 4000wd research essay (50%). Mode of delivery: Block mode goals of competition policy; (e) fundamental concepts of competition, Note: Enrolment in the Himalyan Field School is by separate application to the market definition, market power and public benefit; (f) mergers and Law School. acquisitions; (g) horizontal arrangements including cartel conduct, This unit exposes students to the role and limits of law in addressing primary boycotts, and arrangements which substantially lessen acute problems of socio-economic development and human rights in competition; (h) vertical arrangements including exclusive dealing and developing countries, through an interactive field school conducted third line forcing; (i) misuse of substantial market power; (j) notifications over two weeks in Nepal, one of the world©s poorest countries. The and authorizations; and (k) overview of remedies and enforcement. themes to be explored are likely to include: The transition from armed Additional topics may include resale price maintenance or access to conflict to peace in the aftermath of a Maoist insurgency and the end essential facilities. of the monarchy in Nepal (including issues of transitional criminal justice, the drafting of a new constitution, and building a new legal LAWS3422 and political system in light of Nepalese legal traditions and foreign Contract and Equity in Land Dealings legal influences); The protection of socio-economic rights (including Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Ms Patricia Lane Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/wk Prerequisites: LAWS2007 or LAWS2017 rights to food, water, housing, and livelihoods), minority rights (of Prohibitions: LAWS3017 and LAWS5122 Assessment: 3000wd problem ©tribals©, and ©dalits© in the caste system), and the ©right to development© questions (40%) and take-home exam (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal under constitutional and international law; The interaction between (lecture/lab/tutorial) day local disputes over natural resources, human displacement caused This unit deals with the principles relating to entry into, performance, by development projects, environmental protection and climate change and remedies for breach of contracts for the sale of land. While in the context of fragile Himalayan ecologies; The legal protection of conveyancing is sometimes regarded as a mere matter of form filling refugees (Tibetan or Bhutanese) in camp or mass influx situations, in and rote-learned procedures, it is one of the oldest and most complex the context of the limited resources of a developing country and the areas of law, and requires the application of skill and strategy in causes of, and solutions to, human displacement; and the experience deploying legal principles in practice. Modern conveyancing involves of women in development and human rights processes. The issues the application of an elaborate mix of real property, equity, and contract will be drawn together by reflection upon the influence of, and law concepts, and also principles of interpretation. The course will resistance to, human rights and international law in developmental also deal with elements of the national system of electronic processes. convenyancing.The unit of study is designed to provide the theoretical LAWS3507 foundations necessary for expertise in commercial practice. The first Energy Law: Renewables and Emerging Tech part of the course deals with the formation of an enforceable contract for sale, including exchange of contract, identification of the Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Penelope Crossley Session: Semester 1a Classes: Taught intensively as 1x7hr seminars/week for six weeks subject-matter of the sale, and obligation of disclosure by vendors Prerequisites: LAWS1015 Assessment: mock negotiation exercise (30%), under common law and statute, and a brief treatment of statutory in-class test (30%), and take-home exam (40%) Mode of delivery: Normal remedies under the Australian Consumer Law concerning land (lecture/lab/tutorial) day dealings. The second section deals with the law relating to the The mass commercialisation and uptake of renewable energy will be performance of the contract for sale intself, focussing on the standard one of the most significant developments in the 21st century in terms form of contract for the sale of land in New South Wales. Special of transforming both the industrial sector and daily life. The shift away attention is paid in this section to the law relating to deposits, defects, from fossil fuels is already noticeable, with net investment in new the consequences of misdiscription of the land, and the legality of renewable energy generation now exceeding that for fossil fuels. This structures upon the land. The third section deals with the remedies unit explores the legal challenges associated with the increased uptake available to vendors and purchasers, including notices to complete, of renewable energy and emerging energy technologies. It considers specific performance, breach and termination, and relief against approaches to electricity market design, and considers whether forfeiture. regulatory intervention in the market is warranted. Given the Textbooks international nature of the renewable energy sector, students will Skapinker and Lane Sale of Land in NSW Cases and Commentary (5th ed explore and evaluate the effectiveness of the laws and policy 2009) approaches of different countries in promoting the increased deployment of renewable energy. Throughout this unit students will
41 Elective unit of study descriptions also have the opportunity to explore the issues that may arise LAWS3510 throughout the life of a new renewable energy project, including Industry and Community Projects environment and planning disputes, competition law issues, the need Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Professor Simon Rice Session: to successfully negotiate with key stakeholders, and to consider Semester 1, Semester 2 Classes: Classes will vary according to the project. It creative solutions to addressing them. will consist of seminars/workshops with acompanying online material. Assumed knowledge: Required knowledge will vary by project. Assessment: Assessment will vary according to the project but may include the following: 1200wd reflective LAWS3430 essay (20%), group project outline 10%), group project presentation (20%), Environmental Law group project report (50%). Practical field work: A project will be determined Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Kate Owens Session: Semester by the Law School or in consultation with a partner organisation and completed 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Corequisites: LAWS2002 or as part of a team with academic supervision. Mode of delivery: Clinical LAWS2010 Prohibitions: LAWS3024 or LAWS5130 Assessment: Essay experience (50%) and take-home exam (50%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day This unit is designed for final and penultimate year law students to undertake a project that allows them to work under the supervision of This unit will provide a framework for understanding environmental a University of Law School academic or with one of the University©s issues, outline the sources of environmental law and provide an industry and community partners. Students will work in teams on a overview of the different approaches to environmental regulation real-world problem provided by the Law School or University partner. before examining a range of topical areas, including climate change, This experience will allow students to apply their academic skills and water management, pollution control, waste management, disciplinary knowledge to a real-world issue in an authentic and environmental planning, development control and environmental meaningful way. Participation in this unit will require students to submit impact assessment. Overarching themes will include the implications an application. of adopting the principles of environmentally sustainable development for legal structures and processes, the effects of scientific uncertainty LAWS3445 on environmental regulation, and the importance of public participation Insolvency Law for making the value judgements required in environmental Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Lindsay Powers Session: Semester governance. 1 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prerequisites: LAWS2003 or LAWS2014 Prohibitions: LAWS3403 or LAWS5145 or LAWS5103 LAWS3432 Assessment: 3000wd answer to a problem question (30%) and 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day Family Law Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Patrick Parkinson Session: The unit provides an introduction to the mainly statutory law regulating Semester 1, Semester 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks bankrupt individuals and insolvent companies. It explores the Prohibitions: LAWS3026 or LAWS5132 Assessment: Optional 2,500wd objectives and key principles of insolvency law, the pari passu assignment (40%) and final 90 min exam (60% or 100%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day principle, the various forms of insolvent administration including bankruptcy, liquidation, receivership and voluntary administration and Family Law deals with the core provisions of the Family Law Act 1975 associated procedures together with the avoidance of transactions in governing parenting of children and the property of married couples insolvency. The unit also considers the impact of insolvency on and persons in a de facto relationship. This course is essential for employees, unsecured creditors, shareholders and trustee©s of trusts. those interested in Family Law. The unit involves a significant component of statutory interpretation. Family Law will focus on the following topics: constitutional and jurisdictional issues; marriage, divorce and de facto relationships, the LAWS3503 resolution of disputes relating to children under the Family Law Act Insurance Law and Risk 1975, property division under the Family Law Act; child support and Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Peter Mann Session: Semester maintenance. 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: LAWS5203 Assessment: 2000wd essay or problem-based assignment (40%) and 2hr Textbooks open-book final exam (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) P Parkinson, Australian Family Law in Context, 6 ed 2015 day
LAWS3435 Insurance is an essential part of modern life covering a multitude of Indigenous Peoples and Public Law everyday risks and providing financial security in commerce and life Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Ms Tanya Mitchell Session: Semester generally. This unit covers the principles and concepts of insurance 2 Classes: 1x3hr seminar/week for 13 weeks (evening stream) Prohibitions: law and practice. A main focus will be on the rights and liabilities LAWS3005 or LAWS5135 Assessment: Class presentation (20%) and 5000wd arising under contracts of insurance, under statute (principally the essay (80%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening Insurance Contracts Act 1984 (Cth)) and at common law. Broad This course explores the relationship between Indigenous peoples categories and common forms of insurance, and to a lesser extent and national and international public law systems. We begin with an reinsurance, and the risks covered by them will be considered. exploration of Indigenous legal systems and governance structures. Concepts central to insurance will be dealt with including the duty of Students will see how this different way of seeing the world, and being utmost good faith, the duty of disclosure, third party rights, in the world, impacts upon interactions with the mainstream legal proportionality, contribution, subrogation and fraud. Other matters to system. We will examine the differing perspectives on history to see be considered include the role of insurance brokers and underwriting how they have shaped ever-changing laws and government policies. agents, the regulation of insurers (the role of ASIC and APRA), the We will investigate issues such as: changing definitions of Aboriginality progression of insurance from contract formation to claims and the that have been imposed upon Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander role that insurance plays in the community, corporate life and in dispute peoples; the over-representation of Indigenous Australians in the resolution.There will be a practical emphasis which involve considering criminal justice system; paperless arrest laws in the Northern Territory some common types of insurance policies and issues arising under and fine legislation in Western Australia; the legal mechanisms used them illustrated by problem solving. Consideration will also be given to execute the Northern Territory Emergency Response; the utility of to the role of risk transfer and insurance in contracting. International Law, Human Rights Law and International bodies to Textbooks Indigenous people; meanings of self-determination; native title and Mann©s Annotated Insurance Contracts Act, Peter Mann, Thomson Reuters 6th land rights legislation; and contemporary examples of Indigenous edition nation building. Opinions on the issues covered in the course are LAWS3508 many and varied so students will be encouraged to explore each topic Interdisciplinary Project through discussion and lively debate. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Scott Grattan Session: Semester 1, Semester 2 Classes: blended learning (online material seminar/workshop
42 Elective unit of study descriptions and group work) Prohibitions: INDP3000 Assumed knowledge: Students policy and a field of ever-expanding dimensions. It will introduce are expected to have completed all core units with the exception of Private students to some key concepts, debates, documents and institutions International Law A. Assessment: group plan (10%), group presentation (20%), group project (50%), 2000wd individual report (20%) Practical field work: Law in this field, while encouraging critical examination of these from a students will be undertaking an interdisciplinary group project with students from variety of angles. In summary, this unit considers the question: What other faculties across the University and students from other universities who happens when we regard a situation or predicament as one involving may be enrolled in this unit or INDP3000. Mode of delivery: Normal a breach of international human rights law? What possibilities and (lecture/lab/tutorial) day problems does this entail? Addressing these questions, we will look Note: Enrolment in this unit of study is by special application. It is only available to students in their final year of study who have a WAM above 65. at: (a) particular fora where international human rights law is being produced (international tribunals, domestic courts, multilateral bodies This unit is designed for final year LLB and JD students to participate - including United Nations organs - regional agencies, in an interdisciplinary group project that allows them to work with one non-governmental organisations, academic institutions, and the of the University¿s industry and community partners. Students will media); (b) particular settings where international human rights law work in teams on a real-world problem provided by the partner, is being deployed (in Australia and elsewhere); and (c) particular applying their disciplinary expertise and gaining valuable experience identities/subjects that international human rights law aspires to shape, in working across disciplinary boundaries. regulate or secure.
LAWS3437 LAWS3489 International Commercial Arbitration International Moot Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Chester Brown Session: Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Chester Brown (Vis Moot), Dr Semester 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prerequisites: Alison Pert (Jessup Moot), Prof Luke Nottage (Tokyo Negotiation and Arbitration LAWS1015 or LAWS1002 or LAWS2008 Prohibitions: LAWS3092 or Competition). Session: Intensive December, Intensive February, Semester 1 LAWS5137 Assessment: 1 x 3,500wd mid-term assignment (30%) and 1 x Classes: There are no formal classes scheduled for this unit. Prerequisites: 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day LAWS1018 or LAWS1023 Prohibitions: LAWS3035 or LAWS3093 or LAWS5189 Assessment: For the Tokyo Negotiation and Arbitration This unit of study aims to introduce students to the fundamentals of Competition: Course participation, general participation and preparation as international commercial arbitration. The course covers the entire required (15%), research and writing of memorials (35%), preparation and process of international arbitration: the significance of international participation in mooting rounds and competitions (50%). For the Jessup Moot and Vis Moot, students are assessed generally on their contribution to the commercial arbitration in international dispute resolution; the research for and drafting of the written memorials, team work, oral skills, and importance of a well drafted arbitration agreement; all procedural and preparation and participation in the mooting rounds and competitions. Mode of conceptual aspects and legal issues arising during cross border delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day arbitrations; arbitral awards and the enforcement of arbitral awards Note: Department permission required for enrolment. Note: Enrolment in this around the world through the 1958 New York Convention, and the unit of study will be by special application, and will be based on competitive selection in accordance with the rules of the individual competition. relevance and use of mediation (and its hybrids) in resolving commercial disputes. The unit will address the role and significance This unit of study will involve participation in one of three international of specialised forms of international arbitrations and organisations moots, which in 2017 will be the Jessup Moot, the Willem C Vis involved in administering international arbitrations, including International Commercial Arbitration Moot, and the Tokyo Negotiation investor-State arbitrations under investment treaties and free trade and Arbitration Competition. There will be a competitive selection agreements. process for enrolment in the course. For all moots, students will work as a team preparing written memorials and oral argument on a set LAWS3438 problem as required by each moot. International Commercial Transactions Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Vivienne Bath Session: Semester LAWS3443 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prerequisites: LAWS1015 or Interpretation LAWS1002 or LAWS2008 Prohibitions: LAWS3072 or LAWS5138 Assessment: Either [3500wd mid-term research essay (50%) and final exam Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Ms Patricia Lane Session: Semester (50%)] or [final exam (100%)]. Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) 2 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prerequisites: (LAWS1002 day or LAWS2008 or LAWS1015) and (LAWS2002 or LAWS1021) Prohibitions: LAWS5143 Assessment: 3,000wd research essay (40%), 1000wd drafting The objective of this unit is to provide students with an introduction to exercise (20%) and and of take home exam OR 3000wd optional additional research essay OR 3000wd long problem (40%) Mode of delivery: Normal a number of areas of international and cross-border business law and (lecture/lab/tutorial) day business transactions and to provide students with a basis which will allow them to study some of those areas in more detail. The course Legal interpretation is the process by which the legal meaning of a will begin with an overview of the scope of the law relating to text is ascertained, by reference to the text considered in context and international transactions. The core topics are international sale of with regard to its purpose. This course deals with the principles and goods, carriage of goods, international payments and financing of methods of legal interpretation. While mainly relating to statutory international sales, an introduction to the regulation of international interpretation, the unit will also cover aspects of the law of trade, and methods of doing business in foreign markets, including interpretation of private law instruments, the Constitution, and treaties. international protection of intellectual property, dispute resolution in The principles and methods of legal interpretation are directed to a international business disputes, and the availability and use of purpose - to answer a question about contested legal meanings. The available business structures and methods such as direct foreign course will focus on the primary elements of interpretive practice: investment. As part of the discussion of doing business in foreign reading and understanding the text in its proper context, and in the markets and use of available business structures, students will look light of its purpose and the objective intention of the drafter. at the structure and drafting of international commercial agreements, The course will cover: and may participate in a skills exercise. * Approaches to legal interpretation, with emphasis on the function of interpretation in private and public law. LAWS3434 International Human Rights Law * Aspects of the interpretation of private instruments, wills, contracts, Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof David Kinley Session: Semester testamentary dispositions, collective agreements. 2 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prerequisites: LAWS2005 or * Drafting and clear expression. LAWS1018 or LAWS1023 Prohibitions: LAWS3034 or LAWS5134 Assessment: 3000wd essay (50%) and 3000wd take-home exam (50%) Mode * Principles of statutory interpretation, including the conventions of of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day grammatical interpretation of statutes; the use of technical words; the need to read the instrument as a whole; the role and function of This unit of study introduces students to the principles and practice interpretation acts, including legislation requiring consideration of of international human rights law - a species of international law and
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Human Rights principles; approaches to ambiguity and inconsistency trade marks, including some references to passing-off and misleading of language; specific common law principles and presumptions of and deceptive conduct will be covered in the unit, as will the effect of interpretation; the use of extrinsic aids to interpretation, and the these areas of law on new marketing practices on the Internet. Some identification of statutory purpose. specific topics which will be covered in depth are: the differences * Aspects of interpretation of national and international instruments - between registered trade marks, passing-off and unfair competition; Constitutions and treaties. character merchandising and the protection of the celebrity persona; Part of the course content will be taught by eminent guest lecturers the nature of signs and the special problem of shape trade marks; from the Faculty and the profession. counterfeiting and parallel imports; trade mark infringement; the badge of origin, private property and cultural resource functions of registered Textbooks trade marks. In patent law, there will be a particular focus on the Herzfeld Tully and Prince Interpretation and Use of Legal Sources 2013 requirements for patentability under Australian patent law; the LAWS3441 requirements for patent specifications; the concept of inventorship Introduction to Islamic Law and ownership of patents; and patent infringement and defences. Although the unit of study emphasises legal doctrine and is taught Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Salim Farrar Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x 2hr seminars per week Assessment: Class from the perspective of a relatively depoliticised formalism, it is also participation (10%) and blog (30%) and 4000-5000wd research essay (60%) recognised that the deployment and the regulation of intellectual Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day property inevitably have substantial cultural and economic This seminar program is an introductory course in Islamic Law. It will consequences, which in turn inform and shape the development of focus on Shari©ah (the classical laws as derived from the religious legal doctrine. So, for example, pharmaceutical patents are both sources), and will seek to explain its relationship to the contemporary valuable assets to their owners, who accordingly demand extensive laws of Muslim states and to the cultural practices of Muslim legal protection for those assets, and also the target of vigorous communities living in Australia and other predominantly non-Muslim criticism in the developing world for the patents© potentially detrimental states. The course aims to provide a basic understanding of the effect on public health in relation to, inter alia, HIV. There will, sources of Islamic Law, their interpretation, and of the ©Schools of accordingly, be some attention paid in this unit to the cultural and Law© which predominate in the Muslim World. The case studies, in economic consequences of intellectual property laws, to the particular, aim to engage students to assess critically past and present significance of access to the public domain and to the effects of understandings in the contexts of modernity, post-modernity, ©human international trade pressure in the area. rights©, and social change. Textbooks David Price, Colin Bodkin, and Fady Aoun, Intellectual Property: Cases and LAWS3480 Materials, ThomsonReuters, 6th ed, 2017. IP: Copyright and Designs LAWS3444 Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Kim Weatherall Session: Japanese Law Semester 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: LAWS3033 or LAWS3423 or LAWS5180 Assessment: Two options: (1) Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Luke Nottage Session: Intensive 5,000wd research essay (50%) and 1.5hr exam (50%); or (2) 2.5 hr examination February Classes: Held as an intensive in February in Kyoto and Tokyo. (100%). Subject to change. Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day Introduction class held in Sydney prior to departure. Includes field trips such as study tour to Osaka. Prohibitions: LAWS3076 or LAWS5144 Assessment: This unit covers copyright and designs law, both recognised branches Two 750wd reflective notes (20%) and 4500wd research essay (80%) Mode of intellectual property law. Their existence is often justified on the of delivery: Block mode presumption that they encourage the exercise of inventive, creative Note: Applications for the offshore intensive unit are by separate application to Sydney Law School. and entrepreneurial skill and labour. The protection these areas of law provides is said to enable commercial exploitation of the resulting This unit aims to develop the general skills of comparative lawyers, works or designs. This unit focuses on the requirements for the to effectively and critically assess contemporary developments in the copyright and design protection and investigates the bases upon which legal system of the largest economy in our region. The unit is taught infringement action can be brought. Particular emphasis will be placed intensively in Japan after an introductory class in Sydney. The first on the expanding scope of copyright and the implications of the week in Kyoto provides an introduction to how law operates generally internet, as well as provisions in the Copyright Act intended to address in Japanese society. After an overview of comparative law techniques, the apparent overlap between copyright and design protection. Japanese legal history and its contemporary legal system, classes Although the unit of study will emphasise legal doctrine and be taught explore civil and criminal justice, politics and constitutionalism, from the perspective of a relatively depoliticised formalism, it is also government and law, gender and law, lawyers and the courts in Japan recognised that the deployment and the regulation of intellectual as well as consumers and law. The two days in Tokyo examine property inevitably have substantial cultural, technological and business law topics in socio-economic context in more detail, after an economic consequences, which in turn inform and shape the introduction to the Japanese economy and international trade policy. development of legal doctrine. So, for example, Gone With The Wind, Topics include dispute resolution, investment and finance law, labour as a literary work still under copyright, is both an asset with a monetary law and corporate governance. value and the focus of a civil rights activism which demands the right to imitate the work for social and political criticism and parody. There LAWS3446 will, accordingly, be some attention paid in this unit to the cultural, Labour Law technological and economic consequences of intellectual property Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Joellen Riley Session: Semester laws, to the significance of access to the public domain and to the 1 Classes: 1x3hr seminar/wk (evening stream) Prohibitions: LAWS3023 or effects of international trade pressure in the area LAWS5146 Assessment: 2000wd assignment (30%) and 2 hour open book exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening
LAWS3479 This unit of study examines the legal regulation of work relationships IP: Trademarks and Patents in Australia in the 21st century. The course is designed to equip Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fady Aoun Session: Semester 1 students with a broad understanding of the legal rules, principles and Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: LAWS3472 or institutions which form Australia©s system of workplace relations and LAWS3033 or LAWS3423 or LAWS5179 Assessment: Two options: (1) to place that system in its global context. 5,000wd research essay (50%) and final exam (50%) or (2) final examination (100%). Subject to change. Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day The course concentrates primarily on the employment relationship (distinct from other types of commercial arrangements under which This unit focuses on legal rights concerning the marketing of products, work is performed) and will examine the way in which that relationship specifically, trade mark law and passing off, and legal rights concerning is regulated by private contract law and statute. invention, specifically, patent law. Most aspects of the law of registered
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The course offers both a theoretical and practical focus. Students are 2,500wd assignment (30%) and 3,500wd essay (40%) and hr exam (30%); or invited to reflect on the role of legal regulation of work relationships, 4) 3hr exam (100%). Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day and to critically assess the effectiveness of Australia©s laws. This unit of study analyses two areas of law which have a significant By completing this unit of study, student should acquire: impact on the daily practice of journalism. Both of these areas of law - A general understanding of the system of workplace relations in relate to the personal interests of private plaintiffs and the legal Australia, and the way that system has developed in recent years. recourse such plaintiffs may have against media outlets. The tort of - Knowledge and understanding of the legal responsibilities of defamation, which protects a plaintiff©s reputation, is a well-established employers and employees at the workplace. cause of action which notoriously has a "chilling" effect on what the media publishes. By contrast, direct legal protection of privacy against - A working knowledge of the framework and operation of the Fair invasions by the media is a rapidly developing area of law in Australia, Work Act 2009 (Cth). the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the European Union.This unit of study provides a detailed examination of the principles of defamation LAWS3900 law relating to liability, defences and remedies. It also examines how Law Honours different common law legal systems are developing direct legal Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Arlie Loughnan (sem 1), Dr TRayner Thwaites (sem 2) Session: Semester 1, Semester 2 Assessment: protection for individuals© privacy against intrusive media coverage. Attendance at a research workshop and one 12,000wd dissertation (100%) This unit of study provides a thorough doctrinal analysis of defamation, Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day privacy and breach of confidence, as well as placing these areas of Note: Department permission required for enrolment. Note: Further information law in their broader historical, international, comparative, social and regarding the honours program, including eligibility requirements, workload, cultural contexts. supervision and award, can be found at http://sydney.edu.au/law/cstudent/undergrad/honours_program.shtml. LAWS3452 The Honours Unit in Law consists of: Medical Law 1. A dissertation written under the supervision of one member of Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Roger Magnusson Session: academic staff, and Semester 1, Semester 2 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: LAWS3046 or LAWS5152 Assessment: Three options: 1) 1hr 2. Participation in a non-assessable research workshop. exam (50%) and 3,500wd essay (50%); 2) 1hr exam (50%) and 2,500wd The dissertation will be a maximum of 12,000 words (inclusive of assignment, earlier submission date (50%); 3) 1hr exam (50%) and 2,500wd assignment, later submission date (50%). Mode of delivery: Normal footnotes). (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
LAWS3044 This unit of study provides an introduction to some of the legal issues Law International Exchange Electives that arise in modern health care. Issues to be covered in the course Credit points: 24 Session: Semester 1, Semester 2 Mode of delivery: Normal include: consent to medical treatment, professional liability of health (lecture/lab/tutorial) day professionals (including different forms of action for medical Note: Department permission required for enrolment. Note: Available to outbound negligence), confidentiality, privacy, and access to medical records, exchange students only. the regulation of reproduction (including termination of pregnancy), For students studying overseas on an official university exchange and end-of-life decision-making, including assisted dying or program. "euthanasia". By the end of the unit, students will have a grounding in legislation and caselaw regulating the provision of health care LAWS3494 services, and will also be aware of some of the ethical issues that Legal Systems in South East Asia arise in medical contexts. Student participation in class discussion Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Simon Butt, Dr Salim Farrar will be expected. Session: Intensive July Classes: Intensive mode. Teaching takes place in July in Indonesia and Malaysia as part of the Southeast Asian Winter School. LAWS3499 Prohibitions: LAWS5194 or LAWS6149 Assessment: Compulsory reflective Migration, Refugees and Forced Migration blog (25%) and final take-home exam (75%) Mode of delivery: Block mode Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Mary Crock Session: Semester Note: Enrolment in the winter school is by application to the Law School. 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/wk for 10 weeks Prerequisites: (LAWS2002 or (LAWS2010 and LAWS1021) or (LAWS5007 and LAWS5010)) and (LAWS1004 This unit introduces students to the legal systems of Southeast Asia, or LAWS3000 or LAWS3003 or LAWS2011 or LAWS5011) Corequisites: focusing on Indonesia and Malaysia. The course emphasises legal (LAWS2002 or LAWS2010 or LAWS5010) and (LAWS1018 or LAWS2005 or pluralism - that is, the operation of different bodies of law for particular LAWS1023 or LAWS5005) Prohibitions: LAWS3045 or LAWS3458 or groups in those countries, colonial, national, Islamic and customary LAWS5158 or LAWS3453 or LAWS5153 or LAWS5199 Assessment: 3000wd research essay (50%) and 2hr exam (50%) Mode of delivery: Normal law - and compares how countries in Southeast Asia have handled (lecture/lab/tutorial) day it. The Indonesia component of the course will be taught at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, which has one of Indonesia©s finest Migration Refugees and Forced Migration is designed to introduce law faculties. Students will learn the fundamentals of the Indonesian students to one of the most fast moving and engaging areas of public legal system. The component will be geared towards not only those law. At one level, the unit is about government regulation of the entry who want to practice commercial law in Indonesia, but also those who of persons into Australia. As such, it is a branch of applied are interested in other areas, including law reform, human rights, administrative law that concerns the very make-up of our society, Islamic law, constitutional law, environmental law and criminal law. affecting both who we live with and how we live our lives. Statistics The Malaysian component will be taught in the offices of Zico Law, show that more than one in four Australians were either born overseas the largest law firm in South East Asia and its most prestigious. or had an Australian-born parent. Dramatic skills shortages have seen Students will have lectures from prominent figures in academia, unprecedented rises in the number of migrants brought to Australia government, the legal profession and industry. Students will learn the on temporary and permanent visas. In spite of this, controversy persists fundamentals of the Malaysian legal system in the contexts of its over the nature of Australia©s immigration program and the extent to competing ethnicities, religious diversity and political reform. which the government is doing enough to control both unlawful entry and the quality of the (lawful) migrants. Issues surrounding refugees LAWS3428 and asylum seekers are a constant preoccupation. Covering both Media Law: Defamation and Privacy immigration law and domestic aspects of the law of forced migration Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof David Rolph Session: Semester the course is also a fine vehicle for exploring issues of human rights 2, Summer Main Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: and the interaction between domestic and international law. LAWS3059 or LAWS5128 Assessment: Four options: 1) 2,500wd assignment (30%) and 2hr exam (70%); 2) 3,500wd essay (40%) and 2hr exam (60%); 3) With Sydney receiving the lion©s share of the migrants that come to Australia each year, migration law has become a growth area for both
45 Elective unit of study descriptions lawyers and for migration agents. By placing the current mechanisms LAWS3514 for the controlling migration in their legal, social, historical and Race and the Law economic contexts, this unit provides an opportunity to explore the Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Louise Boon-Kuo Session: "big" issues raised by migration and to look at why the subject has Semester 2 Classes: 2 x 2hr seminars/wk Assessment: oral presentation and assumed such a central role in the development of Australia©s identity class presentation (20%), 750wd reflective note (10%), 4000wd essay (70%). Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day as a nation. The unit of study is designed to foster the following skills: Law has played an integral role in producing ideas about ©race© and a. Skills of statutory interpretation and problem-solving, through the in shaping the lives of racialised communities in Australia and study and use in practical situations of the Migration Act 1958 and its elsewhere. Today however, some argue that the law is racially neutral associated Regulations; and that we live in a post-racial society.This unit will explore influential scholarship in critical race theory and consider emerging debates on b. Skills of legal analysis and evaluation, gained through the the relationship between law and race. By adopting a critical and examination and synthesis of relevant legislation; of court decisions intersectional perspective, this unit aims to deepen understandings and of rulings by the Migration Review Tribunal; the Refugee Review of particular historical and contemporary laws and legal practices.The Tribunal; and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in its migration focus is on the explanatory and analytical utility of critical race theory. division; and The examination of legal practices will include comparisons between c. Oral and writing skills, through class participation, simulation the practices in various countries, and traverse various legal exercises and the preparation of a major research paper. disciplines.Topics may include the law and: racial classification; racial profiling; identity based claims and recognition; spatial and temporal LAWS3455 dimensions of racialisation; legal approaches to historical (and Policing, Crime and Society contemporary) injustices such as colonialism, slavery and war; Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Murray Lee Session: Semester property; the organisation and policing of borders; and forms of 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: LAWS3048 or LAWS5155 Assessment: 2,500-3,000wd research essay (60%) and 1,200wd resistance. Class discussion is an important part of this unit and lively presentation paper (30%) and class presentation (10%) Mode of delivery: debate on the readings is encouraged. Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day LAWS3509 The unit of study aims to encourage students to develop skills and Redfern Legal Centre Clinic knowledge about the police and policing, with particular reference to Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Ms Irene Baghoomians Session: the shifting nature of policing. The unit includes critical analysis of Semester 2 Classes: three one-day seminars held at redfern legal centre and theoretical and policy issues within contemporary criminal justice, but weekly clinic attendance. Assessment: 3000 word research essay (70%), also examines policing (in its widest sense) including the pluralisation compulsory clinic attendance and participation (pass/fail), clinical placement of policing. Students will examine: crime and crime control within a evaluation (30%) Practical field work: One day per week clinical placement during the semester at Redfern Legal Centre. Mode of delivery: Normal social and political context; policing and other institutions and (lecture/lab/tutorial) day processes of criminal justice in the light of contemporary research Note: Enrolment in this unit of study is by special application. Priority will be and policy debates; the major theoretical frameworks within which given to students in their final year of study. crime, policing and criminal justice policy are constructed and analysed; challenges for policing arising from changes in spatial The Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) Clinic is an experiential learning arrangements, and from transnational developments in crime and opportunity for a limited number of law students to engage in hands-on crime control. learning. This unit of study will act as a gateway between theory and practice for students interested in the delivery of legal services to LAWS3457 clients attending a specific advice clinic. RLC will expose students to Private International Law B different facets of public-interest lawyering including communication Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Ross Anderson Session: Semester with and interviewing of clients from diverse backgrounds management 2 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: LAWS3015 or of case files legal research drafting advocacy and ethical obligations. LAWS5157 Assessment: Class test (20%), and final 2hr exam (80%). Mode At the end of this unit of study students should have: (a) Developed of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day or enhanced their understanding of a particular area of law; (b) Private international law is the part of local or municipal private law Developed or enhanced their understanding of systemic access to which is concerned with questions which contain a foreign element justice issues in a particular area of law; (c) Identified the personal i.e. a relevant connection between a fact or party and a foreign legal demands on and professional/ethical obligations of a public interest system. For example, private international law issues will require lawyer engaged in practice; (d) Gained insights into the interpersonal consideration if a question arises in New South Wales concerning the skills necessary to survive and thrive in legal practice; (e) Developed distribution of the property of a person who died domiciled in France and applied effective communication skills required for the provision or the validity of a mortgage of shares in a New York corporation or of written and oral legal advice and; (f) Had the opportunity to work the recognition of the dissolution of a marriage by a Norwegian court. both independently and collaboratively to advance public interest objectives. In seeking to develop your understanding of the international dimension of private law and your appreciation of the fact that many LAWS3460 legal questions which arise in everyday life are not confined within Roman Law one legal system, this unit of study will address the following topics: Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: The Hon Justice Arthur Emmett (1) personal connecting factor (domicile, nationality, residence); (2) Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks renvoi and the incidental question; (3) transactions involving immovable Prohibitions: LAWS3052 or LAWS5160 Assessment: 2,000wd essay (20%) property (e.g. land, intellectual property rights) and movable property and take-home exam (80%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) (e.g. ships, aircraft, artworks, shares, contractual rights); (4) devolution day of property on death (succession); (5) marriage validity; and (6) The course provides a general introduction to all aspects of Roman dissolution and annulment of marriage, including the recognition of private law. It begins with an historical sketch of Roman institutions foreign dissolutions and annulments of marriage. In addition to these from the earliest times until the reign of Justinian (CE 527-565), topics, an introductory survey will address the function, purpose and together with an introduction to Roman legal history and the rationale of private international law, theories and methods (e.g. the development of Roman legal concepts. It also deals with the reception territorial theory of law, the vested rights theory), historical development of Roman jurisprudence into modern European legal systems and the and the relationship between statutes and the common law rules of common law. The Roman law of marriage and family, moveable and private international law. immoveable property, real and personal security, succession, and contractual, quasi-contractual and delictal obligations are then dealt
46 Elective unit of study descriptions with in depth.The Institutes of Justinian, in English, is the fundamental LAWS3431 text for study and students are expected to read the Institutes in some Social Justice Legal Clinic B detail.The Institutes constitute a map of the law and means of ordering Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Simon Rice Session: Semester the law. Roman law has always been, and still is, of great historical 2 Classes: 8/9 x 2-hr seminars/semester Prohibitions: LAWS3025 or importance in the development of many areas of the common law. LAWS5131 Assessment: class presentation and performance (30%) and site performance (30%) and 3000wd essay (40%). Also requires satisfactory Roman law also provides a yardstick by which both the virtues and attendance at placement and maintenance of a reflective journal (pass/fail) the shortcomings of the common law can be measured. Further, Mode of delivery: Professional practice Roman law forms the jurisprudential background of most of the legal Note: Department permission required for enrolment. Note: Enrolment in this systems in force in continental Europe and those parts of the rest of unit is by special application. Enrolment is restricted to students in their final the world that were colonised by continental European nations. year of study. In this unit of study students are afforded the opportunity to work the LAWS3484 equivalent of one day per week during the semester in a ©public Secured Transactions in Commercial Law interest© placement site. In addition, students attend fortnightly Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Sheelagh McCracken Session: seminars which are designed to promote discussion and reflection on Semester 2 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prerequisites: LAWS2012 Prohibitions: LAWS5184 Assessment: 3000wd assignment a range of issues that may arise during the course of the placement (30%) and 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day as well as seminar presentations on matters relevant to public interest externships. The unit has a public interest focus which is reflected in The process of creating effective security interests in personal property the selection of placement sites. to secure performance of contractual obligations is a critical component At the end of the unit students should have: of commercial dealings and financings. This unit examines how security may be taken over common forms of personal property * acquired a better sense of the professional and personal through a detailed analysis of the legislative regime established by responsibilities associated with the practice of law; the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth), which became * developed an appreciation that the law is a people profession; operative in January 2012. Providing an overview of the historical and * observed and participated in a high level of problem solving flowing economic development of the law in this area, the unit explores the from real case files (where appropriate); rationale for the comprehensive legislation as well as its underlying * been introduced to the basic inter-personal skills involved in the general principles. An international and comparative perspective is practice of law; offered through references to the Canadian and New Zealand * interacted with legal professionals in a flexible learning environment; experience in introducing equivalent statutory frameworks, with part of the course materials drawn from these jurisdictions. * been introduced to aspects of the practice of law such as legal writing, advocacy and time management; and LAWS3461 * developed the character and habits of a reflective practitioner. Social Justice Legal Clinic A Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Peter Cashman Session: LAWS3465 Intensive February, Semester 1 Classes: Semester 1: 1x2-hr seminar/week Sydney Law Review and the equivalent of one day per week for the semester at a pre-selected Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Joellen Riley Session: Semester placement site. February Intensive: seminars held over 4-5 days at PIAC followed 2 Prohibitions: LAWS3057 or LAWS5165 Assessment: 1,000 word review by a two week clinical placement at PIAC during February. Prohibitions: note (20%) and 6,000wd case note (80%) plus participation in editorial tasks LAWS4061 or LAWS5161 Assessment: 1 x written assignment (100%), (assessed as Satisfactory). Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day compulsory class presentation and participation (pass/fail), and Clinical Placement evaluation (pass/fail). Mode of delivery: Professional practice Note: Department permission required for enrolment. Note: Enrolment in this unit of study is by special application. For further information, please visit Note: Department permission required for enrolment. Note: Enrolment in this sydney.edu.au/law/slr. unit of study is by special application. Priority will be given to students in their final year of study. This unit of study is offered annually under the supervision of the a The Social Justice Program will arrange for students enrolled in the member of the full-time academic staff and the Publishing Director of course to work with various organisations which have agreed to the Sydney Law Review.The unit is limited to 6 students per semester, participate in the Program. To date, such bodies include the Refugee who are selected on the basis of their academic results. Preference Advice and Casework Service (RACS), the Public Interest Law may be given to students in their final year in the selection of students Clearinghouse (PILCH), the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) for the unit. Each student will complete a range of tasks with respect and the Environmental Defender©s Office (EDO). Through such to the Review, including editing and proofreading submissions and organisations students will be exposed to real world cases and writing a review note (for assessment purposes only) and a case note participate in a structured seminar program dealing with social justice for assessment and potential publication. (A limited number of issues and aspects of public interest law. casenotes are selected for publication each year, according to their merit.) Students selected for this unit must be prepared to serve for During semester hands-on experience with cases, clients and/or policy six months, so that duties may start before, and may continue after, and research projects will be obtained one day per week in a ©social the formal teaching and examination period. justice© placement site. Students will attend weekly seminars designed to provide students with the basic knowledge and skills required to LAWS3483 participate in a working clinical legal organisation, and cover legal War Law: Use of Force and Humanitarian Law issues specific to the placement sites. The seminars will encourage Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Ben Saul Session: Semester 2 discussion and reflection on the range of issues that may arise during Classes: 2x2hr seminars/wk Prohibitions: LAWS3440 or LAWS3086 or the course of the placement. LAWS5183 or LAWS6218 Assessment: 3000wd assignment (30%) and 2hr At the end of the unit students should have: (i) enhanced their ethical, exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day social and professional understanding of the practice of law; (ii) A vital function of public international is its struggle against violence, improved their ability to recognise, define and analyse legal problems both in preventing it from occurring and mitigating its effects once it flowing from real case files, and to identify and create processes to gets under way. This unit explores two key areas of international law solve them; (iii) observed and practised communication and devoted to regulating intense violence involving governments or non- inter-personal skills involved in the practice of law; (iv) been introduced State actors: (1) International Law on the Use of Armed Force, and to aspects of legal practice such as legal writing, research, client (2) International Humanitarian Law (also known as the Law of Armed interaction and time management; (v) had the opportunity to work Conflict or the Laws of War).The first part of the course considers the both independently and collaboratively, in a way that is informed by prohibition on the use of force under customary law and the United openness, curiosity and a desire to meet new challenges. Nations Charter; exceptions to that prohibition in cases of self-defence
47 Elective unit of study descriptions by States or collective security action by the UN Security Council; intrinsic value it may possess, biodiversity is crucial to support human controversies over pre-emptive self-defence, humanitarian intervention life and welfare. Australia is fortunate to have some of the world¿s and the "Responsibility to Protect"; peacekeeping and peace most complex and unique biodiversity - unfortunately, also to have enforcement; the role of regional and international actors; and the use one of the highest rates of extinction and loss of biodiversity. Despite of force by and against non-State actors.The second part of the course a sophisticated system of environmental governance and a relatively considers the origins, purposes and sources of international high degree of environmental awareness, biodiversity continues to humanitarian law; its scope of application; the different types and decline rapidly in Australia. This unit will consider the international thresholds of conflict; the permissible means and methods of warfare legal regime related to the protection of biodiversity; how international (including restrictions on weapons); the status and treatment of instruments are incorporated into (or otherwise affect) Australia¿s combatants and non-combatants and others (such as spies, regime; and the operation of Australia¿s regime at both national and mercenaries, "unlawful combatants", "terrorists", journalists, and state levels (the latter, particularly in NSW) - and will include "private security contractors"); the protection of cultural property and consideration of various threats to biodiversity, different protection the environment; the relationship between human rights law and options (in situ and ex situ), and how biodiversity-related considerations humanitarian law; and the implementation, supervision and affect and are affected by other Environmental Law fields enforcement of humanitarian law (including the prosecution of war crimes and the role of the International Committee of the Red Cross). LAWS6105 Child Sexual Abuse: Diverse Perspectives Part 1 Masters Level Elective Units of Study Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Rita Shackel, Prof Judith Cashmore Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Assessment: LAWS6947 4500wd essay (60%) and critical review comprising oral presentation (20%) and written paper (20%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening Advanced Obligations and Remedies Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Barbara McDonald, Prof Elisabeth This unit of study examines the socio-legal complexities of responding Peden Session: Intensive July Classes: Jul 9, 10 and 12, 13 (9-5) Assumed to child sexual abuse in society. The unit presents students with a knowledge: Available to law graduates only Assessment: Option 1: case note theoretical and multidisciplinary framework for understanding and (20%) and 6000wd essay (80%) or Option 2: 8000wd essay (100%) Practical field work: Sydney Law School in Europe Mode of delivery: Block mode evaluating contemporary issues relevant to child sexual abuse. More Note: Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment specifically the unit of study will analyse the nature of child sexual instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For abuse and the underlying dynamics of such victimisation. Students further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. will critically evaluate different strategies and models directed at identification and prevention of child sexual abuse and critically analyse This unit will explore a number of contentious issues arising in the law legal responses to child sexual victimisation. of civil obligations and remedies. It will revise and build on the fundamentals in the areas of torts, contracts and equity and place LAWS6091 particular emphasis on the interaction of these three fields of the law. Chinese International Taxation Particular topics and problems will involve issues of: causation and Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Jinyan Li Session: Intensive scope of liability; controlling liability by contract; tort duties to third May Classes: May 2-4 and 7, 8 (9-3.30) Assumed knowledge: It is assumed parties to contracts; assessing loss; duties of good faith; fiduciary that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an duties and conflicts. The unit will also include a number of guest undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. Assessment: class lectures, to be announced. participation (10%), 1500wd essay (20%) and 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode
LAWS6141 The object of this unit is to provide an overview of the income tax Asia Pacific Environmental Law system of China and a detailed analysis of the most important Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Saiful Karim, Dr Manuel Solis legislative and treaty rules of China in the area of international income Session: Intensive August Classes: Aug 22-25 (9-5) Assessment: class tax, especially in dealings with Australia. Upon successful completion participation (20%), 7000wd essay (80%) Mode of delivery: Block mode of the unit, students will have an advanced understanding of the In this unit, the environmental law and policy of selected countries policies underlying the Chinese rules for taxing international and regional organisations in the Asia Pacific will be studied against transactions as well as a detailed knowledge of the principles of the background of relevant international environmental law and income tax law applicable to inbound and outbound transactions.This institutions. Unit topics will be divided into four sub-regions: Pacific unit includes a study of: overview of the Chinese income tax system; Island Developing Countries; South East Asia Region (ASEAN and taxation of inbound investment into China; taxation of outbound Mekong countries); North Asian Region (Japan, People©s Republic of investment from China; transfer pricing issues, and China©s tax treaties. China); South Asian Region (South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation [SAARC] Countries). In relation to each region, the LAWS6320 implications of international and regional environmental law and Climate Justice and Disaster Law institutions will be explored, followed by country specific case studies Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Rosemary Lyster Session: involving a range of issues such as biodiversity, access to modern Intensive September Classes: Aug 31, Sep 1 and 7, 8 (9-5) Assessment: class participation (10%) and 8000wd essay (90%) Mode of delivery: Block energy services, natural resources and environmental planning; mode industrial pollution; environmental impact assessment; climate change; Note: This unit replaced LAWS6320 Climate Disaster Law. and protection of the marine and coastal environment. Case studies on regional environmental issues such as ASEAN Haze will also be Climate change impacts are already being felt around the world and included. governments are called upon to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, engage in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, and LAWS6165 respond to the loss and damage caused by climate disasters. Climate Biodiversity Law disasters demand an integration of multilateral negotiations on Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Ed Couzens Session: emissions reduction and adaptation, disaster risk reduction, Intensive April Classes: Apr 13, 14 and 20, 21 (9-5) Assessment: class sustainable development, Human Rights and human security. Via presentation and 2000wd essay (25%) and 6000wd (75%) Practical field work: detailed examination of recent law and policy initiatives from developed If possible, an appropriate practical component (along field trip lines) will be added to give further insight. Mode of delivery: Block mode and developing countries, this unit offers students a unique approach to human and non-human Climate Justice and its application to all Biological diversity is the variability among living organisms and the stages of a disaster: prevention; response, recovery and rebuilding; ecological complexes of which they are part, including diversity within and compensation and risk transfer. The role of insurance plays an species, between species and of ecosystems. Aside from whatever important part in compensation and risk transfer. The unit of study
48 Elective unit of study descriptions comprehensively analyses the complexities of climate science, of contexts including the sharing economy, fintech, and more. The economics and their interfaces with the climate law-and policy-making unit will also consider the role of trust, the increasing importance of processes, and also provides an in-depth analysis of multilateral politics in corporate governance, and a range of new global public law climate change negotiations dating from the establishment of the 1992 issues that have affected the role of the corporation, and the impact United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) of technology, in society. As well as discussing cutting-edge to the 2015 Paris Agreement. developments in innovation, the unit will discuss challenges for the regulator in staying abreast and ahead of these fast moving changes LAWS6314 in society. Coastal and Marine Law Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Rosemary Lyster, Assoc Prof Ed LAWS6140 Couzens Session: Intensive March Classes: Mar 21-24 (9-5) Assessment: Corp Soc Responsibility: Theory/Pol Presentation and 2000wd essay (25%) and 6000wd essay (75%) Mode of Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Ian B Lee Session: delivery: Block mode Intensive July Classes: Jul 19, 20 and 23, 24 (9-4) Assessment: class This unit examines legal and policy frameworks for the management participation (15%), assignment (10%) and 6000wd essay (75%) Mode of delivery: Block mode of coastal and marine areas in Australia. Topics addressed include Note: Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. the characteristics of Australian coastal and marine environments, the constitutional framework for the management of offshore areas, Today there is an apparent consensus in favour of corporate the regulation of marine pollution, marine parks and reserves, fisheries responsibility, as reflected in instruments such as ASX Principle 3 management, the regulation of offshore oil and gas resource ("Act ethically and responsibly"), but behind the appearance of extraction, and the management of climate change impacts on coastal consensus lie difficult questions of principle, policy and practical and marine areas. application. This unit aims to equip participants to engage in a sophisticated manner in the analysis of such questions. The seminar LAWS6128 is organized around two broad themes. First, the seminar will examine Comparative International Taxation corporate responsibility in the traditional sense of the consideration Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Michael Dirkis, Assoc Prof Celeste that corporations may be expected to give to the impact of their Black Session: Intensive March Classes: Mar 21-23 and 26, 27 (9-3.30) activities have on society, even as they strive to earn profits for their Assumed knowledge: It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have shareholders. Topics include environmental responsibility, corporate successfully completed an undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. Assessment: class work (30%) and 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Block philanthropy, and the respective roles of directors, managers and mode shareholders. Second, the seminar will deal with current debates about the rights and responsibilities that arise from corporate Comparative International Taxation is a detailed study of the basic personhood, including those concerning corporate criminal principles of international taxation (residence, source, relief from responsibility, corporate political participation, and the status of international double taxation, anti-deferral rules, withholding tax, corporations under international law. Participants will learn to work transfer pricing, thin capitalisation, and tax treaties).The unit is taught with relevant primary and secondary legal materials, including materials from a global perspective with the emphasis being on comparative from selected foreign jurisdictions, especially in North America. They analysis (focusing particularly on Anglo, US and continental European will also become familiar with the conceptual tools available from approaches, and also developed and developing country approaches). various interdisciplinary perspectives (e.g., law, economics, philosophy, The unit examines the core issues in developing international tax rules politics) for analysing problems of corporate responsibility. and identifies different approaches countries have taken in dealing with these issues. As part of this study, recent trends in international LAWS6032 tax rule development will be identified (particularly in the context of Crime Research and Policy globalisation) and critiqued. Students should gain an understanding Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Judith Cashmore Session: of the different approaches that countries have taken in the Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Assessment: class participation development of their international tax rules. (10%), 2000wd research problem (30%) and 4000wd research proposal (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening LAWS6222 Note: Core unit for MCrim and GradDipCrim students and co-requisite for other Corporate Governance criminology units. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Jennifer Hill Session: Intensive This unit provides an examination of research methods in the context March Classes: Mar 12, 13 and 21, 22 (9-4) Assessment: general class of criminology. The relationship between theory and methodology is participation and specialised seminar discussion (20%), class quiz (written) to be held on Day 4 (20%) and essay or take-home exam (60%) Mode of delivery: explored. The production of knowledge about crime is critically Block mode assessed. Sources and forms of crime data are discussed and their significance is assessed. Research design, evaluation and analysis This unit will explore a range of recent trends and issues in corporate are also studied. governance including:- the link between corporate scandals and corporate law reform; the board and independent directors; LAWS6325 principles-based versus rules-based regulation; shareholder Crime, Responsibility and Policy empowerment and institutional investor activism; takeovers and the Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Thomas Crofts Session: Intensive regulation of executive pay. The unit will examine these issues from September Classes: Aug 17, 18 and Aug 31, Sep 1 (9-5) Assessment: a comparative law perspective, analysing fundamental differences in Take-home exam (30%), 5000wd essay (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode corporate governance structure and techniques in a range of jurisdictions, including the US, UK, Germany, China and Australia. This unit critically examines the theoretical and policy issues underlying the formulation and implementation of criminal law and the treatment LAWS6318 of certain groups by the criminal justice system. Following analysis of Corporate Innovation and Regulation the principles of criminalisation and theories of criminal responsibility a number of contemporary topics will be explored to foster an Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Elizabeth Pollman Session: Intensive December Classes: Nov 29, 30 and Dec 6, 7 (9-4) Assessment: understanding of the policies and pressures that shape criminal law. general class participation and specialised seminar discussions (20%), written Such topics include, how the law responds to violence (e.g. one-punch class quiz to be held on Day 4 (20%) and essay or exam (60%) (choice of deaths, provocation, duress); sexuality and sex work; sexting by adults research mode to be discussed with students) Mode of delivery: Block mode and young people; and anti-social behaviour. This unit will cover recent developments in innovation and the law, including disruptive technology and new business models in a range
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LAWS6193 innovations have transformed the dead or dying body into a potential Criminal Justice: Prevention and Control source of valuable (and recyclable) biological material. These Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Garner Clancey Session: Intensive developments have thrown up new and urgent challenges for legal May Classes: May 4, 5 and 25, 26 (9-5) Assessment: 1500wd seminar paper understandings about the timing of, and criminal responsibility for (35%) and 5000wd essay (65%) Mode of delivery: Block mode causing, death both within and outside medical settings. These This unit examines responses to crime and crime prevention with developments have also disturbed conventional understandings of reference to shifting notions of crime and responsibility for crime. It the corpse as sacred. Topics to be covered may include: death in encourages a critical appreciation of the limitations of criminal justice contemporary Australia, the legal definition of life and death, medical system responses to crime and the necessity to develop a broader futility and the concept of ©lives not worth living©, euthanasia (with and approach to crime prevention policy which responds to economic, without request), physician-assisted suicide, refusing and withholding social and cultural issues.The unit examines different ways of thinking life-prolonging treatment in adults and children, the Shipman/Patel about criminal justice, such as a means of order maintenance, dispute scandals, ownership of the corpse and body parts, dead donor organ resolution, or risk management, and the shifting focus towards the transplantation, organ sale and theft, posthumous reproduction, ©mercy© prevention of future harms. Specific topics may include: restorative killing outside medical settings and the jurisdiction of the Coroner. justice specialist courts, privatisation and contractualism, security, The unit will interrogate these and other contemporary challenges for policing, and approaches to crime prevention and community safety. the law relating to death and dying both within Australia and, where appropriate, other selected comparator jurisdictions (US, UK and LAWS6997 Canada).These will be mapped against socio-historical understandings Cross-Border Deals of the changing meaning of death, dying and serious disability in Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Ronald C Barusch Session: Western societies, and students will be encouraged to reflect on the Intensive October Classes: Oct 5, 6 and 12, 13 (9-4) Assumed knowledge: broader legal implications of these developments. Available to law graduates only. Students undertaking this unit must have a good working knowledge of the Australian Corporations Act and the rules and LAWS6066 practices applicable to securities offerings and takeovers or the equivalent in Discretion in Criminal Justice their home jurisdiction. Assessment: class participation (10%), in-class quiz (10%) and assignment (80%) Mode of delivery: Block mode Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Adj Prof Nicholas Cowdery Session: Intensive October Classes: Oct 12, 13 and 26, 27 (9-5) Assessment: This unit is for law graduates who have, or intend to have, a practice take-home exam (60%) and essay (40%) Mode of delivery: Block mode that exposes them to cross-border financings and acquisitions. The This unit looks at the ways in which the exercise of discretionary unit highlights the distinctive concepts and practices relating to judgment arises for consideration in the course of the criminal justice overseas securities and corporate laws in cross-border transactions process and the ways in which that judgment should be exercised at (focusing to a significant extent on US laws and practices). It each step. It deals with each stage from the reporting or observation concentrates on resolving the challenges non-Australian issues can of crime, through investigation, arrest, charging, bail, plea, hearing, pose to transactions even if Australian law applies to many aspects appeal, retrial and publicity. It describes how actors at each step of the deal. The US segment will begin with a brief examination the (citizens, police, prosecutors and judges) confront decision making, US Federal system in which corporate and securities law responsibility the laws (legislation, common law) and rules (prosecution guidelines, is allocated between the states and Federal government, proceed to memoranda and procedures) that apply and provides examples of a detailed discussion of the process of offering securities in the US the exercise of such discretions. It also looks at the place of public and how it can affect non-US offerings in practice, and finally will commentary (personal, the media and political) in the process. The conclude with an exploration of the regulation of takeovers under US unit explores nuances in the conduct of any criminal prosecution aside law. Significant US M and A concepts and practices, including mergers, from the application of the letter of the law. break-up fees, poison pills, and proxy fights will be discussed. The remainder of the unit will focus on deal regulation of selected other LAWS6852 overseas jurisdictions in which there have been recent activity. We Doing Business in China will also examine practical consequences of the regulatory Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Vivienne Bath Session: Intensive requirements of these jurisdictions, particularly in so far as they relate May Classes: Apr 20, 21 and May 4, 5 Assumed knowledge: Students who to M and A, as well as certain subjects that have worldwide do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either applicability. The unit will be taught by a series of seminars, and may have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning include an occasional guest lecture/panel discussion.The purpose of and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit. Assessment: 3500wd essay (50%) and take-home exam (50%) or take-home exam (100%) Mode the unit is to assist Australian and other non-US lawyers in: identifying of delivery: Block mode potential cross-border issues; and being creative in solving the challenges that arise in international securities transactions. The This unit aims to provide an introduction to the legal and practical lecturer writes the Dealpolitik column for The Wall Street Journal and aspects of doing business in China. The unit will commence with an was for over 30 years a merger and acquisition and securities lawyer overview of the Chinese legal, political and economic system and will in the US (resident for several years in Australia). then move on to an examination of the system of commercial regulation in China, including contracts, land use, regulation of private LAWS6889 and state-owned businesses and Chinese companies and securities Death Law laws. The unit will focus on Chinese contract law and the foreign Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Cameron Stewart Session: investment regime and the related structuring and regulatory issues Intensive May Classes: Apr 12, 13 and May 10, 11 (9-5) Assessment: class related to foreign participation in the Chinese market. Areas covered presentation (20%) and assignment or 7000wd essay (80%) Mode of delivery: will discuss the principal issues relating to the establishment of a Block mode corporate or other presence in China and the related negotiation Western attitudes toward death have undergone a remarkable process. The unit will conclude with an examination of methods of transformation in the last century. For many, death now takes place resolution of disputes arising under contracts entered into in China. in the hospital or the hospice following the decision of a doctor to More specialized topics which may be covered include intellectual cease providing treatment. As the management of death has passed property, labour law, regulation of financial institutions and Chinese from the family to health care professionals, it now makes sense to investment overseas. regard the moment and circumstances of death as largely medical phenomena. Moreover, as ©autonomy© has taken a dominant place LAWS6355 amongst ethical values, it also makes sense to describe and measure Energy and Water Security Law death in terms of its ©acceptability© both to the dying person and his Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Rosemary Lyster Session: or her survivors. In tandem with these changes, technological Intensive October Classes: Sep 21, 22 and 28, 29 (9-5) Assessment: class participation (10%) and 8000wd essay (90%) Mode of delivery: Block mode
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Note: Students who have previously completed both LAWS6191 Water Law such evidence is adduced. Part of the unit will be devoted to current and Climate Change and LAWS6163 Energy and Climate Law are not permitted controversies surrounding the role of experts in particular civil and to enrol in this unit. criminal cases. The unit grapples with the issues of global energy and water security The class actions component of the unit examines the substantive at a time of climate change and considers how different jurisdictions law, legal theories and procedural devices for the litigation and such as the United States, the European Union and Australia have resolution of large scale, complex civil litigation. This encompasses developed very different law and policy responses to the issues. It representative actions, class actions and the use of other mechanisms investigates the inevitable links between energy and water security for the aggregation and resolution of mass claims, including under such as where governments choose to rely on hydroelectric power to bankruptcy law. generate renewable energy at a time of water scarcity, or where the There will be a particular focus on Part IVA of the Federal Court Act extraction of energy resources might impact on water and food (Cth) and representative action procedures available in Australia under security. Australia is used as a case study to critically analyse how the rules of court and statutory provisions in various areas (including National Competition Principles and deregulatory tendencies may discrimination, human rights, insurance law, privacy, corporations law persuade governments to establish national markets to try to best and shareholder rights). allocate scarce resources. Australia©s National Electricity Market and The unit will also cover comparative material on group litigation national water trading markets, as well as the corporatisation and procedures and class actions under the laws of other countries, privatisation of energy and water utilities, provide fascinating examples including England and Wales, Canada and the United States. of this. Textbooks LAWS6041 Freckleton I, and Selby H, Expert Evidence: Law, Practice, Procedure and Advocacy, Thompson, Sydney; Grave D, Adams K and Betts J, Class Actions Environmental Litigation in Australia (2nd ed) Thompson Reuters, 2012 Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Justice Nicola Pain, Justice Rachel Pepper Session: Intensive August Classes: Aug 8-11 (9-5) Assessment: LAWS6334 4000wd paper on a practical task/topic (50%), 4000wd essay (50%) Mode of Gender Inequality and Development delivery: Block mode Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Jeni Klugman Session: Intensive This unit focuses on litigation as a tool for resolving environmental August Classes: Aug 7-10 (9-5) Assessment: class participation (10%), disputes. The unit examines different types of environmental litigation presentation (40%), 5000wd essay (50%) Mode of delivery: Block mode and issues that can arise in litigation processes. Candidates will The unit is set up around a series of major policy questions central to develop an understanding of the characteristics of environmental the gender equality agenda, and linked to the post 2015 international litigation, the advantages and limitations of different types of development debates. Following an overview session about global proceedings, and the range of outcomes that are possible for and regional patterns, the unit will tackle a series of major policy environmental litigation. The topics include litigation strategies, challenges in turn, concluding with an examination of major global procedure and evidence, defensive actions (ie SLAPP litigation), and proposals. The unit will go beyond gender inequality in the labour the outcomes of litigation. Reference will be made to recent cases, market to explore patterns of violence and political participation, and such as in the field of climate change, to illustrate the topics. the role of quotas, including on corporate boards, among others. Links to legal reform and human rights will be explored. Students will be LAWS6354 asked to work on a specific policy challenge, applying and developing Environ Planning and Impact Assessment Law the findings discussed in class and in the readings. The unit is Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Jeff Smith, Ms Susan O©Neill designed to facilitate student questioning, engagement and Session: Intensive October Classes: Oct 3-6 (9-5) Prohibitions: LAWS6043, LAWS6045, LAWS3430, LAWS5130 Assumed knowledge: students who do participation. No specific textbook is prescribed. There will normally not hold an undergraduate law degree must have completed LAWS6252 Legal be 2 to 3 required readings for each day, a paper and/or book chapters Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit and and additional readings for greater depth. LAWS6044 Environmental Law and Policy (MEL only) Assessment: class presentation and 1000wd essay (25%) and 6000wd essay (75%) Mode of LAWS6964 delivery: Block mode Global Energy and Resources Law This unit has three aims. The first is to provide a sound analysis of Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Penny Crossley Session: Intensive Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) procedures and May Classes: May 3, 4 and 10, 11 (9-5) Assessment: take-home exam (100%) environmental planning laws in NSW and at the Commonwealth level. or take-home exam (70%) and optional essay or problem question (30%) Mode of delivery: Block mode The second aim is to develop a critical understanding of EIA and environmental planning laws by examining their historical, ethical and This unit provides a framework for understanding the role of law in: political dimensions as well as relevant aspects of legal theory. The the discovery, financing, development and utilisation of energy and third and ultimate aim is to combine these doctrinal and theoretical resources projects; energy trading on wholesale markets; mining and forms of knowledge so we can suggest possible improvements to resources projects, including competition issues and access to current laws and legal practices. essential infrastructure; addressing potential sources of conflict in the energy and resources sector including in dealing with international LAWS6307 trade, native title and other indigenous issues, environmental and Expert Evidence and Class Action Procedure corporate social responsibility issues; and current national and Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Peter Cashman Session: international energy and resources controversies. Previous topics Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Prohibitions: LAWS6230 or have included the role of renewable energy in energy security, LAWS6869 Assessment: 4000wd expert evidence essay (50%) and 4000wd class action essay (50%). Information on non-assessable tasks will be made challenges posed by energy and resources projects in Africa, conflict available in the unit outline for enrolled students. Mode of delivery: Normal between Europe and Russia over gas supplies, energy storage, coal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening seam gas development, international maritime disputes in Asia over Note: Students without a law degree or equivalent may enrol in this unit but offshore oil and gas fields, corruption and transparency, and the should be aware that the unit focuses on legal and evidentiary issues. This unit Resource Curse in developing countries. replaced LAWS6230 Expert Evidence and LAWS6869 Class Actions and Complex Litigation. LAWS6920 The expert evidence component of the unit will examine the role of Global Health Law expert witnesses, their reports and their testimony in civil and criminal Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Lawrence Gostin Session: cases. This will include an examination of the law governing the Intensive July Classes: Jul 17-20 (10-5.30) Assessment: Option 1: 7000wd admissibility of expert evidence and the procedural means by which essay (80%) and simulation participation and contribution (20%) or Option 2:
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4000wd essay (50%), simulation participation and contribution (20%) and tribunals; a right to health care; ethical theories in law and medicine; assignment (30%) Mode of delivery: Block mode the ethics of human experimentation; and ethics committees. Today, domestic health and global health are recognized as intertwined and inseparable. The determinants of health (e.g. pathogens, air, LAWS6054 water, goods, and lifestyle choices) are increasingly international in Health Care and Professional Liability origin, expanding the need for health governance structures that Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Cameron Stewart Session: Intensive May Classes: Apr 26, 27 and May 24, 25 (9-5) Assessment: class transcend traditional and increasingly inadequate national approaches. presentation (20%) and assignment or 7000wd essay (80%) Mode of delivery: In this unit, students will gain an in-depth understanding of global Block mode health law through careful examination of the major contemporary Note: Core unit for Core unit for GradDipHL students. MHL students may select problems in global health, the principal international legal instruments this unit as one of the three core units required in addition to LAWS6252. governing global health, the principal international organizations, and This unit will provide a foundation for further study in health law by innovative solutions for global health governance in the 21st Century. examining laws that govern the liability of health professionals across Class sessions will consist of a combination of lecture and interactive a range of fields (eg criminal law, torts, contract, discrimination law) discussion, culminating in a global health law simulation. The class and mechanisms for the oversight and disciplining of health will cover naturally occurring infectious diseases (e.g. extensively drug professionals. The unit will explore the role of law as a means to resistant tuberculosis, malaria, Zika virus, and HIV/AIDS), past (e.g., regulate/set limits on the conduct of health professionals and examine SARS, influenza A H1N1 and Ebola) and future (e.g., Influenza debates about the proper role of law in regulating the provision of pandemics), bioterrorism events (e.g., anthrax or smallpox), and/or health care. It will also critically evaluate law reform initiatives with major chronic diseases caused by modern lifestyles (e.g., obesity or respect to legal liability, complaints mechanisms and disciplinary action tobacco use). against health professionals where relevant. Topics to be covered Textbooks may include: Legal and non-legal methods of regulating the practices Lawrence O. Gostin, Global Health Law (March 2014) available from Harvard of health professionals; the limits imposed on health professionals by University Press or Amazon.com. the criminal law; the principles of negligence and their application to LAWS6214 the liability of health professionals; contractual and fiduciary duties of Goods and Services Tax Principles A health professionals; liability of hospitals; discrimination in health care; Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Rebecca Millar Session: Intensive procedures for complaints against health professionals; disciplinary September Classes: Sep 12-14 and 17, 18 (9-4) Assessment: class work/test proceedings and the statutory reporting obligations of health (35%) and 2hr exam (65%). A research essay may be undertaken in lieu of the professionals. exam with the permission of the Unit Coordinator. Mode of delivery: Block mode LAWS6022 This unit introduces the key concepts that underpin the Australian International and Comparative Labour Law GST, the policies underlying the tax, and the way those policies are Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Elizabeth Barmes Session: (or are not) reflected in the design of the GST law. The aim is to give Intensive May Classes: Apr 13, 14 and 27, 28 (9-5) Assessment: class participation (10%), 1000wd assignment (20%) and 6000wd essay (70%) Mode participants a working knowledge of the operation of the GST law and of delivery: Block mode an awareness of the practical problems encountered in practice, informed by an understanding of the way in which the law is intended This unit will examine the growing use of individual labour and equality to operate. rights to protect working people, with the overall aim of assessing the The unit will commence with an examination of the basic design capacity of this type of regulation to enhance justice, both in the features of value added taxes in general and of Australia©s GST in workplace and more widely. It will use experience in the UK of a highly particular. It will then examine the core elements of the GST law, individualized workplace rights and enforcement system to identify including: the taxpayer (entities, enterprise, and the obligation to strengths and weaknesses in this kind of workplace protection. This register for GST), the liability for tax on supplies made for will involve consideration of EU and European Convention on Human consideration; the value of taxable supplies and the amount of GST Rights standards, while some comparative readings will also be set payable on supplies; the entitlement to input tax credits and the range and students will be encouraged themselves to bring a comparative of subsequent adjustments that may be required; attributing GST and dimension to the issues and assignments. Jumping off from the UK input tax credits to tax periods; adjustments for adjustment events; experience, the unit will evaluate various strategies for enhancing the basic principles of GST-free and input taxed supplies (including an protective capacity of individual workplace rights. These include: (1) introduction to real property transactions and intermediation services, conceiving of such rights as fundamental human or constitutional primarily focussing on financial supplies); basic cross-border issues, rights; (2) imposing positive duties on employers and others to promote including the treatment of imports and exports. and secure observance of individual labour and equality rights; (3) institutional innovation to secure workplace protections, for example LAWS6052 via equality and human rights commissions, labour inspectorates, Govt Regulation, Health Policy and Ethics ombudspeople, tax and criminal prosecution authorities; (4) involving Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Cameron Stewart Session: third parties in the realization of individual labour standards, for Intensive October Classes: Sep 27, 28 and Oct 25, 26 (9-5) Assessment: example, NGOs, trade unions, parliamentary and other public inquiries, class presentation (20%) and 7000wd essay (80%) Mode of delivery: Block consumers, campaigners and the press; (5) focussing on employer mode activities that moderate individual labour and equality standards, like Note: MHL students may select this unit as one of the three core units required human resources practices, corporate social responsibility regimes in addition to LAWS6252. and general managerial strategizing. Threaded through the unit will This unit examines government regulation of health care and be consideration of different methodological approaches to legal professional practice. With regard to each area of government research, with the twin goals of increasing what students take from decision-making, issues are analysed by reference to the interplay the materials covered and of improving their legal research and between social goals, human rights, legal rights and ethical analytical skills, including for use in the final essay. Prof Barmes draws considerations.Topics covered include the constitutional and statutory on her extensive previous research in this area and her varied sources of government power with respect to health care: regulatory background, for example, in legal practice, conducting research for models and reform of public health legislation; therapeutic goods the Law Commission of England and Wales, as co-editor of the Recent administration; health insurance; pharmaceutical benefits and the Cases section of the Industrial Law Journal and as co-Director of the pharmacy industry; human tissue legislation; discipline of health QMUL School of Law Centre for Research on Law, Equality and professionals with a focus on the National Law; health care complaints Diversity (LEAD).
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LAWS6061 LAWS6047 International Environmental Law Law of the Sea Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Rosemary Lyster, Assoc Prof Ed Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Tim Stephens Session: Intensive Couzens Session: Intensive May Classes: Apr 27, 28 and May 4, 5 (9-5) October Classes: Oct 18, 19 and 25, 26 (9-5) Assessment: 5000wd essay Assessment: compulsory in-class practical assessment (40%) and assignment (60%) and take-home exam (40%) Mode of delivery: Block mode (60%) Mode of delivery: Block mode The oceans cover two-thirds of the world©s surface, and are vital to This unit aims to provide an introduction to the framework, concepts, international commerce, are a store of important living and non-living sources and techniques of international environmental law, and to resources, and provide indispensable environmental services including provide an overview of international law responses to current and stabilising the global climate system.This unit reviews the major areas emerging environmental challenges. The history and framework of of the law of the sea as it has developed over the centuries. The unit international environmental law will be examined before exploring a takes as its focus the ©constitution© of the oceans, the 1982 UN range of topical international environmental law issues, including Convention on the Law of the Sea and also considers a range of other atmospheric protection and climate change, hazardous substances international conventions and agreements, and current state practice. and wastes, biodiversity and GMOs, the protection of marine living Each of the major maritime zones is assessed, and there is also a resources, the protection of freshwater resources and issues detailed review of several sectoral issues, including the protection of concerning trade.The unit will also survey the influence of international the marine environment, fisheries, navigational rights and freedoms, environmental law on domestic environmental law through case and military uses of the oceans. Where appropriate, reference will be studies. Overarching themes will include the interdependence of made throughout the unit to relevant Australian law and practice, and environmental issues, the effects of scientific uncertainty on to other state practice in the Asia Pacific Region. international environmental regulation, implementation of international environmental obligations between states at difference levels of LAWS6848 economic development and the need for effectiveness in Law, Business and Healthy Lifestyles implementation and enforcement. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Roger Magnusson Session: Intensive September Classes: Intro Class: Aug 6 (6-8) then Aug 16, 17 and LAWS6037 Sep 13, 14 (9-4.30) Assessment: Option 1: one short response question (20%) International Import/Export Laws and 6000wd essay (80%) or Option 2: one short response question (20%), 3000-3500wd essay (40%) and one take-home exam question (40%) or Option Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Adj Prof Alan Bennett Session: 3: one short response question (20%) and two 3000-3500wd essays (80%) Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Assessment: class assignments Mode of delivery: Block mode (10%), mid-semester take-home exam (25%) and final semester take-home exam (65%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening This unit is about legal and regulatory responses to tobacco use, obesity, poor diet, harmful use of alcohol and sedentary lifestyle - the This unit is a comparative study of international import/export laws. It leading causes of preventable disease in Australia, in high-income does not look in detail at Australian law. The material covered in the countries generally, and increasingly, in developing economies. unit is based on the WTO multilateral agreements which the 159 WTO Cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and tobacco-related diseases member countries have adopted and which bind them on the topics (known as ©non-communicable diseases© or NCDs) are society©s covered. greatest killers. But what can law do - and what should law be doing The unit commences with an introduction to the relevant WTO - to prevent them? Unlike other health threats, NCDs and their risk agreements underpinning international import and export laws affecting factors are partly caused by consumer choices that are lived out every WTO members. It then provides an introduction to international import day across the country. The challenge of encouraging healthier dispute mechanisms through the WTO Dispute Settlement lifestyles cannot be separated, then, from the regulation of the Understanding. The Kyoto Convention is then examined to determine businesses that all too often have a vested interest in unhealthy the key elements of a modern customs statute. lifestyles. Law©s relationship with smoking, alcohol and food is complex The unit also examines: Free Trade Agreements; anti-dumping duty; and contested. Nevertheless, governments around the world are discriminatory taxes/laws on imports; markings and intellectual property experimenting with a wide range of legal strategies to encourage rights on imported goods; importers© remedies against customs healthier lifestyles. This unit will focus on developments in Australia decisions; customs valuation and tariffs; and, customs "post entry" and the United States, placing legal developments in these countries audits. in an international context. During the course, we will confront some important over-arching questions. What are the global determinants LAWS6932 of NCDs, and to what extent are global solutions needed? What do Law and Investment in Asia global solutions look like? To what extent should law intervene to Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Simon Butt, Prof Vivienne Bath influence the behaviour of populations-as distinct from treating Session: Intensive May Classes: Apr 13, 14 and 27, 28 (9-5) Assessment: lifestyle-related risk factors as the personal responsibility of each assignment (30%), 6000wd essay (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode individual? Does a regulatory approach to the prevention of NCDs The aim of this unit is to provide students with a broad overview, on imply coercion? Does it signal the emergence of the ©nanny state©? a comparative basis, of the key legal issues commonly faced when Does progress depend on motivating people to consciously improve investing and doing business in Asia. This unit looks at the regulation their habits and lifestyles? Is it possible to regulate business without of investment across chosen jurisdictions across Asia, including Japan, micro-managing or dictating commercial decisions and ©legislating the China and Southeast Asia (particularly Indonesia, but it may also look recipe for tomato ketchup?© Throughout the unit, students will be at jurisdictions such as Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar and India) and encouraged to explore the tension between personal responsibility compares them with each other and with the Australian regulatory and freedom, and the broader public interest in a healthy population system. It also looks at international treaties which increasingly impact and a productive economy. Key topics include: Frameworks for thinking on foreign trade and investment regulation in the region; aspects of about law, and environments that support healthier lifestyles; Global corporate governance, contract and/or competition law; corporate health governance and the prevention of non-communicable diseases; social responsibility and anti-corruption law; dispute resolution Tobacco control: where to from here? Personal responsibility for (especially international commercial and investor-state arbitration); health, and law©s role; Regulating alcohol; Obesity prevention; and and key issues in modern comparative law which may assist students Law©s role in improving diet and nutrition, and encouraging active in their study of ©foreign© legal systems. The unit also involves case living. studies and occasional guest lecturers.
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LAWS6928 context of mental illness and the current and historical approaches to Law, Justice and Development treatment of the mentally ill; contemporary State, Territorial and Federal Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Adj Prof Livingston Armytage Session: involvement in mental health policy and legislation; the present Intensive April Classes: Apr 3, 4 and 23, 24 (9-5) Prohibitions: LAWS3478, framework of NSW mental health law and related welfare law including LAWS5178 Assessment: class participation (20%), 2x3000wd essays (2x40%) the Mental Health Act, Guardianship Act, Protected Estates Act and Mode of delivery: Block mode Mental Health (Criminal Procedure) Act; the process of scheduling Note: This unit is compulsory for MLawIntDev students. persons with a mental illness; review mechanisms including the roles This unit provides a critical overview to law and justice reform in of the medical superintendent, magistrates, the mental health review international development. It analyses the global reform experience tribunal and the Supreme Court; longer term detention of the mentally over the past half-century. It interrogates the nature and justification(s) ill; community treatment and community counselling orders; protected of reform ©theory©, studies the empirical evidence of various estates and guardianship orders; electroconvulsive therapy; consent approaches, and examines the conceptual/practical challenges of to surgery and special medical treatment; the defence of not guilty on evaluating development endeavour, using case studies from the the grounds of mental illness, the review of forensic patients and the Asia/Pacific region. Students enrolling in this unit will develop an exercise of the executive discretion; the issue of unfitness to be tried; evidence-based understanding of the use of law and justice reform the involuntary treatment of prisoners in the correctional system; and in broader development strategies. proposals and options for reform.
LAWS6944 LAWS6065 Market Manipulation and Insider Trading Pollution, Corporate Liability and Govern Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Greg O©Mahoney Session: Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Rosemary Lyster, Dr Kate Owens, Intensive November Classes: Oct 25, 26 and Nov 1, 2 (9-4) Assessment: Dr Gerry Bates Session: Intensive May Classes: May 18, 19 and 25, 26 (9-5) class participation (20%), presentation (20%) and 5000wd essay (60%) Mode Assessment: class participation (10%) and 8000wd essay (90%) Mode of of delivery: Block mode delivery: Block mode Note: This unit replaced LAWS6065 Pollution and Contaminated Land. This unit aims to introduce students to key concepts at the heart of capital market regulation focusing on practices that threaten the The aim of the unit of study is to provide an introduction to the integrity of global securities markets. The unit focuses on recent framework, concepts, sources and techniques of pollution control law developments (including high profile prosecutions for market abuse) and corporate environmental liability. The history and framework of in Australia and the United States while selecting other jurisdictions international laws regulating pollution will be examined before exploring (most notably China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Europe and Hong a range of legal and regulatory measures for pollution control and Kong) that are relevant to the different subjects considered.The topics corporate environmental liability at both the Commonwealth level and addressed will include: market manipulation, insider trading, within New South Wales. An overarching theme will be the need for non-disclosure and fraud-on-the-market, penalties, regulation of hedge effectiveness in implementation and enforcement of pollution control funds and developments in emerging markets. and governance measures that have been developed to prevent harm and promote ecologically sustainable development. LAWS6341 Media Law: Comparative Perspectives LAWS6345 Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof David Rolph Session: Intensive Principles of Financial Regulation July Classes: Jul 9, 10 and 12, 13 (9-5) Assessment: 2000wd casenote (30%), Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Hilary J Allen Session: 7000wd essay (70%) Practical field work: Sydney Law School in Europe Intensive May Classes: May 7, 8 and 10, 11 (9-5) Assessment: class Mode of delivery: Block mode participation (10%) and take-home exam (90%) Mode of delivery: Block mode Note: Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For The financial crisis of 2007-9 revealed serious failings in the regulation further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. of financial institutions and markets. This prompted a fundamental reconsideration of the design of financial regulation, which governs a There are striking similarities and overlaps between Australian and financial system that has become ever-more complex and English media law, reflecting their common origins, but there are also interconnected, and which evolves at an ever-accelerating pace. This important differences and divergences. In relation to English media course presents a holistic overview of the key principles underpinning law, the impact of the United Kingdom©s membership of the European financial regulation. It draws on economic theory to explain the way Union is a significant factor. This unit of study analyses a number of in which the financial system functions, and then to analyse the goals key issues in media law, ranging from defamation law, privacy and of financial regulation. This analytic framework is then applied to a breach of confidence, contempt of court, open justice, suppression series of substantive topics in financial regulation, spanning the and non-publication orders and other restrictions on court reporting, traditionally-separate fields of banking, markets, and consumer finance. as they arise in Australia, the United Kingdom and the European The unit also considers the operation of the new tools of Union. In 2016, the unit taught in Cambridge will include guest lectures ©macro-prudential policy© and the international coordination of financial by leading media law academics, lawyers and commentators from regulation in the global financial system. While the substantive topics the United Kingdom. are considered in terms of EU and US rules, the analytic tools Textbooks developed are of more general application. Topics covered in this Rolph, Vitins, Bannister and Joyce, Media Law: Cases, Materials and unit:The financial system; Goals and challenges of financial regulation; Commentary, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, 2015 Consumer finance; Market regulation; Bank capital and liquidity LAWS6877 regulation; Bank governance and resolution; Shadow banking and Mental Illness: Law and Policy Macro-prudential and international coordination. Students who Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Adj Prof Duncan Chappell Session: complete this unit successfully will have an overview of the economic Intensive September Classes: Aug 27, 28 and 30, 31 (9-5) Assessment: principles underpinning financial regulation, to be able to understand 3000wd assignment (40%) and 4500wd essay (60%) Mode of delivery: Block and critically evaluate the principal substantive aspects of financial mode regulation in the US and EU, as well as their international coordination. This unit deals with the law relating to mental health issues in Australia including human rights principles. Background material on the nature LAWS6194 and incidence of mental illness, psychiatric and medical issues, as Punishment well criminological and public policy literature will be considered where Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Gail Mason Session: Intensive April Classes: Mar 23, 24 and Apr 20, 21 (9-5) Assessment: assignment relevant. The unit covers substantive issues from civil treatment, (30%), 5000wd essay (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode welfare law, and criminal law. Topics covered will include: the social
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The objective of this unit is to explore punishment, sentencing and tax treaty position in relation to the taxation of various kinds of income, penalty in modern society, particularly through an understanding of as well as a detailed knowledge of the law applicable to interpretation the relationship between punishment and social structure and the of Australia©s treaties. The unit includes a study of: principles of tax significance of punishment within the social and political order. The treaties; interpretation of tax treaties; and selected articles of the unit will adopt an interdisciplinary approach which draws on history, OECD Model and Australian tax treaties. law, literature, sociology and criminology.Topics which will be covered include new sentencing regimes (such as mandatory sentencing), LAWS6119 women in prison, juvenile imprisonment, inequality and punishment, The State and Global Governance privatisation, immigration detention and various new forms of Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Jacqueline Mowbray involuntary confinement, and the impact of law and order politics on Session: Intensive May Classes: Apr 19, 20 and May 3, 4 (9-5) Assessment: punishment. 1000-2000wd critique of a selected reading (25%), 250wd essay abstract and one page reading list (10%) and 5000-6000wd essay (65%) Mode of delivery: Block mode LAWS6317 Note: Master of Law and International Development students may undertake Regulation of Corporate Crime this unit as an elective or capstone unit. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Olivia Dixon Session: Intensive April Classes: Apr 5, 6 and 12, 13 (9-4) Assessment: class participation (10%), How will Donald Trump©s presidency affect international law and 2500wd case study (35%), 5500wd essay (55%) Mode of delivery: Block international relations? How do non-state actors like Islamic State mode challenge the existing international order? How do we respond to Note: It is recommended that students have some knowledge of corporate law international health emergencies, such as the outbreaks of the Zika and criminal law and procedure, or have had practical experience in these areas. and Ebola viruses? These questions all raise issues of global This unit will examine, from a comparative (particularly United States governance, that is, how international affairs are governed on a global and United Kingdom) perspective, the current debates over the scale. They also raise questions about the roles and capacities of regulation of corporate crime from both legal and policy perspectives. individual states within the global order.This unit explores how current Different theoretical perspectives on the nature and causes of systems of global governance operate, the place of states within those corporate crime, and the role of the state in regulating corporate systems, and the significance of law to those systems. In doing so, behaviour will be examined, with a view to determining the reasons the unit introduces students to a range of historical and contemporary for the failure of the criminal justice and regulatory systems to respond approaches to understanding the role of law in international affairs, to corporate crime. The role of criminal, civil and regulatory sanctions and gives students an opportunity to consider these in relation to in deterring corporate crime will also be examined. Offenses covered current events of global import. The sorts of questions with which the will include fraud, bribery, corruption, money laundering, revenue unit is concerned may include the following: Are systems of global offenses, competition law offenses, corporate manslaughter and governance lawful? Are they democratic? What is the role of violence various offenses under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). With this in the contemporary global order? How does/should international law foundation, students will be encouraged to think critically and to apply seek to address pressing transnational issues, such as poverty, the principles they have learned to case studies. environmental degradation, global health threats and human rights abuses? LAWS6888 Risk, Fear and Insecurity LAWS6109 Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Murray Lee Session: Intensive UK International Taxation May Classes: Apr 13, 14 and 27, 28 (9-5) Assessment: topic summary Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Malcolm Gammie Session: (compulsory but not assessed) and 3000wd essay (40%) and 4000wd policy Intensive September Classes: Sep 5-7 and 10, 11 (9-3.30) Assumed assessment assignment (60%) Mode of delivery: Block mode knowledge: It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. Assessment: This unit considers the significance of anxiety, ©fear of crime©, risk and take-home exam or 7000wd essay (100%) Mode of delivery: Block mode insecurity in the late modern world. It uses sophisticated analytical This unit covers the domestic provisions of UK direct tax law dealing tools to discuss both the supposed growth in ©fear of crime© and the with international transactions, as well as UK treaties and the impact emergence of an array of technologies aimed at the reduction of crime of EU law on the UK tax system. The UK remains one of Australia©s risks. It also critically examines just what ©fear of crime© might actually major trading partners. UK taxation thus has significant effects for be and how newspapers, security products, and insurance can be inbound and outbound investment between Australia and the UK.This sold to us using the hook of our own anxieties. It also examines the unit will be of interest to tax professionals who have dealings with the anxieties related to terrorism and threats to national security and UK. The objective of the unit is to provide an overview of the UK tax sovereignty. system focusing on cross-border investment and expatriate Textbooks employment issues and a detailed analysis of the most important Lee, M (2007) Inventing Fear of Crime, Willan, Devon legislative and treaty rules of the UK in the international direct tax LAWS6177 area, especially in dealings with Australia. Upon successful completion Tax Treaties of the unit, participants will have an advanced understanding of the policies of the UK rules for taxing international transactions as well Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Richard Vann Session: Intensive May Classes: Apr 26, 27 and Apr 30, May 1 (9-5) Assumed knowledge: It is as a detailed knowledge of the principles of company and personal assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian taxation applicable to inbound and outbound transactions in the UK. income taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from The unit includes a study of: 1. Overview of the UK tax system; 2. completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working Taxation of inbound investment in the UK; 3. Taxation of outbound with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge investment in the UK; 4. Transfer pricing in the UK; 5. UK tax treaties or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to including the Australia UK Tax Treaty; 6. EU tax law as it affects the Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of UK. LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. Assessment: classwork (30%) and LAWS6844 2hr exam or 7000wd essay (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode US Corporate Law Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Jennifer Hill Session: Intensive This unit is designed to study the policy, detailed rules and practical May Classes: Apr 26, 27 and May 3, 4 (9-4) Assessment: class participation application of Australia©s international tax treaties against the (10%) and quiz (20%) and essay or take-home exam (70%) Mode of delivery: background of the OECD Model Tax Convention on Income and on Block mode Capital. Upon successful completion of this unit a student should have an advanced understanding of the policies underlying the Australian
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The objectives of this unit are: understand the history, structure and Settlement, its concepts, procedures and enforcement. We study the operation of US corporate law and corporate governance; to examine framework of rules under the General Agreement on Trade in Services the common law, statutory provisions; and to explore the tension (GATS) and compare it with the negative list approach used under between state and federal law, including recent regulatory some bilateral and regional trade agreements; and the rules of the developments under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 and the Dodd-Frank Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS), Act 2010. Specific issues discussed in the course include the "race emphasizing patents, copyright and trademarks, and noting some to the bottom" vs "race to the top" hypotheses; the US approach to TRIPS plus aspects of some bilateral and regional trade agreements. veil-piercing; the governance role of shareholders under US law; The unit analyses in more detail some of the fundamental rules of the directors© duties, including the duty of care and the duty of loyalty; the GATT: rules on tariff bindings and customs duties, national treatment, operation of the business judgment rule; derivative litigation; the law non-tariff barriers, the MFN rule on non-discrimination and an relating to closely held corporations; judicial review of tender offer introduction to the rules on subsidies. We conclude with a synopsis defences. of WTO developments to the present day. This unit is assessed in two ways: an essay on the object and function of the WTO system LAWS6171 and its dispute settlement system; and an exam requiring students to US International Taxation apply the basic rules of the GATT, GATS and TRIPS to fact situations. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Ethan Yale Session: Intensive May Classes: May 9-11 and 14, 15 (9-3.30) Assumed knowledge: It is LAWS6192 assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Young People, Crime and the Law undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. Assessment: in-class assessment (30%) and 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Garner Clancey, Prof Murray Lee Session: Intensive October Classes: Oct 5, 6 and 19, 20 (9-5) Prohibitions: The object of this unit is to provide an overview of the income tax LAWS6069 Assessment: class presentation (10%), 3000wd essay (40%) and system of the US with a focus on the most important legislative and take-home exam (50%) Mode of delivery: Block mode treaty rules of the US in the international income tax area, especially The unit aims to provide a broad overview of the functioning of the in dealings with Australia. The unit will examine both the policies juvenile justice system and its relationship to juvenile offending.There behind the US taxation of international transactions as well as the is a specific emphasis on NSW in terms of understanding the operation rules and principles of income tax law applicable to inbound and of a particular system, however reference is frequently made to the outbound transactions in the US. wider Australian and international context. The unit analyses the historical development of a separate system of juvenile justice and LAWS6096 the system of ideas about juvenile delinquency as distinct entities Work Health and Safety: Law and Policy separable from broader notions of criminality and criminal justice.The Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Richard Johnstone Session: unit also analyses the contemporary nature of juvenile crime and Intensive May Classes: May 18, 19 and 25, 26 (9-5) Assumed knowledge: specific issues in relation to offending, policing, community-based LAWS6252 or a law degree and LAWS6071 (MLLR students) Assessment: class participation (10%), 3000wd essay (40%) and assignment (50%) Mode corrections and detention centres. Social relations which mediate of delivery: Block mode between the juvenile justice system and young people will be investigated through a focus on gender, race and class. The broader This unit of study is on work health and safety law and practice. Its political determinants surrounding the operation of the juvenile justice main focus is on the role of law in preventing disease, injury and death system and moral panics in relation to juvenile offending will also be at work, principally by focusing on the Work Health and Safety Act examined. The unit aims to develop a critical understanding of the 2011 (NSW), the relevant case law, and the enforcement of the Act. link between theory and juvenile justice policy, and to develop an The Work Health and Safety Act 2011 will be placed in its broader appreciation of the multi-disciplinary nature of criminological context, including the extent of injury and disease at work, the explanation. principles of work health and safety management, changing work arrangements, the history of work health and safety regulation and Part 2 Jurisprudence Units of Study broader principles of regulatory theory. Regulatory provisions governing health and safety in the mining, transport and clothing, LAWS3447 textile and footwear industries will also briefly be examined. Law and Economics LAWS6063 Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Patricia Apps Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 x 2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: LAWS3036 or World Trade Organization Law I LAWS5147 Assessment: 2 x 1000wd essays on a set problem (30%), class Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Brett Williams Session: Intensive participation and presentation (10%) and 2hr exam (60%) Mode of delivery: September Classes: Aug 24, 25 and Sep 21, 22 (9-5.30) Prohibitions: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day LAWS3439 or LAWS5139 Assumed knowledge: limited knowledge of law of Note: This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 2 requirement of the LLB. treaties Assessment: 3000 to 3500wd essay (40%) and take-home exam (60%) Mode of delivery: Block mode The aim of the unit of study is to provide an understanding of the economic analysis of law and to clarify fundamental differences This unit is a comprehensive introduction to the law of the World Trade between legal argument and the analysis of public policy. The unit Organization (WTO) and to the context of economics and politics defines the role of government within the framework of welfare within which the law operates. It also offers some comparisons with economics and examines the social and economic effects of legal regulation under bilateral and regional trade agreements. It can be regimes within that framework. Particular attention is given to the taken as either a stand-alone introduction to WTO law or to acquire concept of a competitive market, to the available empirical evidence a solid basis for further study of WTO law. (Students may wish to on market failure, and to the need for government intervention in continue on to take LAWS6249 World Trade Organization Law II which response to market failure and its negative consequences for social builds upon the knowledge gained in this unit and considers some justice. Topics covered include: theoretical concepts of social justice; additional topics of WTO law.) The introductory topic considers the social insurance; externalities and the environment; monopoly functions of the WTO through the consideration of some basic regulation, tort rights and remedies; asymmetric information, adverse economics of trade and of public choice. We review the history of the selection and moral hazard with applications to medical malpractice; General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the creation of agency, corporate governance and managerial incentives; family law; the Agreement Establishing the WTO ending with a review of the taxation; and the measurement of inequality. institutions of the WTO and of the framework of rules applying under the GATT (and comparing with some bilateral and regional trade agreements). There follows a detailed study of the WTO dispute settlement system, under the WTO Understanding on Dispute
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LAWS3512 LAWS3454 Law and Social Theories Philosophy of Law Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Deborah Whitehall Session: Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Wojciech Sadurski Session: Semester 1 Classes: Taught intensively as 1x5hr seminars/wk for 8 weeks. Intensive July, Semester 2 Classes: Sydney 7x6hr seminars/wk for 7 weeks. Prohibitions: LAWS3462 Assessment: 2000wd reflective essay (20%), Berlin: Taught intensively in Berlin from 19 - 25 July (tba). Prohibitions: 4000wd take-home exam (80%). Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) LAWS3459 or LAWS5154 Assessment: Sydney: class presentation and day 2000wd written report (20%), class participation (20%), final take-home exam (60%). Berlin: Pre-course 2000wd reaction note (20%), class participation (20%), This unit of study introduces elementary approaches to social theory 4000wd take-home exam (60%). Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) to understand how law and legal institutions regulate or influence day, Block mode communities in various localities or social-scapes: the urban; the local; Note: This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 2 requirement of the LLB. the national; the state; the international; and the global. Each of these Enrolment is by separate application to the Law School. ©worlds© or social configurations present questions for sociological This unit of study will introduce the fundamental notions of thinkers about the form and technique of laws; the interactions between jurisprudence understood as a theory about the aims, functions and law and other social institutions; the ideological missions of law; and values of law and legal system. It will aim to provide students with the how law supports or regulates the experience and expectations of critical understanding of the central issues in philosophy of law justice, freedom, prosperity and peace. Sociological thinkers ask these understood as a general, abstract, normative reflection on law as such ©big© questions for lawyers to prompt new thinking about what law does rather than an examination of a concrete legal system. Nevertheless, right and what is necessary for it to do better. Students will discover the purpose will be to provide students with the conceptual means the writings of various ©classical© and ©contemporary© sociological allowing them to conduct a critical scrutiny of particular legal systems thinkers (including Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Foucault, Bourdieu, Beck, and legal rules with which they are familiar. The course will consider, Bauman and Sassen) in the contexts presented by various in particular (1) the notions of legitimacy, validity and authority of law; social-scapes or ©worlds©. The course will use various examples to (2) the idea of rights and the nature of the rights discourse; (3) the encourage students to understand the relevance of social theory to justifications and limits of liberty rights; (4) the concept of justice, as them as lawyers. The unit does not presuppose prior knowledge of applied to law, (5) the sources and limits of our obligation to obey the social theory.This unit satisfies the Part 2 (Jurisprudence) requirement law, etc.The Berlin course will include guest lectures by distinguished of the LLB. German legal scholars on jurisprudential traditions and controversies in Germany LAWS3513 Philosophy of Criminal Law LAWS3462 Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Arlie Loughnan Session: Sociological Theories of Law Semester 1 Classes: 2 x 2hr seminars/wk Prerequisites: LAWS1016 Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Alex Ziegert Session: Assessment: Class participation (10%), oral presentationn (10%), 1000wd Semester 1 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: report (20%), and 4000wd research essay (60%). Mode of delivery: Normal JURS3001 or LAWS5162 Assessment: 1,000-2,000wd research note (40%) (lecture/lab/tutorial) day and 3,750-5,000wd research paper (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal This course examines and evaluates theories of law through the (lecture/lab/tutorial) day perspective of the criminal law. It has been supposed that criminal Note: Satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 2 requirement of the LLB. law may be understood as an application of certain tenets of liberal The unit of study will introduce the student to the basic concepts of moral and political philosophy. But the rapid development of criminal sociological theory and methodology and will show how these concepts laws in Australia and elsewhere over the last 50 years and the can be applied to the observation of the functioning of law. On the co-evolution and fragmentation of notions of personhood, citizenship, basis of such a primary understanding of how societies organise and community challenges this assumption. The course surveys themselves and their law it will become possible for the student to leading theories of criminal law and attempts to use them to critically appreciate and evaluate critically the efforts of socio-legal research assess the evolving mix of criminal law doctrines, practices and and the conceptions of some major contributors to the sociological procedures in place in legal systems such as those of Australia.Topics theory of law. The first part of this unit will look at what sociological include the nature of criminal responsibility, the moral limits of the theory and research can offer today in the description of social life, criminal law, objects of criminalisation and legal subjectivity. This unit the explanation of how societies are organised, why people do what satisfies the Part 2 (Jurisprudence) requirement of the LLB. they do. Elementary sociological concepts like norm, role, group, power, class, social structure and social system will be related to the LAWS3475 operation of the law. Concepts like these provide the tools which make Philosophy of International Law it possible to examine and study systematically and carefully the social Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Michael Sevel Session: Semester organisation and structure of legal systems, the operation and the 2 Classes: 1x3hr seminar/week for 13 weeks (evening stream) Assessment: social environments in which and in relation to which they are Class participation (10%), 1500wd mid-semester report (30%), and 4000wd essay (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening operating. Note: This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 2 requirement of the LLB. LAWS3495 This course examines and evaluates traditional theories of law through The Rule of Law and its Value the lens of their deployment in the changing context of world society Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Michael Sevel Session: Semester and global governance. It has been supposed that there is no 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/wk for 10 weeks Prohibitions: LAWS5195 difference in kind between the law internal to a state, and that which Assessment: Class participation (10%), 1500wd mid-semester report (30%), exists in the global arena. But the rapid development of norms and and 4000wd essay (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day institutions used in global governance over the last half century has Note: This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 2 requirement of the LLB. cast doubt on this assumption. The course surveys leading theories This course will explore the nature and value of the rule of law through of law and attempt to apply them to the vast and evolving array of a critical examination of classical and contemporary writings in international law-related activity. Topics include the nature and role jurisprudence. Among the problems we will consider are:What features of customary law, enforcement and compliance, transnational authority, of a legal system contribute to bringing about the rule of law? What ©hard© and ©soft© law, human rights, and international responsibility, is ©legality©? What is the relationship between the rule of law and the among others. rule of good law? Is it always a virtue, other things being equal, to apply valid legal rules? How far is the rule of law consistent with the indeterminacy of law or with discretionary decision-making? Is the rule of law an ©unqualified human good©? Why is it good? Should the rule of law ever be sacrificed for the sake of other goods? What does
57 Elective unit of study descriptions the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index measure? Is it defensible LAWS6827 from a jurisprudential point of view, and useful in determining the Legal Responsibility and Philosophy of Mind nature and value of the rule of law? Readings will include historical Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Adj Prof Christopher Birch Session: sources from the ancient Greek and early modern periods, Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Assessment: class participation contemporary essays in legal, moral, and political theory, and other exercise (20%) and 6000wd essay (80%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening primary legal sources. Many legal doctrines in both criminal and civil law depend upon being LAWS3471 able to characterise conduct as intentional, leading to ascriptions of Theories of Conscientious Obedience fault, blame or responsibility. Most serious criminal offences depend Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Kevin Walton Session: Semester upon establishing mens rea as a relevant mental element. Civil liability 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: LAWS5171 is often dependent upon whether conduct was intended, or whether Assessment: Structured class-participation (10%), emails about readings (10%), 1500wd mid-semester essay (20%) and 4000wd final essay (60%) the cause of loss was brought about by either intentional conduct or Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day conduct involving some lesser notion of fault. All of these doctrines Note: This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 2 requirement of the LLB. make important assumptions about the nature of our mental states and the operation of mind. Many of these assumptions are This unit asks whether obedience to legal norms is required by philosophically controversial and current developments in the morality. It examines various arguments for a moral obligation to obey philosophy of mind may lead us to reconsider or radically revise our the law. attitudes to the law. The unit will look at contemporary philosophical work on free will consciousness, mind, and causation and apply this LAWS3468 work to present problems in regard to concepts of legal responsibility. Theories of Justice Textbooks Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Kevin Walton Session: Semester Lowe, EJ An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, Cambridge U.P., Cambridge 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: LAWS3077 or 2000 LAWS5168 Assessment: Structured class-participation (10%), emails about readings (10%), 1500wd mid-semester essay (20%) and 4000wd final essay (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day LAWS6338 Note: This unit satisfies the Juriprudence/Part 2 requirement of the LLB. The Nature of the Common Law Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Michael Sevel Session: Intensive This unit of study aims to provide students with a critical understanding May Classes: May 11, 12 and 18, 19 (9-5) Assessment: assignment (20%) of contemporary philosophical debates about justice.The unit focuses and 7000wd essay (80%) or 8000wd essay (100%) Mode of delivery: Block on liberal conceptions of justice and critiques thereof. It examines mode various moral values in terms of which the law might be assessed. The common law is an essential part of the Australian legal system, The moral values that it considers include liberty, community, utility, as well as many others around the world. This unit of study examines fairness and equality. Among the themes that it explores are the limits the nature of the common law from the point of view of jurisprudence. of and connections between these ideals, the prospects for their We will begin with a survey of the classic Common Law Theories realisation in contemporary societies as well as the politics with which developed in England during the seventeenth century; from there, a each is associated. variety of problems surrounding the common law which these theories made salient, and which still puzzle us today, will be examined.Topics LAWS3469 include: the nature and authority of precedent, the distinctiveness of Theories of Law legal reasoning, the nature and questions surrounding the validity of Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Kevin Walton Session: Semester customary law, the relation between the common law and the ideal 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: LAWS3089 or LAWS5169 Assessment: Structured class-participation (10%), emails about of the rule of law, among others. readings (10%), 1500wd mid-semester essay (20%) and 4000wd final essay (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day LAWS6316 Note: This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 2 requirement of the LLB. Theories of the Judiciary Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Michael Sevel Session: Intensive This unit seeks to facilitate critical reflection on prominent responses June Classes: Jun 1, 2 and 8, 9 (9-5) Assessment: class presentation (20%) of both philosophers and sociologists to a single question: what is and 7500wd essay (80%) Mode of delivery: Block mode law? Among the notions to which their answers refer (and on which the unit focuses) are power, class, patriarchy, norms, rules, authority, The judge has long been an important legal actor in common law principles, convention, morality, adjudication and interpretation. countries, but over the past several decades, there has been a rise in judicial power globally, with the proliferation of constitutional courts Part 2 Masters©s Level Jurisprudence Units and the strengthening of judiciaries in countries around the world. This seminar will consider views in jurisprudence which examines the of Study judge, the activity of judging, and the proper role of the judiciary within a legal system and a just society more generally. Among the goals of LAWS6187 the seminar are to determine the nature of judicial obligation, how Functional Analysis of Law and Soc Control judges ought to decide cases, the arguments for and against judicial Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Alex Ziegert Session: review, the role of the judiciary in establishing and maintaining the Intensive March Classes: Mar 16, 17 and 23, 24 (9-5) Assessment: 1000wd research note (30%) and 7000wd essay (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode rule of law, and the relation between the business of courts, politics, and morality. This unit examines the largely diffuse concepts of social control and the functions of law and proposes a more specific approach to legal theory which incorporates the latest findings of socio-legal research on the social effects of law. As a result of this discussion, a more specific concept of social control and an explanatory assessment of the social effects of law, including its political use, are presented with their theoretical implications for legal and political systems and applied, as examples, to historically and societally varied situations.
58 Doctorates Doctorates
Doctor of Laws The degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) is awarded, on the recommendation of the Sydney Law School, for published work that has been recognised by scholars in the field concerned as a distinguished contribution to knowledge. Persons contemplating the submission of work for the LLD should first consult the Dean of the Law School. Only a mature scholar would be likely to present work meeting this requirement. The degree may also be awarded on an honorary basis in recognition of distinguished achievement. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) The degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is awarded by the University on the basis of a thesis, which is regarded by the examiners as a substantially original contribution to the area in which it is written.
Candidates are required to submit a thesis of approximately 80,000 words, including footnotes, which may be exceeded by no more than 20,000 words with the permission of the Associate Dean. The word limit does not include appendices.
The following is a summary of the requirements.
There are three main conditions of admission, namely:
· academic qualifications, · research and publication experience, and · suitability of the proposed course of study and research.
An applicant for admission to candidature for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) must submit to the Sydney Law School a proposed program of advanced study and research. The applicant must submit satisfactory evidence of training and ability to pursue the proposed program.
Academic qualifications The normal requirement is that the applicant has completed one of the following degrees:
· Bachelor of Laws (LLB) with First or Second Class Honours; or · Master of Laws (LLM); or · Qualifications which the University©s Committee for Graduate Studies considers equivalent.
Satisfactory evidence of training and ability to pursue the proposed program may be demonstrated by showing the successful completion of a sustained piece of research in an earlier degree program, scholarly publications, or sustained research in a professional capacity. Candidates who are not able to demonstrate sufficient research experience may be admitted first to an LLM by research with a view to upgrading to a PhD if there is satisfactory progress.
Proposed program of study The proposal must be:
· suitable in scope and standard for the PhD, · one that the applicant is competent to undertake, and · one for which supervision and facilities can be properly provided. Rules governing research The Rules governing the degree of Doctor of Philosophy are the University of Sydney (Higher Degree by Research) Rule 2011) and the Thesis and Examination of Higher Degree by Research Policy 2015. The most recent versions of these rules are found the Policy Register sydney.edu.au/policies.
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60 Doctor of Juridical Studies Doctor of Juridical Studies
Doctor of Juridical Studies These resolutions must be read in conjunction with applicable University By-laws, Rules and policies including (but not limited to) the Resolutions of the University of Sydney Law School, the University of Sydney (Higher Degree by Research) Rule 2011 (the HDR Rule), the Research Code of Conduct 2013 and the Research Data Management Policy 2014. The latest versions of all such documents are available from the Policy Register: http://www.sydney.edu.au/policies. Course resolutions Part 1: Preliminary 1 Course codes Code Course title RPJURSTD-01 Doctor of Juridical Studies
Part 2: Admission requirements 2 Eligibility for admission to candidature (1) To be eligible to be admitted to candidature by the Associate Dean, an applicant must hold or have completed the requirements for: (a) the degree of Bachelor of Laws with first or second class honours from the University of Sydney; or (b) the degree of Master of Laws by coursework with a minimum distinction average from the University of Sydney, including a research component equivalent to 25 percent of one year full time enrolment. (2) The Associate Dean may admit to candidature an applicant who does not meet the requirements of sub-clause (1), provided that the applicant holds a qualification or qualifications that, in the opinion of the School Postgraduate Research Education Committee, are equivalent to those prescribed in sub-clause (1). (3) The Associate Dean may impose on a student admitted to candidature pursuant to sub-clause (2) such conditions as the Associate Dean considers appropriate. 3 Application for admission to candidature (1) An applicant for admission to candidature must submit to the School: (a) satisfactory evidence of the applicant©s eligibility for admission; (b) a proposed course of research and advanced study, approved by the Associate Dean; (c) a statement certifying the applicant©s understanding that, subject to the HDR Rule, if the candidature is successful, his or her thesis will be lodged with the University Librarian and made available for immediate public use; and (d) evidence of minimum English language requirements, where not demonstrated by academic qualifications. (2) In addition, an applicant for admission to part-time candidature must submit a statement that he or she will have sufficient time available to complete the requirements of the degree in accordance with these resolutions. 4 Credit transfer (1) The HDR Rule specifies the conditions for the granting of credit for previous studies, including the effect on completion times, except that for coursework: (a) Up to 18 credit points of units of study completed for the degree of Master of Laws from the University of Sydney or up to 12 credit points completed in another Faculty of this University or at another university may be credited subject to the Resolutions of the University of Sydney Law School; and (b) the coursework should have been completed no more than six years prior to first enrolment in this degree. Part 3: Candidature 5 Appointment of supervisor The Associate Dean will appoint a research supervisor and auxiliary supervisor for each candidate in accordance with the HDR Rule and the Supervision of Higher Degree by Research Students Policy 2013. 6 Control of candidature The HDR Rule specifies the conditions for the control of candidature by the University. 7 Location of candidature and attendance The HDR Rule specifies the conditions for the location of candidature and attendance by candidates at the University. Part 4: Requirements 8 Degree requirements (1) To satisfy the requirements of the degree candidates must: (a) complete any specified probationary requirements; (b) complete the units of study LAWS6077 Legal Research 1, LAWS7001 Legal Research2 and LAWS7002 Legal Research 3; (c) complete 18 credit points of Master of Laws by coursework units of study from the University of Sydney which relate to the thesis; (d) conduct research on the approved topic; and (e) write a thesis embodying the results of the research. 9 The thesis (1) A candidate shall produce a thesis that meets the requirements specified in the HDR Rule.
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(2) The thesis will have an upper limit of 75,000 words including footnotes that may be exceeded by no more than 15,000 words with the permission of the Associate Dean. The word limit does not include appendices. Part 5: Enrolment and progression 10 Probation (1) A candidate is normally accepted for candidature on a probationary basis for a period not exceeding one year according to the provisions of the HDR Rule. (2) In the probationary period, other than in exceptional circumstances, to the satisfaction of the School Postgraduate Research Education Committee, each candidate must: (a) meet any conditions set by the School Postgraduate Research Education Committee; and (b) demonstrate adequate English language competency for the completion of the degree. 11 Time limits, earliest and latest submission dates The HDR Rule specifies the allowable completion times and submission dates available for full- and part-time candidates in this course. 12 Mode of attendance The attendance pattern for this course is full-time or part-time according to candidate choice.Visa requirements commonly restrict international students to full-time study only. 13 Discontinuation of candidature A candidate may discontinue enrolment in a unit of study or the degree subject to the conditions specified by the HDR Rule. 14 Suspension of candidature A candidate may suspend enrolment from the degree subject to the conditions specified by the HDR Rule. 15 Leave of absence A candidate may take leave of absence from the degree subject to the conditions specified by the HDR Rule. 16 Progress A candidate is required to maintain satisfactory progress towards the timely completion of the degree. Progress will be reviewed annually according to the provisions of the HDR Rule and the Progress Planning and Review for Higher Degree by Research Students Policy 2015. Part 6: Examination 17 Examination of the thesis (1) Examination of the thesis will be conducted in general accordance with standards prescribed by Academic Board for the Doctor of Philosophy, which are set out in the Thesis and Examination of Higher Degree by Research Policy 2015. 18 Award of the degree The degree is awarded at the Pass level only. Part 7: Other 19 Transitional provisions (1) These course resolutions apply to students who commenced their candidature after 1 January, 2018 and students who commenced their candidature prior to 1 January, 2018 who elect to proceed under these resolutions. (2) Candidates who commenced prior to 1 January, 2018 may complete the requirements in accordance with the resolutions in force at the time of their commencement, provided that requirements are completed within the time limits specified in those resolutions. The School may specify a later date for completion or specify alternative requirements for completion of candidatures that extend beyond this time.
62 Master of Criminology (Research) Master of Criminology (Research)
Master of Criminology (Research) These resolutions must be read in conjunction with applicable University By-laws, Rules and policies including (but not limited to) the Resolutions of the University of Sydney Law School, the University of Sydney (Higher Degree by Research) Rule 2011 (the HDR Rule), the Research Code of Conduct 2013 and the Research Data Management Policy 2014. The latest versions of all such documents are available from the Policy Register: http://www.sydney.edu.au/policies. Course resolutions Part 1: Preliminary 1 Course codes Code Course title RMCRIMIN-01 Master of Criminology
Part 2: Admission requirements 2 Eligibility for admission to candidature (1) To be eligible to be admitted to candidature by the Associate Dean, an applicant must hold or have completed the requirements for a bachelor©s degree with first or second class honours from the University of Sydney. (2) The Associate Dean may admit to candidature an applicant who does not meet the requirements of sub-clause (1), provided that the applicant holds a qualification or qualifications that, in the opinion of the School Postgraduate Research Education Committee, are equivalent to those prescribed in sub-clause (1). (3) The Associate Dean may impose on a student admitted to candidature pursuant to sub-clause (2) such conditions as the Associate Dean considers appropriate. 3 Application for admission to candidature (1) An applicant for admission to candidature must submit to the School: (a) satisfactory evidence of the applicant©s eligibility for admission; (b) a proposed course of research and advanced study, approved by the Associate Dean; (c) a statement certifying the applicant©s understanding that, subject to the HDR Rule, if the candidature is successful, his or her thesis will be lodged with the University Librarian and made available for immediate public use; and (d) evidence of minimum English language requirements, where not demonstrated by academic qualifications. (2) In addition, an applicant for admission to part-time candidature must submit a statement that he or she will have sufficient time available to complete the requirements of the degree in accordance with these resolutions. 4 Credit transfer The HDR Rule specifies the conditions for the granting of credit for previous studies, including the effect on completion times. Part 3: Candidature 5 Appointment of supervisor The Associate Dean will appoint a research supervisor and auxiliary supervisor for each candidate in accordance with the HDR Rule and the Supervision of Higher Degree by Research Students Policy 2013. 6 Control of candidature The HDR Rule specifies the conditions for the control of candidature by the University. 7 Location of candidature and attendance The HDR Rule specifies the conditions for the location of candidature and attendance by candidates at the University. Part 4: Requirements 8 Degree requirements (1) To satisfy the requirements of the degree candidates must: (a) complete any specified probationary requirements; (b) complete the unit of study LAWS6077 Legal Research 1; (c) conduct research on the approved topic; and (d) write a thesis embodying the results of the research. 9 The thesis (1) A candidate shall produce a thesis that meets the requirements specified in the HDR Rule. (2) The thesis will have an upper limit of 50,000 words including footnotes that may be exceeded by no more than 10,000 words with the permission of the Associate Dean. The word limit does not include appendices. Part 5: Enrolment and progression 10 Probation (1) A candidate is normally accepted for candidature on a probationary basis for a period not exceeding one year according to the provisions of the HDR Rule.
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(2) In the probationary period, other than in exceptional circumstances, to the satisfaction of the School Postgraduate Research Education Committee, each candidate must: (a) meet any conditions set by the School Postgraduate Research Education Committee; and (b) demonstrate adequate English language competency for the completion of the degree. 11 Time limits, earliest and latest submission dates The HDR Rule specifies the allowable completion times and submission dates available for full- and part-time candidates in this course. 12 Mode of attendance The attendance pattern for this course is full-time or part-time according to candidate choice.Visa requirements commonly restrict international students to full-time study only. 13 Discontinuation of candidature A candidate may discontinue enrolment in a unit of study or the degree subject to the conditions specified by the HDR Rule. 14 Suspension of candidature A candidate may suspend enrolment from the degree subject to the conditions specified by the HDR Rule. 15 Leave of absence A candidate may take leave of absence from the degree subject to the conditions specified by the HDR Rule. 16 Progress A candidate is required to maintain satisfactory progress towards the timely completion of the degree. Progress will be reviewed annually according to the provisions of the HDR Rule and the Progress Planning and Review of Higher Degree by Research Students Policy 2015. Part 6: Examination 17 Examination of the thesis (1) Examination of the thesis will be conducted in general accordance with standards prescribed by Academic Board for the Doctor of Philosophy, which are set out in the Thesis and Examination of Higher Degree by Research Policy 2015. 18 Award of the degree The degree is awarded at the Pass level only. Part 7: Other 19 Transitional provisions (1) These course resolutions apply to students who commenced their candidature after 1 January, 2018 and students who commenced their candidature prior to 1 January, 2018 who elect to proceed under these resolutions. (2) Candidates who commenced prior to 1 January, 2018 may complete the requirements in accordance with the resolutions in force at the time of their commencement, provided that requirements are completed within the time limits specified in those resolutions. The School may specify a later date for completion or specify alternative requirements for completion of candidatures that extend beyond this time.
64 Master of Laws (Research) Master of Laws (Research)
Course rules Master of Laws (Research) These resolutions must be read in conjunction with applicable University By-laws, Rules and policies including (but not limited to) the Resolutions of the University of Sydney Law School, the University of Sydney (Higher Degree by Research) Rule 2011 (the HDR Rule), the Research Code of Conduct 2013 and the Research Data Management Policy 2014. The latest versions of all such documents are available from the Policy Register: http://www.sydney.edu.au/policies. Course resolutions Part 1: Preliminary 1 Course codes Code Course title RMLAWLAW Master of Laws
Part 2: Admission requirements 2 Eligibility for admission to candidature (1) To be eligible to be admitted to candidature by the Associate Dean, an applicant must hold or have completed the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Laws with first or second class honours from the University of Sydney. (2) The Associate Dean may admit to candidature an applicant who does not meet the requirements of sub-clause (1), provided that the applicant holds a qualification or qualifications that, in the opinion of the School Postgraduate Research Education Committee, are equivalent to those prescribed in sub-clause (1). (3) The Associate Dean may impose on a student admitted to candidature pursuant to sub-clause (2) such conditions as the Associate Dean considers appropriate. 3 Application for admission to candidature (1) An applicant for admission to candidature must submit to the School: (a) satisfactory evidence of the applicant©s eligibility for admission; (b) a proposed course of research and advanced study, approved by the Associate Dean; (c) a statement certifying the applicant©s understanding that, subject to the HDR Rule, if the candidature is successful, his or her thesis will be lodged with the University Librarian and made available for immediate public use; and (d) Evidence of minimum English language requirements, where not demonstrated by academic qualifications. (2) In addition, an applicant for admission to part-time candidature must submit a statement that he or she will have sufficient time available to complete the requirements of the degree in accordance with these resolutions. 4 Credit transfer The HDR Rule specifies the conditions for the granting of credit for previous studies, including the effect on completion times. Part 3: Candidature 5 Appointment of supervisor The Associate Dean will appoint a research supervisor and auxiliary supervisor for each candidate in accordance with the HDR Rule and the Supervision of Higher Degree by Research Students Policy 2013. 6 Control of candidature The HDR Rule specifies the conditions for the control of candidature by the University. 7 Location of candidature and attendance The HDR Rule specifies the conditions for the location of candidature and attendance by candidates at the University. Part 4: Requirements 8 Degree requirements (1) To satisfy the requirements of the degree candidates must: (a) complete any specified probationary requirements; (b) complete the unit of study LAWS6077 Legal Research 1; (c) conduct research on the approved topic; and (d) write a thesis embodying the results of the research. 9 The thesis (1) A candidate shall produce a thesis that meets the requirements specified in the HDR Rule. (2) The thesis will have an upper limit of 50,000 words including footnotes that may be exceeded by no more than 10,000 words with the permission of the Associate Dean. he word limit does not include appendices.
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Part 5: Enrolment and progression 10 Probation (1) A candidate is normally accepted for candidature on a probationary basis for a period not exceeding one year according to the provisions of the HDR Rule. (2) In the probationary period, other than in exceptional circumstances, to the satisfaction of the School Postgraduate Research Education Committee, each candidate must: (a) meet any conditions set by the School Postgraduate Research Education Committee; and (b) demonstrate adequate English language competency for the completion of the degree. 11 Time limits, earliest and latest submission dates The HDR Rule specifies the allowable completion times and submission dates available for full- and part-time candidates in this course. 12 Mode of attendance The attendance pattern for this course is full-time or part-time according to candidate choice.Visa requirements commonly restrict international students to full-time study only. 13 Discontinuation of candidature A candidate may discontinue enrolment in a unit of study or the degree subject to the conditions specified by the HDR Rule. 14 Suspension of candidature A candidate may suspend enrolment from the degree subject to the conditions specified by the HDR Rule. 15 Leave of absence A candidate may take leave of absence from the degree subject to the conditions specified by the HDR Rule. 16 Progress A candidate is required to maintain satisfactory progress towards the timely completion of the degree. Progress will be reviewed annually according to the provisions of the HDR Rule and the Progress Planning and Review of Higher Degree by Research Students Policy 2015. Part 6: Examination 17 Examination of the thesis (1) Examination of the thesis will be conducted in general accordance with standards prescribed by Academic Board for the Doctor of Philosophy, which are set out in the Thesis and Examination of Higher Degree by Research Policy 2015. 18 Award of the degree The degree is awarded at the Pass level only. Part 7: Other 19 Transitional provisions (1) These course resolutions apply to students who commenced their candidature after 1 January, 2018 and students who commenced their candidature prior to 1 January, 2018 who elect to proceed under these resolutions. (2) Candidates who commenced prior to 1 January, 2018 may complete the requirements in accordance with the resolutions in force at the time of their commencement, provided that requirements are completed within the time limits specified in those resolutions. The School may specify a later date for completion or specify alternative requirements for completion of candidatures that extend beyond this time.
66 Juris Doctor Juris Doctor
Juris Doctor Any credit given under clause 8 below for units taken as part of a Masters degree or other postgraduate qualification These resolutions must be read in conjunction with applicable will reduce to that extent the ability to take University By-laws, Rules and policies including (but not limited to) LAWS6000/JURS6000 units under this clause. the University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2014 (the ©Coursework (4) All candidates will be required to complete a capstone Rule©), the Coursework Policy 2014, the Resolutions of the School, experience in their final year which is a unit of study designed the University of Sydney (Student Appeals against Academic to draw together and synthesize prior learning and Decisions) Rule 2006 (as amended), the Academic Honesty in experience, and form the basis for further intellectual and Coursework Policy 2015 and the Academic Honesty Procedures 2016. professional growth. This requirement will be met by Up to date versions of all such documents are available from the Policy completion of a Jurisprudence elective. Other electives taken Register: http://sydney.edu.au/policies. in final year which may meet this requirement include external placements, mooting activities or research projects. Course resolutions 5 Cross-institutional study 1 Course codes (1) In addition to the provisions for cross-institutional study described in the resolutions of the University of Sydney Law Code Course title School, cross-institutional study is only available under the MAJURDOC-01 Juris Doctor following terms: (a) Candidates are not permitted to undertake any compulsory 2 Attendance pattern unit or Part 3 elective (Jurisprudence) on a cross-institutional basis; The attendance pattern for this course is generally full time. The (b) Candidates must have completed a minimum of 96 credit University of Sydney School Law School will make a limited points towards the Juris Doctor before undertaking any number of places available to part time candidates. cross-institutional study; 3 Admission to candidature (c) Candidates can receive a maximum of 24 credit point for (1) Admission to candidature for the Juris Doctor requires a cross-institutional study; bachelor©s degree from any discipline other than Law. (d) Candidates must be in their final year and have satisfied Students are assessed on a combination of a secondary the usual progression rules and maximum enrolment school leaving qualification such as the NSW Higher School requirements; Certificate (including national and international equivalents) (e) The proposed cross institutional unit must be offered within and completed tertiary study. English language requirements another Juris Doctor or Master of Laws program. Credit must be met where these are not demonstrated by sufficient will not be granted towards units undertaken as part of a qualifications taught in English. Applicants are ranked by Bachelor of Laws degree. merit and offers for available places are issued according to (f) Credit will only be granted for a maximum of two advanced the ranking. learning Master©s units. . (2) Admission to candidature for the Juris Doctor under the Dual (2) Cross-institutional study is regarded as another form of credit Law Degree Pathway is determined in accordance with the and will be counted as such when considering eligibility. agreement between the University of Sydney Law School 6 Suspension, discontinuation and lapse of and the partner institution. Applicants are assessed on their candidature incomplete law degree from the partner institution. English language requirements must be met where these are not (1) Candidates are entitled to suspend their candidature for two demonstrated by sufficient qualifications taught in English. years. Further suspension will only be approved in cases of Applicants are ranked by merit and offers for available places serious illness or misadventure. are issued according to the ranking. (2) Candidates will not be permitted to suspend in order to 4 complete another award course unless they can provide Requirements for award evidence that the award course can be completed within two (1) The units of study that may be taken for the course are set years and they have not previously suspended. out in the Sydney Law School Juris Doctor Table. 7 Progression rules (2) To qualify for the award of the Juris Doctor a candidate must complete 144 credit points taken from the Sydney Law School (1) Candidates are required to complete the Juris Doctor units Juris Doctor Table, including: of study in the order listed in the University of Sydney Law (a) 102 credit points of compulsory units of study; and School Juris Doctor Table. (b) 42 credit points of elective units of study comprising: (2) Candidates enrolled in the full-time stream must pass all (i) a minimum of one unit of study taken from Part 1, and Year One compulsory units of study before proceeding to (ii) a maximum of five units of study taken from Electives Year Two. Part 2, and (a) Candidates must pass all Year One and Year Two (iii) a minimum of one unit of study taken from Part 3. compulsory units of study before proceeding to enrol in (3) Students may apply to take up to a maximum of 24 credit any elective units with the following exception: points of LAWS6000/JURS6000 units of study as elective (i) A candidate who is in Year Two and has completed 48 units of study. credit points of compulsory units and is enrolled in 24 credit (a) Enrolment in LAWS6000/JURS6000 units will be subject points in each semester may substitute one compulsory to availability and any unit pre-requisites or assumed unit of study for one elective unit of study in each semester. knowledge, which may include relevant industry experience (ii) Where such a replacement has occurred, a candidate or prior specialist study. must enrol in the deferred compulsory unit(s) in Year (b) Enrolment in LAWS6000/JURS6000 units is only permitted Three of the program. after a candidate has completed 96 credit points towards (iii) A candidate may not enrol in more than two electives the Juris Doctor. in total in Year Two. (c) Students may only enrol in LAWS6000/JURS6000 units (3) Candidates enrolled in the part-time stream must pass all listed in the Juris Doctor Elective units of study Table. Year One and Year Two compulsory units of study before proceeding to Year Three.
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(a) Candidates must pass all compulsory units in Years One, Two, Three and Four, before proceeding to enrol in any elective units of study with the following exception: (i) A candidate who is in Year Four and has completed 72 credit points of compulsory units and is enrolled in 12 credit points in each semester may substitute one compulsory unit of study for one elective unit of study in each semester. (ii) Where such a replacement has occurred, a candidate must enrol in the deferred compulsory unit(s) in Year Five of the program. (iii) A candidate may not enrol in more than two electives in total in Year Four. 8 Credit for previous study (1) A candidate may be granted a maximum of 48 credit points towards the requirements of the Juris Doctor. Specific credit will only be granted for equivalent compulsory units of study undertaken as part of a Juris Doctor degree at an approved Australian law school. Except as provided in 8(3) below, a maximum of 24 credit points of non-specific credit may be granted for elective units undertaken as part of a Juris Doctor or Masters degree at an approved law school. (2) A candidate may be granted credit for law units which have the equivalent face-to-face teaching hours and similar assessment requirements as units offered by the School. (3) Candidates may be granted up to 42 credit points of unspecified credit only in the following circumstances: (a) Candidates who have completed a law degree or equivalent professional legal qualification from a recognised law school outside Australia; or (b) Candidates who are admitted into the Dual Law Degree Pathway. Students granted up to 42 credit points of non-specific credit in these circumstances will be required to complete all compulsory units listed in the University of Sydney Law School Juris Doctor Table. (4) A candidate may not be granted credit for units of study: (a) for which the result is Terminating Pass, Conceded Pass or equivalent; or (b) which were conducted on a distance or online basis; or (c) which have been relied upon to qualify for the award of another degree or qualification, except for: (i) units of study which were taken as part of a completed overseas legal qualification; or (ii) candidates admitted to the Dual Law Degree Pathway; or (iii) units of study which were taken as part of a completed Masters degree or other postgraduate qualification at The University of Sydney Law School. (d) which were undertaken as part of Bachelor of Laws degree.
68 Units of study Units of study
Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Juris Doctor Units of Study JD Full-Time Structure - Compulsory Units of Study Year 1
LAWS5000 6 N LAWS1000 or LAWS1006 Intensive Foundations of Law February Semester 1 LAWS5018 Intensive Legal Research March Semester 1 LAWS5001 6 C LAWS5000 Semester 1 Torts N LAWS1010 or LAWS1012 or LAWS3001 LAWS5002 6 N LAWS1002 or LAWS1015 or LAWS2000 or LAWS2008 Semester 1 Contracts Summer Main LAWS5003 6 N LAWS1001 or LAWS1007 or LAWS1014 or LAWS2006 or LAWS3002 or LAWS3004 Semester 1 Civil and Criminal Procedure LAWS5004 6 P (LAWS5000 or LAWS1006) and (LAWS5003 or LAWS1014) Semester 2 Criminal Law N LAWS1003 or LAWS1016 or LAWS2001 or LAWS2009 LAWS5006 6 P (LAWS5000 or LAWS1006) and (LAWS5001 or LAWS1012) and (LAWS5002 or LAWS1015) Semester 2 Torts and Contracts II N LAWS1017 LAWS5005 6 P LAWS5000 Semester 2 Public International Law N LAWS1023 or LAWS1018 Summer Main LAWS5007 6 P LAWS5000 or LAWS1006 Semester 2 Public Law N LAWS1004 or LAWS1021 or LAWS2002 or LAWS3003 Summer Main Year 2
Students may substitute one compulsory unit with one JD elective unit in each semester of their penultimate year, deferring the compulsory unit(s) to their final year. Students cannot enrol in more than two elective units in their penultimate year. LAWS5010 6 P LAWS5007 or LAWS1021 Semester 1 Administrative Law N LAWS2002 or LAWS2010 LAWS5011 6 P LAWS5007 or LAWS1021 Semester 1 Federal Constitutional Law N LAWS1004 or LAWS2011 or LAWS3000 or LAWS3003 LAWS5008 6 P LAWS5000 Semester 1 Intro to Property and Commercial Law N LAWS2004 or LAWS2007 or LAWS2012 LAWS5009 6 N LAWS1001 or LAWS2013 or LAWS3002 or LAWS3004 Semester 1 The Legal Profession Summer Main LAWS5014 6 N LAWS2003 or LAWS2014 Semester 2 Corporations Law Summer Main LAWS5015 6 A LAWS5008 Semester 2 Equity P LAWS5000 Summer Main N LAWS2004 or LAWS2015 LAWS5013 6 P (LAWS5000 or LAWS1006) and (LAWS5003 or LAWS1014) Semester 2 Evidence N LAWS2006 or LAWS2016 or LAWS3223 Summer Main LAWS5012 6 P LAWS5008 or LAWS1012 Semester 2 Real Property N LAWS2007 or LAWS2017 Year 3
LAWS5017 6 N LAWS1018 or LAWS2005 or LAWS2018 Semester 1 Private International Law A Semester 2 JD Part-Time Structure - Compulsory Units of Study Year 1
LAWS5000 6 N LAWS1000 or LAWS1006 Intensive Foundations of Law February Semester 1 LAWS5018 Intensive Legal Research March Semester 1 LAWS5001 6 C LAWS5000 Semester 1 Torts N LAWS1010 or LAWS1012 or LAWS3001 LAWS5005 6 P LAWS5000 Semester 2 Public International Law N LAWS1023 or LAWS1018 Summer Main
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS5007 6 P LAWS5000 or LAWS1006 Semester 2 Public Law N LAWS1004 or LAWS1021 or LAWS2002 or LAWS3003 Summer Main Year 2
LAWS5003 6 N LAWS1001 or LAWS1007 or LAWS1014 or LAWS2006 or LAWS3002 or LAWS3004 Semester 1 Civil and Criminal Procedure LAWS5002 6 N LAWS1002 or LAWS1015 or LAWS2000 or LAWS2008 Semester 1 Contracts Summer Main LAWS5004 6 P (LAWS5000 or LAWS1006) and (LAWS5003 or LAWS1014) Semester 2 Criminal Law N LAWS1003 or LAWS1016 or LAWS2001 or LAWS2009 LAWS5006 6 P (LAWS5000 or LAWS1006) and (LAWS5001 or LAWS1012) and (LAWS5002 or LAWS1015) Semester 2 Torts and Contracts II N LAWS1017 Year 3
LAWS5010 6 P LAWS5007 or LAWS1021 Semester 1 Administrative Law N LAWS2002 or LAWS2010 LAWS5011 6 P LAWS5007 or LAWS1021 Semester 1 Federal Constitutional Law N LAWS1004 or LAWS2011 or LAWS3000 or LAWS3003 LAWS5014 6 N LAWS2003 or LAWS2014 Semester 2 Corporations Law Summer Main LAWS5013 6 P (LAWS5000 or LAWS1006) and (LAWS5003 or LAWS1014) Semester 2 Evidence N LAWS2006 or LAWS2016 or LAWS3223 Summer Main Year 4
Students may substitute one compulsory unit with one JD elective unit in each semester of their fourth year, deferring the compulsory unit(s) to their fifth year. Students cannot enrol in more than 2 elective units in their fourth year. LAWS5008 6 P LAWS5000 Semester 1 Intro to Property and Commercial Law N LAWS2004 or LAWS2007 or LAWS2012 LAWS5009 6 N LAWS1001 or LAWS2013 or LAWS3002 or LAWS3004 Semester 1 The Legal Profession Summer Main LAWS5015 6 A LAWS5008 Semester 2 Equity P LAWS5000 Summer Main N LAWS2004 or LAWS2015 LAWS5012 6 P LAWS5008 or LAWS1012 Semester 2 Real Property N LAWS2007 or LAWS2017 Years 5 & 6
LAWS5017 6 N LAWS1018 or LAWS2005 or LAWS2018 Semester 1 Private International Law A Semester 2
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provides background which is assumed knowledge in many other Juris Doctor Compulsory Units of units. The aims of the course are composite in nature. The course Study examines the rules that regulate the creation, terms, performance, breach and discharge of a contract. Remedies and factors that may LAWS5010 vitiate a contract such as misrepresentation are dealt with in Torts Administrative Law and Contracts II. The central aim of the course is to provide an Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Andrew Edgar / Prof Mary understanding of the basic principles of contract law and how those Crock (daytime stream), Dr Emily Hammond (evening stream) Session: principles are applied in practice to solve problems. Students will Semester 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks (daytime stream), develop the skills of rules based reasoning and case law analysis. A 1x3hr seminar/wk for 13 weeks (evening stream) Prerequisites: LAWS5007 second aim is to provide students an opportunity to critically evaluate or LAWS1021 Prohibitions: LAWS2002 or LAWS2010 Assessment: 2000wd essay (40%) and 2hr open book final exam (60%). Mode of delivery: Normal and make normative judgments about the operation of the law. (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening Successful completion of this unit of study is a prerequisite to the elective unit Advanced Contracts. Administrative Law is the study of the relationships of individuals and organisations with government.This unit examines the legal principles LAWS5014 which apply to those relationships with the aim of developing an Corporations Law understanding of how government is held accountable.The unit builds Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Graeme Cooper, Prof Michael on topics studied in Public Law, including the constitutional Dirkis Session: Semester 2, Summer Main Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for underpinnings of administrative law, judicial review and open 10 weeks (daytime stream), 1x3hr seminar/wk fo 13 weeks (evening stream) government. In the Administrative Law unit, the focus is on the grounds Prohibitions: LAWS2003 or LAWS2014 Assessment: Compulsory interim of judicial review and judicial remedies, the jurisdiction of the courts, exam (20%) and final 3hr open-book exam (80%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening the public/private distinction and merits review. The unit seeks to develop students¿ understanding of how the values of openness, This unit of study considers the legal structure of the corporation as rationality, fairness and participation in government decision-making an organisational form for both public and proprietary companies. It are promoted through Administrative Law. is designed as an introduction to both the general law of corporations and the Australian regulatory context. The focus of this unit is on the LAWS5003 nature of the corporation, the regulation of its operations and financing, Civil and Criminal Procedure and its governance structure. The unit covers issues such as the Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Ms Tanya Mitchell Session: Semester implications of the company as a separate legal entity, power to bind 1 Classes: Daytime stream: 1 x 2hr lecture and 1 x 2hr tutorial /weekk for 10 the company, duties of directors, shareholders rights and remedies, weeks. Evening stream: 1x3hr seminar/wk for 13 weeks. Prohibitions: corporate fundraising and regulating the market for corporate LAWS1001 or LAWS1007 or LAWS1014 or LAWS2006 or LAWS3002 or LAWS3004 Assessment: 2 x class participation (20%) and 1 x interim securities. Students will be required to evaluate critically existing assignment (20%) and 1x 2hr final open-book exam (60%) Mode of delivery: corporate law and reform proposals, with particular reference to Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening legislative policy and underpinning theory. This unit of study aims to introduce students to civil and criminal LAWS5004 procedure. It is concerned with the procedures relating to civil dispute Criminal Law resolution and criminal justice which are separate to the substantive hearing. The unit will consider the features of an adversarial system Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Thomas Crofts (daytime stream), Mr Graeme Coss (evening stream) Session: Semester 2 Classes: Daytime of justice and its impact on process. Recent reforms to the adversarial stream: 2x2hr seminars/wk for 10 weeks. Evening stream: 1x3hr seminar/wk system of litigation will be explored. The civil dispute resolution part for 13 weeks. Prerequisites: (LAWS5000 or LAWS1006) and (LAWS5003 or of the unit will cover alternative dispute resolution, the procedures for LAWS1014) Prohibitions: LAWS1003 or LAWS1016 or LAWS2001 or commencing a civil action, case management, gathering evidence LAWS2009 Assessment: Class participation (10%) and 1 x assignment (40%) and 1 x 2hr final open-book exam (50%) Mode of delivery: Normal and the rules of privilege. Criminal process will be explored by (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening reference to crime and society, police powers, bail and sentencing. The course focuses on practical examples with consideration of ethics, This unit of study is designed to introduce the general principles of and contextual and theoretical perspectives. criminal law in NSW, and to critically analyse these in their contemporary social and political context. In order to achieve these LAWS5002 goals, the unit will consider a range of theoretical literature as well as Contracts critical commentary, and will focus on particular substantive legal Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Kym Sheehan (daytime stream), topics in problem-centred contexts. Although the topic structure is Mr John Eldridge (evening stream) Session: Semester 1, Summer Main necessarily selective, it is intended that students will gain a broad Classes: Daytime stream: 2x2hr lecture and/or tutorials/week for 10 weeks. understanding of crime and justice issues, as well as of the Evening stream: 1x3hr seminar/wk for 13 weeks. Prohibitions: LAWS1002 or applications of the criminal law. Students will encounter problem-based LAWS1015 or LAWS2000 or LAWS2008 Assessment: Take-home 1800wd problem question (20%), class participation (10%), class presentation (10%) learning and will be encouraged to challenge a range of conventional and 2hr final closed-book exam (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal wisdom concerning the operation of criminal justice.This unit of study (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening is designed to assist students in developing: (1) A critical appreciation Contract law provides the legal background for transactions involving of certain key concepts which recur throughout the substantive criminal the supply of goods and services and is, arguably the most significant law. (2) A knowledge of the legal rules in certain specified areas of means by which the ownership of property is transferred from one criminal law and their application. (3) A preliminary knowledge of how person to another. It vitally affects all members of the community and the criminal law operates in its broader societal context. (4) An a thorough knowledge of contract law is essential to all practising understanding of how criminal liability is determined. The course has lawyers. In the context of the law curriculum as a whole, Contracts a critical focus and will draw on procedural, substantive, theoretical
For internal use by University of Sydney staff only. 71 Units of study and empirical sources.The contradictions presented by the application corporations, freedom of interstate trade, general doctrines of of legal principle to complex social problems will be investigated. characterisation and interpretation, grants, revenue powers, excise duties, intergovernmental immunities and constitutional rights. LAWS5015 The course may include some overseas material to provide points of Equity comparison and contrast. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Patrick Parkinson Session: Semester 2, Summer Main Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks (daytime LAWS5000 stream), 1x3hr seminar/wk for 13 weeks (evening stream) Prerequisites: LAWS5000 Prohibitions: LAWS2004 or LAWS2015 Assumed knowledge: Foundations of Law LAWS5008 Assessment: Optional interim exam (20%) and 2 1/2 hr final closed Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fady Aoun Session: Intensive book exam (80% or 100%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, February, Semester 1 Classes: Daytime stream: The unit is taught on an Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening intensive basis over four weeks. The course will include both lectures and seminar-style classes. Active class participation based on pre-reading is an An appreciation of equitable principles and remedies is fundamental essential aspect of the unit, particularly in the seminars. The aim of this is to to understanding the legal system and the law of property, taxation give students a a basic understanding of the institutions and underlying concepts and obligations.This unit of study explains the origins of the equitable of law and a good grounding in the basic legal skills needed for law studies before they undertake other Semester 1 units. Classes commence two weeks jurisdiction and examines its role today. A substantial part of the unit prior to the beginning of semester. Preparation for and attendance at the is dedicated to study of the law of trusts, including remedial intensive is essential for completion of the course. No other law classes are constructive trusts. Other topics include fiduciary obligations, breach taught for the duration of the intensive. Evening stream: Foundations of Law of confidence, the doctrines of estoppel, and a study of the equitable 1x3hr seminar for 13 weeks beginning week 1. Prohibitions: LAWS1000 or LAWS1006 Assessment: Foundations of Law daytime stream: Class remedies of the injunction, an account of profits and equitable participation (10%),class presentation (10%), 1 x interim exam (25%) and 1 x compensation. final 3hr closed-book exam (55%). Foundations of Law evening stream: Class participation (10%), class presentation (10%), 1 x case analysis and commentary LAWS5013 exam (40%), 1 x 2500wd final essay (40%). Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening, Block mode Evidence Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof David Hamer Session: Semester This unit of study is designed to provide students with a foundation 2, Summer Main Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks (daytime stream), for the study of law. It introduces the skills of legal reasoning and 1x3hr seminar/wk for 13 weeks (evening stream) Prerequisites: (LAWS5000 analysis, with a particular focus on developing skills of statutory or LAWS1006) and (LAWS5003 or LAWS1014) Prohibitions: LAWS2006 or LAWS2016 or LAWS3223 Assessment: Optional interim exam or 2000wd interpretation. These practical skills necessary to complete a law research essay (30%) and 2hr final open-book exam (70% or 100%) Mode of degree. This unit of study also includes a practical overview of the delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening sources of law in the Australian legal system. In doing so, it also provides opportunities for critical engagement in debate about the This unit of study aims to teach students the laws of evidence. The role of law in our lives. focus of this unit is on the operation of the laws of evidence in civil and criminal trials. The unit considers the laws of evidence contained LAWS5008 in statute and the common law. Students will appreciate the significant Intro to Property and Commercial Law law reform in this area. The unit considers the rules for adducing evidence, then the rules of admissibility (relevance, hearsay, opinion, Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Sheelagh McCracken Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x2-hr lectures/week (for 5 weeks) and 1x2-hr lecture tendency and coincidence, credibility, character, privilege and the and 1x2-hr tutorial/week (for 5 weeks) (daytime stream), 1x3hr seminar/wk for discretions to exclude evidence). Finally, there will be consideration 13 weeks (evening stream) Prerequisites: LAWS5000 Prohibitions: of issues relating to proof.This unit will focus on the uniform Evidence LAWS2004 or LAWS2007 or LAWS2012 Assessment: 1hr mid-term open-book Acts 1995 and develop students© skills in the area of statutory exam (30%) and 2hr final open-book exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening interpretation. Further, the unit aims to introduce students to the contexts within which lawyers might encounter evidential issues in Property law and commercial law are two key sources of rights and the course of a trial. Consideration is also given to the ethical problems obligations in modern western law. This unit provides an introduction that may arise in the conduct of a trial. Students are encouraged to to both areas of law, and shows how they are inter-related. The unit think critically about the doctrines that govern the laws of evidence. is designed to offer an opportunity to consider the role they play in Australian society and to give a firm grounding in legal principle. LAWS5011 The unit focuses on notions of "property", providing an introduction Federal Constitutional Law to real property (including the doctrine of tenure and estates, native Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Anne Twomey Session: Semester title and the doctrine of fixtures) and to personal property (including 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks (daytime stream), 1x3hr ownership and possessory interests arising in the context of seminar/wk for 13 weeks (evening stream) Prerequisites: LAWS5007 or LAWS1021 Prohibitions: LAWS1004 or LAWS2011 or LAWS3000 or commercial transactions such as sales and bailments as well as LAWS3003 Assessment: Optional assignment (20%) and 2hr final open-book security interests under the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 exam (80% or 100%). Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, (Cth)). The unit analyses the nature and classification of legal and Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening equitable interests in both real and personal property, exploring the The main objective of the course is to impart an understanding of the principles and formalities governing their creation, assignment and fundamentals of federal constitutional law through the study of key priority¿ranking. Additionally, the unit enables the development of judicial decisions on powers and prohibitions in the Commonwealth skills in interpreting statutes and in problem-solving. Constitution. The course is designed to provide a general conceptual Textbooks framework for solving problems about federal constitutional law by a Introduction to Property and Commercial Law compiled by Scott Grattan and detailed treatment of selected topics. Sheelagh McCracken, Thomson Reuters Australia, 3rd edition (forthcoming). The course also aims to: LAWS5018 - Provide analysis of the function of the High Court as the final arbiter Legal Research of constitutionality. Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Graeme Coss Session: Intensive March, Semester - Develop an understanding of the techniques of judicial review as 1 Classes: 1 x 4hr seminars/wk for 3 weeks Assessment: Compulsory applied in Australia. attendance, elearning quizzes (10%) and in-class exam (90%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Block mode - Encourage discussion about the Constitution as Australia©s basic instrument of government. This is a compulsory unit taught on a pass/fail basis. The aim of the unit is to introduce students to finding and citing primary and secondary The topics covered in detail include: Trade and commerce, severance legal materials and introduce them to legal research techniques. The and reading down, inconsistency, external affairs, defence, unit will cover advanced search techniques and the use of Lexis.com,
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Westlaw International and other complex databases. The purpose of Australia. It is broader than either of these subjects because its focus this unit is to develop the skills students need throughout their law is on generic issues of governance and accountability, focusing on degree, and to introduce them to the legal research skills required questions of power: what power is exercised by whom, from what after graduation. source, with what limits and how and by whom is the exercise of those powers to be scrutinised. The unit begins with an introduction to the LAWS5017 Constitution, its history, and the structures established by it, together Private International Law A with consideration of how to change both State and Commonwealth Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Michael Douglas (semester 1), Constitutions. The unit then moves to consider the three arms of Prof Vivienne Bath (semester 2) Session: Semester 1, Semester 2 Classes: government and related concepts such as representative and 2x2hr seminars/wk for 10 weeks (daytime stream), 1x3hr seminar/wk for 13 responsible government. In the final topics for the unit, the various weeks (evening stream) Prohibitions: LAWS1018 or LAWS2005 or LAWS2018 Assessment: Bath /Douglas groups: Optional take-home exam (20%) and 1 x mechanisms by which the executive can be made accountable are 2hr final closed-book exam (80%). Anderson groups: 45min interim exam (20%) considered, including by the Parliament, judicial review, and and 1 x 2hr final closed-book exam (80%) Mode of delivery: Normal investigative tribunals. (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening
Private international law (or conflict of laws) is the part of municipal LAWS5012 law in every developed legal system which is concerned with legal Real Property issues which have a connection with a foreign legal system. In Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Scott Grattan Session: Semester essence, private international law is concerned with the transnational 2 Classes: 2x2hr lectures/wk for 5 weeks, and 1x2hr lectuer and 1x2hr tutorial/wk for 5 weeks(daytime stream), 1x3hr seminar/wk for 13 weeks (evening dimension of private law as where, for example, proceedings are stream) Prerequisites: LAWS5008 or LAWS1012 Prohibitions: LAWS2007 brought in New South Wales for a tort committed in Malaysia, or for or LAWS2017 Assessment: Compulsory 1hr interim exam (30%) and final 2hr breach of a contract to be performed in New York or against a open-book exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, defendant in the People©s Republic of China. Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening This unit of study is a comprehensive general course which addresses Land law (or the law of "real property") has always played an important the three persistent issues in private international law: jurisdiction; role in the economic, social and political life of Australia. Australian choice of law and the recognition and enforcement of foreign real property law draws much of its principle from English real property judgments. Particular topics include: (1) Scope of private international law; but over the last 100 years in particular, Australian real property law (the concept of legal issues which have a connection with more law has begun to develop its own unique character.This is particularly than one legal system); (2) Personal jurisdiction (including the evident in two key aspects of modern Australian law: the Torrens discretionary non-exercise of jurisdiction and anti-suit injunctions); (3) system of land registration (which forms a large part of this unit of Substance and procedure (with particular reference to limitation of study) and the developing law of indigenous title to land (which is actions and damages); (4) Proof of foreign law; (5) Exclusionary studied in Introduction to Property and Commercial Law, but which doctrines (foreign revenue and penal laws, foreign governmental may surface occasionally in parts of this unit also). interests and foreign laws contrary to forum public policy); (6) Choice This unit considers in particular the following topics: priorities between of law in contract; (7) Choice of law in tort; (8) Comparative choice of competing interests in land (building on material from the introductory law in tort (with particular reference to the European Union, Canada unit, Introduction to Property and Commercial Law); the Torrens and the United States of America); and (9) Recognition and system of land registration; co-ownership of land (joint tenancies and enforcement of foreign judgments. tenancies in common); easements; covenants; leases and licences; mortgages. LAWS5005 The unit, inter alia, aims to develop problem solving skills and skills Public International Law in interpreting complex statutory provisions in the Real Property Act Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Ben Saul (daytime stream), Prof 1900 (NSW) and the Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW) Chester Brown (evening stream) Session: Semester 2, Summer Main Classes: Daytime stream: 2x2hr seminars/wk for 10 weeks. Evening stream: 1x3hr seminar/wk for 13 weeks. Prerequisites: LAWS5000 Prohibitions: LAWS1023 LAWS5009 or LAWS1018 Assessment: 1hr interim exam (25%) and 2hr final open-book The Legal Profession exam (75%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Normal Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Rita Shackel (daytime (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening stream), Prof Simon Rice (evening stream) Session: Semester 1, Summer The compulsory unit of study is an introduction to public international Main Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks (daytime stream), 1x3hr seminar/wk for 13 weeks (evening stream) Prohibitions: LAWS1001 or law. The unit surveys the fundamental rules and principles public LAWS2013 or LAWS3002 or LAWS3004 Assessment: 2000wd interim international law through an examination of the following topics (1) assessment (40%) amd final take-home exam (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal the nature, function and scope of public international law, (2) the (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening sources of public international law, (3) the law of treaties including The Legal Profession critically examines notions of legal principles of treaty interpretation, (4) the relationship between public professionalism and the regulation of legal services markets, legal international law and municipal law, (5) the extent of civil and criminal practice and practitioners. Part 1 of The Legal Profession examines state jurisdiction, (6) immunities from state jurisdiction including the nature of legal professionalism, the structure of the legal profession diplomatic privileges and immunities (7) state responsibility, including and the contours that shape legal services markets. Part 2 explores diplomatic protection, nationality of claims and exhaustion of local the regulation of the profession including historical challenges and remedies, (8) regulation of the use of force in international relations, diverse theoretical views and models of regulation are examined.The and (9) dispute settlement. current regulatory regime in New South Wales is analysed in detail focusing on recent changes and the impact of a National Legal LAWS5007 Profession. Part 3 explores specific forms of legal practice, highlights Public Law the major cultural and economic forces that challenge the parameters Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Andrew Edgar (Daytime of legal professionalism and regulation of the profession. Alternative stream), Dr Emily Hammond (evening stream) Session: Semester 2, Summer Main Classes: Day stream: 2x2hr seminars/wk for 10 weeks. Evening stream: ways of organising legal practice and the legal services market are 1 x 3hr seminar/wk for 13 weeks Prerequisites: LAWS5000 or LAWS1006 canvassed focusing in particular, on the impacts of modern technology Prohibitions: LAWS1004 or LAWS1021 or LAWS2002 or LAWS3003 and globalisation. Part 4 evaluates the lawyer-client relationship and Assessment: 1hr interim closd-book exam (30%) and 2hr final open-book exam suggests strategies to facilitate equality and effective communication (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening in the delivery of legal services. Furthermore, it examines lawyers© duties to clients, the Court and third parties, and the ways in which This unit is designed to introduce students to the principles and the rules and principles of confidentiality and conflicts of interest shape structures that underpin constitutional and administrative law in
73 Units of study the advice and representation lawyers provide to clients. This unit of statutory rights and remedies (such as those under the Australian study demands active participation by students and ongoing critical Consumer Law); reflection of the issues raised throughout the semester. (c) Liability and remedies for misleading or deceptive conduct under statute (in particular, under s 18 of the Australian Consumer Law); LAWS5001 (d) Trespass to Land including damage by aircraft Torts (e) Nuisance; Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Barbar McDonald (full-time stream), Mr Ross Anderson (part-time stream) Session: Semester 1 Classes: (f) Intentional Interference with goods; Daytime stream: 2x2hr seminars/wk for 10 weeks. Evening stream: 1x3hr (g) Negligence Liability for property damage and pure economic loss seminar/wk for 13 weeks. Corequisites: LAWS5000 Prohibitions: LAWS1010 or LAWS1012 or LAWS3001 Assessment: Daytime stream: Tutorial in tort, including liability for negligent misstatement, liability for participation abd two tutorial presentations (10%), compuslory take-home economic loss suffered by third parties rather than the primary victim, assignment (30%), and final 2hr closed book exam (60%). Evening stream: 45 liability for defective construction; min closed-book interim test (20%) and 2hr closed-book final exam (80%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening (h) Proportionate liability where it applies to tort, contract and statutory liabilities. This is a general introductory unit of study concerned with liability for Other topics may be studied to the extent class time allows. These civil wrongs, with particular emphasis on torts protecting personal topics may include: the intentional economic torts such as deceit; integrity, safety and freedom from personal injury. The unit seeks to breach of statutory duty; illegality in contract. examine and evaluate, through a critical and analytical study of primary and secondary materials, the function and scope of modern tort law and the rationale and utility of its governing principles. Particular topics on which the unit will focus include: (a) The relationship between torts and other branches of the common law including contract and criminal law; (b) The role of fault as the principal basis of liability in the modern law; (c) Historical development of trespass and the action on the case and the contemporary relevance of this development; (d) Trespass to the person (battery, assault, and false imprisonment); (e) The action on the case for intentional injury; (f) Defences to trespass, including consent, intellectual disability, childhood, necessity and contributory negligence; (g) Development and scope of the modern tort of negligence, including detailed consideration of duty of care and breach of duty and causation and remoteness of damage with particular reference to personal and psychiatric injury; (h) Compensation for personal injuries, including special and alternative compensation schemes; (i) Injuries to relational interests, including compensation to relatives of victims of fatal accidents; (j) Defences to negligence. (k) Vicarious Liability and non-delegable duties (l) Joint and several liability and contribution.
LAWS5006 Torts and Contracts II Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Barbara McDonald and Dr Kate Owens (daytime stream), Mr Ross Anderson (evening stream) Session: Semester 2 Classes: Daytime stream: 1x2hr lecture and 1x1hr lecture and 1x1hr tutorial/wk for 10 weeks.for 10 weeks.Evening stream: 1x3hr seminar/wk for 13 weeks. Prerequisites: (LAWS5000 or LAWS1006) and (LAWS5001 or LAWS1012) and (LAWS5002 or LAWS1015) Prohibitions: LAWS1017 Assessment: Daytime stream: 2000wd assignment (30%) and final 2hr closed-book exam (70%). Evening stream: 45 min interim test (20%) and 2hr closed-book final exam (80%). Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening
This unit aims to develop the integrated study of the law of civil obligations and remedies. Liabilities in tort, contract and under statute frequently overlap in practice. Equitable principles also play an important role in providing remedies in a contractual context. This course builds on the introduction to tort law and contract law which students acquired in Torts and Contracts respectively. It will include the study of more advanced topics in both areas and consider related statutes such as the Australian Consumer Law. Core topics are: (a) Causation and remoteness of damage principles in contract law and the calculation of damages for breach of contract; (b) Vitiating factors and other factors affecting contracts, including: unfair or unconscionable dealing; unfair terms in contracts; mistake and misrepresentation; duress; and undue influence. This topic includes a study of equitable as well as common law principles and
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Juris Doctor Elective Units of Study
Students must complete 42 Credit Points of elective units of study. Part 1- International, Comparative, and Transnational Electives
Students must complete a minimum of 6 Credit Points from Part 1 to satisfy the International, Comparative, and Transnational requirement LAWS5108 6 P LAWS1018 or LAWS1023 or LAWS2005 or LAWS5005 Semester 1 Advanced Public International Law N LAWS3009 or LAWS3408 LAWS5368 6 N LAWS3014 or LAWS3068 Intensive Chinese Laws and Chinese Legal Enrolment in the Shanghai Winter School is by separate application to the Law School. December Systems LAWS5178 6 N LAWS3478 or LAWS6846 Intensive Development, Law and Human Rights Enrolment in the Himalyan Field School is by separate application to the Law School. February LAWS5207 6 P LAWS5002 Semester 1a Energy Law: Renewables and Emerging Tech LAWS5137 6 P LAWS1015 or LAWS1002 or LAWS2008 or LAWS5002 Semester 2 International Commercial Arbitration N LAWS3092 or LAWS3437 LAWS5138 6 P LAWS1015 or LAWS1002 or LAWS2008 or LAWS5002 Semester 2 International Commercial N LAWS3072 or LAWS3438 Transactions LAWS5134 6 P LAWS2005 or LAWS1018 or LAWS1023 or LAWS5005 Semester 2 International Human Rights Law N LAWS3034 or LAWS3434 LAWS5189 6 P LAWS1018 or LAWS1023 or LAWS5005 Intensive International Moot N LAWS3035 or LAWS3093 or LAWS3489 December Note: Department permission required for enrolment Intensive Enrolment in this unit of study will be by special application, and will be based on competitve February selection in accordance with the rules of the individual competition. Semester 1 LAWS5141 6 Semester 1 Introduction to Islamic Law LAWS5144 6 N LAWS3076 or LAWS3444 Intensive Japanese Law Applications for the offshore intensive unit are by separate application to Sydney Law School. February LAWS5194 6 N LAWS3494 or LAWS6149 Intensive July Legal Systems in South East Asia Enrolment in the winter school is by application to the Law School. LAWS5199 6 P (LAWS2002 or (LAWS2010 and LAWS1021) or (LAWS5007 and LAWS5010)) and Semester 1 Migration, Refugees and Forced (LAWS1004 or LAWS3000 or LAWS3003 or LAWS2011 or LAWS5011) Migration C (LAWS2002 or LAWS2010 or LAWS5010) and (LAWS1018 or LAWS2005 or LAWS1023 or LAWS5005) N LAWS3045 or LAWS3458 or LAWS5158 or LAWS3453 or LAWS5153 or LAWS3499 LAWS5157 6 N LAWS3015 or LAWS3457 Semester 2 Private International Law B LAWS5183 6 N LAWS3440 or LAWS3086 or LAWS3483 or LAWS6218 or LAWS6062 Semester 2 War Law: Use of Force and Humanitarian Law Part 1 - Master©s Level Electives (International, Comparative, and Transnational)
Students may choose no more than 24 Credit Points of master©s level units of study in the Juris Doctor. LAWS6141 6 Intensive Asia Pacific Environmental Law August LAWS6091 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May Chinese International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. LAWS6320 6 This unit replaced LAWS6320 Climate Disaster Law. Intensive Climate Justice and Disaster Law September LAWS6128 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. March LAWS6222 6 Intensive Corporate Governance March LAWS6318 6 Intensive Corporate Innovation and Regulation December LAWS6140 6 Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. Intensive July Corp Soc Responsibility: Theory/Pol LAWS6997 6 A Available to law graduates only. Students undertaking this unit must have a good working Intensive Cross-Border Deals knowledge of the Australian Corporations Act and the rules and practices applicable to securities October offerings and takeovers or the equivalent in their home jurisdiction.
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6889 6 Intensive May Death Law LAWS6852 6 A Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Intensive May Doing Business in China have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6355 6 Students who have previously completed both LAWS6191 Water Law and Climate Change Intensive Energy and Water Security Law and LAWS6163 Energy and Climate Law are not permitted to enrol in this unit. October LAWS6307 6 N LAWS6230 or LAWS6869 Semester 1 Expert Evidence and Class Action Students without a law degree or equivalent may enrol in this unit but should be aware that Procedure the unit focuses on legal and evidentiary issues.This unit replaced LAWS6230 Expert Evidence and LAWS6869 Class Actions and Complex Litigation. LAWS6334 6 Intensive Gender Inequality and Development August LAWS6964 6 Intensive May Global Energy and Resources Law LAWS6920 6 Intensive July Global Health Law LAWS6022 6 Intensive May International and Comparative Labour Law LAWS6061 6 Intensive May International Environmental Law LAWS6037 6 Semester 1 International Import/Export Laws LAWS6932 6 Intensive May Law and Investment in Asia LAWS6047 6 Intensive Law of the Sea October LAWS6928 6 N LAWS3478, LAWS5178 Intensive April Law, Justice and Development This unit is compulsory for MLawIntDev students. LAWS6944 6 Intensive Market Manipulation and Insider November Trading LAWS6341 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive July Media Law: Comparative provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit Perspectives http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6065 6 This unit replaced LAWS6065 Pollution and Contaminated Land. Intensive May Pollution, Corporate Liability and Govern LAWS6345 6 Intensive May Principles of Financial Regulation LAWS6177 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive May Tax Treaties taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6119 6 Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective Intensive May The State and Global Governance or capstone unit. LAWS6109 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive UK International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. September LAWS6844 6 Intensive May US Corporate Law LAWS6171 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May US International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. LAWS6063 6 A limited knowledge of law of treaties Intensive World Trade Organization Law I N LAWS3439 or LAWS5139 September
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Prohibitions: LAWS3478 or LAWS6846 Assessment: 1 x take-home Juris Doctor Electives Units of Study assessment (50%) and 4000wd research essay (50%). Mode of delivery: Block mode Part 1- International, Comparative, and Note: Enrolment in the Himalyan Field School is by separate application to the Transnational Electives Units of Study Law School.
LAWS5108 This unit exposes students to the role and limits of law in addressing Advanced Public International Law acute problems of socio-economic development and human rights in developing countries, through an interactive field school conducted Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Mary Crock, Prof Chester Brown Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks over two weeks in Nepal, one of the world©s poorest countries. The Prerequisites: LAWS1018 or LAWS1023 or LAWS2005 or LAWS5005 themes to be explored are likely to include: The transition from armed Prohibitions: LAWS3009 or LAWS3408 Assessment: 3,000wd essay (30%) conflict to peace in the aftermath of a Maoist insurgency and the end and 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day of the monarchy in Nepal (including issues of transitional criminal This unit provides an opportunity for students who are familiar with justice, the drafting of a new constitution, and building a new legal the basic institutions and processes of public international law to and political system in light of Nepalese legal traditions and foreign deepen their understanding by studying in greater detail than is legal influences); The protection of socio-economic rights (including possible in the introductory unit several areas of conceptual importance rights to food, water, housing, and livelihoods), minority rights (of and contemporary relevance. It follows that a prerequisite is the unit, ©tribals©, and ©dalits© in the caste system), and the ©right to development© LAWS1023 Public International Law or LAWS5005 Public International under constitutional and international law; The interaction between Law, or an equivalent unit undertaken at another institution. local disputes over natural resources, human displacement caused The topics covered by this unit are: (1) the international law of the by development projects, environmental protection and climate change sea; (2) international environmental law; (3) international refugee law in the context of fragile Himalayan ecologies; The legal protection of and related human rights laws; and (4) the law of international refugees (Tibetan or Bhutanese) in camp or mass influx situations, in organisations and systems of monitoring and compliance in the context of the limited resources of a developing country and the international law.The different aspects of the course are tied together causes of, and solutions to, human displacement; and tThe experience using disasters, climate change and forced migration as unifying of women in development and human rights processes. The issues themes. One half of the course addresses issues that involve the will be drawn together by reflection upon the influence of, and interaction of nation states under international law, while the second resistance to, human rights and international law in developmental half deals with international law regulating the interaction of states processes. with natural persons. The chosen topics are specialised, substantive LAWS5207 areas of law which are of particular importance to global governance Energy Law: Renewables and Emerging Tech of resources, particularly for a large, ecologically diverse and maritime State such as Australia, and are extremely topical on the national and Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Penelope Crossley Session: Semester 1a Classes: Taught intensively as 1x7hr seminars/week for six weeks international agendas. Prerequisites: LAWS5002 Assessment: mock negotiation exercise (30%), in-class test (30%), and take-home exam (40%) Mode of delivery: Normal LAWS5368 (lecture/lab/tutorial) day Chinese Laws and Chinese Legal Systems The mass commercialisation and uptake of renewable energy will be Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Vivienne Bath Session: Intensive one of the most significant developments in the 21st century in terms December Classes: This unit is undertaken in intensive mode (3 weeks) in China. Teaching takes place in November/December in Shanghai as part of of transforming both the industrial sector and daily life. The shift away the Shanghai Winter School. Prohibitions: LAWS3014 or LAWS3068 from fossil fuels is already noticeable, with net investment in new Assessment: Optional 1500wd essay (20%) and 2hr exam to be completed in renewable energy generation now exceeding that for fossil fuels. This Shanghai (80% or 100%) Mode of delivery: Block mode unit explores the legal challenges associated with the increased uptake Note: Enrolment in the Shanghai Winter School is by separate application to of renewable energy and emerging energy technologies. It considers the Law School. approaches to electricity market design, and considers whether This unit will provide students with an overall picture of the modern regulatory intervention in the market is warranted. Given the Chinese legal system. It will develop a perception of its unique international nature of the renewable energy sector, students will character by tracing its role through major social epochs and the role explore and evaluate the effectiveness of the laws and policy of law in a socialist market economy. It will examine the concept of approaches of different countries in promoting the increased law as a political function and the implementation of law, not so much deployment of renewable energy. Throughout this unit students will through courts, as through administrative fiats and authority, making also have the opportunity to explore the issues that may arise law essentially a function of politics and administration. The unit will throughout the life of a new renewable energy project, including illustrate these perceptions through the study of various legal regimes. environment and planning disputes, competition law issues, the need Lecture topics may include: Chinese legal history; Chinese legal to successfully negotiate with key stakeholders, and to consider system; Criminal law and procedure; Constitutional law; civil law and creative solutions to addressing them. procedure; legal profession; administrative law; contract law; property law; company law; intellectual property law; environmental Law; foreign LAWS5137 joint ventures; arbitration and mediation; foreign trade law and taxation International Commercial Arbitration law. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Chester Brown Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prerequisites: LAWS5178 LAWS1015 or LAWS1002 or LAWS2008 or LAWS5002 Prohibitions: LAWS3092 or LAWS3437 Assessment: 1 x 3,500wd mid-term assignment Development, Law and Human Rights (30%) and 1 x 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof David Kinley Session: Intensive day February Classes: Taught intensively in January and February in Nepal..
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This unit of study aims to introduce students to the fundamentals of LAWS3093 or LAWS3489 Assessment: For the Tokyo Negotiation and international commercial arbitration. The course covers the entire Arbitration Competition: Course participation, general participation and preparation as required (15%), research and writing of memorials (35%), process of international arbitration: the significance of international preparation and participation in mooting rounds and competitions (50%). For commercial arbitration in international dispute resolution; the the Jessup Moot and Vis Moot, students are assessed generally on their importance of a well drafted arbitration agreement; all procedural and contribution to the research for and drafting of the written memorials, team work, conceptual aspects and legal issues arising during cross border oral skills, and preparation and participation in the mooting rounds and competitions. Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day arbitrations; arbitral awards and the enforcement of arbitral awards Note: Department permission required for enrolment. Note: Enrolment in this around the world through the 1958 New York Convention, and the unit of study will be by special application, and will be based on competitve relevance and use of mediation (and its hybrids) in resolving selection in accordance with the rules of the individual competition. commercial disputes. The unit will address the role and significance of specialised forms of international arbitrations and organisations This unit of study will involve participation in one of three international involved in administering international arbitrations, including moots, which in 2016 will be the Jessup Moot, the Willem C Vis investor-State arbitrations under investment treaties and free trade International Commercial Arbitration Moot, and the Tokyo Negotiation agreements. and Arbitration Competition. There will be a competitive selection process for enrolment in the course. For all moots, students will work LAWS5138 as a team preparing written memorials and oral argument on a set International Commercial Transactions problem as required by each moot. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Vivienne Bath Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prerequisites: LAWS1015 or LAWS5141 LAWS1002 or LAWS2008 or LAWS5002 Prohibitions: LAWS3072 or Introduction to Islamic Law LAWS3438 Assessment: Either [3500wd mid-term research essay (50%) and Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Salim Farrar Session: final exam (50%)] or [final exam (100%)]. Mode of delivery: Normal Semester 1 Classes: 2x 2hr seminars per week Assessment: Class (lecture/lab/tutorial) day participation (10%) and blog (30%) and 4000-5000wd research essay (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day The objective of this unit is to provide students with an introduction to a number of areas of international and cross-border business law and This seminar program is an introductory course in Islamic Law. It will business transactions and to provide students with a basis which will focus on Shari©ah (the classical laws as derived from the religious allow them to study some of those areas in more detail. The course sources), and will seek to explain its relationship to the contemporary will begin with an overview of the scope of the law relating to laws of Muslim states and to the cultural practices of Muslim international transactions. The core topics are international sale of communities living in Australia and other predominantly non-Muslim goods, carriage of goods, international payments and financing of states. The course aims to provide a basic understanding of the international sales, an introduction to the regulation of international sources of Islamic Law, their interpretation, and of the ©Schools of trade, and methods of doing business in foreign markets, including Law© which predominate in the Muslim World. The case studies, in international protection of intellectual property, dispute resolution in particular, aim to engage students to assess critically past and present international business disputes, and the availability and use of understandings in the contexts of modernity, post-modernity, ©human available business structures and methods such as direct foreign rights©, and social change. investment. As part of the discussion of doing business in foreign markets and use of available business structures, students will look LAWS5144 at the structure and drafting of international commercial agreements, Japanese Law and may participate in a skills exercise. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Luke Nottage Session: Intensive February Classes: Held as an intensive in February in Kyoto and Tokyo. LAWS5134 Introduction class held in Sydney prior to departure. Includes field trips such as International Human Rights Law study tour to Osaka. Prohibitions: LAWS3076 or LAWS3444 Assessment: Two 750wd reflective notes (20%) and 4500wd research essay (80%) Mode Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof David Kinley Session: Semester of delivery: Block mode 2 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 week Prerequisites: LAWS2005 or Note: Applications for the offshore intensive unit are by separate application to LAWS1018 or LAWS1023 or LAWS5005 Prohibitions: LAWS3034 or Sydney Law School. LAWS3434 Assessment: 3000wd essay (50%) and 3000wd take-home exam (50%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day This unit aims to develop the general skills of comparative lawyers, This unit of study introduces students to the principles and practice to effectively and critically assess contemporary developments in the of international human rights law - a species of international law and legal system of the largest economy in our region. The unit is taught policy and a field of ever-expanding dimensions. It will introduce intensively in Japan after an introductory class in Sydney. The first students to some key concepts, debates, documents and institutions week in Kyoto provides an introduction to how law operates generally in this field, while encouraging critical examination of these from a in Japanese society. After an overview of comparative law techniques, variety of angles. In summary, this unit considers the question: What Japanese legal history and its contemporary legal system, classes happens when we regard a situation or predicament as one involving explore civil and criminal justice, politics and constitutionalism, a breach of international human rights law? What possibilities and government and law, gender and law, lawyers and the courts in Japan problems does this entail? Addressing these questions, we will look as well as consumers and law. The two days in Tokyo examine at: (a) particular fora where international human rights law is being business law topics in socio-economic context in more detail, after an produced (international tribunals, domestic courts, multilateral bodies introduction to the Japanese economy and international trade policy. - including United Nations organs - regional agencies, Topics include dispute resolution, investment and finance law, labour non-governmental organisations, academic institutions, and the law and corporate governance. media); (b) particular settings where international human rights law LAWS5194 is being deployed (in Australia and elsewhere); and (c) particular Legal Systems in South East Asia identities/subjects that international human rights law aspires to shape, regulate or secure. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Simon Butt, Dr Salim Farrar Session: Intensive July Classes: Intensive mode. Teaching takes place in July in Indonesia and Malaysia as part of the Southeast Asian Winter School. LAWS5189 Prohibitions: LAWS3494 or LAWS6149 Assessment: Compulsory reflective International Moot blog (25%) and final take-home exam (75%) Mode of delivery: Block mode Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Chester Brown (Vis Moot), Dr Note: Enrolment in the winter school is by application to the Law School. Alison Pert (Jessup Moot), Prof Luke Nottage (Tokyo Negotiation and Arbitration Competition). Session: Intensive December, Intensive February, Semester 1 This unit introduces students to the legal systems of Southeast Asia, Classes: There are no formal classes scheduled for this unit. Prerequisites: focusing on Indonesia and Malaysia. The course emphasises legal LAWS1018 or LAWS1023 or LAWS5005 Prohibitions: LAWS3035 or pluralism - that is, the operation of different bodies of law for particular
78 Units of study groups in those countries, colonial, national, Islamic and customary Private international law is the part of local or municipal private law law - and compares how countries in Southeast Asia have handled which is concerned with questions which contain a foreign element it. The Indonesia component of the course will be taught at Gadjah i.e. a relevant connection between a fact or party and a foreign legal Mada University in Yogyakarta, which has one of Indonesia©s finest system. For example, private international law issues will require law faculties. Students will learn the fundamentals of the Indonesian consideration if a question arises in New South Wales concerning the legal system. The component will be geared towards not only those distribution of the property of a person who died domiciled in France who want to practice commercial law in Indonesia, but also those who or the validity of a mortgage of shares in a New York corporation or are interested in other areas, including law reform, human rights, the recognition of the dissolution of a marriage by a Norwegian court. Islamic law, constitutional law, environmental law and criminal law. In seeking to develop your understanding of the international The Malaysian component will be taught in the offices of Zico Law, dimension of private law and your appreciation of the fact that many the largest law firm in South East Asia and its most prestigious. legal questions which arise in everyday life are not confined within Students will have lectures from prominent figures in academia, one legal system, this unit of study will address the following topics: government, the legal profession and industry. Students will learn the (1) personal connecting factor (domicile, nationality, residence); (2) fundamentals of the Malaysian legal system in the contexts of its renvoi and the incidental question; (3) transactions involving immovable competing ethnicities, religious diversity and political reform property (e.g. land, intellectual property rights) and movable property (e.g. ships, aircraft, artworks, shares, contractual rights); (4) devolution LAWS5199 of property on death (succession); (5) marriage validity; and (6) Migration, Refugees and Forced Migration dissolution and annulment of marriage, including the recognition of Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Mary Crock Session: Semester foreign dissolutions and annulments of marriage. In addition to these 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/wk for 10 weeks Prerequisites: (LAWS2002 or topics, an introductory survey will address the function, purpose and (LAWS2010 and LAWS1021) or (LAWS5007 and LAWS5010)) and (LAWS1004 or LAWS3000 or LAWS3003 or LAWS2011 or LAWS5011) Corequisites: rationale of private international law, theories and methods (e.g. the (LAWS2002 or LAWS2010 or LAWS5010) and (LAWS1018 or LAWS2005 or territorial theory of law, the vested rights theory), historical development LAWS1023 or LAWS5005) Prohibitions: LAWS3045 or LAWS3458 or and the relationship between statutes and the common law rules of LAWS5158 or LAWS3453 or LAWS5153 or LAWS3499 Assessment: 3000wd private international law. research essay (50%) and 2hr exam (50%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day LAWS5183 Migration Refugees and Forced Migration is designed to introduce War Law: Use of Force and Humanitarian Law students to one of the most fast moving and engaging areas of public Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Ben Saul Session: Semester 2 law. At one level, the unit is about government regulation of the entry Classes: 2x2hr seminars/wk Prohibitions: LAWS3440 or LAWS3086 or of persons into Australia. As such, it is a branch of applied LAWS3483 or LAWS6218 or LAWS6062 Assessment: 3000wd assignment administrative law that concerns the very make-up of our society, (30%) and 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day affecting both who we live with and how we live our lives. Statistics A vital function of public international is its struggle against violence, show that more than one in four Australians were either born overseas both in preventing it from occurring and mitigating its effects once it or had an Australian-born parent. Dramatic skills shortages have seen gets under way. This unit explores two key areas of international law unprecedented rises in the number of migrants brought to Australia devoted to regulating intense violence involving governments or non- on temporary and permanent visas. In spite of this, controversy persists State actors: (1) International Law on the Use of Armed Force, and over the nature of Australia©s immigration program and the extent to (2) International Humanitarian Law (also known as the Law of Armed which the government is doing enough to control both unlawful entry Conflict or the Laws of War).The first part of the course considers the and the quality of the (lawful) migrants. Issues surrounding refugees prohibition on the use of force under customary law and the United and asylum seekers are a constant preoccupation. Covering both Nations Charter; exceptions to that prohibition in cases of self-defence immigration law and domestic aspects of the law of forced migration by States or collective security action by the UN Security Council; the course is also a fine vehicle for exploring issues of human rights controversies over pre-emptive self-defence, humanitarian intervention and the interaction between domestic and international law. and the "Responsibility to Protect"; peacekeeping and peace With Sydney receiving the lion©s share of the migrants that come to enforcement; the role of regional and international actors; and the use Australia each year, migration law has become a growth area for both of force by and against non-State actors.The second part of the course lawyers and for migration agents. By placing the current mechanisms considers the origins, purposes and sources of international for the controlling migration in their legal, social, historical and humanitarian law; its scope of application; the different types and economic contexts, this unit provides an opportunity to explore the thresholds of conflict; the permissible means and methods of warfare "big" issues raised by migration and to look at why the subject has (including restrictions on weapons); the status and treatment of assumed such a central role in the development of Australia©s identity combatants and non-combatants and others (such as spies, as a nation. mercenaries, "unlawful combatants", "terrorists", journalists, and The unit of study is designed to foster the following skills: "private security contractors"); the protection of cultural property and a. Skills of statutory interpretation and problem-solving, through the the environment; the relationship between human rights law and study and use in practical situations of the Migration Act 1958 and its humanitarian law; and the implementation, supervision and associated Regulations; enforcement of humanitarian law (including the prosecution of war crimes and the role of the International Committee of the Red Cross). b. Skills of legal analysis and evaluation, gained through the examination and synthesis of relevant legislation; of court decisions Part 1 - Master©s Level Electives (International, and of rulings by the Migration Review Tribunal; the Refugee Review Comparative, and Transnational) Tribunal; and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in its migration division; and LAWS6141 c. Oral and writing skills, through class participation, simulation Asia Pacific Environmental Law exercises and the preparation of a major research paper. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Saiful Karim, Dr Manuel Solis Session: Intensive August Classes: Aug 22-25 (9-5) Assessment: class LAWS5157 participation (20%), 7000wd essay (80%) Mode of delivery: Block mode Private International Law B In this unit, the environmental law and policy of selected countries Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Ross Anderson Session: Semester and regional organisations in the Asia Pacific will be studied against 2 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: LAWS3015 or LAWS3457 Assessment: Class test (20%), and final 2hr exam (80%). Mode the background of relevant international environmental law and of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day institutions. Unit topics will be divided into four sub-regions: Pacific Island Developing Countries; South East Asia Region (ASEAN and
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Mekong countries); North Asian Region (Japan, People©s Republic of from a global perspective with the emphasis being on comparative China); South Asian Region (South Asian Association of Regional analysis (focusing particularly on Anglo, US and continental European Cooperation [SAARC] Countries). In relation to each region, the approaches, and also developed and developing country approaches). implications of international and regional environmental law and The unit examines the core issues in developing international tax rules institutions will be explored, followed by country specific case studies and identifies different approaches countries have taken in dealing involving a range of issues such as biodiversity, access to modern with these issues. As part of this study, recent trends in international energy services, natural resources and environmental planning; tax rule development will be identified (particularly in the context of industrial pollution; environmental impact assessment; climate change; globalisation) and critiqued. Students should gain an understanding and protection of the marine and coastal environment. Case studies of the different approaches that countries have taken in the on regional environmental issues such as ASEAN Haze will also be development of their international tax rules. included. LAWS6222 LAWS6091 Corporate Governance Chinese International Taxation Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Jennifer Hill Session: Intensive Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Jinyan Li Session: Intensive March Classes: Mar 12, 13 and 21, 22 (9-4) Assessment: general class May Classes: May 2-4 and 7, 8 (9-3.30) Assumed knowledge: It is assumed participation and specialised seminar discussion (20%), class quiz (written) to that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an be held on Day 4 (20%) and essay or take-home exam (60%) Mode of delivery: undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. Assessment: class Block mode participation (10%), 1500wd essay (20%) and 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode This unit will explore a range of recent trends and issues in corporate governance including:- the link between corporate scandals and The object of this unit is to provide an overview of the income tax corporate law reform; the board and independent directors; system of China and a detailed analysis of the most important principles-based versus rules-based regulation; shareholder legislative and treaty rules of China in the area of international income empowerment and institutional investor activism; takeovers and the tax, especially in dealings with Australia. Upon successful completion regulation of executive pay. The unit will examine these issues from of the unit, students will have an advanced understanding of the a comparative law perspective, analysing fundamental differences in policies underlying the Chinese rules for taxing international corporate governance structure and techniques in a range of transactions as well as a detailed knowledge of the principles of jurisdictions, including the US, UK, Germany, China and Australia. income tax law applicable to inbound and outbound transactions.This unit includes a study of: overview of the Chinese income tax system; LAWS6318 taxation of inbound investment into China; taxation of outbound Corporate Innovation and Regulation investment from China; transfer pricing issues, and China©s tax treaties. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Elizabeth Pollman Session: Intensive December Classes: Nov 29, 30 and Dec 6, 7 (9-4) Assessment: LAWS6320 general class participation and specialised seminar discussions (20%), written Climate Justice and Disaster Law class quiz to be held on Day 4 (20%) and essay or exam (60%) (choice of research mode to be discussed with students) Mode of delivery: Block mode Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Rosemary Lyster Session: Intensive September Classes: Aug 31, Sep 1 and 7, 8 (9-5) Assessment: This unit will cover recent developments in innovation and the law, class participation (10%) and 8000wd essay (90%) Mode of delivery: Block including disruptive technology and new business models in a range mode of contexts including the sharing economy, fintech, and more. The Note: This unit replaced LAWS6320 Climate Disaster Law. unit will also consider the role of trust, the increasing importance of Climate change impacts are already being felt around the world and politics in corporate governance, and a range of new global public law governments are called upon to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, issues that have affected the role of the corporation, and the impact engage in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, and of technology, in society. As well as discussing cutting-edge respond to the loss and damage caused by climate disasters. Climate developments in innovation, the unit will discuss challenges for the disasters demand an integration of multilateral negotiations on regulator in staying abreast and ahead of these fast moving changes emissions reduction and adaptation, disaster risk reduction, in society. sustainable development, Human Rights and human security. Via detailed examination of recent law and policy initiatives from developed LAWS6140 and developing countries, this unit offers students a unique approach Corp Soc Responsibility: Theory/Pol to human and non-human Climate Justice and its application to all Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Ian B Lee Session: stages of a disaster: prevention; response, recovery and rebuilding; Intensive July Classes: Jul 19, 20 and 23, 24 (9-4) Assessment: class and compensation and risk transfer. The role of insurance plays an participation (15%), assignment (10%) and 6000wd essay (75%) Mode of delivery: Block mode important part in compensation and risk transfer. The unit of study Note: Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. comprehensively analyses the complexities of climate science, economics and their interfaces with the climate law-and policy-making Today there is an apparent consensus in favour of corporate processes, and also provides an in-depth analysis of multilateral responsibility, as reflected in instruments such as ASX Principle 3 climate change negotiations dating from the establishment of the 1992 ("Act ethically and responsibly"), but behind the appearance of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) consensus lie difficult questions of principle, policy and practical to the 2015 Paris Agreement. application. This unit aims to equip participants to engage in a sophisticated manner in the analysis of such questions. The seminar LAWS6128 is organized around two broad themes. First, the seminar will examine Comparative International Taxation corporate responsibility in the traditional sense of the consideration Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Michael Dirkis, Assoc Prof Celeste that corporations may be expected to give to the impact of their Black Session: Intensive March Classes: Mar 21-23 and 26, 27 (9-3.30) activities have on society, even as they strive to earn profits for their Assumed knowledge: It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have shareholders. Topics include environmental responsibility, corporate successfully completed an undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. Assessment: class work (30%) and 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Block philanthropy, and the respective roles of directors, managers and mode shareholders. Second, the seminar will deal with current debates about the rights and responsibilities that arise from corporate Comparative International Taxation is a detailed study of the basic personhood, including those concerning corporate criminal principles of international taxation (residence, source, relief from responsibility, corporate political participation, and the status of international double taxation, anti-deferral rules, withholding tax, corporations under international law. Participants will learn to work transfer pricing, thin capitalisation, and tax treaties).The unit is taught with relevant primary and secondary legal materials, including materials
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They transplantation, organ sale and theft, posthumous reproduction, ©mercy© will also become familiar with the conceptual tools available from killing outside medical settings and the jurisdiction of the Coroner. various interdisciplinary perspectives (e.g., law, economics, philosophy, The unit will interrogate these and other contemporary challenges for politics) for analysing problems of corporate responsibility. the law relating to death and dying both within Australia and, where appropriate, other selected comparator jurisdictions (US, UK and LAWS6997 Canada).These will be mapped against socio-historical understandings Cross-Border Deals of the changing meaning of death, dying and serious disability in Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Ronald C Barusch Session: Western societies, and students will be encouraged to reflect on the Intensive October Classes: Oct 5, 6 and 12, 13 (9-4) Assumed knowledge: broader legal implications of these developments. Available to law graduates only. Students undertaking this unit must have a good working knowledge of the Australian Corporations Act and the rules and practices applicable to securities offerings and takeovers or the equivalent in LAWS6852 their home jurisdiction. Assessment: class participation (10%), in-class quiz Doing Business in China (10%) and assignment (80%) Mode of delivery: Block mode Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Vivienne Bath Session: Intensive May Classes: Apr 20, 21 and May 4, 5 Assumed knowledge: Students who This unit is for law graduates who have, or intend to have, a practice do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either that exposes them to cross-border financings and acquisitions. The have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning unit highlights the distinctive concepts and practices relating to and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit. Assessment: 3500wd overseas securities and corporate laws in cross-border transactions essay (50%) and take-home exam (50%) or take-home exam (100%) Mode of delivery: Block mode (focusing to a significant extent on US laws and practices). It concentrates on resolving the challenges non-Australian issues can This unit aims to provide an introduction to the legal and practical pose to transactions even if Australian law applies to many aspects aspects of doing business in China. The unit will commence with an of the deal. The US segment will begin with a brief examination the overview of the Chinese legal, political and economic system and will US Federal system in which corporate and securities law responsibility then move on to an examination of the system of commercial is allocated between the states and Federal government, proceed to regulation in China, including contracts, land use, regulation of private a detailed discussion of the process of offering securities in the US and state-owned businesses and Chinese companies and securities and how it can affect non-US offerings in practice, and finally will laws. The unit will focus on Chinese contract law and the foreign conclude with an exploration of the regulation of takeovers under US investment regime and the related structuring and regulatory issues law. Significant US M and A concepts and practices, including mergers, related to foreign participation in the Chinese market. Areas covered break-up fees, poison pills, and proxy fights will be discussed. The will discuss the principal issues relating to the establishment of a remainder of the unit will focus on deal regulation of selected other corporate or other presence in China and the related negotiation overseas jurisdictions in which there have been recent activity. We process. The unit will conclude with an examination of methods of will also examine practical consequences of the regulatory resolution of disputes arising under contracts entered into in China. requirements of these jurisdictions, particularly in so far as they relate More specialized topics which may be covered include intellectual to M and A, as well as certain subjects that have worldwide property, labour law, regulation of financial institutions and Chinese applicability. The unit will be taught by a series of seminars, and may investment overseas. include an occasional guest lecture/panel discussion.The purpose of the unit is to assist Australian and other non-US lawyers in: identifying LAWS6355 potential cross-border issues; and being creative in solving the Energy and Water Security Law challenges that arise in international securities transactions. The Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Rosemary Lyster Session: lecturer writes the Dealpolitik column for The Wall Street Journal and Intensive October Classes: Sep 21, 22 and 28, 29 (9-5) Assessment: class was for over 30 years a merger and acquisition and securities lawyer participation (10%) and 8000wd essay (90%) Mode of delivery: Block mode in the US (resident for several years in Australia). Note: Students who have previously completed both LAWS6191 Water Law and Climate Change and LAWS6163 Energy and Climate Law are not permitted to enrol in this unit. LAWS6889 Death Law The unit grapples with the issues of global energy and water security Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Cameron Stewart Session: at a time of climate change and considers how different jurisdictions Intensive May Classes: Apr 12, 13 and May 10, 11 (9-5) Assessment: class such as the United States, the European Union and Australia have presentation (20%) and assignment or 7000wd essay (80%) Mode of delivery: developed very different law and policy responses to the issues. It Block mode investigates the inevitable links between energy and water security Western attitudes toward death have undergone a remarkable such as where governments choose to rely on hydroelectric power to transformation in the last century. For many, death now takes place generate renewable energy at a time of water scarcity, or where the in the hospital or the hospice following the decision of a doctor to extraction of energy resources might impact on water and food cease providing treatment. As the management of death has passed security. Australia is used as a case study to critically analyse how from the family to health care professionals, it now makes sense to National Competition Principles and deregulatory tendencies may regard the moment and circumstances of death as largely medical persuade governments to establish national markets to try to best phenomena. Moreover, as ©autonomy© has taken a dominant place allocate scarce resources. Australia©s National Electricity Market and amongst ethical values, it also makes sense to describe and measure national water trading markets, as well as the corporatisation and death in terms of its ©acceptability© both to the dying person and his privatisation of energy and water utilities, provide fascinating examples or her survivors. In tandem with these changes, technological of this. innovations have transformed the dead or dying body into a potential source of valuable (and recyclable) biological material. These LAWS6307 developments have thrown up new and urgent challenges for legal Expert Evidence and Class Action Procedure understandings about the timing of, and criminal responsibility for Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Peter Cashman Session: causing, death both within and outside medical settings. These Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Prohibitions: LAWS6230 or LAWS6869 Assessment: 4000wd expert evidence essay (50%) and 4000wd developments have also disturbed conventional understandings of class action essay (50%). Information on non-assessable tasks will be made the corpse as sacred. Topics to be covered may include: death in available in the unit outline for enrolled students. Mode of delivery: Normal contemporary Australia, the legal definition of life and death, medical (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening futility and the concept of ©lives not worth living©, euthanasia (with and Note: Students without a law degree or equivalent may enrol in this unit but without request), physician-assisted suicide, refusing and withholding should be aware that the unit focuses on legal and evidentiary issues. This unit replaced LAWS6230 Expert Evidence and LAWS6869 Class Actions and life-prolonging treatment in adults and children, the Shipman/Patel Complex Litigation. scandals, ownership of the corpse and body parts, dead donor organ
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The expert evidence component of the unit will examine the role of LAWS6920 expert witnesses, their reports and their testimony in civil and criminal Global Health Law cases. This will include an examination of the law governing the Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Lawrence Gostin Session: admissibility of expert evidence and the procedural means by which Intensive July Classes: Jul 17-20 (10-5.30) Assessment: Option 1: 7000wd such evidence is adduced. Part of the unit will be devoted to current essay (80%) and simulation participation and contribution (20%) or Option 2: 4000wd essay (50%), simulation participation and contribution (20%) and controversies surrounding the role of experts in particular civil and assignment (30%) Mode of delivery: Block mode criminal cases. The class actions component of the unit examines the substantive Today, domestic health and global health are recognized as intertwined law, legal theories and procedural devices for the litigation and and inseparable. The determinants of health (e.g. pathogens, air, resolution of large scale, complex civil litigation. This encompasses water, goods, and lifestyle choices) are increasingly international in representative actions, class actions and the use of other mechanisms origin, expanding the need for health governance structures that for the aggregation and resolution of mass claims, including under transcend traditional and increasingly inadequate national approaches. bankruptcy law. In this unit, students will gain an in-depth understanding of global health law through careful examination of the major contemporary There will be a particular focus on Part IVA of the Federal Court Act problems in global health, the principal international legal instruments (Cth) and representative action procedures available in Australia under governing global health, the principal international organizations, and the rules of court and statutory provisions in various areas (including innovative solutions for global health governance in the 21st Century. discrimination, human rights, insurance law, privacy, corporations law Class sessions will consist of a combination of lecture and interactive and shareholder rights). discussion, culminating in a global health law simulation. The class The unit will also cover comparative material on group litigation will cover naturally occurring infectious diseases (e.g. extensively drug procedures and class actions under the laws of other countries, resistant tuberculosis, malaria, Zika virus, and HIV/AIDS), past (e.g., including England and Wales, Canada and the United States. SARS, influenza A H1N1 and Ebola) and future (e.g., Influenza Textbooks pandemics), bioterrorism events (e.g., anthrax or smallpox), and/or Freckleton I, and Selby H, Expert Evidence: Law, Practice, Procedure and major chronic diseases caused by modern lifestyles (e.g., obesity or Advocacy, Thompson, Sydney; Grave D, Adams K and Betts J, Class Actions tobacco use). in Australia (2nd ed) Thompson Reuters, 2012 Textbooks LAWS6334 Lawrence O. Gostin, Global Health Law (March 2014) available from Harvard Gender Inequality and Development University Press or Amazon.com. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Jeni Klugman Session: Intensive LAWS6022 August Classes: Aug 7-10 (9-5) Assessment: class participation (10%), presentation (40%), 5000wd essay (50%) Mode of delivery: Block mode International and Comparative Labour Law Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Elizabeth Barmes Session: The unit is set up around a series of major policy questions central to Intensive May Classes: Apr 13, 14 and 27, 28 (9-5) Assessment: class the gender equality agenda, and linked to the post 2015 international participation (10%), 1000wd assignment (20%) and 6000wd essay (70%) Mode development debates. Following an overview session about global of delivery: Block mode and regional patterns, the unit will tackle a series of major policy This unit will examine the growing use of individual labour and equality challenges in turn, concluding with an examination of major global rights to protect working people, with the overall aim of assessing the proposals. The unit will go beyond gender inequality in the labour capacity of this type of regulation to enhance justice, both in the market to explore patterns of violence and political participation, and workplace and more widely. It will use experience in the UK of a highly the role of quotas, including on corporate boards, among others. Links individualized workplace rights and enforcement system to identify to legal reform and human rights will be explored. Students will be strengths and weaknesses in this kind of workplace protection. This asked to work on a specific policy challenge, applying and developing will involve consideration of EU and European Convention on Human the findings discussed in class and in the readings. The unit is Rights standards, while some comparative readings will also be set designed to facilitate student questioning, engagement and and students will be encouraged themselves to bring a comparative participation. No specific textbook is prescribed. There will normally dimension to the issues and assignments. Jumping off from the UK be 2 to 3 required readings for each day, a paper and/or book chapters experience, the unit will evaluate various strategies for enhancing the and additional readings for greater depth. protective capacity of individual workplace rights. These include: (1) conceiving of such rights as fundamental human or constitutional LAWS6964 rights; (2) imposing positive duties on employers and others to promote Global Energy and Resources Law and secure observance of individual labour and equality rights; (3) Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Penny Crossley Session: Intensive institutional innovation to secure workplace protections, for example May Classes: May 3, 4 and 10, 11 (9-5) Assessment: take-home exam (100%) or take-home exam (70%) and optional essay or problem question (30%) Mode via equality and human rights commissions, labour inspectorates, of delivery: Block mode ombudspeople, tax and criminal prosecution authorities; (4) involving third parties in the realization of individual labour standards, for This unit provides a framework for understanding the role of law in: example, NGOs, trade unions, parliamentary and other public inquiries, the discovery, financing, development and utilisation of energy and consumers, campaigners and the press; (5) focussing on employer resources projects; energy trading on wholesale markets; mining and activities that moderate individual labour and equality standards, like resources projects, including competition issues and access to human resources practices, corporate social responsibility regimes essential infrastructure; addressing potential sources of conflict in the and general managerial strategizing. Threaded through the unit will energy and resources sector including in dealing with international be consideration of different methodological approaches to legal trade, native title and other indigenous issues, environmental and research, with the twin goals of increasing what students take from corporate social responsibility issues; and current national and the materials covered and of improving their legal research and international energy and resources controversies. Previous topics analytical skills, including for use in the final essay. Prof Barmes draws have included the role of renewable energy in energy security, on her extensive previous research in this area and her varied challenges posed by energy and resources projects in Africa, conflict background, for example, in legal practice, conducting research for between Europe and Russia over gas supplies, energy storage, coal the Law Commission of England and Wales, as co-editor of the Recent seam gas development, international maritime disputes in Asia over Cases section of the Industrial Law Journal and as co-Director of the offshore oil and gas fields, corruption and transparency, and the QMUL School of Law Centre for Research on Law, Equality and Resource Curse in developing countries. Diversity (LEAD).
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LAWS6061 LAWS6047 International Environmental Law Law of the Sea Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Rosemary Lyster, Assoc Prof Ed Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Tim Stephens Session: Intensive Couzens Session: Intensive May Classes: Apr 27, 28 and May 4, 5 (9-5) October Classes: Oct 18, 19 and 25, 26 (9-5) Assessment: 5000wd essay Assessment: compulsory in-class practical assessment (40%) and assignment (60%) and take-home exam (40%) Mode of delivery: Block mode (60%) Mode of delivery: Block mode The oceans cover two-thirds of the world©s surface, and are vital to This unit aims to provide an introduction to the framework, concepts, international commerce, are a store of important living and non-living sources and techniques of international environmental law, and to resources, and provide indispensable environmental services including provide an overview of international law responses to current and stabilising the global climate system.This unit reviews the major areas emerging environmental challenges. The history and framework of of the law of the sea as it has developed over the centuries. The unit international environmental law will be examined before exploring a takes as its focus the ©constitution© of the oceans, the 1982 UN range of topical international environmental law issues, including Convention on the Law of the Sea and also considers a range of other atmospheric protection and climate change, hazardous substances international conventions and agreements, and current state practice. and wastes, biodiversity and GMOs, the protection of marine living Each of the major maritime zones is assessed, and there is also a resources, the protection of freshwater resources and issues detailed review of several sectoral issues, including the protection of concerning trade.The unit will also survey the influence of international the marine environment, fisheries, navigational rights and freedoms, environmental law on domestic environmental law through case and military uses of the oceans. Where appropriate, reference will be studies. Overarching themes will include the interdependence of made throughout the unit to relevant Australian law and practice, and environmental issues, the effects of scientific uncertainty on to other state practice in the Asia Pacific Region. international environmental regulation, implementation of international environmental obligations between states at difference levels of LAWS6928 economic development and the need for effectiveness in Law, Justice and Development implementation and enforcement. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Adj Prof Livingston Armytage Session: Intensive April Classes: Apr 3, 4 and 23, 24 (9-5) Prohibitions: LAWS3478, LAWS6037 LAWS5178 Assessment: class participation (20%), 2x3000wd essays (2x40%) International Import/Export Laws Mode of delivery: Block mode Note: This unit is compulsory for MLawIntDev students. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Adj Prof Alan Bennett Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Assessment: class assignments This unit provides a critical overview to law and justice reform in (10%), mid-semester take-home exam (25%) and final semester take-home exam (65%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening international development. It analyses the global reform experience over the past half-century. It interrogates the nature and justification(s) This unit is a comparative study of international import/export laws. It of reform ©theory©, studies the empirical evidence of various does not look in detail at Australian law. The material covered in the approaches, and examines the conceptual/practical challenges of unit is based on the WTO multilateral agreements which the 159 WTO evaluating development endeavour, using case studies from the member countries have adopted and which bind them on the topics Asia/Pacific region. Students enrolling in this unit will develop an covered. evidence-based understanding of the use of law and justice reform The unit commences with an introduction to the relevant WTO in broader development strategies. agreements underpinning international import and export laws affecting WTO members. It then provides an introduction to international import LAWS6944 dispute mechanisms through the WTO Dispute Settlement Market Manipulation and Insider Trading Understanding. The Kyoto Convention is then examined to determine Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Greg O©Mahoney Session: the key elements of a modern customs statute. Intensive November Classes: Oct 25, 26 and Nov 1, 2 (9-4) Assessment: class participation (20%), presentation (20%) and 5000wd essay (60%) Mode The unit also examines: Free Trade Agreements; anti-dumping duty; of delivery: Block mode discriminatory taxes/laws on imports; markings and intellectual property rights on imported goods; importers© remedies against customs This unit aims to introduce students to key concepts at the heart of decisions; customs valuation and tariffs; and, customs "post entry" capital market regulation focusing on practices that threaten the audits. integrity of global securities markets. The unit focuses on recent developments (including high profile prosecutions for market abuse) LAWS6932 in Australia and the United States while selecting other jurisdictions Law and Investment in Asia (most notably China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Europe and Hong Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Simon Butt, Prof Vivienne Bath Kong) that are relevant to the different subjects considered.The topics Session: Intensive May Classes: Apr 13, 14 and 27, 28 (9-5) Assessment: addressed will include: market manipulation, insider trading, assignment (30%), 6000wd essay (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode non-disclosure and fraud-on-the-market, penalties, regulation of hedge funds and developments in emerging markets. The aim of this unit is to provide students with a broad overview, on a comparative basis, of the key legal issues commonly faced when LAWS6341 investing and doing business in Asia. This unit looks at the regulation Media Law: Comparative Perspectives of investment across chosen jurisdictions across Asia, including Japan, China and Southeast Asia (particularly Indonesia, but it may also look Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof David Rolph Session: Intensive July Classes: Jul 9, 10 and 12, 13 (9-5) Assessment: 2000wd casenote (30%), at jurisdictions such as Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar and India) and 7000wd essay (70%) Practical field work: Sydney Law School in Europe compares them with each other and with the Australian regulatory Mode of delivery: Block mode system. It also looks at international treaties which increasingly impact Note: Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment on foreign trade and investment regulation in the region; aspects of instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For corporate governance, contract and/or competition law; corporate further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. social responsibility and anti-corruption law; dispute resolution There are striking similarities and overlaps between Australian and (especially international commercial and investor-state arbitration); English media law, reflecting their common origins, but there are also and key issues in modern comparative law which may assist students important differences and divergences. In relation to English media in their study of ©foreign© legal systems. The unit also involves case law, the impact of the United Kingdom©s membership of the European studies and occasional guest lecturers. Union is a significant factor. This unit of study analyses a number of key issues in media law, ranging from defamation law, privacy and breach of confidence, contempt of court, open justice, suppression and non-publication orders and other restrictions on court reporting,
83 Units of study as they arise in Australia, the United Kingdom and the European This unit is designed to study the policy, detailed rules and practical Union. In 2016, the unit taught in Cambridge will include guest lectures application of Australia©s international tax treaties against the by leading media law academics, lawyers and commentators from background of the OECD Model Tax Convention on Income and on the United Kingdom. Capital. Upon successful completion of this unit a student should have Textbooks an advanced understanding of the policies underlying the Australian Rolph, Vitins, Bannister and Joyce, Media Law: Cases, Materials and tax treaty position in relation to the taxation of various kinds of income, Commentary, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, 2015 as well as a detailed knowledge of the law applicable to interpretation of Australia©s treaties. The unit includes a study of: principles of tax LAWS6065 treaties; interpretation of tax treaties; and selected articles of the Pollution, Corporate Liability and Govern OECD Model and Australian tax treaties. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Rosemary Lyster, Dr Kate Owens, Dr Gerry Bates Session: Intensive May Classes: May 18, 19 and 25, 26 (9-5) LAWS6119 Assessment: class participation (10%) and 8000wd essay (90%) Mode of delivery: Block mode The State and Global Governance Note: This unit replaced LAWS6065 Pollution and Contaminated Land. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Jacqueline Mowbray Session: Intensive May Classes: Apr 19, 20 and May 3, 4 (9-5) Assessment: The aim of the unit of study is to provide an introduction to the 1000-2000wd critique of a selected reading (25%), 250wd essay abstract and framework, concepts, sources and techniques of pollution control law one page reading list (10%) and 5000-6000wd essay (65%) Mode of delivery: Block mode and corporate environmental liability. The history and framework of Note: Master of Law and International Development students may undertake international laws regulating pollution will be examined before exploring this unit as an elective or capstone unit. a range of legal and regulatory measures for pollution control and corporate environmental liability at both the Commonwealth level and How will Donald Trump©s presidency affect international law and within New South Wales. An overarching theme will be the need for international relations? How do non-state actors like Islamic State effectiveness in implementation and enforcement of pollution control challenge the existing international order? How do we respond to and governance measures that have been developed to prevent harm international health emergencies, such as the outbreaks of the Zika and promote ecologically sustainable development. and Ebola viruses? These questions all raise issues of global governance, that is, how international affairs are governed on a global LAWS6345 scale. They also raise questions about the roles and capacities of Principles of Financial Regulation individual states within the global order.This unit explores how current Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Hilary J Allen Session: systems of global governance operate, the place of states within those Intensive May Classes: May 7, 8 and 10, 11 (9-5) Assessment: class systems, and the significance of law to those systems. In doing so, participation (10%) and take-home exam (90%) Mode of delivery: Block mode the unit introduces students to a range of historical and contemporary The financial crisis of 2007-9 revealed serious failings in the regulation approaches to understanding the role of law in international affairs, of financial institutions and markets. This prompted a fundamental and gives students an opportunity to consider these in relation to reconsideration of the design of financial regulation, which governs a current events of global import. The sorts of questions with which the financial system that has become ever-more complex and unit is concerned may include the following: Are systems of global interconnected, and which evolves at an ever-accelerating pace. This governance lawful? Are they democratic? What is the role of violence course presents a holistic overview of the key principles underpinning in the contemporary global order? How does/should international law financial regulation. It draws on economic theory to explain the way seek to address pressing transnational issues, such as poverty, in which the financial system functions, and then to analyse the goals environmental degradation, global health threats and human rights of financial regulation. This analytic framework is then applied to a abuses? series of substantive topics in financial regulation, spanning the LAWS6109 traditionally-separate fields of banking, markets, and consumer finance. UK International Taxation The unit also considers the operation of the new tools of ©macro-prudential policy© and the international coordination of financial Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Malcolm Gammie Session: Intensive September Classes: Sep 5-7 and 10, 11 (9-3.30) Assumed regulation in the global financial system. While the substantive topics knowledge: It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully are considered in terms of EU and US rules, the analytic tools completed an undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. Assessment: developed are of more general application. Topics covered in this take-home exam or 7000wd essay (100%) Mode of delivery: Block mode unit:The financial system; Goals and challenges of financial regulation; This unit covers the domestic provisions of UK direct tax law dealing Consumer finance; Market regulation; Bank capital and liquidity with international transactions, as well as UK treaties and the impact regulation; Bank governance and resolution; Shadow banking and of EU law on the UK tax system. The UK remains one of Australia©s Macro-prudential and international coordination. Students who major trading partners. UK taxation thus has significant effects for complete this unit successfully will have an overview of the economic inbound and outbound investment between Australia and the UK.This principles underpinning financial regulation, to be able to understand unit will be of interest to tax professionals who have dealings with the and critically evaluate the principal substantive aspects of financial UK. The objective of the unit is to provide an overview of the UK tax regulation in the US and EU, as well as their international coordination. system focusing on cross-border investment and expatriate employment issues and a detailed analysis of the most important LAWS6177 legislative and treaty rules of the UK in the international direct tax Tax Treaties area, especially in dealings with Australia. Upon successful completion Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Richard Vann Session: Intensive of the unit, participants will have an advanced understanding of the May Classes: Apr 26, 27 and Apr 30, May 1 (9-5) Assumed knowledge: It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian policies of the UK rules for taxing international transactions as well income taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from as a detailed knowledge of the principles of company and personal completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working taxation applicable to inbound and outbound transactions in the UK. with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in The unit includes a study of: 1. Overview of the UK tax system; 2. the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Taxation of inbound investment in the UK; 3. Taxation of outbound Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of investment in the UK; 4. Transfer pricing in the UK; 5. UK tax treaties LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such including the Australia UK Tax Treaty; 6. EU tax law as it affects the knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will UK. assists in successfully completing this unit. Assessment: classwork (30%) and 2hr exam or 7000wd essay (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode
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LAWS6844 and its dispute settlement system; and an exam requiring students to US Corporate Law apply the basic rules of the GATT, GATS and TRIPS to fact situations. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Jennifer Hill Session: Intensive May Classes: Apr 26, 27 and May 3, 4 (9-4) Assessment: class participation (10%) and quiz (20%) and essay or take-home exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode
The objectives of this unit are: understand the history, structure and operation of US corporate law and corporate governance; to examine the common law, statutory provisions; and to explore the tension between state and federal law, including recent regulatory developments under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 and the Dodd-Frank Act 2010. Specific issues discussed in the course include the "race to the bottom" vs "race to the top" hypotheses; the US approach to veil-piercing; the governance role of shareholders under US law; directors© duties, including the duty of care and the duty of loyalty; the operation of the business judgment rule; derivative litigation; the law relating to closely held corporations; judicial review of tender offer defences.
LAWS6171 US International Taxation Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Ethan Yale Session: Intensive May Classes: May 9-11 and 14, 15 (9-3.30) Assumed knowledge: It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. Assessment: in-class assessment (30%) and 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode
The object of this unit is to provide an overview of the income tax system of the US with a focus on the most important legislative and treaty rules of the US in the international income tax area, especially in dealings with Australia. The unit will examine both the policies behind the US taxation of international transactions as well as the rules and principles of income tax law applicable to inbound and outbound transactions in the US.
LAWS6063 World Trade Organization Law I Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Brett Williams Session: Intensive September Classes: Aug 24, 25 and Sep 21, 22 (9-5.30) Prohibitions: LAWS3439 or LAWS5139 Assumed knowledge: limited knowledge of law of treaties Assessment: 3000 to 3500wd essay (40%) and take-home exam (60%) Mode of delivery: Block mode
This unit is a comprehensive introduction to the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and to the context of economics and politics within which the law operates. It also offers some comparisons with regulation under bilateral and regional trade agreements. It can be taken as either a stand-alone introduction to WTO law or to acquire a solid basis for further study of WTO law. (Students may wish to continue on to take LAWS6249 World Trade Organization Law II which builds upon the knowledge gained in this unit and considers some additional topics of WTO law.) The introductory topic considers the functions of the WTO through the consideration of some basic economics of trade and of public choice. We review the history of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the creation of the Agreement Establishing the WTO ending with a review of the institutions of the WTO and of the framework of rules applying under the GATT (and comparing with some bilateral and regional trade agreements). There follows a detailed study of the WTO dispute settlement system, under the WTO Understanding on Dispute Settlement, its concepts, procedures and enforcement. We study the framework of rules under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and compare it with the negative list approach used under some bilateral and regional trade agreements; and the rules of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS), emphasizing patents, copyright and trademarks, and noting some TRIPS plus aspects of some bilateral and regional trade agreements. The unit analyses in more detail some of the fundamental rules of the GATT: rules on tariff bindings and customs duties, national treatment, non-tariff barriers, the MFN rule on non-discrimination and an introduction to the rules on subsidies. We conclude with a synopsis of WTO developments to the present day. This unit is assessed in two ways: an essay on the object and function of the WTO system
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Part 2- Elective Units of Study
Students must complete 42 credit points of elective units of study. Students may choose a maximum of 30 credit points of units of study from Part 2. LAWS5101 6 P LAWS1004 or LAWS3000 or LAWS3003 or (LAWS1021 and LAWS2011) or (LAWS5007 Semester 1 Advanced Constitutional Law and LAWS5011) C LAWS2011 or LAWS5011 N LAWS3027 or LAWS3401 LAWS5102 6 Semester 2 Advanced Contracts LAWS5103 6 Semester 2 Advanced Corporate Law LAWS5104 6 P LAWS1016 or LAWS1003 or LAWS2009 or LAWS5004 Semester 1 Advanced Criminal Law N LAWS3404 LAWS5109 6 P LAWS3047 or LAWS3412 or LAWS5112 Semester 2 Advanced Taxation Law N LAWS3013 or LAWS3409 LAWS5111 6 N LAWS3012 or LAWS3411 Semester 2 Anti-Discrimination Law LAWS5112 6 N LAWS3047 or LAWS3412 Semester 1 Australian Income Tax LAWS5113 6 P (LAWS1015 or LAWS1002 or LAWS5002) and (LAWS2004 or LAWS2015 or LAWS5015) Semester 1 Banking and Financial Instruments N LAWS3101 or LAWS3413 LAWS5117 6 P LAWS2007 or LAWS2017 or LAWS5012 Semester 1 Commercial Land Law N LAWS3417 LAWS5119 6 N LAWS3016 or LAWS3419 Semester 2 Competition Law LAWS5122 6 P LAWS5012 Semester 1 Contract and Equity in Land Dealings N LAWS3422 LAWS5126 6 N LAWS3020 or LAWS3426 Semester 1 Criminology Semester 2 LAWS5130 6 C LAWS2002 or LAWS2010 or LAWS5010 Semester 1 Environmental Law N LAWS3024 or LAWS3430 LAWS5132 6 N LAWS3026 or LAWS3432 Semester 1 Family Law Semester 2 LAWS5360 6 N LAWS3031 or LAWS3115 or LAWS3030 or LAWS3260 or LAWS5315 or LAWS5330 or Semester 1 Independent Research Project LAWS5331 Semester 2 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Enrolment in this unit of study is by special application and is restricted to students in their final year of study who meet the relevant academic criteria. LAWS5135 6 N LAWS3005 or LAWS3435 or LAWS6988 Semester 2 Indigenous Peoples and Public Law LAWS5210 6 A Required knowledge will vary by project. Semester 1 Industry and Community Projects Semester 2 LAWS5145 6 P LAWS2003 or LAWS2014 or LAWS5014 Semester 1 Insolvency Law N LAWS3403 or LAWS5103 or LAWS3445 LAWS5203 6 N LAWS3503 Semester 2 Insurance Law and Risk LAWS5208 6 A Students are expected to have completed all core units with the exception of Private Semester 1 Interdisciplinary Project International Law A. Semester 2 N INDP3000 Enrolment in this unit of study is by special application. It is only available to students in their final year of study who have a WAM above 65. LAWS5143 6 P (LAWS1002 or LAWS2008 or LAWS1015 or LAWS5002) and (LAWS2002 or LAWS1021 Semester 2 Interpretation or LAWS5007) N LAWS3443 LAWS5180 6 N LAWS3033 or LAWS3423 or LAWS3480 Semester 1 IP: Copyright and Designs LAWS5179 6 N LAWS3472 or LAWS3033 or LAWS3479 Semester 1 IP: Trademarks and Patents LAWS5146 6 N LAWS3023 or LAWS3446 or LAWS6071 Semester 1 Labour Law LAWS5344 24 N LAWS3044 Semester 1 Law International Exchange Electives Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Available to outbound exchange students only.
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS5128 6 N LAWS3059 or LAWS3428 Semester 2 Media Law: Defamation and Privacy Summer Main LAWS5152 6 N LAWS3046 or LAWS3452 Semester 1 Medical Law Semester 2 LAWS5155 6 N LAWS3048 or LAWS3455 Semester 1 Policing, Crime and Society LAWS5214 6 Semester 2 Race and the Law LAWS5209 6 Enrolment in this unit of study is by special application. Priority will be given to students in their Semester 2 Redfern Legal Centre Clinic final year of study. LAWS5160 6 N LAWS3052 or LAWS3460 Semester 1 Roman Law LAWS5184 6 P LAWS2012 or LAWS5008 Semester 2 Secured Transactions in Commercial N LAWS3484 Law LAWS5161 6 N LAWS3112 or LAWS3461 Intensive Social Justice Legal Clinic A Note: Department permission required for enrolment February Enrolment in this unit of study is by special application. Priority will be given to students in their Semester 1 final year of study. LAWS5131 6 N LAWS3025 or LAWS3431 Semester 2 Social Justice Legal Clinic B Note: Department permission required for enrolment Enrolment in this unit is by special application. Enrolment is restricted to students in their final year of study. LAWS5165 6 N LAWS3057 or LAWS3465 Semester 2 Sydney Law Review Note: Department permission required for enrolment Enrolment in this unit of study is by special application. For further information, please visit sydney.edu.au/law/slr. Part 2- Master©s Level Electives Students may choose no more than 24 credit points of master©s level units of study in the Juris Doctor. LAWS6947 6 A Available to law graduates only Intensive July Advanced Obligations and Remedies Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6165 6 Intensive April Biodiversity Law LAWS6105 6 Semester 2 Child Sexual Abuse: Diverse Perspectives LAWS6314 6 Intensive Coastal and Marine Law March LAWS6032 6 Core unit for MCrim and GradDipCrim students and co-requisite for other criminology units. Semester 1 Crime Research and Policy LAWS6325 6 Intensive Crime, Responsibility and Policy September LAWS6193 6 Intensive May Criminal Justice: Prevention and Control LAWS6066 6 Intensive Discretion in Criminal Justice October LAWS6354 6 A students who do not hold an undergraduate law degree must have completed LAWS6252 Intensive Environ Planning and Impact Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit and LAWS6044 October Assessment Law Environmental Law and Policy (MEL only) N LAWS6043, LAWS6045, LAWS3430, LAWS5130 LAWS6041 6 Intensive Environmental Litigation August LAWS6214 6 Intensive Goods and Services Tax Principles September A LAWS6052 6 MHL students may select this unit as one of the three core units required in addition to Intensive Govt Regulation, Health Policy and LAWS6252. October Ethics LAWS6054 6 Core unit for Core unit for GradDipHL students. MHL students may select this unit as one of Intensive May Health Care and Professional Liability the three core units required in addition to LAWS6252. LAWS6848 6 Intensive Law, Business and Healthy Lifestyles September LAWS6877 6 Intensive Mental Illness: Law and Policy September LAWS6194 6 Intensive April Punishment LAWS6317 6 It is recommended that students have some knowledge of corporate law and criminal law and Intensive April Regulation of Corporate Crime procedure, or have had practical experience in these areas. LAWS6888 6 Intensive May Risk, Fear and Insecurity LAWS6096 6 A LAWS6252 or a law degree and LAWS6071 (MLLR students) Intensive May Work Health and Safety: Law and Policy LAWS6192 6 N LAWS6069 Intensive Young People, Crime and the Law October
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LAWS5102 Units of study Advanced Contracts Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Yane Svetiev Session: Part 2- Elective Units of Study Semester 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/wk Assessment: Class presentation (10%); 3 x 800wd reaction papers (30%); 1 5000wd research paper or final 2hr LAWS5101 exam (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day Advanced Constitutional Law The aim of the course is to build on the knowledge students have Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Peter Gerangelos Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prerequisites: gained in the core contracts courses. The specific focus of the course LAWS1004 or LAWS3000 or LAWS3003 or (LAWS1021 and LAWS2011) or for this year will be the regulatory use of contracts and contract law. (LAWS5007 and LAWS5011) Corequisites: LAWS2011 or LAWS5011 During the course we will study both how governments regulate Prohibitions: LAWS3027 or LAWS3401 Assessment: contractual relations and how contracts and contract law are used to Class-participation/presentation (20%); and 6000wd research essay (80%): An option is available for students do a moot instead of the research essay if they achieve policy goals. The course will be research-driven and the request to do so. Also, any student who requests it may be able to substitute specific areas of study will be chosen to reflect current developments the 6000wd research essay for a 4000wd research essay plus an exam 2.5 in contract law both in Australia and internationally. Such case studies hours (40%). The class participation is redeemable. Mode of delivery: Normal will be used to reflect in greater depth on some of the fundamental (lecture/lab/tutorial) day principles and doctrines of contract law studied in the core course. The main purpose of this course is to build on the fundamental understandings achieved in Public Law and Federal Constitutional LAWS5103 Law in order to provide a far broader and deeper understanding of Advanced Corporate Law the subject. This will be achieved by, first, examining in depth the Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Kym Sheehan Session: Semester fundamental aspects and tenets of constitutionalism in the Australian 2 Classes: 2 x 2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Assessment: Class context and from a more jurisprudential perspective. Reliance will be participation (10%), class presentation (20%), and either 4,500wd research essay (70%) or final 2hr exam (70%). Mode of delivery: Normal placed on comparative jurisdictions, in particular the United States (lecture/lab/tutorial) day and the United Kingdom. A detailed analysis will first be attempted of the following major concepts in the more precise context of This unit of study has as its objective the exploration of contemporary Westminster-based systems: the rule of law, parliamentary sovereignty, issues concerning debt and equity finance in Australian public and the ambit of executive power and the precise status and principles of proprietary companies, with an emphasis on law reform in the areas responsible government, judicial review and constitutional rights, of the raising of corporate finance; the positions of shareholders and separation of powers, constitutional conventions, the reserve powers creditors in the event of the company©s insolvency; as well as aspects of the Governor-General, the status of common law principles as of external administration include receivership, voluntary fundamental constitutional guarantees. A principal focus will be the administration, liquidation. nature and ambit of executive power, and the evolving jurisrprudence of the High Court on this question. The course will examine the LAWS5104 evolving notion of parliamentary supremacy from Diceyan orthodoxy Advanced Criminal Law to the more recent debates involving leading constitutional scholars Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Arlie Loughnan Session: in the UK and Australia. In relation to separation of powers, the Semester 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/wk for 10 weeks. Prerequisites: LAWS1016 or LAWS1003 or LAWS2009 or LAWS5004 Prohibitions: different constitutional consequences which result when the doctrine LAWS3404 Assessment: research proposal (pass/fail), 4000wd reserch essay is entrenched in a written constitution (as in the US and Australia) on (75%) and class participation (25%) Mode of delivery: Normal the one hand, and when it exists as a convention without being so (lecture/lab/tutorial) day entrenched, on the other, will be explored. The relationship between This unit critically examines the criminal law, criminal justice institutions executive and legislative power will be the principal focus. This will and penal practices in the context of legal scholarly debates. Topics enhance an understanding of the definition, nature and limits of judicial, to be considered in any one semester may include criminal executive and legislative power and their inter-relationship, an issue responsibility, capacity, gender and criminal law, corporate criminal which becomes particularly important at moments of constitutional liability, offence construction and trends in sentencing. In addressing uncertainty and stress, especially at the crossroads of their power. these topics, the unit will attempt to respond to cutting edge The functionalist/formalist debate will be examined to determine the developments in the criminal law as they arise. Each topic forms the most appropriate interpretive methodology with respect to the lens through which larger or longer-term theoretical and others issues application of the constitutional limitations which may emanate from are discussed. By contrast with the foundational unit, Criminal Law, the separation of powers. In so doing, the principal decisions of the this unit does not adopt a content - driven approach to criminal law; High Court of Australia and other relevant courts in other jurisdictions. instead, it adopts an explicitly critical socio-historical approach to the There will be an opportunity to evaluate major Australian constitutional study of law, and draws on inter-disciplinary scholarship throughout. decisions in a detail not possible in the prerequisite and undergraduate Discussion of relevant academic scholarship forms a core part of the courses. A principal underlying theme will be the extent to which the subject matter of the course. tenets of constitutionalism are being complied with in Australia and the extent to which they can be.The course will be enriched and made LAWS5109 more presently relevant by the exploration of current developing Advanced Taxation Law themes in constitutional law. The precise topics may vary from year Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Micah Burch Session: Semester to year. Depending on the topic, this may involve the introduction of 2 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prerequisites: LAWS3047 or completely new themes or the integration of developments with topics LAWS3412 or LAWS5112 Prohibitions: LAWS3013 or LAWS3409 already examined. Assessment: 1hr in-class test (30%) and 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day Textbooks Printed Materials prepared by the Convener
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This unit further pursues the goals of Australian Income Tax and is to LAWS5117 be regarded as an extension of that unit. In particular, the unit surveys Commercial Land Law some more advanced (and practically relevant) aspect of Australia©s Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Fiona Burns Session: tax system, including special rules applicable to entities (partnerships, Semester 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminar/week for 10 weeks Prerequisites: trusts, and companies) and their owners, international taxation, goods LAWS2007 or LAWS2017 or LAWS5012 Prohibitions: LAWS3417 Assessment: Structured class presentation (20%) and 2000wd research essay and services tax (GST), business cost recovery mechanisms (trading (30%) and 1hr (30 mins reading time) open book exam (50%). NB Assessment stock and depreciation), and tax administration. Together with subject to change and dependent on enrolment numbers. Mode of delivery: Australian Income Tax, these units provide a basic understanding of Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day the Australian tax system and a basis for further study and/or practice. In terms of content, this unit aims to explore in greater depth some important aspects of the law of real property which the compulsory LAWS5111 Real Property unit does not cover. The topics which will be covered Anti-Discrimination Law will be: leases (including covenants of leases, assignments of leases, Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Belinda Smith Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: remedies of landlords, relief against forfeiture and subleases); LAWS3012 or LAWS3411 Assessment: Class participation (10%) and online possessory title; mortgages (with special attention on the rights and short answer exam (25%) and 2hr exam (65%) Mode of delivery: Normal remedies of the mortgagor and mortgagee; reverse mortgages); (lecture/lab/tutorial) day options and if time permits strata and community titles. Students who The objective of this unit is to enable students to examine and develop wish to practise in the area of property law are encourage to consider answers to the following questions: (i) What is discrimination and what studying this unit, because the matters covered are indispensable for harm does it cause? (ii) How has the law been used in Australia to a career in property law. From a pedagogical perspective, the address discrimination? (iii) What type of conduct does assessment is structured to improve the oral, research and anti-discrimination law prohibit? Specifically, which attributes are problem-solving skills of students. There will be a problem-solving protected, in what contexts and with what exceptions? (iv) What session at the end of the course. The classroom-style is structured to remedies can be sought for unlawful discrimination and how are these encourage students to participate in discussion and to learn enforced? (v) What are the limits and future directions of collaboratively. anti-discrimination law? The law as it operates will be examined, LAWS5119 focussing on examples of particular attributes of discrimination (such Competition Law as sex, race, disability, age, or family responsibilities), but considerable attention is also paid to regulatory alternatives to explore how the law Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr David Howarth Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks. Prohibitions: LAWS3016 or could be developed. LAWS3419 Assessment: 3000wd essay and peer review (30%) and 2hr exam (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day LAWS5112 Australian Income Tax This unit of study examines competition law and policy in Australia. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Micah Burch (daytime stream), The central part of the course deals with Part IV of the Competition Assoc Prof Celeste Black (evening stream) Session: Semester 1 Classes: and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth).The framework for analysis will include 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks (daytime stream), 1x3hr seminars/week for a critical examination of the fundamental purposes of competition law 13 weeks Prohibitions: LAWS3047 or LAWS3412 Assessment: Optional policy. Some references will be made to the restrictive trade practices 2hr mid-semester quiz (30%) and 2hr final exam (70% or 100%) (daytime stream), compulsory 1hr mid-semester quiz (30%) and 2 hr final exam (70%) provisions of comparative jurisdictions. (evening stream) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Normal Topics include: (a) common law antecedents of competition law and (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening history of competition law legislation; (b) National Competition Policy This unit introduces the essential elements of the Australian income and legislation; (c) application of the Competition and Consumer Act tax system by exploring the operation of the tax legislation, the 2010 (Cth); (d) elementary economic theory of monopoly and the underlying principles which those laws seek to implement, and goals of competition policy; (e) fundamental concepts of competition, fundamental issues in tax policy. Topics covered include the concept market definition, market power and public benefit; (f) mergers and and categories of income, the taxation of capital gains and fringe acquisitions; (g) horizontal arrangements including cartel conduct, benefits, deductions and the treatment of capital expenditure, and the primary boycotts, and arrangements which substantially lessen taxation of cross-border transactions. The unit also introduces the competition; (h) vertical arrangements including exclusive dealing and taxation of activities carried on through partnerships, trusts and third line forcing; (i) misuse of substantial market power; (j) notifications companies. This unit is a prerequisite for Advanced Taxation Law.. and authorizations; and (k) overview of remedies and enforcement. Additional topics may include resale price maintenance or access to LAWS5113 essential facilities. Banking and Financial Instruments LAWS5122 Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Roger Magnusson Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prerequisites: Contract and Equity in Land Dealings (LAWS1015 or LAWS1002 or LAWS5002) and (LAWS2004 or LAWS2015 or Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Ms Patricia Lane Session: Semester LAWS5015) Prohibitions: LAWS3101 or LAWS3413 Assessment: Three 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/wk Prerequisites: LAWS5012 Prohibitions: options: 1) 2,500wd assignment (50%) and 1hr exam (50%); 2) 3,500 wd essay LAWS3422 Assessment: 3000wd problem question (40%) and take-home (50%) and 1 hr exam (50%); 3) 2hr exam (100%). Mode of delivery: Normal exam (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day (lecture/lab/tutorial) day This unit deals with the principles relating to entry into, performance, This unit aims to provide students with: and remedies for breach of contracts for the sale of land. While * An overview of the legal regulation and supervision of banks and conveyancing is sometimes regarded as a mere matter of form filling other Authorised Deposit-taking Institutions (ADIs); and rote-learned procedures, it is one of the oldest and most complex * An understanding of the legal basis of the relationship between areas of law, and requires the application of skill and strategy in banks, ADIs and their customers, and an overview of the more deploying legal principles in practice. Modern conveyancing involves common rights and duties that adhere to the banker/customer the application of an elaborate mix of real property, equity, and contract relationship; law concepts, and also principles of interpretation. The course will * An introduction to negotiable instruments (cheques and bills of also deal with elements of the national system of electronic exchange), letters of credit and performance bonds, and guarantees; convenyancing.The unit of study is designed to provide the theoretical foundations necessary for expertise in commercial practice. The first * An introduction to the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 and its part of the course deals with the formation of an enforceable contract impact on secured lending. for sale, including exchange of contract, identification of the
90 Juris Doctor subject-matter of the sale, and obligation of disclosure by vendors 1975, property division under the Family Law Act; child support and under common law and statute, and a brief treatment of statutory maintenance. remedies under the Australian Consumer Law concerning land Textbooks dealings. The second section deals with the law relating to the P Parkinson, Australian Family Law in Context, 6 ed 2015. performance of the contract for sale intself, focussing on the standard form of contract for the sale of land in New South Wales. Special LAWS5360 attention is paid in this section to the law relating to deposits, defects, Independent Research Project the consequences of misdiscription of the land, and the legality of Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1, Semester 2 Prohibitions: LAWS3031 structures upon the land. The third section deals with the remedies or LAWS3115 or LAWS3030 or LAWS3260 or LAWS5315 or LAWS5330 or available to vendors and purchasers, including notices to complete, LAWS5331 Assessment: 7,500wd research paper Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day specific performance, breach and termination, and relief against Note: Department permission required for enrolment. Note: Enrolment in this forfeiture. unit of study is by special application and is restricted to students in their final Textbooks year of study who meet the relevant academic criteria. Skapinker and Lane Sale of Land in NSW Cases and Commentary (5th ed 2009) The goal of this unit of study is to provide students with an opportunity to pursue independent research in an area of their choosing. The LAWS5126 project must involve a new piece of research. Material which has been Criminology submitted for assessment in any other unit of study may not form part Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Garner Clancey Session: Semester of the project. Before enrolling in this unit of study, the student must 1, Semester 2 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: formulate in writing the topic of the research project and a statement LAWS3020 or LAWS3426 Assessment: Class participation (10%), 1200wd of methodology.The topic of the research project and the methodology paper on prison visit (30%), and 3000wd research essay (60%) Mode of must be approved in writing by a member of the teaching staff who delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day agrees to act as supervisor and to be responsible for assessment of This unit of study aims to introduce students to the theoretical issues the research project. This approval will not be given if the topic of the associated with the definition and explanation of crime, criminality and research project falls within the scope of another unit of study being crime control. Rationales for punishment are examined along with offered in the same semester. Students must have a WAM of 70% or sentencing, and other possible responses to criminal behaviour are higher to be eligible to enrol in this unit. explored. The unit considers the impact of criminal justice policy and practice on particular groups which may include juveniles, women, LAWS5135 Indigenous people, ethnic minorities and victims of crime. The Indigenous Peoples and Public Law regulation of particular types of offences such as hate crime are Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Ms Tanya Mitchell Session: Semester considered. Other topical issues are covered as they arise in 2 Classes: 1x3hr seminar/week for 13 weeks (evening stream) Prohibitions: contemporary criminological debate. Students are expected to take LAWS3005 or LAWS3435 or LAWS6988 Assessment: Class presentation (20%) and 5000wd essay (80%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) part in visits to a gaol and/or a juvenile detention centre. evening
LAWS5130 This course explores the relationship between Indigenous peoples Environmental Law and national and international public law systems. We begin with an Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Kate Owens Session: Semester exploration of Indigenous legal systems and governance structures. 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Corequisites: LAWS2002 or Students will see how this different way of seeing the world, and being LAWS2010 or LAWS5010 Prohibitions: LAWS3024 or LAWS3430 in the world, impacts upon interactions with the mainstream legal Assessment: Essay (50%) and take-home exam (50%) Mode of delivery: system. We will examine the differing perspectives on history to see Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day how they have shaped ever-changing laws and government policies. This unit will provide a framework for understanding environmental We will investigate issues such as: changing definitions of Aboriginality issues, outline the sources of environmental law and provide an that have been imposed upon Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander overview of the different approaches to environmental regulation peoples; the over-representation of Indigenous Australians in the before examining a range of topical areas, including climate change, criminal justice system; paperless arrest laws in the Northern Territory water management, pollution control, waste management, and fine legislation in Western Australia; the legal mechanisms used environmental planning, development control and environmental to execute the Northern Territory Emergency Response; the utility of impact assessment. Overarching themes will include the implications International Law, Human Rights Law and International bodies to of adopting the principles of environmentally sustainable development Indigenous people; meanings of self-determination; native title and for legal structures and processes, the effects of scientific uncertainty land rights legislation; and contemporary examples of Indigenous on environmental regulation, and the importance of public participation nation building. Opinions on the issues covered in the course are for making the value judgements required in environmental many and varied so students will be encouraged to explore each topic governance. through discussion and lively debate.
LAWS5132 LAWS5210 Family Law Industry and Community Projects Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Patrick Parkinson Session: Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Professor Simon Rice Session: Semester 1, Semester 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Semester 1, Semester 2 Classes: Classes will vary according to the project. It Prohibitions: LAWS3026 or LAWS3432 Assessment: Optional 2,500wd will consist of seminars/workshops with acompanying online material. Assumed assignment (40%) and final 90 min exam (60% or 100%) Mode of delivery: knowledge: Required knowledge will vary by project. Assessment: Assessment Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day will vary according to the project but may include the following: 1200wd reflective essay (20%), group project outline 10%), group project presentation (20%), Family Law deals with the core provisions of the Family Law Act 1975 group project report (50%). Practical field work: A project will be determined governing parenting of children and the property of married couples by the Law School or in consultation with a partner organisation and completed and persons in a de facto relationship. This course is essential for as part of a team with academic supervision. Mode of delivery: Clinical experience those interested in Family Law. Family Law will focus on the following topics: constitutional and This unit is designed for final and penultimate year law students to jurisdictional issues; marriage, divorce and de facto relationships, the undertake a project that allows them to work under the supervision of resolution of disputes relating to children under the Family Law Act a University of Law School academic or with one of the University©s industry and community partners. Students will work in teams on a real-world problem provided by the Law School or University partner.
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This experience will allow students to apply their academic skills and LAWS5143 disciplinary knowledge to a real-world issue in an authentic and Interpretation meaningful way. Participation in this unit will require students to submit Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Ms Patricia Lane Session: Semester an application. 2 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prerequisites: (LAWS1002 or LAWS2008 or LAWS1015 or LAWS5002) and (LAWS2002 or LAWS1021 or LAWS5145 LAWS5007) Prohibitions: LAWS3443 Assessment: 3,000wd research essay (40%), 1000wd drafting exercise (20%) andone of take home exam OR 3000wd Insolvency Law optional additional research essay OR 3000wd long problem Mode of delivery: Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Lindsay Powers Session: Semester Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day 1 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prerequisites: LAWS2003 or LAWS2014 or LAWS5014 Prohibitions: LAWS3403 or LAWS5103 or Legal interpretation is the process by which the legal meaning of a LAWS3445 Assessment: 3000wd answer to a problem question (30%) and text is ascertained, by reference to the text considered in context and 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day with regard to its purpose. This course deals with the principles and The unit provides an introduction to the mainly statutory law regulating methods of legal interpretation. While mainly relating to statutory bankrupt individuals and insolvent companies. It explores the interpretation, the unit will also cover aspects of the law of objectives and key principles of insolvency law, the pari passu interpretation of private law instruments, the Constitution, and treaties. principle, the various forms of insolvent administration including The principles and methods of legal interpretation are directed to a bankruptcy, liquidation, receivership and voluntary administration and purpose - to answer a question about contested legal meanings. The associated procedures together with the avoidance of transactions in course will focus on the primary elements of interpretive practice: insolvency. The unit also considers the impact of insolvency on reading and understanding the text in its proper context, and in the employees, unsecured creditors, shareholders and trustee©s of trusts. light of its purpose and the objective intention of the drafter. The unit involves a significant component of statutory interpretation. The course will cover: * Approaches to legal interpretation, with emphasis on the function of LAWS5203 interpretation in private and public law. Insurance Law and Risk * Aspects of the interpretation of private instruments - wills, contracts, Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Peter Mann Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: LAWS3503 testamentary dispositions, collective agreements. Assessment: 2000wd essay or problem-based assignment (40%) and 2hr * Drafting and clear expression. open-book final exam (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day * Principles of statutory interpretation, including the conventions of grammatical interpretation of statutes; the use of technical words; the Insurance is an essential part of modern life covering a multitude of need to read the instrument as a whole; the role and function of everyday risks and providing financial security in commerce and life interpretation acts, including legislation requiring consideration of generally. This unit covers the principles and concepts of insurance Human Rights principles; approaches to ambiguity and inconsistency law and practice. A main focus will be on the rights and liabilities of language; specific common law principles and presumptions of arising under contracts of insurance, under statute (principally the interpretation; the use of extrinsic aids to interpretation, and the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 (Cth)) and at common law. Broad identification of statutory purpose. categories and common forms of insurance, and to a lesser extent * Aspects of interpretation of national and international instruments - reinsurance, and the risks covered by them will be considered. Constitutions and treaties. Concepts central to insurance will be dealt with including the duty of Part of the course content will be taught by eminent guest lecturers utmost good faith, the duty of disclosure, third party rights, from the Faculty and the profession. proportionality, contribution, subrogation and fraud. Other matters to be considered include the role of insurance brokers and underwriting Textbooks agents, the regulation of insurers (the role of ASIC and APRA), the Herzfeld Tully and Prince Interpretation and Use of Legal Sources 2013 progression of insurance from contract formation to claims and the LAWS5180 role that insurance plays in the community, corporate life and in dispute IP: Copyright and Designs resolution.There will be a practical emphasis which involve considering Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Kim Weatherall Session: some common types of insurance policies and issues arising under Semester 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: them illustrated by problem solving. Consideration will also be given LAWS3033 or LAWS3423 or LAWS3480 Assessment: Two options: (1) to the role of risk transfer and insurance in contracting. 5,000wd research essay (50%) and 1.5hr exam (50%); or (2) 2.5 hr examination (100%). Subject to change. Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day Textbooks Mann©s Annotated Insurance Contracts Act, Peter Mann, Thomson Reuters 6th This unit covers copyright and designs law, both recognised branches edition of intellectual property law. Their existence is often justified on the presumption that they encourage the exercise of inventive, creative LAWS5208 and entrepreneurial skill and labour. The protection these areas of Interdisciplinary Project law provides is said to enable commercial exploitation of the resulting Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Scott Grattan Session: Semester 1, Semester 2 Classes: blended learning (online material seminar/workshop works or designs. This unit focuses on the requirements for the and group work) Prohibitions: INDP3000 Assumed knowledge: Students copyright and design protection and investigates the bases upon which are expected to have completed all core units with the exception of Private infringement action can be brought. Particular emphasis will be placed International Law A. Assessment: group plan (10%), group presentation (20%), on the expanding scope of copyright and the implications of the group project (50%), 2000wd individual report (20%) (may change subject to project). Practical field work: Law students will be undertaking an internet, as well as provisions in the Copyright Act intended to address interdisciplinary group project with students from other faculties across the the apparent overlap between copyright and design protection. University and students from other universities who may be enrolled in this unit Although the unit of study will emphasise legal doctrine and be taught or INDP3000. Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day from the perspective of a relatively depoliticised formalism, it is also Note: Enrolment in this unit of study is by special application. It is only available recognised that the deployment and the regulation of intellectual to students in their final year of study who have a WAM above 65. property inevitably have substantial cultural, technological and This unit is designed for final year LLB and JD students to participate economic consequences, which in turn inform and shape the in various interdisciplinary group projects that allows them to work development of legal doctrine. So, for example, Gone With The Wind, with one of the University¿s industry and community partners. as a literary work still under copyright, is both an asset with a monetary Students will work in teams on a real-world problem provided by the value and the focus of a civil rights activism which demands the right partner, applying their disciplinary expertise and gaining valuable to imitate the work for social and political criticism and parody. There experience in working across disciplinary boundaries. will, accordingly, be some attention paid in this unit to the cultural, technological and economic consequences of intellectual property
92 Juris Doctor laws, to the significance of access to the public domain and to the LAWS5344 effects of international trade pressure in the area. Law International Exchange Electives Credit points: 24 Session: Semester 1, Semester 2 Prohibitions: LAWS3044 LAWS5179 Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day IP: Trademarks and Patents Note: Department permission required for enrolment. Note: Available to outbound Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fady Aoun Session: Semester 1 exchange students only. Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: LAWS3472 or LAWS3033 or LAWS3479 Assessment: Two options: (1) 5,000wd research For students studying overseas on an official university exchange essay (50%) and final exam (50%) or (2) final examination (100%). Subject to program. change. Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day LAWS5128 This unit focuses on legal rights concerning the marketing of products, Media Law: Defamation and Privacy specifically, trade mark law and passing off, and legal rights concerning Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof David Rolph Session: Semester invention, specifically, patent law. Most aspects of the law of registered 2, Summer Main Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: trade marks, including some references to passing-off and misleading LAWS3059 or LAWS3428 Assessment: Four options: 1) 2,500wd assignment and deceptive conduct will be covered in the unit, as will the effect of (30%) and 2hr exam (70%); 2) 3,500wd essay (40%) and 2hr exam (60%); 3) these areas of law on new marketing practices on the Internet. Some 2,500wd assignment (30%) and 3,500wd essay (40%) and hr exam (30%); or 4) 3hr exam (100%). Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day specific topics which will be covered in depth are: the differences between registered trade marks, passing-off and unfair competition; This unit of study analyses two areas of law which have a significant character merchandising and the protection of the celebrity persona; impact on the daily practice of journalism. Both of these areas of law the nature of signs and the special problem of shape trade marks; relate to the personal interests of private plaintiffs and the legal counterfeiting and parallel imports; trade mark infringement; the badge recourse such plaintiffs may have against media outlets. The tort of of origin, private property and cultural resource functions of registered defamation, which protects a plaintiff©s reputation, is a well-established trade marks. In patent law, there will be a particular focus on the cause of action which notoriously has a "chilling" effect on what the requirements for patentability under Australian patent law; the media publishes. By contrast, direct legal protection of privacy against requirements for patent specifications; the concept of inventorship invasions by the media is a rapidly developing area of law in Australia, and ownership of patents; and patent infringement and defences. the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the European Union.This unit Although the unit of study emphasises legal doctrine and is taught of study provides a detailed examination of the principles of defamation from the perspective of a relatively depoliticised formalism, it is also law relating to liability, defences and remedies. It also examines how recognised that the deployment and the regulation of intellectual different common law legal systems are developing direct legal property inevitably have substantial cultural and economic protection for individuals© privacy against intrusive media coverage. consequences, which in turn inform and shape the development of This unit of study provides a thorough doctrinal analysis of defamation, legal doctrine. So, for example, pharmaceutical patents are both privacy and breach of confidence, as well as placing these areas of valuable assets to their owners, who accordingly demand extensive law in their broader historical, international, comparative, social and legal protection for those assets, and also the target of vigorous cultural contexts. criticism in the developing world for the patents© potentially detrimental effect on public health in relation to, inter alia, HIV. There will, LAWS5152 accordingly, be some attention paid in this unit to the cultural and Medical Law economic consequences of intellectual property laws, to the Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Roger Magnusson Session: significance of access to the public domain and to the effects of Semester 1, Semester 2 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks international trade pressure in the area. Prohibitions: LAWS3046 or LAWS3452 Assessment: Three options: 1) 1hr exam (50%) and 3,500wd essay (50%); 2) 1hr exam (50%) and 2,500wd Textbooks assignment, earlier submission date (50%); 3) 1hr exam (50%) and 2,500wd David Price, Colin Bodkin, and Fady Aoun, Intellectual Property: Cases and assignment, later submission date (50%). Mode of delivery: Normal Materials, ThomsonReuters, 6th ed, 2017. (lecture/lab/tutorial) day
LAWS5146 This unit of study provides an introduction to some of the legal issues Labour Law that arise in modern health care. Issues to be covered in the course Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Joellen Riley Session: Semester include: consent to medical treatment, professional liability of health 1 Classes: 1x3hr seminar/wk (evening stream) Prohibitions: LAWS3023 or professionals (including different forms of action for medical LAWS3446 or LAWS6071 Assessment: 2000wd assignment (30%) and 2 negligence), confidentiality, privacy, and access to medical records, hour open book exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) the regulation of reproduction (including termination of pregnancy), evening and end-of-life decision-making, including assisted dying or This unit of study examines the legal regulation of work relationships "euthanasia". By the end of the unit, students will have a grounding in Australia in the 21st century. The course is designed to equip in legislation and caselaw regulating the provision of health care students with a broad understanding of the legal rules, principles and services, and will also be aware of some of the ethical issues that institutions which form Australia©s system of workplace relations and arise in medical contexts. Student participation in class discussion to place that system in its global context. will be expected. The course concentrates primarily on the employment relationship LAWS5155 (distinct from other types of commercial arrangements under which Policing, Crime and Society work is performed) and will examine the way in which that relationship is regulated by private contract law and statute. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Murray Lee Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: LAWS3048 or The course offers both a theoretical and practical focus. Students are LAWS3455 Assessment: 2,500-3,000wd research essay (60%) and 1,200wd invited to reflect on the role of legal regulation of work relationships, presentation paper (30%) and class presentation (10%) Mode of delivery: and to critically assess the effectiveness of Australia©s laws. Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day By completing this unit of study, student should acquire: The unit of study aims to encourage students to develop skills and - A general understanding of the system of workplace relations in knowledge about the police and policing, with particular reference to Australia, and the way that system has developed in recent years. the shifting nature of policing. The unit includes critical analysis of - Knowledge and understanding of the legal responsibilities of theoretical and policy issues within contemporary criminal justice, but employers and employees at the workplace. also examines policing (in its widest sense) including the pluralisation of policing. Students will examine: crime and crime control within a - A working knowledge of the framework and operation of the Fair social and political context; policing and other institutions and Work Act 2009 (Cth). processes of criminal justice in the light of contemporary research
93 Juris Doctor and policy debates; the major theoretical frameworks within which together with an introduction to Roman legal history and the crime, policing and criminal justice policy are constructed and development of Roman legal concepts. It also deals with the reception analysed; challenges for policing arising from changes in spatial of Roman jurisprudence into modern European legal systems and the arrangements, and from transnational developments in crime and common law. The Roman law of marriage and family, moveable and crime control. immoveable property, real and personal security, succession, and contractual, quasi-contractual and delictal obligations are then dealt LAWS5214 with in depth.The Institutes of Justinian, in English, is the fundamental Race and the Law text for study and students are expected to read the Institutes in some Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Louise Boon-Kuo Session: detail.The Institutes constitute a map of the law and means of ordering Semester 2 Classes: 2 x 2hr seminars/wk Assessment: Oral presentation the law. Roman law has always been, and still is, of great historical and class presentation (20%), 750wd reflective note (10%), 4000wd essay importance in the development of many areas of the common law. (70%). Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day Roman law also provides a yardstick by which both the virtues and Law has played an integral role in producing ideas about ©race© and the shortcomings of the common law can be measured. Further, in shaping the lives of racialised communities in Australia and Roman law forms the jurisprudential background of most of the legal elsewhere. Today however, some argue that the law is racially neutral systems in force in continental Europe and those parts of the rest of and that we live in a post-racial society.This unit will explore influential the world that were colonised by continental European nations. scholarship in critical race theory and consider emerging debates on the relationship between law and race. By adopting a critical and LAWS5184 intersectional perspective, this unit aims to deepen understandings Secured Transactions in Commercial Law of particular historical and contemporary laws and legal practices.The Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Sheelagh McCracken Session: focus is on the explanatory and analytical utility of critical race theory. Semester 2 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prerequisites: The examination of legal practices will include comparisons between LAWS2012 or LAWS5008 Prohibitions: LAWS3484 Assessment: 3000wd assignment (30%) and 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal the practices in various countries, and traverse various legal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day disciplines.Topics may include the law and: racial classification; racial profiling; identity based claims and recognition; spatial and temporal The process of creating effective security interests in personal property dimensions of racialisation; legal approaches to historical (and to secure performance of contractual obligations is a critical component contemporary) injustices such as colonialism, slavery and war; of commercial dealings and financings. This unit examines how property; the organisation and policing of borders; and forms of security may be taken over common forms of personal property resistance. Class discussion is an important part of this unit and lively through a detailed analysis of the legislative regime established by debate on the readings is encouraged. the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth), which became operative in January 2012. Providing an overview of the historical and LAWS5209 economic development of the law in this area, the unit explores the Redfern Legal Centre Clinic rationale for the comprehensive legislation as well as its underlying Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Ms Irene Baghoomians Session: general principles. An international and comparative perspective is Semester 2 Classes: three one-day seminars held at redfern legal centre and offered through references to the Canadian and New Zealand weekly clinic attendance. Assessment: 3000 word research essay (70%), experience in introducing equivalent statutory frameworks, with part compulsory clinic attendance and participation (pass/fail), clinical placement of the course materials drawn from these jurisdictions. evaluation (30%) Practical field work: One day per week clinical placement during the semester at Redfern Legal Centre. Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day LAWS5161 Note: Enrolment in this unit of study is by special application. Priority will be Social Justice Legal Clinic A given to students in their final year of study. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Peter Cashman Session: Intensive February, Semester 1 Classes: Semester 1: 1x2hr seminar/week and The Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) Clinic is an experiential learning the equivalent of one day per week for the semester at a pre-selected placement opportunity for a limited number of law students to engage in hands-on site. February Intensive: seminars held over 4-5 days at PIAC followed by a two learning. This unit of study will act as a gateway between theory and week clinical placement at PIAC during February. Prohibitions: LAWS3112 or practice for students interested in the delivery of legal services to LAWS3461 Assessment: 1 x written assignment (100%), compulsory class presentation and participation (pass/fail), and Clinical Placement evaluation clients attending a specific advice clinic. RLC will expose students to (pass/fail). Mode of delivery: Professional practice different facets of public-interest lawyering including communication Note: Department permission required for enrolment. Note: Enrolment in this with and interviewing of clients from diverse backgrounds management unit of study is by special application. Priority will be given to students in their of case files legal research drafting advocacy and ethical obligations. final year of study. At the end of this unit of study students should have: (a) Developed The Social Justice Program will arrange for students enrolled in the or enhanced their understanding of a particular area of law; (b) course to work with various organisations which have agreed to Developed or enhanced their understanding of systemic access to participate in the Program. To date, such bodies include the Refugee justice issues in a particular area of law; (c) Identified the personal Advice and Casework Service (RACS), the Public Interest Law demands on and professional/ethical obligations of a public interest Clearinghouse (PILCH), the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) lawyer engaged in practice; (d) Gained insights into the interpersonal and the Environmental Defender©s Office (EDO). Through such skills necessary to survive and thrive in legal practice; (e) Developed organisations students will be exposed to real world cases and and applied effective communication skills required for the provision participate in a structured seminar program dealing with social justice of written and oral legal advice and; (f) Had the opportunity to work issues and aspects of public interest law. both independently and collaboratively to advance public interest During semester hands-on experience with cases, clients and/or policy objectives. and research projects will be obtained one day per week in a ©social LAWS5160 justice© placement site. Students will attend weekly seminars designed Roman Law to provide students with the basic knowledge and skills required to participate in a working clinical legal organisation, and cover legal Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: The Hon Justice Arthur Emmett Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for 10 weeks issues specific to the placement sites. The seminars will encourage Prohibitions: LAWS3052 or LAWS3460 Assessment: 2,000wd essay (20%) discussion and reflection on the range of issues that may arise during and take-home exam (80%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) the course of the placement. day At the end of the unit students should have: (i) enhanced their ethical, The course provides a general introduction to all aspects of Roman social and professional understanding of the practice of law; (ii) private law. It begins with an historical sketch of Roman institutions improved their ability to recognise, define and analyse legal problems from the earliest times until the reign of Justinian (CE 527-565), flowing from real case files, and to identify and create processes to
94 Juris Doctor solve them; (iii) observed and practised communication and Note: Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment inter-personal skills involved in the practice of law; (iv) been introduced instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. to aspects of legal practice such as legal writing, research, client interaction and time management; (v) had the opportunity to work This unit will explore a number of contentious issues arising in the law both independently and collaboratively, in a way that is informed by of civil obligations and remedies. It will revise and build on the openness, curiosity and a desire to meet new challenges. fundamentals in the areas of torts, contracts and equity and place particular emphasis on the interaction of these three fields of the law. LAWS5131 Particular topics and problems will involve issues of: causation and Social Justice Legal Clinic B scope of liability; controlling liability by contract; tort duties to third Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Simon Rice Session: Semester parties to contracts; assessing loss; duties of good faith; fiduciary 2 Classes: 8/9 x 2hr seminars/semester Prohibitions: LAWS3025 or duties and conflicts. The unit will also include a number of guest LAWS3431 Assessment: class presentation and performance (30%) and site performance (30%) and 3000wd essay (40%). Also requires satisfactory lectures, to be announced. attendance at placement and maintenance of a reflective journal (pass/fail) Mode of delivery: Professional practice LAWS6165 Note: Department permission required for enrolment. Note: Enrolment in this Biodiversity Law unit is by special application. Enrolment is restricted to students in their final Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Ed Couzens Session: year of study. Intensive April Classes: Apr 13, 14 and 20, 21 (9-5) Assessment: class presentation and 2000wd essay (25%) and 6000wd (75%) Practical field work: In this unit of study students are afforded the opportunity to work the If possible, an appropriate practical component (along field trip lines) will be equivalent of one day per week during the semester in a ©public added to give further insight. Mode of delivery: Block mode interest© placement site. In addition, students attend fortnightly seminars which are designed to promote discussion and reflection on Biological diversity is the variability among living organisms and the a range of issues that may arise during the course of the placement ecological complexes of which they are part, including diversity within as well as seminar presentations on matters relevant to public interest species, between species and of ecosystems. Aside from whatever externships. The unit has a public interest focus which is reflected in intrinsic value it may possess, biodiversity is crucial to support human the selection of placement sites. life and welfare. Australia is fortunate to have some of the world¿s most complex and unique biodiversity - unfortunately, also to have At the end of the unit students should have: one of the highest rates of extinction and loss of biodiversity. Despite * acquired a better sense of the professional and personal a sophisticated system of environmental governance and a relatively responsibilities associated with the practice of law; high degree of environmental awareness, biodiversity continues to * developed an appreciation that the law is a people profession; decline rapidly in Australia. This unit will consider the international * observed and participated in a high level of problem solving flowing legal regime related to the protection of biodiversity; how international from real case files (where appropriate); instruments are incorporated into (or otherwise affect) Australia¿s * been introduced to the basic inter-personal skills involved in the regime; and the operation of Australia¿s regime at both national and practice of law; state levels (the latter, particularly in NSW) - and will include consideration of various threats to biodiversity, different protection * interacted with legal professionals in a flexible learning environment; options (in situ and ex situ), and how biodiversity-related considerations * been introduced to aspects of the practice of law such as legal affect and are affected by other Environmental Law fields writing, advocacy and time management; and * developed the character and habits of a reflective practitioner. LAWS6105 Child Sexual Abuse: Diverse Perspectives LAWS5165 Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Rita Shackel, Prof Judith Sydney Law Review Cashmore Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Assessment: Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Joellen Riley Session: Semester 4500wd essay (60%) and critical review comprising oral presentation (20%) 2 Prohibitions: LAWS3057 or LAWS3465 Assessment: 1,000 word review and written paper (20%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening note (20%) and 6,000wd case note (80%) plus participation in editorial tasks (assessed as Satisfactory). Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day This unit of study examines the socio-legal complexities of responding Note: Department permission required for enrolment. Note: Enrolment in this to child sexual abuse in society. The unit presents students with a unit of study is by special application. For further information, please visit theoretical and multidisciplinary framework for understanding and sydney.edu.au/law/slr. evaluating contemporary issues relevant to child sexual abuse. More specifically the unit of study will analyse the nature of child sexual This unit of study is offered annually under the supervision of the a abuse and the underlying dynamics of such victimisation. Students member of the full-time academic staff and the Publishing Director of will critically evaluate different strategies and models directed at the Sydney Law Review.The unit is limited to 6 students per semester, identification and prevention of child sexual abuse and critically analyse who are selected on the basis of their academic results. Preference legal responses to child sexual victimisation. may be given to students in their final year in the selection of students for the unit. Each student will complete a range of tasks with respect LAWS6314 to the Review, including editing and proofreading submissions and Coastal and Marine Law writing a review note (for assessment purposes only) and a case note Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Rosemary Lyster, Assoc Prof Ed for assessment and potential publication. (A limited number of Couzens Session: Intensive March Classes: Mar 21-24 (9-5) Assessment: casenotes are selected for publication each year, according to their Presentation and 2000wd essay (25%) and 6000wd essay (75%) Mode of merit.) Students selected for this unit must be prepared to serve for delivery: Block mode six months, so that duties may start before, and may continue after, This unit examines legal and policy frameworks for the management the formal teaching and examination period. of coastal and marine areas in Australia. Topics addressed include Part 2- Master©s Level Electives the characteristics of Australian coastal and marine environments, the constitutional framework for the management of offshore areas, LAWS6947 the regulation of marine pollution, marine parks and reserves, fisheries Advanced Obligations and Remedies management, the regulation of offshore oil and gas resource extraction, and the management of climate change impacts on coastal Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Barbara McDonald, Prof Elisabeth Peden Session: Intensive July Classes: Jul 9, 10 and 12, 13 (9-5) Assumed and marine areas. knowledge: Available to law graduates only Assessment: Option 1: case note (20%) and 6000wd essay (80%) or Option 2: 8000wd essay (100%) Practical field work: Sydney Law School in Europe Mode of delivery: Block mode
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LAWS6032 not hold an undergraduate law degree must have completed LAWS6252 Legal Crime Research and Policy Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit and LAWS6044 Environmental Law and Policy (MEL only) Assessment: class Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Judith Cashmore Session: presentation and 1000wd essay (25%) and 6000wd essay (75%) Mode of Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Assessment: class participation delivery: Block mode (10%), 2000wd research problem (30%) and 4000wd research proposal (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening This unit has three aims. The first is to provide a sound analysis of Note: Core unit for MCrim and GradDipCrim students and co-requisite for other Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) procedures and criminology units. environmental planning laws in NSW and at the Commonwealth level. This unit provides an examination of research methods in the context The second aim is to develop a critical understanding of EIA and of criminology. The relationship between theory and methodology is environmental planning laws by examining their historical, ethical and explored. The production of knowledge about crime is critically political dimensions as well as relevant aspects of legal theory. The assessed. Sources and forms of crime data are discussed and their third and ultimate aim is to combine these doctrinal and theoretical significance is assessed. Research design, evaluation and analysis forms of knowledge so we can suggest possible improvements to are also studied. current laws and legal practices.
LAWS6325 LAWS6041 Crime, Responsibility and Policy Environmental Litigation Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Thomas Crofts Session: Intensive Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Justice Nicola Pain, Justice Rachel September Classes: Aug 17, 18 and Aug 31, Sep 1 (9-5) Assessment: Pepper Session: Intensive August Classes: Aug 8-11 (9-5) Assessment: Take-home exam (30%), 5000wd essay (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode 4000wd paper on a practical task/topic (50%), 4000wd essay (50%) Mode of delivery: Block mode This unit critically examines the theoretical and policy issues underlying the formulation and implementation of criminal law and the treatment This unit focuses on litigation as a tool for resolving environmental of certain groups by the criminal justice system. Following analysis of disputes. The unit examines different types of environmental litigation the principles of criminalisation and theories of criminal responsibility and issues that can arise in litigation processes. Candidates will a number of contemporary topics will be explored to foster an develop an understanding of the characteristics of environmental understanding of the policies and pressures that shape criminal law. litigation, the advantages and limitations of different types of Such topics include, how the law responds to violence (e.g. one-punch proceedings, and the range of outcomes that are possible for deaths, provocation, duress); sexuality and sex work; sexting by adults environmental litigation. The topics include litigation strategies, and young people; and anti-social behaviour. procedure and evidence, defensive actions (ie SLAPP litigation), and the outcomes of litigation. Reference will be made to recent cases, LAWS6193 such as in the field of climate change, to illustrate the topics. Criminal Justice: Prevention and Control LAWS6214 Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Garner Clancey Session: Intensive May Classes: May 4, 5 and 25, 26 (9-5) Assessment: 1500wd seminar paper Goods and Services Tax Principles A (35%) and 5000wd essay (65%) Mode of delivery: Block mode Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Rebecca Millar Session: Intensive September Classes: Sep 12-14 and 17, 18 (9-4) Assessment: class work/test This unit examines responses to crime and crime prevention with (35%) and 2hr exam (65%). A research essay may be undertaken in lieu of the reference to shifting notions of crime and responsibility for crime. It exam with the permission of the Unit Coordinator. Mode of delivery: Block encourages a critical appreciation of the limitations of criminal justice mode system responses to crime and the necessity to develop a broader This unit introduces the key concepts that underpin the Australian approach to crime prevention policy which responds to economic, GST, the policies underlying the tax, and the way those policies are social and cultural issues.The unit examines different ways of thinking (or are not) reflected in the design of the GST law. The aim is to give about criminal justice, such as a means of order maintenance, dispute participants a working knowledge of the operation of the GST law and resolution, or risk management, and the shifting focus towards the an awareness of the practical problems encountered in practice, prevention of future harms. Specific topics may include: restorative informed by an understanding of the way in which the law is intended justice specialist courts, privatisation and contractualism, security, to operate. policing, and approaches to crime prevention and community safety. The unit will commence with an examination of the basic design features of value added taxes in general and of Australia©s GST in LAWS6066 particular. It will then examine the core elements of the GST law, Discretion in Criminal Justice including: the taxpayer (entities, enterprise, and the obligation to Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Adj Prof Nicholas Cowdery Session: register for GST), the liability for tax on supplies made for Intensive October Classes: Oct 12, 13 and 26, 27 (9-5) Assessment: take-home exam (60%) and essay (40%) Mode of delivery: Block mode consideration; the value of taxable supplies and the amount of GST payable on supplies; the entitlement to input tax credits and the range This unit looks at the ways in which the exercise of discretionary of subsequent adjustments that may be required; attributing GST and judgment arises for consideration in the course of the criminal justice input tax credits to tax periods; adjustments for adjustment events; process and the ways in which that judgment should be exercised at basic principles of GST-free and input taxed supplies (including an each step. It deals with each stage from the reporting or observation introduction to real property transactions and intermediation services, of crime, through investigation, arrest, charging, bail, plea, hearing, primarily focussing on financial supplies); basic cross-border issues, appeal, retrial and publicity. It describes how actors at each step including the treatment of imports and exports. (citizens, police, prosecutors and judges) confront decision making, the laws (legislation, common law) and rules (prosecution guidelines, LAWS6052 memoranda and procedures) that apply and provides examples of Govt Regulation, Health Policy and Ethics the exercise of such discretions. It also looks at the place of public Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Cameron Stewart Session: commentary (personal, the media and political) in the process. The Intensive October Classes: Sep 27, 28 and Oct 25, 26 (9-5) Assessment: unit explores nuances in the conduct of any criminal prosecution aside class presentation (20%) and 7000wd essay (80%) Mode of delivery: Block from the application of the letter of the law. mode Note: MHL students may select this unit as one of the three core units required in addition to LAWS6252. LAWS6354 Environ Planning and Impact Assessment Law This unit examines government regulation of health care and Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Jeff Smith, Ms Susan O©Neill professional practice. With regard to each area of government Session: Intensive October Classes: Oct 3-6 (9-5) Prohibitions: LAWS6043, decision-making, issues are analysed by reference to the interplay LAWS6045, LAWS3430, LAWS5130 Assumed knowledge: students who do
96 Juris Doctor between social goals, human rights, legal rights and ethical Does progress depend on motivating people to consciously improve considerations.Topics covered include the constitutional and statutory their habits and lifestyles? Is it possible to regulate business without sources of government power with respect to health care: regulatory micro-managing or dictating commercial decisions and ©legislating the models and reform of public health legislation; therapeutic goods recipe for tomato ketchup?© Throughout the unit, students will be administration; health insurance; pharmaceutical benefits and the encouraged to explore the tension between personal responsibility pharmacy industry; human tissue legislation; discipline of health and freedom, and the broader public interest in a healthy population professionals with a focus on the National Law; health care complaints and a productive economy. Key topics include: Frameworks for thinking tribunals; a right to health care; ethical theories in law and medicine; about law, and environments that support healthier lifestyles; Global the ethics of human experimentation; and ethics committees. health governance and the prevention of non-communicable diseases; Tobacco control: where to from here? Personal responsibility for LAWS6054 health, and law©s role; Regulating alcohol; Obesity prevention; and Health Care and Professional Liability Law©s role in improving diet and nutrition, and encouraging active Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Cameron Stewart Session: living. Intensive May Classes: Apr 26, 27 and May 24, 25 (9-5) Assessment: class presentation (20%) and assignment or 7000wd essay (80%) Mode of delivery: LAWS6877 Block mode Mental Illness: Law and Policy Note: Core unit for Core unit for GradDipHL students. MHL students may select this unit as one of the three core units required in addition to LAWS6252. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Adj Prof Duncan Chappell Session: Intensive September Classes: Aug 27, 28 and 30, 31 (9-5) Assessment: This unit will provide a foundation for further study in health law by 3000wd assignment (40%) and 4500wd essay (60%) Mode of delivery: Block examining laws that govern the liability of health professionals across mode a range of fields (eg criminal law, torts, contract, discrimination law) This unit deals with the law relating to mental health issues in Australia and mechanisms for the oversight and disciplining of health including human rights principles. Background material on the nature professionals. The unit will explore the role of law as a means to and incidence of mental illness, psychiatric and medical issues, as regulate/set limits on the conduct of health professionals and examine well criminological and public policy literature will be considered where debates about the proper role of law in regulating the provision of relevant. The unit covers substantive issues from civil treatment, health care. It will also critically evaluate law reform initiatives with welfare law, and criminal law. Topics covered will include: the social respect to legal liability, complaints mechanisms and disciplinary action context of mental illness and the current and historical approaches to against health professionals where relevant. Topics to be covered treatment of the mentally ill; contemporary State, Territorial and Federal may include: Legal and non-legal methods of regulating the practices involvement in mental health policy and legislation; the present of health professionals; the limits imposed on health professionals by framework of NSW mental health law and related welfare law including the criminal law; the principles of negligence and their application to the Mental Health Act, Guardianship Act, Protected Estates Act and the liability of health professionals; contractual and fiduciary duties of Mental Health (Criminal Procedure) Act; the process of scheduling health professionals; liability of hospitals; discrimination in health care; persons with a mental illness; review mechanisms including the roles procedures for complaints against health professionals; disciplinary of the medical superintendent, magistrates, the mental health review proceedings and the statutory reporting obligations of health tribunal and the Supreme Court; longer term detention of the mentally professionals. ill; community treatment and community counselling orders; protected estates and guardianship orders; electroconvulsive therapy; consent LAWS6848 to surgery and special medical treatment; the defence of not guilty on Law, Business and Healthy Lifestyles the grounds of mental illness, the review of forensic patients and the Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Roger Magnusson Session: exercise of the executive discretion; the issue of unfitness to be tried; Intensive September Classes: Intro Class: Aug 6 (6-8) then Aug 16, 17 and the involuntary treatment of prisoners in the correctional system; and Sep 13, 14 (9-4.30) Assessment: Option 1: one short response question (20%) and 6000wd essay (80%) or Option 2: one short response question (20%), proposals and options for reform. 3000-3500wd essay (40%) and one take-home exam question (40%) or Option 3: one short response question (20%) and two 3000-3500wd essays (80%) LAWS6194 Mode of delivery: Block mode Punishment This unit is about legal and regulatory responses to tobacco use, Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Gail Mason Session: Intensive obesity, poor diet, harmful use of alcohol and sedentary lifestyle - the April Classes: Mar 23, 24 and Apr 20, 21 (9-5) Assessment: assignment (30%), 5000wd essay (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode leading causes of preventable disease in Australia, in high-income countries generally, and increasingly, in developing economies. The objective of this unit is to explore punishment, sentencing and Cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and tobacco-related diseases penalty in modern society, particularly through an understanding of (known as ©non-communicable diseases© or NCDs) are society©s the relationship between punishment and social structure and the greatest killers. But what can law do - and what should law be doing significance of punishment within the social and political order. The - to prevent them? Unlike other health threats, NCDs and their risk unit will adopt an interdisciplinary approach which draws on history, factors are partly caused by consumer choices that are lived out every law, literature, sociology and criminology.Topics which will be covered day across the country. The challenge of encouraging healthier include new sentencing regimes (such as mandatory sentencing), lifestyles cannot be separated, then, from the regulation of the women in prison, juvenile imprisonment, inequality and punishment, businesses that all too often have a vested interest in unhealthy privatisation, immigration detention and various new forms of lifestyles. Law©s relationship with smoking, alcohol and food is complex involuntary confinement, and the impact of law and order politics on and contested. Nevertheless, governments around the world are punishment. experimenting with a wide range of legal strategies to encourage healthier lifestyles. This unit will focus on developments in Australia LAWS6317 and the United States, placing legal developments in these countries Regulation of Corporate Crime in an international context. During the course, we will confront some Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Olivia Dixon Session: Intensive important over-arching questions. What are the global determinants April Classes: Apr 5, 6 and 12, 13 (9-4) Assessment: class participation (10%), of NCDs, and to what extent are global solutions needed? What do 2500wd case study (35%), 5500wd essay (55%) Mode of delivery: Block mode global solutions look like? To what extent should law intervene to Note: It is recommended that students have some knowledge of corporate law influence the behaviour of populations-as distinct from treating and criminal law and procedure, or have had practical experience in these areas. lifestyle-related risk factors as the personal responsibility of each individual? Does a regulatory approach to the prevention of NCDs This unit will examine, from a comparative (particularly United States imply coercion? Does it signal the emergence of the ©nanny state©? and United Kingdom) perspective, the current debates over the regulation of corporate crime from both legal and policy perspectives.
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Different theoretical perspectives on the nature and causes of link between theory and juvenile justice policy, and to develop an corporate crime, and the role of the state in regulating corporate appreciation of the multi-disciplinary nature of criminological behaviour will be examined, with a view to determining the reasons explanation. for the failure of the criminal justice and regulatory systems to respond to corporate crime. The role of criminal, civil and regulatory sanctions in deterring corporate crime will also be examined. Offenses covered will include fraud, bribery, corruption, money laundering, revenue offenses, competition law offenses, corporate manslaughter and various offenses under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). With this foundation, students will be encouraged to think critically and to apply the principles they have learned to case studies.
LAWS6888 Risk, Fear and Insecurity Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Murray Lee Session: Intensive May Classes: Apr 13, 14 and 27, 28 (9-5) Assessment: topic summary (compulsory but not assessed) and 3000wd essay (40%) and 4000wd policy assessment assignment (60%) Mode of delivery: Block mode
This unit considers the significance of anxiety, ©fear of crime©, risk and insecurity in the late modern world. It uses sophisticated analytical tools to discuss both the supposed growth in ©fear of crime© and the emergence of an array of technologies aimed at the reduction of crime risks. It also critically examines just what ©fear of crime© might actually be and how newspapers, security products, and insurance can be sold to us using the hook of our own anxieties. It also examines the anxieties related to terrorism and threats to national security and sovereignty. Textbooks Lee, M (2007) Inventing Fear of Crime, Willan, Devon
LAWS6096 Work Health and Safety: Law and Policy Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Richard Johnstone Session: Intensive May Classes: May 18, 19 and 25, 26 (9-5) Assumed knowledge: LAWS6252 or a law degree and LAWS6071 (MLLR students) Assessment: class participation (10%), 3000wd essay (40%) and assignment (50%) Mode of delivery: Block mode
This unit of study is on work health and safety law and practice. Its main focus is on the role of law in preventing disease, injury and death at work, principally by focusing on the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW), the relevant case law, and the enforcement of the Act. The Work Health and Safety Act 2011 will be placed in its broader context, including the extent of injury and disease at work, the principles of work health and safety management, changing work arrangements, the history of work health and safety regulation and broader principles of regulatory theory. Regulatory provisions governing health and safety in the mining, transport and clothing, textile and footwear industries will also briefly be examined.
LAWS6192 Young People, Crime and the Law Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Garner Clancey, Prof Murray Lee Session: Intensive October Classes: Oct 5, 6 and 19, 20 (9-5) Prohibitions: LAWS6069 Assessment: class presentation (10%), 3000wd essay (40%) and take-home exam (50%) Mode of delivery: Block mode
The unit aims to provide a broad overview of the functioning of the juvenile justice system and its relationship to juvenile offending.There is a specific emphasis on NSW in terms of understanding the operation of a particular system, however reference is frequently made to the wider Australian and international context. The unit analyses the historical development of a separate system of juvenile justice and the system of ideas about juvenile delinquency as distinct entities separable from broader notions of criminality and criminal justice.The unit also analyses the contemporary nature of juvenile crime and specific issues in relation to offending, policing, community-based corrections and detention centres. Social relations which mediate between the juvenile justice system and young people will be investigated through a focus on gender, race and class. The broader political determinants surrounding the operation of the juvenile justice system and moral panics in relation to juvenile offending will also be examined. The unit aims to develop a critical understanding of the
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Part 3- Jurisprudence Units of Study
Students must complete 42 credit points of elective units of study. Students must complete a minimum of 6 credit points from Part 3 to satisfy the Jurisprudence requirement LAWS5147 6 N LAWS3036 or LAWS3447 Semester 2 Law and Economics This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 3 requirement of the JD. LAWS5212 6 N LAWS5162 Semester 1 Law and Social Theories LAWS5213 6 P LAWS5004 Semester 1 Philosophy of Criminal Law LAWS5175 6 N LAWS3475 Semester 2 Philosophy of International Law This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 3 requirement of the JD LAWS5154 6 N LAWS3459 or LAWS3454 Intensive July Philosophy of Law This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 2 requirement of the LLB. Enrolment is by separate Semester 2 application to the Law School. LAWS5195 6 N LAWS3495 Semester 2 The Rule of Law and its Value This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 3 requirement of the JD. LAWS5171 6 N LAWS3471 Semester 2 Theories of Conscientious Obedience This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 3 requirement of the JD. LAWS5168 6 N LAWS3077 or LAWS3468 Semester 1 Theories of Justice This unit satisfies the Juriprudence/Part 3 requirement of the JD. LAWS5169 6 N LAWS3089 or LAWS3469 Semester 1 Theories of Law This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 3 requirement of the JD. Part 3 - Master©s Level Electives (Jurisprudence)
Students may choose no more than 24 credit points of master©s level units of study in the Juris Doctor. LAWS6187 6 Intensive Functional Analysis of Law and Soc March Control LAWS6827 6 Semester 2 Legal Responsibility and Philosophy of Mind LAWS6338 6 Intensive May The Nature of the Common Law LAWS6316 6 Intensive June Theories of the Judiciary
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This course examines and evaluates theories of law through the Units of study perspective of the criminal law. It has been supposed that criminal Part 3- Jurisprudence Units of Study law may be understood as an application of certain tenets of liberal moral and political philosophy. But the rapid development of criminal LAWS5147 laws in Australia and elsewhere over the last 50 years and the Law and Economics co-evolution and fragmentation of notions of personhood, citizenship, and community challenges this assumption. The course surveys Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Patricia Apps Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 x 2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: LAWS3036 or leading theories of criminal law and attempts to use them to critically LAWS3447 Assessment: 2 x 1000wd essays on a set problem (30%), class assess the evolving mix of criminal law doctrines, practices and participation and presentation (10%) and 2hr exam (60%) Mode of delivery: procedures in place in legal systems such as those of Australia.Topics Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day include the nature of criminal responsibility, the moral limits of the Note: This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 3 requirement of the JD. criminal law, objects of criminalisation and legal subjectivity. This unit The aim of the unit of study is to provide an understanding of the satisfies the Part 3 (Jurisprudence) requirement of the JD. economic analysis of law and to clarify fundamental differences between legal argument and the analysis of public policy. The unit LAWS5175 defines the role of government within the framework of welfare Philosophy of International Law economics and examines the social and economic effects of legal Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Michael Sevel Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/wk Prohibitions: LAWS3475 Assessment: Class regimes within that framework. Particular attention is given to the participation (10%), 1500wd mid-semester report (30%), and 4000wd essay concept of a competitive market, to the available empirical evidence (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening on market failure, and to the need for government intervention in Note: This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 3 requirement of the JD response to market failure and its negative consequences for social justice. Topics covered include: theoretical concepts of social justice; This course examines and evaluates traditional theories of law through social insurance; externalities and the environment; monopoly the lens of their deployment in the changing context of world society regulation, tort rights and remedies; asymmetric information, adverse and global governance. It has been supposed that there is no selection and moral hazard with applications to medical malpractice; difference in kind between the law internal to a state, and that which agency, corporate governance and managerial incentives; family law; exists in the global arena. But the rapid development of norms and taxation; and the measurement of inequality. institutions used in global governance over the last half century has cast doubt on this assumption. The course surveys leading theories LAWS5212 of law and attempt to apply them to the vast and evolving array of Law and Social Theories international law-related activity. Topics include the nature and role Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Deborah Whitehall Session: of customary law, enforcement and compliance, transnational authority, Semester 1 Classes: Taught intensively as 8x5hr seminars/wk for 8 weeks. ©hard© and ©soft© law, human rights, and international responsibility, Prohibitions: LAWS5162 Assessment: 2000wd reflective essay (20%), among others. 4000wd take-home exam (80%). Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day LAWS5154 This unit of study introduces elementary approaches to social theory Philosophy of Law to understand how law and legal institutions regulate or influence Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Wojciech Sadurski Session: communities in various localities or social-scapes: the urban; the local; Intensive July, Semester 2 Classes: Sydney 7x6hr seminars/wk for 7 weeks. Berlin: Taught intensively in Berlin from 19 - 25 July (tba). Prohibitions: the national; the state; the international; and the global. Each of these LAWS3459 or LAWS3454 Assessment: Sydney: class presentation and ©worlds© or social configurations present questions for sociological 2000wd written report (20%), class participation (20%), final take-home exam thinkers about the form and technique of laws; the interactions between (60%). Berlin: Pre-course 2000wd reaction note (20%), class participation (20%), law and other social institutions; the ideological missions of law; and 4000wd take-home exam (60%). Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day, Block mode how law supports or regulates the experience and expectations of Note: This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 2 requirement of the LLB. justice, freedom, prosperity and peace. Sociological thinkers ask these Enrolment is by separate application to the Law School. ©big© questions for lawyers to prompt new thinking about what law does right and what is necessary for it to do better. Students will discover This unit of study will introduce the fundamental notions of the writings of various ©classical© and ©contemporary© sociological jurisprudence understood as a theory about the aims, functions and thinkers (including Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Foucault, Bourdieu, Beck, values of law and legal system. It will aim to provide students with the Bauman and Sassen) in the contexts presented by various critical understanding of the central issues in philosophy of law social-scapes or ©worlds©. The course will use various examples to understood as a general, abstract, normative reflection on law as such encourage students to understand the relevance of social theory to rather than an examination of a concrete legal system. Nevertheless, them as lawyers. The unit does not presuppose prior knowledge of the purpose will be to provide students with the conceptual means social theory.This unit satisfies the Part 3 (Jurisprudence) requirement allowing them to conduct a critical scrutiny of particular legal systems of the JD. and legal rules with which they are familiar. The course will consider, in particular (1) the notions of legitimacy, validity and authority of law; LAWS5213 (2) the idea of rights and the nature of the rights discourse; (3) the Philosophy of Criminal Law justifications and limits of liberty rights; (4) the concept of justice, as Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Arlie Loughnan Session: applied to law, (5) the sources and limits of our obligation to obey the Semester 1 Classes: 2 x 2hr seminars/wk Prerequisites: LAWS5004 law, etc.The Berlin course will include guest lectures by distinguished Assessment: Class participation (10%), oral presentationn (10%), 1000wd German legal scholars on jurisprudential traditions and controversies report (20%), and 4000wd research essay (60%). Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day in Germany
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LAWS5195 Part 3- Masters Level Electives (Jurisprudence) The Rule of Law and its Value Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Michael Sevel Session: Semester LAWS6187 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/wk Prohibitions: LAWS3495 Assessment: Class Functional Analysis of Law and Soc Control participation (10%), 1500wd mid-semester report (30%), and 4000wd essay Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Alex Ziegert Session: (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day Intensive March Classes: Mar 16, 17 and 23, 24 (9-5) Assessment: 1000wd Note: This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 3 requirement of the JD. research note (30%) and 7000wd essay (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode
This course will explore the nature and value of the rule of law through This unit examines the largely diffuse concepts of social control and a critical examination of classical and contemporary writings in the functions of law and proposes a more specific approach to legal jurisprudence. Among the problems we will consider are:What features theory which incorporates the latest findings of socio-legal research of a legal system contribute to bringing about the rule of law? What on the social effects of law. As a result of this discussion, a more is ©legality©? What is the relationship between the rule of law and the specific concept of social control and an explanatory assessment of rule of good law? Is it always a virtue, other things being equal, to the social effects of law, including its political use, are presented with apply valid legal rules? How far is the rule of law consistent with the their theoretical implications for legal and political systems and applied, indeterminacy of law or with discretionary decision-making? Is the as examples, to historically and societally varied situations. rule of law an ©unqualified human good©? Why is it good? Should the rule of law ever be sacrificed for the sake of other goods? What does LAWS6827 the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index measure? Is it defensible Legal Responsibility and Philosophy of Mind from a jurisprudential point of view, and useful in determining the Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Adj Prof Christopher Birch Session: nature and value of the rule of law? Readings will include historical Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Assessment: class participation sources from the ancient Greek and early modern periods, exercise (20%) and 6000wd essay (80%) Mode of delivery: Normal contemporary essays in legal, moral, and political theory, and other (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening primary legal sources. Many legal doctrines in both criminal and civil law depend upon being able to characterise conduct as intentional, leading to ascriptions of LAWS5171 fault, blame or responsibility. Most serious criminal offences depend Theories of Conscientious Obedience upon establishing mens rea as a relevant mental element. Civil liability Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Kevin Walton Session: Semester is often dependent upon whether conduct was intended, or whether 2 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: LAWS3471 the cause of loss was brought about by either intentional conduct or Assessment: Structured class-participation (10%), emails about readings (10%), 1500wd mid-semester essay (20%) and 4000wd final essay (60%) conduct involving some lesser notion of fault. All of these doctrines Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day make important assumptions about the nature of our mental states Note: This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 3 requirement of the JD. and the operation of mind. Many of these assumptions are philosophically controversial and current developments in the This unit asks whether obedience to legal norms is required by philosophy of mind may lead us to reconsider or radically revise our morality. It examines various arguments for a moral obligation to obey attitudes to the law. The unit will look at contemporary philosophical the law. work on free will consciousness, mind, and causation and apply this work to present problems in regard to concepts of legal responsibility. LAWS5168 Theories of Justice Textbooks Lowe, EJ An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, Cambridge U.P., Cambridge Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Kevin Walton Session: Semester 2000 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: LAWS3077 or LAWS3468 Assessment: Structured class-participation (10%), emails about readings (10%), 1500wd mid-semester essay (20%) and 4000wd final essay LAWS6338 (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day The Nature of the Common Law Note: This unit satisfies the Juriprudence/Part 3 requirement of the JD. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Michael Sevel Session: Intensive May Classes: May 11, 12 and 18, 19 (9-5) Assessment: assignment (20%) This unit of study aims to provide students with a critical understanding and 7000wd essay (80%) or 8000wd essay (100%) Mode of delivery: Block of contemporary philosophical debates about justice.The unit focuses mode on liberal conceptions of justice and critiques thereof. It examines The common law is an essential part of the Australian legal system, various moral values in terms of which the law might be assessed. as well as many others around the world. This unit of study examines The moral values that it considers include liberty, community, utility, the nature of the common law from the point of view of jurisprudence. fairness and equality. Among the themes that it explores are the limits We will begin with a survey of the classic Common Law Theories of and connections between these ideals, the prospects for their developed in England during the seventeenth century; from there, a realisation in contemporary societies as well as the politics with which variety of problems surrounding the common law which these theories each is associated. made salient, and which still puzzle us today, will be examined.Topics include: the nature and authority of precedent, the distinctiveness of LAWS5169 legal reasoning, the nature and questions surrounding the validity of Theories of Law customary law, the relation between the common law and the ideal Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Kevin Walton Session: Semester of the rule of law, among others. 1 Classes: 2x2hr seminars/week for 10 weeks Prohibitions: LAWS3089 or LAWS3469 Assessment: Structured class-participation (10%), emails about readings (10%), 1500wd mid-semester essay (20%) and 4000wd final essay LAWS6316 (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day Theories of the Judiciary Note: This unit satisfies the Jurisprudence/Part 3 requirement of the JD. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Michael Sevel Session: Intensive June Classes: Jun 1, 2 and 8, 9 (9-5) Assessment: class presentation (20%) This unit seeks to facilitate critical reflection on prominent responses and 7500wd essay (80%) Mode of delivery: Block mode of both philosophers and sociologists to a single question: what is law? Among the notions to which their answers refer (and on which The judge has long been an important legal actor in common law the unit focuses) are power, class, patriarchy, norms, rules, authority, countries, but over the past several decades, there has been a rise principles, convention, morality, adjudication and interpretation. in judicial power globally, with the proliferation of constitutional courts and the strengthening of judiciaries in countries around the world. This seminar will consider views in jurisprudence which examines the judge, the activity of judging, and the proper role of the judiciary within a legal system and a just society more generally. Among the goals of
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Master of Administrative Law and Policy These resolutions must be read in conjunction with applicable University By-laws, Rules and policies including (but not limited to) the University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2014 (the ©Coursework Rule©), the Coursework Policy 2014, the Resolutions of the School, the University of Sydney (Student Appeals against Academic Decisions) Rule 2006 (as amended), the Academic Honesty in Coursework Policy 2015 and the Academic Honesty Procedures 2016. Up to date versions of all such documents are available from the Policy Register: http://sydney.edu.au/policies. Course resolutions 1 Course codes Code Course title MAADMLAP-01 Master of Administrative Law and Policy 2 Attendance pattern The attendance pattern for this course is full-time or part-time according to candidate choice. 3 Master©s type The master©s degree in these resolutions is a professional master©s degree, as defined by the Coursework Rule. 4 Admission to candidature (1) Available places will be offered to qualified applicants based on merit, according to the following admissions criteria. (2) Admission to the degree requires: (a) a bachelor©s degree with a minimum credit average from the University of Sydney or an equivalent qualification; or (b) a bachelor©s degree from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification; and the applicant provides evidence of two years of relevant professional experience. 5 Requirements for award The units of study that may be taken for the course are set out in the table of units of study for the Master of Administrative Law and Policy. To qualify for the award of the Master of Administrative Law and Policy, a candidate must complete 48 credit points, comprising: (a) 24 credit points of core units of study and 24 credit points of elective units of study, including a minimum of 24 credit points from the University of Sydney Law School, for candidates without a law background; or (b) 18 credit points of core units of study and 30 credit points of elective units of study, including a minimum of 24 credit points from the University of Sydney Law School, for candidates with a law background. 6 Transitional provisions (1) These resolutions apply to students who commenced their candidature on or after 1 January 2017. (2) Students who commenced prior to 1 January 2017 will complete the requirements in accordance with the resolutions in force at the time of their commencement. The School may specify a later date for completion or specify alternative requirements for completion of candidatures that extend beyond the prescribed time limit.
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Master of Administrative Law and Policy
Exemption from core units of study should not be assumed to be automatic. Formal approval must be obtained from the Sydney Law School prior to enrolment. Students must complete 48 credit points, comprising: (i) 24 credit points of core units of study and 24 credit points of elective units of study, including a minimum of 24 credit points from the Sydney Law School, for students without a law background; or (ii) 18 credit points of core units of study and 30 credit points of elective units of study, including a minimum of 24 credit points from the Sydney Law School, for students with a law background. Core Units of Study
For LAWS6252, students without a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must undertake this unit prior or concurrent to enrolling in other law units. LAWS6011 6 A undergraduate law degree or LAWS6252 (core unit for MALP and Environmental Law Intensive April Administrative Law students) N LAWS2010, LAWS5010 Core unit for MALP students. Students who do not hold a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before undertaking other law units. LAWS6252 6 N LAWS6881 Intensive April Legal Reasoning and the Common Students are recommended to enrol well in advance of classes in order to complete pre-class Intensive Law System readings (normally available to enrolled students 3 weeks prior to the first class). Law graduates August from a non-common law jurisdiction are also recommended to complete classes for this unit Intensive during the first week of their commencing semester. March Intensive September GOVT6316 6 Semester 1 Policy Making, Power and Politics Semester 2 LAWS6257 6 N LAWS6139 or LAWS6042 or LAWS6113 or LAWS6984 Intensive Public Policy Core unit for MALP students. September Elective Law Units of Study
JURS6018 6 Intensive Constitutional Theory August This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6130 6 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Intensive Dispute Resolution in Australia This is not a skills unit and students will not be trained as negotiators or mediators. This unit August This unit of study is not available in 2018 has a restricted class size. LAWS6355 6 Students who have previously completed both LAWS6191 Water Law and Climate Change Intensive Energy and Water Security Law and LAWS6163 Energy and Climate Law are not permitted to enrol in this unit. October LAWS6044 6 A LAWS6252 or law degree from a common law jurisdiction Intensive Environmental Law and Policy N LAWS3430 or LAWS5130 March Students who do not hold a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before undertaking the environmental law units. LAWS6354 6 A students who do not hold an undergraduate law degree must have completed LAWS6252 Intensive Environ Planning and Impact Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit and LAWS6044 October Assessment Law Environmental Law and Policy (MEL only) N LAWS6043, LAWS6045, LAWS3430, LAWS5130 LAWS6330 6 Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. Intensive Fundamentals of Regulation September This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6052 6 MHL students may select this unit as one of the three core units required in addition to Intensive Govt Regulation, Health Policy and LAWS6252. October Ethics LAWS6147 6 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 1 Independent Research Project Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose Semester 2 application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6182 6 C LAWS6183 Semester 1 Independent Research Project A Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected].
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6183 6 C LAWS6182 Semester 1 Independent Research Project B Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or over two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6068 6 Intensive Judicial Review-P©ciple, Pol and August Procedure LAWS6877 6 Intensive Mental Illness: Law and Policy September LAWS6198 6 Intensive Refugee Law September This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6191 6 Intensive Water Law and Climate Change October This unit of study is not available in 2018 Elective Units Offered by Other Faculties/Departments Elective Units Offered by the Department of Government & International Relations
GOVT6150 6 Intensive Challenges of Democratic Politics February GOVT6358 6 Semester 2 Comparative Migration Policy GOVT6135 6 Semester 1 Global Environmental Politics GOVT6123 6 Semester 2 Globalisation and Governance GOVT6156 6 Semester 2 Governance and Civil Society GOVT6319 6 Semester 2 Governance and Public Policy Making GOVT6357 6 Semester 2 International Policy Making GOVT6313 6 Semester 2 Leadership in Theory and Practice GOVT6316 6 Semester 1 Policy Making, Power and Politics Semester 2 GOVT6331 6 Semester 1 Public Management and Governance Semester 2 GOVT6301 6 Semester 2 Public Sector Ethics and Corruption Elective Units Offered by the School of Education and Social Work
SCWK6949 6 Semester 2 Global Social Policy SCWK6948 6 Semester 1 Social Policy Frameworks Elective Units Offered by the Department of Sociology and Social Policy
SCLG6901 6 N SCWK6901 Semester 1 Citizenship Rights and Social This unit is delivered at the University of Sydney. Movements SCLG6903 6 Semester 2 New Debates in Social Theory
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Master of Business Law These resolutions must be read in conjunction with applicable University By-laws, Rules and policies including (but not limited to) the University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2014 (the ©Coursework Rule©), the Coursework Policy 2014, the Resolutions of the School, the University of Sydney (Student Appeals against Academic Decisions) Rule 2006 (as amended), the Academic Honesty in Coursework Policy 2015 and the Academic Honesty Procedures 2016. Up to date versions of all such documents are available from the Policy Register: http://sydney.edu.au/policies. Course resolutions 1 Course codes Code Course title GNBUSLAW-01 Graduate Diploma in Business Law MABUSLAW-01 Master of Business Law 2 Attendance pattern The attendance pattern for these courses is full-time or part-time according to candidate choice. 3 Master©s type The master©s degree in these resolutions is a professional master©s degree, as defined by the Coursework Rule. 4 Embedded courses in this sequence (1) The embedded courses in this sequence are: (a) the Graduate Diploma in Business Law or the Graduate Diploma in Taxation (b) the Master of Business Law (2) Provided that candidates satisfy the admission requirements for each stage, a candidate may progress to the award of any of the courses in this sequence. Only the longer award completed will be conferred. 5 Admission to candidature (1) Available places will be offered to qualified applicants based on merit, according to the following admissions criteria. (2) Admission to candidature for the Graduate Diploma in Business Law requires: (a) a bachelor©s degree from the University of Sydney or an equivalent qualification. (3) Admission to candidature for the Master of Business Law requires: (a) a bachelor©s degree with a minimum credit average from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification; or (b) a bachelor©s degree from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification; and the applicant provides evidence of two years of relevant professional experience; or (c) completion of the requirements of an embedded graduate diploma with a minimum credit average, or an equivalent qualification. 6 Requirements for award (1) The units of study that may be taken for the Graduate Diploma in Business Law are set out in the tables of units of study for the Graduate Diploma in Business Law. To qualify for the award of the Graduate Diploma in Business Law, a candidate must complete 24 credit points comprising: (a) 6 credit points of core units of study and 18 credit points of elective units of study, for candidates without a law degree; or (b) 24 credit points of elective units of study, for candidates with a law background. (2) The units of study that may be taken for the Master of Business Law are set out in the tables of units of study for the Master of Business Law. To qualify for the award of the Master of Business Law, a candidate must complete 48 credit points comprising: (a) 6 credit points of core units of study and 42 credit points of elective units of study, for candidates without a law degree; or (b) 48 credit points of elective units of study, for candidates with a law background. 7 Course transfer A candidate for the master©s degree may elect to discontinue study and graduate with the shorter award from this embedded sequence, with the approval of the Head of School and Dean, and provided the requirements of the shorter award have been met. 8 Transitional provisions (1) These resolutions apply to students who commenced their candidature on or after 1 January 2018. (2) Students who commenced prior to 1 January 2018 will complete the requirements in accordance with the resolutions in force at the time of their commencement. The School may specify a later date for completion or specify alternative requirements for completion of candidatures that extend beyond the prescribed time limit.
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Master of Business Law
Exemption from core units of study should not be assumed to be automatic. Formal approval must be obtained from the Sydney Law School of prior to enrolment Students must complete 48 credit points, comprising: (i) 6 credit points of core units of study and 42 credit points of elective units of study, for students without a law background; or (ii) 48 credit points of elective units of study, for students with a law background Core Units of Study
Students without a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must undertake the unit below prior or concurrent to enrolling in other law units. LAWS6252 6 N LAWS6881 Intensive April Legal Reasoning and the Common Students are recommended to enrol well in advance of classes in order to complete pre-class Intensive Law System readings (normally available to enrolled students 3 weeks prior to the first class). Law graduates August from a non-common law jurisdiction are also recommended to complete classes for this unit Intensive during the first week of their commencing semester. March Intensive September Elective Units of Study
LAWS6947 6 A Available to law graduates only Intensive July Advanced Obligations and Remedies Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6209 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 2 Australian International Taxation taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6091 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May Chinese International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. LAWS6001 12 A undergraduate law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction or LAWS6252 Intensive Chinese Laws and Chinese Legal N LAWS6857 or LAWS3014 or LAWS3068 or LAWS5368 December Systems This unit is not available to students who have completed a law degree in the People©s Republic of China. Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective or capstone unit conditional on (i) students must write an essay that focuses on a development topic and (ii) that topic being pre-approved by the Unit Coordinator. Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6824 6 A undergraduate law degree Intensive Commercial Conflict of Laws N LAWS6884 October LAWS6333 6 Available to students who have previously completed trust law or corporations law as part of Intensive Commercial Trusts an undergraduate law degree. October LAWS6153 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative Corporate Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. August LAWS6128 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. March LAWS6264 6 Semester 2 Compliance: Financial Services Industry LAWS6328 6 A undergraduate law degree or LAWS6991 Intensive Contract Management August LAWS6250 6 A undergraduate law degree Intensive Controlling Liability by Contract February LAWS6222 6 Intensive Corporate Governance March LAWS6318 6 Intensive Corporate Innovation and Regulation December LAWS6140 6 Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. Intensive July Corp Soc Responsibility: Theory/Pol
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6030 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive April Corporate Taxation taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate Semester 1a study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6997 6 A Available to law graduates only. Students undertaking this unit must have a good working Intensive Cross-Border Deals knowledge of the Australian Corporations Act and the rules and practices applicable to securities October offerings and takeovers or the equivalent in their home jurisdiction. LAWS6852 6 A Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Intensive May Doing Business in China have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6937 6 A Available to law graduates only. Students who have previously completed LAWS6013 Intensive Employment Law Advocacy Advanced Employment Law may also enrol with permission of the Program Coordinator. September Students who have previously completed LAWS6013 Advanced Employment Law may also enrol with permission of the Program Coordinator. LAWS6307 6 N LAWS6230 or LAWS6869 Semester 1 Expert Evidence and Class Action Students without a law degree or equivalent may enrol in this unit but should be aware that Procedure the unit focuses on legal and evidentiary issues.This unit replaced LAWS6230 Expert Evidence and LAWS6869 Class Actions and Complex Litigation. LAWS6987 6 A This unit assumes no previous knowledge and is available to non-lawyers and to lawyers Intensive Fundamentals of Commercial Law who have not previously studied or practised in the area. September N LAWS3400 LAWS6991 6 C LAWS6252 Intensive May Fundamentals of Contract Law N LAWS1002 or LAWS1015 or LAWS2008 or LAWS5002 This unit is only available to non-law graduates who have not undertaken any previous study of contract law. Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. LAWS6810 6 N LAWS2014, LAWS5014. Students who have undertaken the equivalent of Corporations Law Intensive Fundamentals of Corporate Law in Australia within the last 5 years. March Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. LAWS6912 6 N LAWS2015 or LAWS3474 Intensive April Fundamentals of the Law of Trusts Students who have previously completed a law degree in a common law jurisdiction are not permitted to enrol in this unit, except with the permission of the Unit Coordinator LAWS6334 6 Intensive Gender Inequality and Development August LAWS6964 6 Intensive May Global Energy and Resources Law LAWS6214 6 Intensive Goods and Services Tax Principles September A LAWS6846 6 N LAWS5178 or LAWS3478 Intensive May Human Rights and the Global Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective Economy or capstone unit LAWS6147 6 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 1 Independent Research Project Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose Semester 2 application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6182 6 C LAWS6183 Semester 1 Independent Research Project A Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6183 6 C LAWS6182 Semester 1 Independent Research Project B Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or over two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6159 6 A undergraduate law degree with good background in Australian corporate law Intensive July Insolvency Law N CLAW6006 or LAWS3403 or LAWS3445 or LAWS5103 LAWS6882 6 A undergraduate law degree or LAWS6991 Intensive Insurance Contract Law September LAWS6059 6 A Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Intensive International Business Law have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common September Law System before enrolling in this unit. N LAWS3438, LAWS5138 LAWS6060 6 This is available as one of the core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students Intensive May International Commercial Arbitration LAWS6138 6 Intensive Internatl Fin Transactions: Law and March Prac LAWS6037 6 Semester 1 International Import/Export Laws LAWS6916 6 Intensive International Investment Law March
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6243 6 N LAWS1023, LAWS5005 Intensive International Law I This unit replaced LAWS6243 Public International Law. This unit is compulsory for MIL and March GradDipIntLaw students who have not completed any previous study in international law and Semester 2 must be taken during the first semester of candidature.This unit is not available to MLawIntDev students who have been granted a reduced volume of learning. This unit is available as one of the core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students. LAWS6326 6 Intensive Interpretation of Statutes and Other October Texts LAWS6903 6 A undergraduate law degree Intensive Interpreting Commercial Contracts Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be September provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6825 6 Intensive Introduction to Australian Business August Tax Intensive March Semester 1a LAWS6879 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive Japanese Law provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit February http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. Students may also substitute one or two days from Feb 13, 14 in Tokyo. LAWS6932 6 Intensive May Law and Investment in Asia LAWS6953 6 Intensive Law of Asset Protection August LAWS6848 6 Intensive Law, Business and Healthy Lifestyles September LAWS6928 6 N LAWS3478, LAWS5178 Intensive April Law, Justice and Development This unit is compulsory for MLawIntDev students. LAWS6149 12 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive July Legal Pluralism in Southeast Asia provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6944 6 Intensive Market Manipulation and Insider November Trading LAWS6341 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive July Media Law: Comparative provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit Perspectives http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6956 6 Intensive June Personal Property Securities LAWS6345 6 Intensive May Principles of Financial Regulation LAWS6257 6 N LAWS6139 or LAWS6042 or LAWS6113 or LAWS6984 Intensive Public Policy Core unit for MALP students. September LAWS6317 6 It is recommended that students have some knowledge of corporate law and criminal law and Intensive April Regulation of Corporate Crime procedure, or have had practical experience in these areas. LAWS6247 6 A Students should hold a law degree with good background in Australian corporate law. Intensive Securities and Markets Regulation February LAWS6957 6 A This is a fairly technical unit which focuses on Australian Law, and a good working knowledge Intensive Shareholders© Remedies of corporate law is assumed. January LAWS6008 6 A There are no prerequisite enrolment requirements. But students will be required to read and Semester 1 Takeovers and Reconstructions comprehend some technical material, including court judgments, Panel reasons for decisions, regulatory papers and academic literature. LAWS6965 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive April Tax Avoidance and Anti-Avoidance taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6177 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive May Tax Treaties taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6946 6 P LAWS6177 Intensive Tax Treaties Special Issues October LAWS6840 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Tax of Business and Investment taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate March Income A study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or Semester 1 accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who Semester 1a do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6841 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Tax of Business and Investment taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate August Income B study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or Semester 2 accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who Semester 2a do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit.
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6125 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 1 Taxation of Corporate Finance taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax and LAWS6030 Corporate Taxation before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6244 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Taxation of Corporate Groups taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate August study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6129 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 1 Taxation of Offshore Operations taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6118 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 2 Taxation of Partnerships and Trusts taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6336 6 A Students should have completed LAWS6214 Goods and Services Tax Principles A and at Intensive Taxation of Real Property least one unit in Australian income tax (LAWS6825, LAWS6840 or LAWS6841) before enrolling October Transactions in this unit. Those with a solid working knowledge of both taxes may not need to meet this requirement. If in doubt, please contact the unit coordinator for advice. LAWS6123 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive June Transfer Pricing in International Tax taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6109 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive UK International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. September LAWS6844 6 Intensive May US Corporate Law LAWS6171 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May US International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. LAWS6063 6 A limited knowledge of law of treaties Intensive World Trade Organization Law I N LAWS3439 or LAWS5139 September
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Units of study
Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Graduate Diploma in Business Law
Exemption from core units of study should not be assumed to be automatic. Formal approval must be obtained from the Sydney Law School of prior to enrolment Students must complete 24 credit points, comprising: (i) 6 credit points of core units of study and 18 credit points of elective units of study, for students without a law background; or (ii) 24 credit points of elective units of study, for students with a law background Core Units of Study
Students without a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must undertake the unit below prior or concurrent to enrolling in other law units. LAWS6252 6 N LAWS6881 Intensive April Legal Reasoning and the Common Students are recommended to enrol well in advance of classes in order to complete pre-class Intensive Law System readings (normally available to enrolled students 3 weeks prior to the first class). Law graduates August from a non-common law jurisdiction are also recommended to complete classes for this unit Intensive during the first week of their commencing semester. March Intensive September Elective Units of Study
LAWS6947 6 A Available to law graduates only Intensive July Advanced Obligations and Remedies Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6209 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 2 Australian International Taxation taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6091 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May Chinese International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. LAWS6001 12 A undergraduate law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction or LAWS6252 Intensive Chinese Laws and Chinese Legal N LAWS6857 or LAWS3014 or LAWS3068 or LAWS5368 December Systems This unit is not available to students who have completed a law degree in the People©s Republic of China. Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective or capstone unit conditional on (i) students must write an essay that focuses on a development topic and (ii) that topic being pre-approved by the Unit Coordinator. Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6824 6 A undergraduate law degree Intensive Commercial Conflict of Laws N LAWS6884 October LAWS6333 6 Available to students who have previously completed trust law or corporations law as part of Intensive Commercial Trusts an undergraduate law degree. October LAWS6153 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative Corporate Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. August LAWS6128 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. March LAWS6264 6 Semester 2 Compliance: Financial Services Industry LAWS6328 6 A undergraduate law degree or LAWS6991 Intensive Contract Management August LAWS6250 6 A undergraduate law degree Intensive Controlling Liability by Contract February LAWS6222 6 Intensive Corporate Governance March LAWS6318 6 Intensive Corporate Innovation and Regulation December LAWS6140 6 Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. Intensive July Corp Soc Responsibility: Theory/Pol
For internal use by University of Sydney staff only. 115 Business Law
Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6030 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive April Corporate Taxation taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate Semester 1a study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6997 6 A Available to law graduates only. Students undertaking this unit must have a good working Intensive Cross-Border Deals knowledge of the Australian Corporations Act and the rules and practices applicable to securities October offerings and takeovers or the equivalent in their home jurisdiction. LAWS6852 6 A Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Intensive May Doing Business in China have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6937 6 A Available to law graduates only. Students who have previously completed LAWS6013 Intensive Employment Law Advocacy Advanced Employment Law may also enrol with permission of the Program Coordinator. September Students who have previously completed LAWS6013 Advanced Employment Law may also enrol with permission of the Program Coordinator. LAWS6307 6 N LAWS6230 or LAWS6869 Semester 1 Expert Evidence and Class Action Students without a law degree or equivalent may enrol in this unit but should be aware that Procedure the unit focuses on legal and evidentiary issues.This unit replaced LAWS6230 Expert Evidence and LAWS6869 Class Actions and Complex Litigation. LAWS6987 6 A This unit assumes no previous knowledge and is available to non-lawyers and to lawyers Intensive Fundamentals of Commercial Law who have not previously studied or practised in the area. September N LAWS3400 LAWS6991 6 C LAWS6252 Intensive May Fundamentals of Contract Law N LAWS1002 or LAWS1015 or LAWS2008 or LAWS5002 This unit is only available to non-law graduates who have not undertaken any previous study of contract law. Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. LAWS6810 6 N LAWS2014, LAWS5014. Students who have undertaken the equivalent of Corporations Law Intensive Fundamentals of Corporate Law in Australia within the last 5 years. March Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. LAWS6912 6 N LAWS2015 or LAWS3474 Intensive April Fundamentals of the Law of Trusts Students who have previously completed a law degree in a common law jurisdiction are not permitted to enrol in this unit, except with the permission of the Unit Coordinator LAWS6334 6 Intensive Gender Inequality and Development August LAWS6964 6 Intensive May Global Energy and Resources Law LAWS6214 6 Intensive Goods and Services Tax Principles September A LAWS6846 6 N LAWS5178 or LAWS3478 Intensive May Human Rights and the Global Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective Economy or capstone unit LAWS6159 6 A undergraduate law degree with good background in Australian corporate law Intensive July Insolvency Law N CLAW6006 or LAWS3403 or LAWS3445 or LAWS5103 LAWS6882 6 A undergraduate law degree or LAWS6991 Intensive Insurance Contract Law September LAWS6059 6 A Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Intensive International Business Law have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common September Law System before enrolling in this unit. N LAWS3438, LAWS5138 LAWS6060 6 This is available as one of the core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students Intensive May International Commercial Arbitration LAWS6138 6 Intensive Internatl Fin Transactions: Law and March Prac LAWS6037 6 Semester 1 International Import/Export Laws LAWS6916 6 Intensive International Investment Law March LAWS6243 6 N LAWS1023, LAWS5005 Intensive International Law I This unit replaced LAWS6243 Public International Law. This unit is compulsory for MIL and March GradDipIntLaw students who have not completed any previous study in international law and Semester 2 must be taken during the first semester of candidature.This unit is not available to MLawIntDev students who have been granted a reduced volume of learning. This unit is available as one of the core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students. LAWS6326 6 Intensive Interpretation of Statutes and Other October Texts LAWS6903 6 A undergraduate law degree Intensive Interpreting Commercial Contracts Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be September provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6825 6 Intensive Introduction to Australian Business August Tax Intensive March Semester 1a
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6879 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive Japanese Law provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit February http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. Students may also substitute one or two days from Feb 13, 14 in Tokyo. LAWS6932 6 Intensive May Law and Investment in Asia LAWS6953 6 Intensive Law of Asset Protection August LAWS6848 6 Intensive Law, Business and Healthy Lifestyles September LAWS6928 6 N LAWS3478, LAWS5178 Intensive April Law, Justice and Development This unit is compulsory for MLawIntDev students. LAWS6149 12 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive July Legal Pluralism in Southeast Asia provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6944 6 Intensive Market Manipulation and Insider November Trading LAWS6341 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive July Media Law: Comparative provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit Perspectives http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6956 6 Intensive June Personal Property Securities LAWS6345 6 Intensive May Principles of Financial Regulation LAWS6257 6 N LAWS6139 or LAWS6042 or LAWS6113 or LAWS6984 Intensive Public Policy Core unit for MALP students. September LAWS6317 6 It is recommended that students have some knowledge of corporate law and criminal law and Intensive April Regulation of Corporate Crime procedure, or have had practical experience in these areas. LAWS6247 6 A Students should hold a law degree with good background in Australian corporate law. Intensive Securities and Markets Regulation February LAWS6957 6 A This is a fairly technical unit which focuses on Australian Law, and a good working knowledge Intensive Shareholders© Remedies of corporate law is assumed. January LAWS6008 6 A There are no prerequisite enrolment requirements. But students will be required to read and Semester 1 Takeovers and Reconstructions comprehend some technical material, including court judgments, Panel reasons for decisions, regulatory papers and academic literature. LAWS6965 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive April Tax Avoidance and Anti-Avoidance taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6177 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive May Tax Treaties taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6946 6 P LAWS6177 Intensive Tax Treaties Special Issues October LAWS6840 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Tax of Business and Investment taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate March Income A study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or Semester 1 accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who Semester 1a do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6841 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Tax of Business and Investment taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate August Income B study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or Semester 2 accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who Semester 2a do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6125 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 1 Taxation of Corporate Finance taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax and LAWS6030 Corporate Taxation before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6244 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Taxation of Corporate Groups taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate August study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit.
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6129 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 1 Taxation of Offshore Operations taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6118 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 2 Taxation of Partnerships and Trusts taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6336 6 A Students should have completed LAWS6214 Goods and Services Tax Principles A and at Intensive Taxation of Real Property least one unit in Australian income tax (LAWS6825, LAWS6840 or LAWS6841) before enrolling October Transactions in this unit. Those with a solid working knowledge of both taxes may not need to meet this requirement. If in doubt, please contact the unit coordinator for advice. LAWS6123 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive June Transfer Pricing in International Tax taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6109 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive UK International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. September LAWS6844 6 Intensive May US Corporate Law LAWS6171 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May US International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. LAWS6063 6 A limited knowledge of law of treaties Intensive World Trade Organization Law I N LAWS3439 or LAWS5139 September
118 Criminology Criminology
Graduate Diploma in Criminology Master of Criminology These resolutions must be read in conjunction with applicable University By-laws, Rules and policies including (but not limited to) the University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2014 (the ©Coursework Rule©), the Coursework Policy 2014, the Resolutions of the School, the University of Sydney (Student Appeals against Academic Decisions) Rule 2006 (as amended), the Academic Honesty in Coursework Policy 2015 and the Academic Honesty Procedures 2016. Up to date versions of all such documents are available from the Policy Register: http://sydney.edu.au/policies. Course resolutions 1 Course codes Code Course title GNCRIMIN-03 Graduate Diploma in Criminology MACRIMIN-03 Master of Criminology 2 Attendance pattern The attendance pattern for these courses is full-time or part-time according to candidate choice. 3 Master©s type The master©s degree in these resolutions is a professional master©s degree, as defined by the Coursework Rule. 4 Embedded courses in this sequence (1) The embedded courses in this sequence are: (a) the Graduate Diploma in Criminology (b) the Master of Criminology (2) Provided that candidates satisfy the admission requirements for each stage, a candidate may progress to the award of either of the courses in this sequence. Only the longer award completed will be conferred. 5 Admission to candidature (1) Available places will be offered to qualified applicants based on merit, according to the following admissions criteria. (2) Admission to candidature for the Graduate Diploma in Criminology requires: (a) a bachelor©s degree from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification. (3) Admission to candidature for the Master of Criminology requires: (a) a bachelor©s degree with a minimum credit average from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification; or (b) a bachelor©s degree from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification; and the applicant provides evidence of two years of relevant professional experience; or (c) completion of the requirements of the Graduate Diploma in Criminology with a minimum credit average, or an equivalent qualification. 6 Requirements for award (1) The units of study that may be taken for the Graduate Diploma in Criminology are set out in the table of units of study for the Graduate Diploma in Criminology. To qualify for the award of the Graduate Diploma in Criminology, a candidate must complete 24 credit points, comprising 12 credit points of core units of study and 12 credit points of elective units of study. (2) The units of study that may be taken for the Master of Criminology are set out in the table of units of study for the Master of Criminology. To qualify for the award of the Master of Criminology, a candidate must complete 48 credit points, comprising: (a) 18 credit points of core units of study and 30 credit points of elective units of study for candidates without a law background; or (b) 12 credit points of core units of study and 36 credit points of elective units of study, for candidates with a law background. 7 Course transfer A candidate for the master©s degree may elect to discontinue study and graduate with the shorter award from this embedded sequence, with the approval of the Head of School and Dean, and provided the requirements of the shorter award have been met. 8 Transitional provisions (1) These resolutions apply to students who commenced their candidature on or after 1 January 2017. (2) Students who commenced prior to 1 January 2017 will complete the requirements in accordance with the resolutions in force at the time of their commencement. The School may specify a later date for completion or specify alternative requirements for completion of candidatures that extend beyond the prescribed time limit.
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Units of study
Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Master of Criminology
Exemption from core units of study should not be assumed to be automatic. Formal approval must be obtained from the Sydney Law School prior to enrolment. Students must complete 48 credit points, comprising: (i) 18 credit points of core units of study and 30 credit points of elective units of study for students without a law background; or (ii) 12 credit points of core units of study and 36 credit points of elective units of study, for students with a law background. Core Units of Study
LAWS6032 6 Core unit for MCrim and GradDipCrim students and co-requisite for other criminology units. Semester 1 Crime Research and Policy LAWS6034 6 Core unit for MCrim students. This unit is an introduction to aspects of criminal law for Semester 2 Criminal Liability non-lawyers and is therefore not available to students who have completed a law degree or studies in criminal law from a common law jurisdiction. LAWS6048 6 Core unit for MCrim and GradDipCrim students and co-requisite for other criminology elective Semester 1 Explaining Crime units. Elective Units of Study
LAWS6105 6 Semester 2 Child Sexual Abuse: Diverse Perspectives LAWS6325 6 Intensive Crime, Responsibility and Policy September LAWS6986 6 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Intensive Criminal Justice Internship This unit is offered to students enrolled in the MCrim and GradDipCrim only. Interested October applicants must submit an Expression of Interest (maximum two typed pages) clearly outlining reasons for applying, details of previous internships undertaken (where applicable), perceived benefits of completing the internship, preferred placement agency/agencies and steps that the applicant will undertake to organise a placement.Those applicants demonstrating the greatest interest in and perceived benefit from the Internship will be accepted.The Expression of Interest must be submitted to Dr Garner Clancey [email protected] by 1 May 2018. Successful applicants will be formally notified of the outcome of their Expression of Interest and enrolment procedures explained approximately two weeks from the submission date. Successful applicants will then work with Dr Clancey to arrange placement at preferred host organisations. Please note that placement may be subject to permanent Australian residency in a number of organisations. LAWS6193 6 Intensive May Criminal Justice: Prevention and Control LAWS6233 6 C LAWS6234 Semester 1 Criminology Research Project A Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6233 and LAWS6234 within one or over two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6234 6 C LAWS6233 Semester 1 Criminology Research Project B Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6233 and LAWS6234 within one or two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6889 6 Intensive May Death Law LAWS6066 6 Intensive Discretion in Criminal Justice October LAWS6970 6 N PSYC1001 or PSYC3020 Semester 1 Forensic Psychology LAWS6877 6 Intensive Mental Illness: Law and Policy September LAWS6197 6 Intensive Policing: Crime, Control and Security August LAWS6194 6 Intensive April Punishment LAWS6888 6 Intensive May Risk, Fear and Insecurity
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6192 6 N LAWS6069 Intensive Young People, Crime and the Law October
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Units of study
Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Graduate Diploma in Criminology
Exemption from core units of study should not be assumed to be automatic. Formal approval must be obtained from the Sydney Law School prior to enrolment Students must complete 24 credit points, comprising 12 credit points of core units of study and 12 credit points of elective units of study. Core Units of Study
LAWS6032 6 Core unit for MCrim and GradDipCrim students and co-requisite for other criminology units. Semester 1 Crime Research and Policy LAWS6048 6 Core unit for MCrim and GradDipCrim students and co-requisite for other criminology elective Semester 1 Explaining Crime units. Elective Units of Study
LAWS6105 6 Semester 2 Child Sexual Abuse: Diverse Perspectives LAWS6325 6 Intensive Crime, Responsibility and Policy September LAWS6986 6 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Intensive Criminal Justice Internship This unit is offered to students enrolled in the MCrim and GradDipCrim only. Interested October applicants must submit an Expression of Interest (maximum two typed pages) clearly outlining reasons for applying, details of previous internships undertaken (where applicable), perceived benefits of completing the internship, preferred placement agency/agencies and steps that the applicant will undertake to organise a placement.Those applicants demonstrating the greatest interest in and perceived benefit from the Internship will be accepted.The Expression of Interest must be submitted to Dr Garner Clancey [email protected] by 1 May 2018. Successful applicants will be formally notified of the outcome of their Expression of Interest and enrolment procedures explained approximately two weeks from the submission date. Successful applicants will then work with Dr Clancey to arrange placement at preferred host organisations. Please note that placement may be subject to permanent Australian residency in a number of organisations. LAWS6193 6 Intensive May Criminal Justice: Prevention and Control LAWS6034 6 Core unit for MCrim students. This unit is an introduction to aspects of criminal law for Semester 2 Criminal Liability non-lawyers and is therefore not available to students who have completed a law degree or studies in criminal law from a common law jurisdiction. LAWS6889 6 Intensive May Death Law LAWS6066 6 Intensive Discretion in Criminal Justice October LAWS6970 6 N PSYC1001 or PSYC3020 Semester 1 Forensic Psychology LAWS6877 6 Intensive Mental Illness: Law and Policy September LAWS6197 6 Intensive Policing: Crime, Control and Security August LAWS6194 6 Intensive April Punishment LAWS6888 6 Intensive May Risk, Fear and Insecurity LAWS6192 6 N LAWS6069 Intensive Young People, Crime and the Law October
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124 Environmental Law Environmental Law
Graduate Diploma in Environmental Law Master of Environmental Law These resolutions must be read in conjunction with applicable University By-laws, Rules and policies including (but not limited to) the University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2014 (the ©Coursework Rule©), the Coursework Policy 2014, the Resolutions of the School, the University of Sydney (Student Appeals against Academic Decisions) Rule 2006 (as amended), the Academic Honesty in Coursework Policy 2015 and the Academic Honesty Procedures 2016. Up to date versions of all such documents are available from the Policy Register: http://sydney.edu.au/policies. Course resolutions 1 Course codes Code Course title GNENVLAW-01 Graduate Diploma in Environmental Law MAENVLAW-02 Master of Environmental Law 2 Attendance pattern The attendance pattern for these courses is full-time or part-time according to candidate choice. 3 Master©s type The master©s degree in these resolutions is a professional master©s degree, as defined by the Coursework Rule. 4 Embedded courses in this sequence (1) The embedded courses in this sequence are: (a) the Graduate Diploma in Environmental Law (b) the Master of Environmental Law (2) Provided that candidates satisfy the admission requirements for each stage, a candidate may progress to the award of either of the courses in this sequence. Only the longer award completed will be conferred. 5 Admission to candidature (1) Available places will be offered to qualified applicants based on merit, according to the following admissions criteria. (2) Admission to candidature for the Graduate Diploma in Environmental Law requires: (a) a bachelor©s degree from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification. (3) Admission to candidature for the Master of Environmental Law requires: (a) a bachelor©s degree with a minimum credit average from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification; or (b) a bachelor©s degree from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification; and the applicant provides evidence of two years of relevant professional experience; or (c) completion of the requirements of the Graduate Diploma in Environmental Law with a minimum credit average, or an equivalent qualification. 6 Requirements for award (1) The units of study that may be taken for the Graduate Diploma in Environmental Law are set out in the table of units of study for the Graduate Diploma in Environmental Law. To qualify for the award of the Graduate Diploma in Environmental Law, a candidate must complete 24 credit points, comprising: (a) 12 credit points of core units of study and 12 credit points of elective units of study, for candidates without a law background; or (b) 6 credit points of core units of study and 18 credit points of elective units of study, for candidates with a law background who have not completed any tertiary study in environmental law; or (c) 24 credit points of elective units of study, for candidates with an environmental law background. (2) The units of study that may be taken for the Master of Environmental Law are set out in the table of units of study for the Master of Environmental Law.To qualify for the award of the Master of Environmental Law, a candidate must complete 48 credit points, comprising: (a) 12 Credit Points of core units of study and 36 credit points of elective units of study, for candidates without a law background; or (b) 6 credit points of core units of study and 42 credit points of elective units of study, for candidates with a law background who have not completed any tertiary study in environmental law; or (c) 48 credit points of elective units of study for candidates with an environmental law background. 7 Course transfer A candidate for the master©s degree may elect to discontinue study and graduate with the shorter award from this embedded sequence, with the approval of the Head of School and Dean, and provided the requirements of the shorter award have been met. 8 Transitional provisions (1) These resolutions apply to students who commenced their candidature on or after 1 January 2017. (2) Students who commenced prior to 1 January 2017 will complete the requirements in accordance with the resolutions in force at the time of their commencement. The School may specify a later date for completion or specify alternative requirements for completion of candidatures that extend beyond the prescribed time limit.
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Units of study
Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Master of Environmental Law
Exemption from core units of study should not be assumed to be automatic. Formal approval must be obtained from the Sydney Law School prior to enrolment. Students must complete 48 credit points, comprising: (i) 12 credit points of core units of study and 36 credit points of elective units of study, for students without a law background; or (ii) 6 credit points of core units of study and 42 credit points of elective units of study, for students with a law background who have not completed any tertiary study in environmental law; or (iii) 48 credit points of elective units of study, for students with an environmental law background. Core Units of Study
Students must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in the core unit(s) of study prior to undertaking the elective units of study Students without a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must undertake LAWS6252 prior or concurrent to enrolling in other law units. LAWS6044 6 A LAWS6252 or law degree from a common law jurisdiction Intensive Environmental Law and Policy N LAWS3430 or LAWS5130 March Students who do not hold a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before undertaking the environmental law units. LAWS6252 6 N LAWS6881 Intensive April Legal Reasoning and the Common Students are recommended to enrol well in advance of classes in order to complete pre-class Intensive Law System readings (normally available to enrolled students 3 weeks prior to the first class). Law graduates August from a non-common law jurisdiction are also recommended to complete classes for this unit Intensive during the first week of their commencing semester. March Intensive September Elective Units of Study
LAWS6011 6 A undergraduate law degree or LAWS6252 (core unit for MALP and Environmental Law Intensive April Administrative Law students) N LAWS2010, LAWS5010 Core unit for MALP students. Students who do not hold a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before undertaking other law units. LAWS6141 6 Intensive Asia Pacific Environmental Law August LAWS6165 6 Intensive April Biodiversity Law LAWS6320 6 This unit replaced LAWS6320 Climate Disaster Law. Intensive Climate Justice and Disaster Law September LAWS6314 6 Intensive Coastal and Marine Law March LAWS6355 6 Students who have previously completed both LAWS6191 Water Law and Climate Change Intensive Energy and Water Security Law and LAWS6163 Energy and Climate Law are not permitted to enrol in this unit. October LAWS6041 6 Intensive Environmental Litigation August LAWS6354 6 A students who do not hold an undergraduate law degree must have completed LAWS6252 Intensive Environ Planning and Impact Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit and LAWS6044 October Assessment Law Environmental Law and Policy (MEL only) N LAWS6043, LAWS6045, LAWS3430, LAWS5130 LAWS6964 6 Intensive May Global Energy and Resources Law LAWS6147 6 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 1 Independent Research Project Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose Semester 2 application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6182 6 C LAWS6183 Semester 1 Independent Research Project A Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected].
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6183 6 C LAWS6182 Semester 1 Independent Research Project B Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or over two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6061 6 Intensive May International Environmental Law LAWS6068 6 Intensive Judicial Review-P©ciple, Pol and August Procedure LAWS6047 6 Intensive Law of the Sea October LAWS6928 6 N LAWS3478, LAWS5178 Intensive April Law, Justice and Development This unit is compulsory for MLawIntDev students. LAWS6065 6 This unit replaced LAWS6065 Pollution and Contaminated Land. Intensive May Pollution, Corporate Liability and Govern LAWS6257 6 N LAWS6139 or LAWS6042 or LAWS6113 or LAWS6984 Intensive Public Policy Core unit for MALP students. September
128 Environmental Law Environmental Law
Units of study
Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Graduate Diploma in Environmental Law
Exemption from core units of study should not be assumed to be automatic. Formal approval must be obtained from the Sydney Law School prior to enrolment. Students must complete 24 credit points, comprising: (i) 12 credit points of core units of study and 12 credit points of elective units of study, for students without a law background; or (ii) 6 credit points of core units of study and 18 credit points of elective units of study, for students with a law background who have not completed any tertiary study in environmental law; or (iii) 24 credit point of electives units of study, for students with an environmental law background. Core Units of Study
Students without a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must undertake LAWS6252 prior or concurrent to enrolling in other law units. LAWS6044 6 A LAWS6252 or law degree from a common law jurisdiction Intensive Environmental Law and Policy N LAWS3430 or LAWS5130 March Students who do not hold a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before undertaking the environmental law units. LAWS6252 6 N LAWS6881 Intensive April Legal Reasoning and the Common Students are recommended to enrol well in advance of classes in order to complete pre-class Intensive Law System readings (normally available to enrolled students 3 weeks prior to the first class). Law graduates August from a non-common law jurisdiction are also recommended to complete classes for this unit Intensive during the first week of their commencing semester. March Intensive September Elective Units of Study
LAWS6011 6 A undergraduate law degree or LAWS6252 (core unit for MALP and Environmental Law Intensive April Administrative Law students) N LAWS2010, LAWS5010 Core unit for MALP students. Students who do not hold a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before undertaking other law units. LAWS6141 6 Intensive Asia Pacific Environmental Law August LAWS6165 6 Intensive April Biodiversity Law LAWS6320 6 This unit replaced LAWS6320 Climate Disaster Law. Intensive Climate Justice and Disaster Law September LAWS6314 6 Intensive Coastal and Marine Law March LAWS6355 6 Students who have previously completed both LAWS6191 Water Law and Climate Change Intensive Energy and Water Security Law and LAWS6163 Energy and Climate Law are not permitted to enrol in this unit. October LAWS6041 6 Intensive Environmental Litigation August LAWS6354 6 A students who do not hold an undergraduate law degree must have completed LAWS6252 Intensive Environ Planning and Impact Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit and LAWS6044 October Assessment Law Environmental Law and Policy (MEL only) N LAWS6043, LAWS6045, LAWS3430, LAWS5130 LAWS6964 6 Intensive May Global Energy and Resources Law LAWS6061 6 Intensive May International Environmental Law LAWS6068 6 Intensive Judicial Review-P©ciple, Pol and August Procedure LAWS6047 6 Intensive Law of the Sea October LAWS6928 6 N LAWS3478, LAWS5178 Intensive April Law, Justice and Development This unit is compulsory for MLawIntDev students. LAWS6065 6 This unit replaced LAWS6065 Pollution and Contaminated Land. Intensive May Pollution, Corporate Liability and Govern LAWS6257 6 N LAWS6139 or LAWS6042 or LAWS6113 or LAWS6984 Intensive Public Policy Core unit for MALP students. September
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130 Global Law Global Law
For continuing students only There is no new intake for this course. The following information is provided for continuing students only.
Course resolutions for previous years may be found in the handbook archive.
Units of study
Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Master of Global Law
The Master of Global Law will be offered to new commencing students for the last time in Semester 2 (July), 2016. This degree will no longer be offered to commencing students after 31 December 2016. Students can apply for related alternate degrees which includes: Master of Business Law; Master of International Law. Continuing students should refer to the degree resolutions in the year they commenced their degree. Exemption from core units of study should not be assumed to be automatic. Formal approval must be obtained from the Sydney Law School prior to enrolment. Students must complete 48 credit points, comprising: (i) 6 credit points of core units of study, for candidates without a law background; and (ii) a minimum of 6 credit points of Comparative and Foreign Law elective units of study; and (iii) a minimum of 6 credit points of Domestic (Australian) Law elective units of study; and (iv) a minimum of 6 credit points of International Law elective units of study. Up to 12 credit points units of study from the Master of Jurisprudence may be taken for credit, as elective units, towards the Master of Global Law. Core Units of Study
LAWS6252 6 N LAWS6881 Intensive April Legal Reasoning and the Common Students are recommended to enrol well in advance of classes in order to complete pre-class Intensive Law System readings (normally available to enrolled students 3 weeks prior to the first class). Law graduates August from a non-common law jurisdiction are also recommended to complete classes for this unit Intensive during the first week of their commencing semester. March Intensive September Elective Units of Study Comparative and Foreign Law Units of Study
LAWS6165 6 Intensive April Biodiversity Law LAWS6091 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May Chinese International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. LAWS6001 12 A undergraduate law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction or LAWS6252 Intensive Chinese Laws and Chinese Legal N LAWS6857 or LAWS3014 or LAWS3068 or LAWS5368 December Systems This unit is not available to students who have completed a law degree in the People©s Republic of China. Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective or capstone unit conditional on (i) students must write an essay that focuses on a development topic and (ii) that topic being pre-approved by the Unit Coordinator. Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6153 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative Corporate Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. August LAWS6128 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. March LAWS6222 6 Intensive Corporate Governance March LAWS6032 6 Core unit for MCrim and GradDipCrim students and co-requisite for other criminology units. Semester 1 Crime Research and Policy LAWS6997 6 A Available to law graduates only. Students undertaking this unit must have a good working Intensive Cross-Border Deals knowledge of the Australian Corporations Act and the rules and practices applicable to securities October offerings and takeovers or the equivalent in their home jurisdiction. LAWS6889 6 Intensive May Death Law LAWS6974 12 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive Development, Law and Human Rights provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit February http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6852 6 A Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Intensive May Doing Business in China have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6048 6 Core unit for MCrim and GradDipCrim students and co-requisite for other criminology elective Semester 1 Explaining Crime units. LAWS6147 6 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 1 Independent Research Project Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose Semester 2 application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6182 6 C LAWS6183 Semester 1 Independent Research Project A Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6183 6 C LAWS6182 Semester 1 Independent Research Project B Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or over two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6138 6 Intensive Internatl Fin Transactions: Law and March Prac LAWS6825 6 Intensive Introduction to Australian Business August Tax Intensive March Semester 1a LAWS6879 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive Japanese Law provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit February http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. Students may also substitute one or two days from Feb 13, 14 in Tokyo. LAWS6068 6 Intensive Judicial Review-P©ciple, Pol and August Procedure LAWS6932 6 Intensive May Law and Investment in Asia LAWS6953 6 Intensive Law of Asset Protection August LAWS6047 6 Intensive Law of the Sea October LAWS6928 6 N LAWS3478, LAWS5178 Intensive April Law, Justice and Development This unit is compulsory for MLawIntDev students. LAWS6956 6 Intensive June Personal Property Securities LAWS6345 6 Intensive May Principles of Financial Regulation LAWS6129 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 1 Taxation of Offshore Operations taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6118 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 2 Taxation of Partnerships and Trusts taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6123 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive June Transfer Pricing in International Tax taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6109 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive UK International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. September LAWS6844 6 Intensive May US Corporate Law LAWS6171 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May US International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law.
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Domestic (Australian) Law Units of Study
LAWS6011 6 A undergraduate law degree or LAWS6252 (core unit for MALP and Environmental Law Intensive April Administrative Law students) N LAWS2010, LAWS5010 Core unit for MALP students. Students who do not hold a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before undertaking other law units. LAWS6947 6 A Available to law graduates only Intensive July Advanced Obligations and Remedies Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6209 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 2 Australian International Taxation taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6165 6 Intensive April Biodiversity Law LAWS6320 6 This unit replaced LAWS6320 Climate Disaster Law. Intensive Climate Justice and Disaster Law September LAWS6153 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative Corporate Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. August LAWS6128 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. March LAWS6264 6 Semester 2 Compliance: Financial Services Industry LAWS6328 6 A undergraduate law degree or LAWS6991 Intensive Contract Management August LAWS6222 6 Intensive Corporate Governance March LAWS6140 6 Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. Intensive July Corp Soc Responsibility: Theory/Pol LAWS6030 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive April Corporate Taxation taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate Semester 1a study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6032 6 Core unit for MCrim and GradDipCrim students and co-requisite for other criminology units. Semester 1 Crime Research and Policy LAWS6034 6 Core unit for MCrim students. This unit is an introduction to aspects of criminal law for Semester 2 Criminal Liability non-lawyers and is therefore not available to students who have completed a law degree or studies in criminal law from a common law jurisdiction. LAWS6997 6 A Available to law graduates only. Students undertaking this unit must have a good working Intensive Cross-Border Deals knowledge of the Australian Corporations Act and the rules and practices applicable to securities October offerings and takeovers or the equivalent in their home jurisdiction. LAWS6889 6 Intensive May Death Law LAWS6066 6 Intensive Discretion in Criminal Justice October LAWS6044 6 A LAWS6252 or law degree from a common law jurisdiction Intensive Environmental Law and Policy N LAWS3430 or LAWS5130 March Students who do not hold a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before undertaking the environmental law units. LAWS6354 6 A students who do not hold an undergraduate law degree must have completed LAWS6252 Intensive Environ Planning and Impact Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit and LAWS6044 October Assessment Law Environmental Law and Policy (MEL only) N LAWS6043, LAWS6045, LAWS3430, LAWS5130 LAWS6307 6 N LAWS6230 or LAWS6869 Semester 1 Expert Evidence and Class Action Students without a law degree or equivalent may enrol in this unit but should be aware that Procedure the unit focuses on legal and evidentiary issues.This unit replaced LAWS6230 Expert Evidence and LAWS6869 Class Actions and Complex Litigation. LAWS6048 6 Core unit for MCrim and GradDipCrim students and co-requisite for other criminology elective Semester 1 Explaining Crime units. LAWS6970 6 N PSYC1001 or PSYC3020 Semester 1 Forensic Psychology LAWS6991 6 C LAWS6252 Intensive May Fundamentals of Contract Law N LAWS1002 or LAWS1015 or LAWS2008 or LAWS5002 This unit is only available to non-law graduates who have not undertaken any previous study of contract law. Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015.
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6334 6 Intensive Gender Inequality and Development August LAWS6214 6 Intensive Goods and Services Tax Principles September A LAWS6052 6 MHL students may select this unit as one of the three core units required in addition to Intensive Govt Regulation, Health Policy and LAWS6252. October Ethics LAWS6846 6 N LAWS5178 or LAWS3478 Intensive May Human Rights and the Global Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective Economy or capstone unit LAWS6147 6 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 1 Independent Research Project Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose Semester 2 application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6182 6 C LAWS6183 Semester 1 Independent Research Project A Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6183 6 C LAWS6182 Semester 1 Independent Research Project B Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or over two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6159 6 A undergraduate law degree with good background in Australian corporate law Intensive July Insolvency Law N CLAW6006 or LAWS3403 or LAWS3445 or LAWS5103 LAWS6882 6 A undergraduate law degree or LAWS6991 Intensive Insurance Contract Law September LAWS6326 6 Intensive Interpretation of Statutes and Other October Texts LAWS6903 6 A undergraduate law degree Intensive Interpreting Commercial Contracts Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be September provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6825 6 Intensive Introduction to Australian Business August Tax Intensive March Semester 1a LAWS6068 6 Intensive Judicial Review-P©ciple, Pol and August Procedure LAWS6071 6 A MLLR students must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Intensive Labour Law Reasoning and the Common Law System (core) as well as this unit before undertaking the March labour law elective units N LAWS5146 The unit is compulsory for students enrolled in the MLLR. However, the requirement to take this unit may be waived upon application to the Program Coordinator if the student can demonstrate proficiency in the unit objectives gained through completing a recent undergraduate law unit in labour law or work experience. Credit will not be granted for WORK6116 Employment and the Law and completion of this unit will not be sufficient to obtain an exemption from this MLLR compulsory unit. LAWS6953 6 Intensive Law of Asset Protection August LAWS6928 6 N LAWS3478, LAWS5178 Intensive April Law, Justice and Development This unit is compulsory for MLawIntDev students. LAWS6944 6 Intensive Market Manipulation and Insider November Trading LAWS6821 6 N LAWS6935 Intensive April Mediation - Skills and Theory Note: Department permission required for enrolment Intensive Students enrolling in this unit need to commit themselves to attending all classes. The skills December learning takes place in class and skills are built incrementally from the beginning to the end of the unit. Students cannot catch up on elements they have missed by doing reading outside class - they must participate in all scheduled sessions. If students have a problem with attendance, they should postpone enrolling or withdraw well in advance of the first class so their place can be offered to the next student. Please note enrolment priority will be given to MLLR students who are currently enrolled at Sydney Law School. LAWS6877 6 Intensive Mental Illness: Law and Policy September LAWS6956 6 Intensive June Personal Property Securities LAWS6257 6 N LAWS6139 or LAWS6042 or LAWS6113 or LAWS6984 Intensive Public Policy Core unit for MALP students. September
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6177 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive May Tax Treaties taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6946 6 P LAWS6177 Intensive Tax Treaties Special Issues October LAWS6840 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Tax of Business and Investment taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate March Income A study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or Semester 1 accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who Semester 1a do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6841 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Tax of Business and Investment taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate August Income B study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or Semester 2 accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who Semester 2a do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6125 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 1 Taxation of Corporate Finance taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax and LAWS6030 Corporate Taxation before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6244 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Taxation of Corporate Groups taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate August study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6129 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 1 Taxation of Offshore Operations taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6118 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 2 Taxation of Partnerships and Trusts taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6305 6 A LAWS6252 or a law degree and LAWS6071 Labour Law (MLLR students) Intensive Workplace Investigations Note: Department permission required for enrolment October This unit has a restricted class size. Please note enrolment priority will be given to MLLR students who are currently enrolled at Sydney Law School. International Law Units of Study
LAWS6141 6 Intensive Asia Pacific Environmental Law August LAWS6209 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 2 Australian International Taxation taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6091 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May Chinese International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. LAWS6001 12 A undergraduate law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction or LAWS6252 Intensive Chinese Laws and Chinese Legal N LAWS6857 or LAWS3014 or LAWS3068 or LAWS5368 December Systems This unit is not available to students who have completed a law degree in the People©s Republic of China. Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective or capstone unit conditional on (i) students must write an essay that focuses on a development topic and (ii) that topic being pre-approved by the Unit Coordinator. Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6320 6 This unit replaced LAWS6320 Climate Disaster Law. Intensive Climate Justice and Disaster Law September LAWS6824 6 A undergraduate law degree Intensive Commercial Conflict of Laws N LAWS6884 October LAWS6153 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative Corporate Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. August
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6128 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. March LAWS6264 6 Semester 2 Compliance: Financial Services Industry LAWS6222 6 Intensive Corporate Governance March LAWS6140 6 Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. Intensive July Corp Soc Responsibility: Theory/Pol LAWS6314 6 Intensive Coastal and Marine Law March LAWS6997 6 A Available to law graduates only. Students undertaking this unit must have a good working Intensive Cross-Border Deals knowledge of the Australian Corporations Act and the rules and practices applicable to securities October offerings and takeovers or the equivalent in their home jurisdiction. LAWS6974 12 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive Development, Law and Human Rights provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit February http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml LAWS6852 6 A Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Intensive May Doing Business in China have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6355 6 Students who have previously completed both LAWS6191 Water Law and Climate Change Intensive Energy and Water Security Law and LAWS6163 Energy and Climate Law are not permitted to enrol in this unit. October LAWS6334 6 Intensive Gender Inequality and Development August LAWS6964 6 Intensive May Global Energy and Resources Law LAWS6920 6 Intensive July Global Health Law LAWS6846 6 N LAWS5178 or LAWS3478 Intensive May Human Rights and the Global Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective Economy or capstone unit LAWS6147 6 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 1 Independent Research Project Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose Semester 2 application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6182 6 C LAWS6183 Semester 1 Independent Research Project A Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6183 6 C LAWS6182 Semester 1 Independent Research Project B Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or over two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6059 6 A Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Intensive International Business Law have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common September Law System before enrolling in this unit. N LAWS3438, LAWS5138 LAWS6060 6 This is available as one of the core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students Intensive May International Commercial Arbitration LAWS6022 6 Intensive May International and Comparative Labour Law LAWS6061 6 Intensive May International Environmental Law LAWS6138 6 Intensive Internatl Fin Transactions: Law and March Prac LAWS6161 6 N GOVT6117 Intensive International Human Rights Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. October LAWS6218 6 N LAWS3483 or LAWS5183 Intensive International Humanitarian Law August LAWS6037 6 Semester 1 International Import/Export Laws LAWS6916 6 Intensive International Investment Law March LAWS6243 6 N LAWS1023, LAWS5005 Intensive International Law I This unit replaced LAWS6243 Public International Law. This unit is compulsory for MIL and March GradDipIntLaw students who have not completed any previous study in international law and Semester 2 must be taken during the first semester of candidature.This unit is not available to MLawIntDev students who have been granted a reduced volume of learning. This unit is available as one of the core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students. LAWS6167 6 A LAWS6243 Intensive May International Law II Compulsory core unit for MIL and GradDipIntLaw students. This unit replaced LAWS6167 Semester 2 International Law and Australian Institutions.
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6825 6 Intensive Introduction to Australian Business August Tax Intensive March Semester 1a LAWS6879 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive Japanese Law provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit February http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. Students may also substitute one or two days from Feb 13, 14 in Tokyo. LAWS6932 6 Intensive May Law and Investment in Asia LAWS6047 6 Intensive Law of the Sea October LAWS6928 6 N LAWS3478, LAWS5178 Intensive April Law, Justice and Development This unit is compulsory for MLawIntDev students. LAWS6149 12 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive July Legal Pluralism in Southeast Asia provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6944 6 Intensive Market Manipulation and Insider November Trading LAWS6177 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive May Tax Treaties taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6946 6 P LAWS6177 Intensive Tax Treaties Special Issues October LAWS6123 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive June Transfer Pricing in International Tax taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6109 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive UK International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. September LAWS6844 6 Intensive May US Corporate Law LAWS6171 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May US International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. LAWS6063 6 A limited knowledge of law of treaties Intensive World Trade Organization Law I N LAWS3439 or LAWS5139 September Jurisprudence Units of Study
JURS6019 6 Intensive Freedom of Speech August LAWS6187 6 Intensive Functional Analysis of Law and Soc March Control LAWS6827 6 Semester 2 Legal Responsibility and Philosophy of Mind LAWS6308 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive July Philosophy of Law provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6338 6 Intensive May The Nature of the Common Law LAWS6316 6 Intensive June Theories of the Judiciary
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Graduate Diploma in Health Law Master of Health Law These resolutions must be read in conjunction with applicable University By-laws, Rules and policies including (but not limited to) the University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2014 (the ©Coursework Rule©), the Coursework Policy 2014, the Resolutions of the School, the University of Sydney (Student Appeals against Academic Decisions) Rule 2006 (as amended), the Academic Honesty in Coursework Policy 2015 and the Academic Honesty Procedures 2016. Up to date versions of all such documents are available from the Policy Register: http://sydney.edu.au/policies. Course resolutions 1 Course codes Code Course title GNHEALAW-01 Graduate Diploma in Health Law MAHEALAW-01 Master of Health Law 2 Attendance pattern The attendance pattern for these courses is full-time or part-time according to candidate choice. 3 Master©s type The master©s degree in these resolutions is a professional master©s degree, as defined by the Coursework Rule. 4 Embedded courses in this sequence (1) The embedded courses in this sequence are: (a) the Graduate Diploma in Health Law (b) the Master of Health Law (2) Provided that candidates satisfy the admission requirements for each stage, a candidate may progress to the award of either of the courses in this sequence. Only the longer award completed will be conferred. 5 Admission to candidature (1) Available places will be offered to qualified applicants based on merit, according to the following admissions criteria. (2) Admission to candidature for the Graduate Diploma in Health Law requires a bachelor©s degree from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification. (3) Admission to candidature for the Master of Health Law requires: (a) a bachelor©s degree with a minimum credit average from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification; or (b) a bachelor©s degree from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification; and the applicant provides evidence of two years of relevant professional experience; or (c) completion of the requirements of an embedded graduate diploma with a minimum credit average, or an equivalent qualification. 6 Requirements for award (1) The units of study that may be taken for the Graduate Diploma in Health Law are set out in the table of units of study for the Graduate Diploma in Health Law. To qualify for the award of the Graduate Diploma in Health Law, a candidate must complete 24 credit points, comprising: (a) 18 credit points of core units of study and 6 credit points of elective units of study, for candidates without a law background; or (b) 12 credit points of core units of study and 12 credit points of elective units of study for candidates with a law background. (2) The units of study that may be taken for the Master of Health Law are set out in the table of units of study for the Master of Health Law. To qualify for the award of the Master of Health Law, a candidate must complete 48 credit points, comprising: (a) 24 credit points of core units of study and 24 credit points of elective units of study for candidates without a law background; or (b) 18 credit points of core units of study and 30 credit points of elective units of study, for candidates with a law background. 7 Course transfer A candidate for the master©s degree may elect to discontinue study and graduate with the shorter award from this embedded sequence, with the approval of the Head of School and Dean, and provided the requirements of the shorter award have been met. 8 Transitional provisions (1) These resolutions apply to students who commenced their candidature on or after 1 January 2017. (2) Students who commenced prior to 1 January 2017 will complete the requirements in accordance with the resolutions in force at the time of their commencement. The School may specify a later date for completion or specify alternative requirements for completion of candidatures that extend beyond the prescribed time limit.
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Master of Health Law
Exemption from core units of study should not be assumed to be automatic. Formal approval must be obtained from the Sydney Law School prior to enrolment. Students must complete 48 credit points, comprising: (i) 24 credit points of core units of study and 24 credit points of elective units of study, for students without a law background; or (ii) 18 credit points of core units of study and 30 credit points of elective units of study, for students with a law background. Core Units of Study
Students without a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must undertake either LAWS6881 or LAWS6252 prior or concurrent to enrolling in other law units. Where a core unit of study is not available, students may apply for special permission to replace a core unit of study with an elective unit of study. LAWS6839 6 Core unit for GradDipPubHL students. MHL students may select this unit as one of the three Intensive Critical Issues in Public Health Law core units required in addition to LAWS6252 or LAWS6881. September This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6052 6 MHL students may select this unit as one of the three core units required in addition to Intensive Govt Regulation, Health Policy and LAWS6252. October Ethics LAWS6054 6 Core unit for Core unit for GradDipHL students. MHL students may select this unit as one of Intensive May Health Care and Professional Liability the three core units required in addition to LAWS6252. LAWS6058 6 N LAWS3452 or LAWS5152 Intensive Information Rights in Health Care Core unit for GradDipHL students. MHL students may select this unit as one of the three core September units required in addition to LAWS6252. Students who have previously completed LAWS5152, LAWS3452 or equivalent Medical Law unit in their undergraduate degree are not permitted to enrol in this unit. LAWS6252 6 N LAWS6881 Intensive April Legal Reasoning and the Common Students are recommended to enrol well in advance of classes in order to complete pre-class Intensive Law System readings (normally available to enrolled students 3 weeks prior to the first class). Law graduates August from a non-common law jurisdiction are also recommended to complete classes for this unit Intensive during the first week of their commencing semester. March Intensive September Elective Units of Study
LAWS6889 6 Intensive May Death Law LAWS6130 6 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Intensive Dispute Resolution in Australia This is not a skills unit and students will not be trained as negotiators or mediators. This unit August This unit of study is not available in 2018 has a restricted class size. LAWS6307 6 N LAWS6230 or LAWS6869 Semester 1 Expert Evidence and Class Action Students without a law degree or equivalent may enrol in this unit but should be aware that Procedure the unit focuses on legal and evidentiary issues.This unit replaced LAWS6230 Expert Evidence and LAWS6869 Class Actions and Complex Litigation. LAWS6970 6 N PSYC1001 or PSYC3020 Semester 1 Forensic Psychology LAWS6330 6 Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. Intensive Fundamentals of Regulation September This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6920 6 Intensive July Global Health Law LAWS6147 6 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 1 Independent Research Project Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose Semester 2 application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6182 6 C LAWS6183 Semester 1 Independent Research Project A Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6183 6 C LAWS6182 Semester 1 Independent Research Project B Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or over two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected].
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6848 6 Intensive Law, Business and Healthy Lifestyles September LAWS6877 6 Intensive Mental Illness: Law and Policy September LAWS6335 6 This unit is offered in online mode, with a compulsory face-to-face workshop conducted over Intensive Neurolaw: Brain Mind Law and Ethics 2 days. Students are required to digest materials posted in the Learning Management System September This unit of study is not available in 2018 each week, including traditional academic literature and multi-media resources, and to complete weekly online tasks (including quizzes and discussion questions).
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Graduate Diploma in Health Law
Exemption from core units of study should not be assumed to be automatic. Formal approval must be obtained from the Sydney Law School prior to enrolment. Where a core unit of study is not available, students may apply for special permission to replace a core unit of study with an elective unit of study. Students must complete 24 credit points of units of study; comprising: (i) 18 credit points of core units of study and 6 credit points of elective units of study, for students without a law background; or (ii) 12 credit points of core units of study and 12 credit points of elective units of study, for students with a law background. Core Units of Study
Students without a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must undertake either LAWS6881 or LAWS6252 unit prior or concurrent to enrolling in other law units. LAWS6054 6 Core unit for Core unit for GradDipHL students. MHL students may select this unit as one of Intensive May Health Care and Professional Liability the three core units required in addition to LAWS6252. LAWS6058 6 N LAWS3452 or LAWS5152 Intensive Information Rights in Health Care Core unit for GradDipHL students. MHL students may select this unit as one of the three core September units required in addition to LAWS6252. Students who have previously completed LAWS5152, LAWS3452 or equivalent Medical Law unit in their undergraduate degree are not permitted to enrol in this unit. LAWS6252 6 N LAWS6881 Intensive April Legal Reasoning and the Common Students are recommended to enrol well in advance of classes in order to complete pre-class Intensive Law System readings (normally available to enrolled students 3 weeks prior to the first class). Law graduates August from a non-common law jurisdiction are also recommended to complete classes for this unit Intensive during the first week of their commencing semester. March Intensive September Elective Units of Study
LAWS6889 6 Intensive May Death Law LAWS6130 6 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Intensive Dispute Resolution in Australia This is not a skills unit and students will not be trained as negotiators or mediators. This unit August This unit of study is not available in 2018 has a restricted class size. LAWS6307 6 N LAWS6230 or LAWS6869 Semester 1 Expert Evidence and Class Action Students without a law degree or equivalent may enrol in this unit but should be aware that Procedure the unit focuses on legal and evidentiary issues.This unit replaced LAWS6230 Expert Evidence and LAWS6869 Class Actions and Complex Litigation. LAWS6970 6 N PSYC1001 or PSYC3020 Semester 1 Forensic Psychology LAWS6330 6 Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. Intensive Fundamentals of Regulation September This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6920 6 Intensive July Global Health Law LAWS6052 6 MHL students may select this unit as one of the three core units required in addition to Intensive Govt Regulation, Health Policy and LAWS6252. October Ethics LAWS6848 6 Intensive Law, Business and Healthy Lifestyles September LAWS6877 6 Intensive Mental Illness: Law and Policy September LAWS6335 6 This unit is offered in online mode, with a compulsory face-to-face workshop conducted over Intensive Neurolaw: Brain Mind Law and Ethics 2 days. Students are required to digest materials posted in the Learning Management System September This unit of study is not available in 2018 each week, including traditional academic literature and multi-media resources, and to complete weekly online tasks (including quizzes and discussion questions).
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Graduate Diploma in International Law Master of International Law These resolutions must be read in conjunction with applicable University By-laws, Rules and policies including (but not limited to) the University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2014 (the ©Coursework Rule©), the Coursework Policy 2014, the Resolutions of the School, the University of Sydney (Student Appeals against Academic Decisions) Rule 2006 (as amended), the Academic Honesty in Coursework Policy 2015 and the Academic Honesty Procedures 2016. Up to date versions of all such documents are available from the Policy Register: http://sydney.edu.au/policies. Course resolutions 1 Course codes Code Course title GNINTLAW-01 Graduate Diploma in International Law MAINTLAW-01 Master of International Law 2 Attendance pattern The attendance pattern for these courses is full-time or part-time according to candidate choice. 3 Master©s type The master©s degree in these resolutions is a professional master©s degree, as defined by the Coursework Rule. 4 Embedded courses in this sequence (1) The embedded courses in this sequence are: (a) the Graduate Diploma in International Law (b) the Master of International Law (2) Provided that candidates satisfy the admission requirements for each stage, a candidate may progress to the award of either of the courses in this sequence. Only the longer award completed will be conferred. 5 Admission to candidature (1) Available places will be offered to qualified applicants based on merit, according to the following admissions criteria. (2) Admission to candidature for the Graduate Diploma in International Law requires: (a) a bachelor©s degree from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification. (3) Admission to candidature for the Master of International Law requires: (a) a bachelor©s degree with a minimum credit average from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification; or (b) a bachelor©s degree from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification; and the applicant provides evidence of two years of relevant professional experience; or (c) completion of the requirements of the Graduate Diploma in International Law with a minimum credit average, or an equivalent qualification. 6 Requirements for award (1) The units of study that may be taken for the Graduate Diploma in International Law are set out in the table of units of study for the Graduate Diploma in International Law.To qualify for the award of the Graduate Diploma in International Law, a candidate must complete 24 credit points comprising 12 credit points of core units of study and 12 credit points of elective units of study. (2) The units of study that may be taken for the Master of International Law are set out in the table of units of study for the Master of International Law. To qualify for the award of the Master of International Law, a candidate must complete 48 credit points comprising 12 credit points of compulsory core units of study, a minimum of 12 credit points of core untes of study and a maximum of 24 credit points of elective units of study, including 6 credit points of approved elective units of study from the Department of Government and International Relations or the Centre for International Security Studies. 7 Course transfer A candidate for the master©s degree may elect to discontinue study and graduate with the shorter award from this embedded sequence, with the approval of the Head of School and Dean, and provided the requirements of the shorter award have been met. 8 Transitional provisions (1) These resolutions apply to students who commenced their candidature on or after 1 January 2017. (2) Students who commenced prior to 1 January 2017 will complete the requirements in accordance with the resolutions in force at the time of their commencement. The School may specify a later date for completion or specify alternative requirements for completion of candidatures that extend beyond the prescribed time limit.
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Units of study
Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Master of International Law
Exemption from core units of study should not be assumed to be automatic. Formal approval must be obtained from the University of Sydney Law School prior to enrolment Students must complete 48 credit points, comprising: (i) 12 credit points of compulsory core units of study; (ii) a minimum of 12 credit points of core units of study; and (iii) a maximum of 24 credit points of elective units of study; including (iv) 6 credit points of elective units of study from the Department of Government and International Relations or the Centre for International Security Studies. Compulsory Core Units of Study
LAWS6243 6 N LAWS1023, LAWS5005 Intensive International Law I This unit replaced LAWS6243 Public International Law. This unit is compulsory for MIL and March GradDipIntLaw students who have not completed any previous study in international law and Semester 2 must be taken during the first semester of candidature.This unit is not available to MLawIntDev students who have been granted a reduced volume of learning. This unit is available as one of the core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students. LAWS6167 6 A LAWS6243 Intensive May International Law II Compulsory core unit for MIL and GradDipIntLaw students. This unit replaced LAWS6167 Semester 2 International Law and Australian Institutions. Core Units of Study
LAWS6059 6 A Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Intensive International Business Law have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common September Law System before enrolling in this unit. N LAWS3438, LAWS5138 LAWS6060 6 This is available as one of the core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students Intensive May International Commercial Arbitration LAWS6061 6 Intensive May International Environmental Law LAWS6161 6 N GOVT6117 Intensive International Human Rights Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. October LAWS6218 6 N LAWS3483 or LAWS5183 Intensive International Humanitarian Law August LAWS6062 6 N LAWS3483 or LAWS5183 Intensive International Law-the Use of Armed August Force LAWS6047 6 Intensive Law of the Sea October LAWS6119 6 Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective Intensive May The State and Global Governance or capstone unit. LAWS6063 6 A limited knowledge of law of treaties Intensive World Trade Organization Law I N LAWS3439 or LAWS5139 September Elective Law Units of Study
LAWS6141 6 Intensive Asia Pacific Environmental Law August LAWS6209 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 2 Australian International Taxation taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6091 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May Chinese International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law.
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6001 12 A undergraduate law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction or LAWS6252 Intensive Chinese Laws and Chinese Legal N LAWS6857 or LAWS3014 or LAWS3068 or LAWS5368 December Systems This unit is not available to students who have completed a law degree in the People©s Republic of China. Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective or capstone unit conditional on (i) students must write an essay that focuses on a development topic and (ii) that topic being pre-approved by the Unit Coordinator. Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6320 6 This unit replaced LAWS6320 Climate Disaster Law. Intensive Climate Justice and Disaster Law September LAWS6314 6 Intensive Coastal and Marine Law March LAWS6824 6 A undergraduate law degree Intensive Commercial Conflict of Laws N LAWS6884 October LAWS6153 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative Corporate Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. August LAWS6128 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. March LAWS6222 6 Intensive Corporate Governance March LAWS6140 6 Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. Intensive July Corp Soc Responsibility: Theory/Pol LAWS6997 6 A Available to law graduates only. Students undertaking this unit must have a good working Intensive Cross-Border Deals knowledge of the Australian Corporations Act and the rules and practices applicable to securities October offerings and takeovers or the equivalent in their home jurisdiction. LAWS6974 12 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive Development, Law and Human Rights provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit February http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml LAWS6852 6 A Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Intensive May Doing Business in China have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6355 6 Students who have previously completed both LAWS6191 Water Law and Climate Change Intensive Energy and Water Security Law and LAWS6163 Energy and Climate Law are not permitted to enrol in this unit. October LAWS6334 6 Intensive Gender Inequality and Development August LAWS6964 6 Intensive May Global Energy and Resources Law LAWS6920 6 Intensive July Global Health Law LAWS6846 6 N LAWS5178 or LAWS3478 Intensive May Human Rights and the Global Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective Economy or capstone unit LAWS6022 6 Intensive May International and Comparative Labour Law LAWS6138 6 Intensive Internatl Fin Transactions: Law and March Prac LAWS6037 6 Semester 1 International Import/Export Laws LAWS6916 6 Intensive International Investment Law March LAWS6184 6 C LAWS6185 Semester 1 International Law Research Project Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 A Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6184 and LAWS6185 within one or over two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6185 6 C LAWS6184 Semester 1 International Law Research Project Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 B Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6184 and LAWS6185 within one or over two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6879 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive Japanese Law provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit February http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. Students may also substitute one or two days from Feb 13, 14 in Tokyo. LAWS6932 6 Intensive May Law and Investment in Asia LAWS6928 6 N LAWS3478, LAWS5178 Intensive April Law, Justice and Development This unit is compulsory for MLawIntDev students. LAWS6149 12 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive July Legal Pluralism in Southeast Asia provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6944 6 Intensive Market Manipulation and Insider November Trading
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6177 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive May Tax Treaties taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6946 6 P LAWS6177 Intensive Tax Treaties Special Issues October LAWS6123 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive June Transfer Pricing in International Tax taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6109 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive UK International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. September LAWS6844 6 Intensive May US Corporate Law LAWS6171 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May US International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. Non-Law Elective Units of Study Elective Units of Study offered by the Department of Government and International Relations
GOVT6136 6 Semester 1 Asia Pacific Politics GOVT6150 6 Intensive Challenges of Democratic Politics February GOVT6111 6 C Recommended Co-requisites: CHSC6901 for Master of China Public Administration and Semester 2 Chinese Politics Master of China Studies GOVT6108 6 Semester 1 Democracy, Development and Rights in SE Asia GOVT6304 6 Semester 2 Development and World Politics GOVT6225 6 Semester 1 Essential Readings in Int©l Relations GOVT6137 6 Semester 2 Forces of Change in Int Relations GOVT6147 6 Semester 1 Foundations of International Relations GOVT6135 6 Semester 1 Global Environmental Politics GOVT6123 6 Semester 2 Globalisation and Governance GOVT6156 6 Semester 2 Governance and Civil Society GOVT6319 6 Semester 2 Governance and Public Policy Making GOVT6116 6 Semester 1 International Organisations GOVT6357 6 Semester 2 International Policy Making GOVT6119 6 Semester 1 International Security Semester 2 GOVT6313 6 Semester 2 Leadership in Theory and Practice GOVT6121 6 Semester 1 Northeast Asian Politics GOVT6316 6 Semester 1 Policy Making, Power and Politics Semester 2 GOVT6331 6 Semester 1 Public Management and Governance Semester 2 GOVT6301 6 Semester 2 Public Sector Ethics and Corruption Elective Units of Study offered by the Centre for International Security Studies
CISS6016 6 Semester 1 Chinese Foreign and Security Policy CISS6012 6 Students must not undertake this unit if they took CISS6011 (Special Topic in International Semester 2 Civil-Military Relations Security) when the special topic was Civil-Military Relations
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points CISS6022 6 Semester 2 Cybersecurity CISS6004 6 Semester 2 Health and Security CISS6013 6 N GOVT6154 Intensive Middle East Conflict and Security December This unit of study is not available in 2018 CISS6001 6 Semester 2 New Security Challenges CISS6018 6 Semester 1 Nuclear Arms Control and Non-proliferation CISS6006 6 Semester 2 Statebuilding and ©Fragile States© CISS6002 6 Semester 1 Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific CISS6019 6 Semester 2 War and Strategy
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Units of study
Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Graduate Diploma in International Law
Exemption from core units of study should not be assumed to be automatic. Formal approval must be obtained from the Sydney Law School prior to enrolment. Students must complete 24 credit points, comprising 12 credit points of core units of study and 12 credit points of elective units of study. Core Units of Study
LAWS6243 6 N LAWS1023, LAWS5005 Intensive International Law I This unit replaced LAWS6243 Public International Law. This unit is compulsory for MIL and March GradDipIntLaw students who have not completed any previous study in international law and Semester 2 must be taken during the first semester of candidature.This unit is not available to MLawIntDev students who have been granted a reduced volume of learning. This unit is available as one of the core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students. LAWS6167 6 A LAWS6243 Intensive May International Law II Compulsory core unit for MIL and GradDipIntLaw students. This unit replaced LAWS6167 Semester 2 International Law and Australian Institutions. Elective Units of Study
LAWS6141 6 Intensive Asia Pacific Environmental Law August LAWS6209 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 2 Australian International Taxation taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6091 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May Chinese International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. LAWS6320 6 This unit replaced LAWS6320 Climate Disaster Law. Intensive Climate Justice and Disaster Law September LAWS6824 6 A undergraduate law degree Intensive Commercial Conflict of Laws N LAWS6884 October LAWS6153 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative Corporate Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. August LAWS6128 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. March LAWS6222 6 Intensive Corporate Governance March LAWS6140 6 Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. Intensive July Corp Soc Responsibility: Theory/Pol LAWS6314 6 Intensive Coastal and Marine Law March LAWS6997 6 A Available to law graduates only. Students undertaking this unit must have a good working Intensive Cross-Border Deals knowledge of the Australian Corporations Act and the rules and practices applicable to securities October offerings and takeovers or the equivalent in their home jurisdiction. LAWS6974 12 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive Development, Law and Human Rights provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit February http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml LAWS6852 6 A Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Intensive May Doing Business in China have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6355 6 Students who have previously completed both LAWS6191 Water Law and Climate Change Intensive Energy and Water Security Law and LAWS6163 Energy and Climate Law are not permitted to enrol in this unit. October LAWS6334 6 Intensive Gender Inequality and Development August LAWS6964 6 Intensive May Global Energy and Resources Law LAWS6920 6 Intensive July Global Health Law LAWS6846 6 N LAWS5178 or LAWS3478 Intensive May Human Rights and the Global Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective Economy or capstone unit
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6022 6 Intensive May International and Comparative Labour Law LAWS6059 6 A Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Intensive International Business Law have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common September Law System before enrolling in this unit. N LAWS3438, LAWS5138 LAWS6060 6 This is available as one of the core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students Intensive May International Commercial Arbitration LAWS6061 6 Intensive May International Environmental Law LAWS6138 6 Intensive Internatl Fin Transactions: Law and March Prac LAWS6161 6 N GOVT6117 Intensive International Human Rights Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. October LAWS6218 6 N LAWS3483 or LAWS5183 Intensive International Humanitarian Law August LAWS6037 6 Semester 1 International Import/Export Laws LAWS6916 6 Intensive International Investment Law March LAWS6062 6 N LAWS3483 or LAWS5183 Intensive International Law-the Use of Armed August Force LAWS6879 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive Japanese Law provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit February http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. Students may also substitute one or two days from Feb 13, 14 in Tokyo. LAWS6932 6 Intensive May Law and Investment in Asia LAWS6047 6 Intensive Law of the Sea October LAWS6928 6 N LAWS3478, LAWS5178 Intensive April Law, Justice and Development This unit is compulsory for MLawIntDev students. LAWS6149 12 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive July Legal Pluralism in Southeast Asia provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6944 6 Intensive Market Manipulation and Insider November Trading LAWS6177 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive May Tax Treaties taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6946 6 P LAWS6177 Intensive Tax Treaties Special Issues October LAWS6119 6 Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective Intensive May The State and Global Governance or capstone unit. LAWS6123 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive June Transfer Pricing in International Tax taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6109 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive UK International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. September LAWS6844 6 Intensive May US Corporate Law LAWS6171 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May US International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. LAWS6063 6 A limited knowledge of law of treaties Intensive World Trade Organization Law I N LAWS3439 or LAWS5139 September
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Continuing students only There is no new intake for this course. The following information is provided for continuing students only. Course resolutions for previous years may be found in the handbook archive.
Units of study
Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Master of International Taxation
The Master of International Taxation will be offered to new commencing students for the last time in Semester 1 (March), 2017. This degree will no longer be offered to commencing students after 30 June 2017. Students can apply for related alternate degrees which includes: Master of Taxation. Continuing students should refer to the degree resolutions in the year they commenced their degree. Exemption from core units of study should not be assumed to be automatic. Formal Approval must be obtained from the Sydney Law School prior to enrolment Students must complete 48 credit points, including a minimum of 30 credit points of core units of study. Core Units of Study
LAWS6209 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 2 Australian International Taxation taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6091 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May Chinese International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. LAWS6153 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative Corporate Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. August LAWS6128 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. March LAWS6945 6 Intensive Doing Business in Emerging Markets September This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6037 6 Semester 1 International Import/Export Laws LAWS6129 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 1 Taxation of Offshore Operations taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6177 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive May Tax Treaties taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6946 6 P LAWS6177 Intensive Tax Treaties Special Issues October LAWS6123 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive June Transfer Pricing in International Tax taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6109 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive UK International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. September
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6171 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May US International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. Elective Units of Study
LAWS6984 6 N LAWS6257 Intensive Economics of Tax Policy September This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6147 6 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 1 Independent Research Project Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose Semester 2 application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6182 6 C LAWS6183 Semester 1 Independent Research Project A Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6183 6 C LAWS6182 Semester 1 Independent Research Project B Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or over two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6825 6 Intensive Introduction to Australian Business August Tax Intensive March Semester 1a LAWS6953 6 Intensive Law of Asset Protection August LAWS6257 6 N LAWS6139 or LAWS6042 or LAWS6113 or LAWS6984 Intensive Public Policy Core unit for MALP students. September LAWS6965 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive April Tax Avoidance and Anti-Avoidance taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6336 6 A Students should have completed LAWS6214 Goods and Services Tax Principles A and at Intensive Taxation of Real Property least one unit in Australian income tax (LAWS6825, LAWS6840 or LAWS6841) before enrolling October Transactions in this unit. Those with a solid working knowledge of both taxes may not need to meet this requirement. If in doubt, please contact the unit coordinator for advice. Master Taxation Elective Units of Study
Students may select a maximum of 18 credit points of elective units of study from the Master of Taxation degree. LAWS6169 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive May Capital Gains Tax taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate This unit of study is not available in 2018 study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6030 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive April Corporate Taxation taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate Semester 1a study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6214 6 Intensive Goods and Services Tax Principles September A LAWS6326 6 Intensive Interpretation of Statutes and Other October Texts LAWS6107 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive April Tax Litigation taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate This unit of study is not available in 2018 study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6127 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 1 Taxation and Regulation of taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate Superannuation study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or This unit of study is not available in 2018 accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. N LAWS6213
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6840 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Tax of Business and Investment taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate March Income A study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or Semester 1 accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who Semester 1a do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6841 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Tax of Business and Investment taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate August Income B study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or Semester 2 accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who Semester 2a do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6125 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 1 Taxation of Corporate Finance taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax and LAWS6030 Corporate Taxation before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6244 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Taxation of Corporate Groups taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate August study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6892 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Taxation of Mergers and Acquisitions taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate October This unit of study is not available in 2018 study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. C LAWS6030 LAWS6118 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 2 Taxation of Partnerships and Trusts taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit.
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156 Jurisprudence Jurisprudence
Graduate Diploma in Jurisprudence Master of Jurisprudence These resolutions must be read in conjunction with applicable University By-laws, Rules and policies including (but not limited to) the University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2014 (the ©Coursework Rule©), the Coursework Policy 2014, the Resolutions of the School, the University of Sydney (Student Appeals against Academic Decisions) Rule 2006 (as amended), the Academic Honesty in Coursework Policy 2015 and the Academic Honesty Procedures 2016. Up to date versions of all such documents are available from the Policy Register: http://sydney.edu.au/policies. Course resolutions 1 Course codes Code Course title GNJURISP-02 Graduate Diploma in Jurisprudence MAJURISP-02 Master of Jurisprudence 2 Attendance pattern The attendance pattern for these courses is full-time or part-time according to candidate choice. 3 Master©s type The master©s degree in these resolutions is an advanced learning master©s degree, as defined by the Coursework Rule. 4 Embedded courses in this sequence (1) The embedded courses in this sequence are: (a) the Graduate Diploma in Jurisprudence (b) the Master of Jurisprudence (2) Provided that candidates satisfy the admission requirements for each stage, a candidate may progress to the award of either of the courses in this sequence. Only the longer award completed will be conferred. 5 Admission to candidature (1) Available places will be offered to qualified applicants based on merit, according to the following admissions criteria. (2) Admission to candidature for the Graduate Diploma in Jurisprudence requires: (a) a bachelor©s degree from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification. (3) Admission to candidature for the Master of Jurisprudence requires: (a) a bachelor©s degree with a minimum credit average from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification; or (b) completion of the requirements of the Graduate Diploma in Jurisprudence with a minimum credit average, or an equivalent qualification. 6 Requirements for award (1) The units of study that may be taken for the Graduate Diploma in Jurisprudence are set out in the table of units of study for the Graduate Diploma in Jurisprudence. To qualify for the award of the Graduate Diploma in Jurisprudence, a candidate must complete 24 credit points. (2) The units of study that may be taken for the Master of Jurisprudence are set out in the table of units of study for the Master of Jurisprudence. To qualify for the award of the Master of Jurisprudence, a candidate must complete 48 credit points, comprising 12 credit points of core units of study (capstone experience) and 36 credit points of elective units of study. 7 Course transfer A candidate for the master©s degree may elect to discontinue study and graduate with the shorter award from this embedded sequence, with the approval of the Head of School and Dean, and provided the requirements of the shorter award have been met. 8 Transitional provisions (1) These resolutions apply to students who commenced their candidature on or after 1 January 2017. (2) Students who commenced prior to 1 January 2017 will complete the requirements in accordance with the resolutions in force at the time of their commencement. The School may specify a later date for completion or specify alternative requirements for completion of candidatures that extend beyond the prescribed time limits.
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Units of study
Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Master of Jurisprudence
Exemption from core units of study should not be assumed to be automatic. Formal approval must be obtained from the Sydney Law School prior to enrolment. Students must complete 48 credit points of units of study, comprising: 12 credit points of core units of study; and 36 credit points of elective units of study. Core Units of Study
JURS6034 6 C JURS6035 Semester 1 Jurisprudence Research Project A Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 This unit is compulsory for MJur students. Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both JURS6034 and JURS6035 within one or over two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. JURS6035 6 C JURS6034 Semester 1 Jurisprudence Research Project B Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 This unit is compulsory for MJur students. Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both JURS6034 and JURS6035 within one or over two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. Elective Units of Study
JURS6018 6 Intensive Constitutional Theory August This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6350 6 A LAWS6034 Criminal Liability, undergraduate criminal law or by permission of Unit Coordinator Intensive Criminal Law: History and Theory October This unit of study is not available in 2018 JURS6019 6 Intensive Freedom of Speech August LAWS6187 6 Intensive Functional Analysis of Law and Soc March Control LAWS6827 6 Semester 2 Legal Responsibility and Philosophy of Mind LAWS6335 6 This unit is offered in online mode, with a compulsory face-to-face workshop conducted over Intensive Neurolaw: Brain Mind Law and Ethics 2 days. Students are required to digest materials posted in the Learning Management System September This unit of study is not available in 2018 each week, including traditional academic literature and multi-media resources, and to complete weekly online tasks (including quizzes and discussion questions). LAWS6308 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive July Philosophy of Law provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6836 6 N JURS6028 or JURS6029 Semester 2 Precedent, Interpretation and Probability This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6338 6 Intensive May The Nature of the Common Law LAWS6119 6 Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective Intensive May The State and Global Governance or capstone unit. LAWS6940 6 N LAWS5169 or LAWS3469 Intensive June Theories of Law This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6316 6 Intensive June Theories of the Judiciary Units of Study offered by the Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
HRTD6906 6 N PHIL7607 Semester 2 The Philosophy of Human Rights
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Graduate Diploma in Jurisprudence
Students must complete 24 credit points of units of study. Units of Study
JURS6018 6 Intensive Constitutional Theory August This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6350 6 A LAWS6034 Criminal Liability, undergraduate criminal law or by permission of Unit Coordinator Intensive Criminal Law: History and Theory October This unit of study is not available in 2018 JURS6019 6 Intensive Freedom of Speech August LAWS6187 6 Intensive Functional Analysis of Law and Soc March Control LAWS6827 6 Semester 2 Legal Responsibility and Philosophy of Mind LAWS6335 6 This unit is offered in online mode, with a compulsory face-to-face workshop conducted over Intensive Neurolaw: Brain Mind Law and Ethics 2 days. Students are required to digest materials posted in the Learning Management System September This unit of study is not available in 2018 each week, including traditional academic literature and multi-media resources, and to complete weekly online tasks (including quizzes and discussion questions). LAWS6308 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive July Philosophy of Law provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6836 6 N JURS6028 or JURS6029 Semester 2 Precedent, Interpretation and Probability This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6338 6 Intensive May The Nature of the Common Law LAWS6119 6 Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective Intensive May The State and Global Governance or capstone unit. LAWS6940 6 N LAWS5169 or LAWS3469 Intensive June Theories of Law This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6316 6 Intensive June Theories of the Judiciary
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162 Labour Law and Relations Labour Law and Relations
Master of Labour Law and Relations These resolutions must be read in conjunction with applicable University By-laws, Rules and policies including (but not limited to) the University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2014 (the ©Coursework Rule©), the Coursework Policy 2014, the Resolutions of the School, the University of Sydney (Student Appeals against Academic Decisions) Rule 2006 (as amended), the Academic Honesty in Coursework Policy 2015 and the Academic Honesty Procedures 2016. Up to date versions of all such documents are available from the Policy Register: http://sydney.edu.au/policies. Course resolutions 1 Course codes Code Course title MALBLARE-03 Master of Labour Law and Relations 2 Attendance pattern The attendance pattern for this course is full-time or part-time according to candidate choice. 3 Master©s type The master©s degree in these resolutions is a professional master©s degree, as defined by the Coursework Rule. 4 Admission to candidature (1) Available places will be offered to qualified applicants based on merit, according to the following admissions criteria. (2) Admission to the degree requires: (a) a bachelor©s degree with a minimum credit average from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification; or (b) a bachelor©s degree from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification; and the applicant provides evidence of two years of relevant professional experience. 5 Requirements for award The units of study that may be taken for the course are set out in the table of units of study for the Master of Labour Law and Relations. To qualify for the award of the Master of Labour Law and Relations, a candidate must complete 48 credit points, comprising: (a) 12 credit points of compulsory core units of study and a minimum of 24 credit points of core units of study, for candidates with a law background; or (b) 18 credit points of compulsory core units of study and a minimum of 18 credit points of core units of study, for candidates without a law background; and (c) for all candidates, a minimum of 24 credit points from the University of Sydney Law School 6 Transitional provisions (1) These resolutions apply to students who commenced their candidature on or after 1 January 2017. (2) Students who commenced prior to 1 January 2017 will complete the requirements in accordance with the resolutions in force at the time of their commencement. The School may specify a later date for completion or specify alternative requirements for completion of candidatures that extend beyond the prescribed time limit.
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Units of study
Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Master of Labour Law and Relations
Exemption from core units of study should not be assumed to be automatic. Formal approval must be obtained from the Law School prior to enrolment Students must complete 48 credit points, comprising: (i) 12 credit points of compulsory core units of study and a minimum of 24 credit points of core units of study, for students with a law background; or (ii) 18 credit points of compulsory core units of study and a minimum of 18 credit points of core units of study, for students without a law background; and (iii) for all students, a minimum of 24 credit points from the Sydney Law School. Compulsory Core Units of Study
Students without a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must undertake LAWS6252 prior to or concurrent to enrolling in other law units. WORK6012 6 Intensive Industrial Relations Policy October LAWS6071 6 A MLLR students must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Intensive Labour Law Reasoning and the Common Law System (core) as well as this unit before undertaking the March labour law elective units N LAWS5146 The unit is compulsory for students enrolled in the MLLR. However, the requirement to take this unit may be waived upon application to the Program Coordinator if the student can demonstrate proficiency in the unit objectives gained through completing a recent undergraduate law unit in labour law or work experience. Credit will not be granted for WORK6116 Employment and the Law and completion of this unit will not be sufficient to obtain an exemption from this MLLR compulsory unit. LAWS6252 6 N LAWS6881 Intensive April Legal Reasoning and the Common Students are recommended to enrol well in advance of classes in order to complete pre-class Intensive Law System readings (normally available to enrolled students 3 weeks prior to the first class). Law graduates August from a non-common law jurisdiction are also recommended to complete classes for this unit Intensive during the first week of their commencing semester. March Intensive September Core Units of Study
LAWS6039 6 MLLR students may enrol in this unit before completing LAWS6071 Labour Law, but must Intensive Discrimination in the Workplace have either completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the August Common Law System. Students may enrol in this unit of study before completing LAWS6071 Labour Law. LAWS6937 6 A Available to law graduates only. Students who have previously completed LAWS6013 Intensive Employment Law Advocacy Advanced Employment Law may also enrol with permission of the Program Coordinator. September Students who have previously completed LAWS6013 Advanced Employment Law may also enrol with permission of the Program Coordinator. LAWS6022 6 Intensive May International and Comparative Labour Law LAWS6096 6 A LAWS6252 or a law degree and LAWS6071 (MLLR students) Intensive May Work Health and Safety: Law and Policy LAWS6305 6 A LAWS6252 or a law degree and LAWS6071 Labour Law (MLLR students) Intensive Workplace Investigations Note: Department permission required for enrolment October This unit has a restricted class size. Please note enrolment priority will be given to MLLR students who are currently enrolled at Sydney Law School. Law Elective Units of Study
LAWS6140 6 Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. Intensive July Corp Soc Responsibility: Theory/Pol LAWS6991 6 C LAWS6252 Intensive May Fundamentals of Contract Law N LAWS1002 or LAWS1015 or LAWS2008 or LAWS5002 This unit is only available to non-law graduates who have not undertaken any previous study of contract law. Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. LAWS6810 6 N LAWS2014, LAWS5014. Students who have undertaken the equivalent of Corporations Law Intensive Fundamentals of Corporate Law in Australia within the last 5 years. March Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. LAWS6147 6 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 1 Independent Research Project Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose Semester 2 application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected].
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6182 6 C LAWS6183 Semester 1 Independent Research Project A Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6183 6 C LAWS6182 Semester 1 Independent Research Project B Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or over two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6161 6 N GOVT6117 Intensive International Human Rights Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. October LAWS6821 6 N LAWS6935 Intensive April Mediation - Skills and Theory Note: Department permission required for enrolment Intensive Students enrolling in this unit need to commit themselves to attending all classes. The skills December learning takes place in class and skills are built incrementally from the beginning to the end of the unit. Students cannot catch up on elements they have missed by doing reading outside class - they must participate in all scheduled sessions. If students have a problem with attendance, they should postpone enrolling or withdraw well in advance of the first class so their place can be offered to the next student. Please note enrolment priority will be given to MLLR students who are currently enrolled at Sydney Law School. Students may enrol in this unit of study before completing LAWS6071 Labour Law. Elective Units of Study from the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies
WORK6017 6 Core unit for the MHRM and IR Semester 1 Human Resource Strategies Semester 2 WORK6012 6 Intensive Industrial Relations Policy October WORK6108 6 Semester 2 International Dimensions of HRM WORK6130 6 N ECOF5807 or ECOF6090 Semester 1 Leadership in Organisations WORK5003 6 Semester 1 Management and Organisations Semester 2 WORK6111 6 A Knowledge is assumed in the areas of basic business strategy and organisational change. Semester 1 Management Consulting It is recommended that students enrolling in this Unit will have completed either or both of the This unit of study is not available in 2018 following or similar Units: WORK6026 Organisational Change and Development, WORK6002 Foundations of Strategic Management. WORK6118 6 N ECOF6030 or ECOF6040 Semester 1 Managing Communication in Organisations WORK6001 6 Semester 1 Organisational Analysis and Behaviour WORK6026 6 Semester 1 Organisational Change and Development WORK6033 6 N ECOF6110 or CLAW6028 Semester 1 Organisational Sustainability WORK5002 6 This is the foundational unit for the graduate Human Resource Management and Industrial Semester 1 People, Work and Employment Relations program and should be taken in a student©s first semester of study. Semester 2a WORK6030 6 Semester 2b Performance and Rewards WORK6002 6 Semester 1 Strategic Management Semester 2b Elective Units of Study from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
ECOP6101 6 Semester 1 Core Concepts in Political Economy Semester 2 ECOP6015 6 Semester 1 Global Employment and Migration
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Continuing students only There is no new intake for this course. The following information is provided for continuing students only. Course resolutions for previous years may be found in the handbook archive.
Units of study
Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Master of Law and International Development
The Master of Law and International Development will be offered to new commencing students for the last time in Semester 1 (March), 2017. This degree will no longer be offered to commencing students after 30 June 2017. Students can apply for related alternate degrees which includes: Master of International Law. Continuing students should refer to the degree resolutions in the year they commenced their degree. Exemption from core units of study should not be assumed to be automatic. Formal approval must be obtained from the University of Sydney Law School prior to enrolment Students must complete 72 credit points, comprising: (i) 6 credit points of compulsory core unit of study; (ii) a minimum of 6 credit points of core units of study; (iii) a minimum of 12 credit points of capstone units of study; and (iv) a minimum of 36 credit points of units of study from the University of Sydney Law School. Students who are granted a reduced volume of learning must complete 48 credit points, comprising: (i) 6 credit points of compulsory core unit of study; (ii) a minimum of 6 credit points of capstone unit of study; (iii) a minimum of 24 credit points of units of study from the University of Sydney Law School. Compulsory Core Units of Study
LAWS6928 6 N LAWS3478, LAWS5178 Intensive April Law, Justice and Development This unit is compulsory for MLawIntDev students. This unit must be completed within the first year of enrolment. Core Units of Study
DVST6901 6 N SSCP6900 Semester 1 Development: Civil Society and This unit is delivered at the University of Sydney. Semester 2 Wellbeing LAWS6243 6 N LAWS1023, LAWS5005 Intensive International Law I This unit replaced LAWS6243 Public International Law. This unit is compulsory for MIL and March GradDipIntLaw students who have not completed any previous study in international law and Semester 2 must be taken during the first semester of candidature.This unit is not available to MLawIntDev students who have been granted a reduced volume of learning. This unit is available as one of the core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students. This unit is not available to students who are granted a reduced volume of learning. LAWS6252 6 N LAWS6881 Intensive April Legal Reasoning and the Common Students are recommended to enrol well in advance of classes in order to complete pre-class Intensive Law System readings (normally available to enrolled students 3 weeks prior to the first class). Law graduates August from a non-common law jurisdiction are also recommended to complete classes for this unit Intensive during the first week of their commencing semester. March Intensive September This unit is not available to students who are granted a reduced volume of learning. DVST6904 6 This unit is delivered at the University of Sydney. Semester 1 Rethinking Poverty Semester 2 Capstone Units of Study
LAWS6001 12 A undergraduate law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction or LAWS6252 Intensive Chinese Laws and Chinese Legal N LAWS6857 or LAWS3014 or LAWS3068 or LAWS5368 December Systems This unit is not available to students who have completed a law degree in the People©s Republic of China. Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective or capstone unit conditional on (i) students must write an essay that focuses on a development topic and (ii) that topic being pre-approved by the Unit Coordinator. Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml.
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6974 12 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive Development, Law and Human Rights provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit February http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml LAWS6846 6 N LAWS5178 or LAWS3478 Intensive May Human Rights and the Global Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective Economy or capstone unit LAWS6147 6 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 1 Independent Research Project Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose Semester 2 application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6182 6 C LAWS6183 Semester 1 Independent Research Project A Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6183 6 C LAWS6182 Semester 1 Independent Research Project B Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or over two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. INFS5001 6 N INFS6014 Intensive Project Management January Semester 1 Semester 2 LAWS6119 6 Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective Intensive May The State and Global Governance or capstone unit. Students who intend to undertake units which are taught offshore must ensure they hold an appropriate visa and/or approval from their sponsor to fund any additional expenses prior to accepting their offer of admission. Elective Units of Study
LAWS6001 12 A undergraduate law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction or LAWS6252 Intensive Chinese Laws and Chinese Legal N LAWS6857 or LAWS3014 or LAWS3068 or LAWS5368 December Systems This unit is not available to students who have completed a law degree in the People©s Republic of China. Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective or capstone unit conditional on (i) students must write an essay that focuses on a development topic and (ii) that topic being pre-approved by the Unit Coordinator. Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6320 6 This unit replaced LAWS6320 Climate Disaster Law. Intensive Climate Justice and Disaster Law September LAWS6128 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. March LAWS6140 6 Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. Intensive July Corp Soc Responsibility: Theory/Pol LAWS6945 6 Intensive Doing Business in Emerging Markets September This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6355 6 Students who have previously completed both LAWS6191 Water Law and Climate Change Intensive Energy and Water Security Law and LAWS6163 Energy and Climate Law are not permitted to enrol in this unit. October LAWS6334 6 Intensive Gender Inequality and Development August LAWS6964 6 Intensive May Global Energy and Resources Law LAWS6920 6 Intensive July Global Health Law LAWS6846 6 N LAWS5178 or LAWS3478 Intensive May Human Rights and the Global Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective Economy or capstone unit LAWS6061 6 Intensive May International Environmental Law LAWS6138 6 Intensive Internatl Fin Transactions: Law and March Prac LAWS6161 6 N GOVT6117 Intensive International Human Rights Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. October LAWS6218 6 N LAWS3483 or LAWS5183 Intensive International Humanitarian Law August LAWS6916 6 Intensive International Investment Law March LAWS6816 6 A LAWS6252 or a law degree and LAWS6071 Intensive July Labour Law in the Global Economy This unit replaced LAWS6816 Labour Law in the New Economy This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6848 6 Intensive Law, Business and Healthy Lifestyles September
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6932 6 Intensive May Law and Investment in Asia LAWS6977 6 A LAWS6243 International Law I or equivalent unit in public international law Intensive Law of International Institutions N GOVT6116 February This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6149 12 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive July Legal Pluralism in Southeast Asia provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6257 6 N LAWS6139 or LAWS6042 or LAWS6113 or LAWS6984 Intensive Public Policy Core unit for MALP students. September LAWS6198 6 Intensive Refugee Law September This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6338 6 Intensive May The Nature of the Common Law LAWS6119 6 Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective Intensive May The State and Global Governance or capstone unit. LAWS6191 6 Intensive Water Law and Climate Change October This unit of study is not available in 2018 Units of Study of other Faculties
DVST6901 6 N SSCP6900 Semester 1 Development: Civil Society and This unit is delivered at the University of Sydney. Semester 2 Wellbeing MIPH5131 6 Departmental permission required for non-MIPH students Semester 1 Foundations of International Health SCWK6949 6 Semester 2 Global Social Policy SUST5001 6 This unit of study involves essay-writing. Academic writing skills equivalent to HSC Advanced Semester 1 Introduction to Sustainability English or significant consultation via the Writing Hub is assumed. Semester 2 PACS6911 6 N SCWK6930 Semester 1 Key Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies GSOG6002 6 Students who are not undertaking the award courses GCPA, GDPA, MPAdmin or EMPA must Session 1 Public Sector Leadership have the permission of the Director, Graduate School of Government, to take this unit of study. Early Census This unit of study is not available in 2018
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Graduate Diploma in Law Master of Laws These resolutions must be read in conjunction with applicable University By-laws, Rules and policies including (but not limited to) the University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2014 (the ©Coursework Rule©), the Coursework Policy 2014, the Resolutions of the School, the University of Sydney (Student Appeals against Academic Decisions) Rule 2006 (as amended), the Academic Honesty in Coursework Policy 2015 and the Academic Honesty Procedures 2016. Up to date versions of all such documents are available from the Policy Register: http://sydney.edu.au/policies. Course resolutions 1 Course codes Code Course title GNLAWLAW-01 Graduate Diploma in Law MALAWLAW-04 Master of Laws 2 Attendance pattern The attendance pattern for these courses is full-time or part-time according to candidate choice. 3 Master©s type The master©s degree in these resolutions is an advanced learning master©s degree, as defined by the Coursework Rule. 4 Embedded courses in this sequence (1) The embedded courses in this sequence are: (a) the Graduate Diploma in Law (b) the Master of Laws (2) Provided that candidates satisfy the admission requirements for each stage, a candidate may progress to the award of either of the courses in this sequence. Only the longer award completed will be conferred. 5 Admission to candidature (1) Available places will be offered to qualified applicants based on merit, according to the following admissions criteria. (2) Admission to candidature for the Graduate Diploma in Law requires a Bachelor of Laws or Juris Doctor from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification. (3) Admission to candidature for the Master of Laws requires: (a) a Bachelor of Laws or Juris Doctor with a minimum credit average from the University of Sydney; or an equivalent qualification; or (b) completion of the requirements of an embedded graduate diploma with a minimum credit average, or an equivalent qualification. 6 Requirements for award (1) The units of study that may be taken for the courses are set out in the table of units of study for the Master of Laws. (2) To qualify for the award of the Graduate Diploma in Law, a candidate must complete 24 credit points. (3) To qualify for the award of the Master of Laws, a candidate must complete 48 credit points, including at least one unit of study in which the assessment consists substantially of a long research essay (7,000-10,000 words in length) (capstone experience). 7 Credit for Previous Study Students who are Bachelor of Laws or Juris Doctor graduates or graduands of the University of Sydney and who completed Sydney Law School LAWS6000/JURS6000 units of study as part of their Bachelor of Laws or Juris Doctor courses may apply to have up to 24 credit points of such units of study credited towards a Master of Laws. (a) Credit may only be granted upon satisfactory completion of a minimum of 24 credit points of units of study undertaken at Sydney Law School while enrolled in the Master of Laws. 8 Course transfer A candidate for the master©s degree may elect to discontinue study and graduate with the shorter award from this embedded sequence, with the approval of the Head of School and Dean, and provided the requirements of the shorter award have been met. (a) Credit towards the shorter award will not be awarded for LAWS6000/JURS6000 units of study undertaken as part of the student©s Bachelor of Laws or Juris Doctor. 9 Transitional provisions (1) These resolutions apply to students who commenced their candidature on or after 1 January 2018. (2) Students who commenced prior to 1 January 2018 will complete the requirements in accordance with the resolutions in force at the time of their commencement. The School may specify a later date for completion or specify alternative requirements for completion of candidatures that extend beyond the prescribed time limit.
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LAWS6011 6 A undergraduate law degree or LAWS6252 (core unit for MALP and Environmental Law Intensive April Administrative Law students) N LAWS2010, LAWS5010 Core unit for MALP students. Students who do not hold a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before undertaking other law units. LAWS6947 6 A Available to law graduates only Intensive July Advanced Obligations and Remedies Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6141 6 Intensive Asia Pacific Environmental Law August LAWS6209 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 2 Australian International Taxation taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6165 6 Intensive April Biodiversity Law LAWS6105 6 Semester 2 Child Sexual Abuse: Diverse Perspectives LAWS6091 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May Chinese International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. LAWS6001 12 A undergraduate law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction or LAWS6252 Intensive Chinese Laws and Chinese Legal N LAWS6857 or LAWS3014 or LAWS3068 or LAWS5368 December Systems This unit is not available to students who have completed a law degree in the People©s Republic of China. Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective or capstone unit conditional on (i) students must write an essay that focuses on a development topic and (ii) that topic being pre-approved by the Unit Coordinator. Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6320 6 This unit replaced LAWS6320 Climate Disaster Law. Intensive Climate Justice and Disaster Law September LAWS6824 6 A undergraduate law degree Intensive Commercial Conflict of Laws N LAWS6884 October LAWS6333 6 Available to students who have previously completed trust law or corporations law as part of Intensive Commercial Trusts an undergraduate law degree. October LAWS6153 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative Corporate Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. August LAWS6128 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. March LAWS6264 6 Semester 2 Compliance: Financial Services Industry LAWS6328 6 A undergraduate law degree or LAWS6991 Intensive Contract Management August LAWS6250 6 A undergraduate law degree Intensive Controlling Liability by Contract February LAWS6222 6 Intensive Corporate Governance March LAWS6318 6 Intensive Corporate Innovation and Regulation December LAWS6140 6 Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. Intensive July Corp Soc Responsibility: Theory/Pol
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6030 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive April Corporate Taxation taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate Semester 1a study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6314 6 Intensive Coastal and Marine Law March LAWS6032 6 Core unit for MCrim and GradDipCrim students and co-requisite for other criminology units. Semester 1 Crime Research and Policy LAWS6325 6 Intensive Crime, Responsibility and Policy September LAWS6193 6 Intensive May Criminal Justice: Prevention and Control LAWS6034 6 Core unit for MCrim students. This unit is an introduction to aspects of criminal law for Semester 2 Criminal Liability non-lawyers and is therefore not available to students who have completed a law degree or studies in criminal law from a common law jurisdiction. LAWS6997 6 A Available to law graduates only. Students undertaking this unit must have a good working Intensive Cross-Border Deals knowledge of the Australian Corporations Act and the rules and practices applicable to securities October offerings and takeovers or the equivalent in their home jurisdiction. LAWS6889 6 Intensive May Death Law LAWS6974 12 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive Development, Law and Human Rights provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit February http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml LAWS6066 6 Intensive Discretion in Criminal Justice October LAWS6039 6 MLLR students may enrol in this unit before completing LAWS6071 Labour Law, but must Intensive Discrimination in the Workplace have either completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the August Common Law System. LAWS6852 6 A Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Intensive May Doing Business in China have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6937 6 A Available to law graduates only. Students who have previously completed LAWS6013 Intensive Employment Law Advocacy Advanced Employment Law may also enrol with permission of the Program Coordinator. September Students who have previously completed LAWS6013 Advanced Employment Law may also enrol with permission of the Program Coordinator. LAWS6355 6 Students who have previously completed both LAWS6191 Water Law and Climate Change Intensive Energy and Water Security Law and LAWS6163 Energy and Climate Law are not permitted to enrol in this unit. October LAWS6044 6 A LAWS6252 or law degree from a common law jurisdiction Intensive Environmental Law and Policy N LAWS3430 or LAWS5130 March Students who do not hold a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before undertaking the environmental law units. LAWS6041 6 Intensive Environmental Litigation August LAWS6354 6 A students who do not hold an undergraduate law degree must have completed LAWS6252 Intensive Environ Planning and Impact Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit and LAWS6044 October Assessment Law Environmental Law and Policy (MEL only) N LAWS6043, LAWS6045, LAWS3430, LAWS5130 LAWS6307 6 N LAWS6230 or LAWS6869 Semester 1 Expert Evidence and Class Action Students without a law degree or equivalent may enrol in this unit but should be aware that Procedure the unit focuses on legal and evidentiary issues.This unit replaced LAWS6230 Expert Evidence and LAWS6869 Class Actions and Complex Litigation. LAWS6048 6 Core unit for MCrim and GradDipCrim students and co-requisite for other criminology elective Semester 1 Explaining Crime units. LAWS6970 6 N PSYC1001 or PSYC3020 Semester 1 Forensic Psychology JURS6019 6 Intensive Freedom of Speech August LAWS6187 6 Intensive Functional Analysis of Law and Soc March Control LAWS6987 6 A This unit assumes no previous knowledge and is available to non-lawyers and to lawyers Intensive Fundamentals of Commercial Law who have not previously studied or practised in the area. September N LAWS3400 LAWS6991 6 C LAWS6252 Intensive May Fundamentals of Contract Law N LAWS1002 or LAWS1015 or LAWS2008 or LAWS5002 This unit is only available to non-law graduates who have not undertaken any previous study of contract law. Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. LAWS6810 6 N LAWS2014, LAWS5014. Students who have undertaken the equivalent of Corporations Law Intensive Fundamentals of Corporate Law in Australia within the last 5 years. March Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. LAWS6912 6 N LAWS2015 or LAWS3474 Intensive April Fundamentals of the Law of Trusts Students who have previously completed a law degree in a common law jurisdiction are not permitted to enrol in this unit, except with the permission of the Unit Coordinator
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6334 6 Intensive Gender Inequality and Development August LAWS6964 6 Intensive May Global Energy and Resources Law LAWS6920 6 Intensive July Global Health Law LAWS6214 6 Intensive Goods and Services Tax Principles September A LAWS6052 6 MHL students may select this unit as one of the three core units required in addition to Intensive Govt Regulation, Health Policy and LAWS6252. October Ethics LAWS6054 6 Core unit for Core unit for GradDipHL students. MHL students may select this unit as one of Intensive May Health Care and Professional Liability the three core units required in addition to LAWS6252. LAWS6846 6 N LAWS5178 or LAWS3478 Intensive May Human Rights and the Global Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective Economy or capstone unit LAWS6147 6 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 1 Independent Research Project Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose Semester 2 application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6182 6 C LAWS6183 Semester 1 Independent Research Project A Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6183 6 C LAWS6182 Semester 1 Independent Research Project B Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or over two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6058 6 N LAWS3452 or LAWS5152 Intensive Information Rights in Health Care Core unit for GradDipHL students. MHL students may select this unit as one of the three core September units required in addition to LAWS6252. Students who have previously completed LAWS5152, LAWS3452 or equivalent Medical Law unit in their undergraduate degree are not permitted to enrol in this unit. LAWS6159 6 A undergraduate law degree with good background in Australian corporate law Intensive July Insolvency Law N CLAW6006 or LAWS3403 or LAWS3445 or LAWS5103 LAWS6882 6 A undergraduate law degree or LAWS6991 Intensive Insurance Contract Law September LAWS6022 6 Intensive May International and Comparative Labour Law LAWS6059 6 A Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Intensive International Business Law have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common September Law System before enrolling in this unit. N LAWS3438, LAWS5138 LAWS6060 6 This is available as one of the core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students Intensive May International Commercial Arbitration LAWS6061 6 Intensive May International Environmental Law LAWS6138 6 Intensive Internatl Fin Transactions: Law and March Prac LAWS6161 6 N GOVT6117 Intensive International Human Rights Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. October LAWS6218 6 N LAWS3483 or LAWS5183 Intensive International Humanitarian Law August LAWS6037 6 Semester 1 International Import/Export Laws LAWS6916 6 Intensive International Investment Law March LAWS6243 6 N LAWS1023, LAWS5005 Intensive International Law I This unit replaced LAWS6243 Public International Law. This unit is compulsory for MIL and March GradDipIntLaw students who have not completed any previous study in international law and Semester 2 must be taken during the first semester of candidature.This unit is not available to MLawIntDev students who have been granted a reduced volume of learning. This unit is available as one of the core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students. LAWS6167 6 A LAWS6243 Intensive May International Law II Compulsory core unit for MIL and GradDipIntLaw students. This unit replaced LAWS6167 Semester 2 International Law and Australian Institutions. LAWS6062 6 N LAWS3483 or LAWS5183 Intensive International Law-the Use of Armed August Force LAWS6326 6 Intensive Interpretation of Statutes and Other October Texts
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6903 6 A undergraduate law degree Intensive Interpreting Commercial Contracts Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be September provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6825 6 Intensive Introduction to Australian Business August Tax Intensive March Semester 1a LAWS6879 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive Japanese Law provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit February http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. Students may also substitute one or two days from Feb 13, 14 in Tokyo. LAWS6068 6 Intensive Judicial Review-P©ciple, Pol and August Procedure LAWS6071 6 A MLLR students must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Intensive Labour Law Reasoning and the Common Law System (core) as well as this unit before undertaking the March labour law elective units N LAWS5146 The unit is compulsory for students enrolled in the MLLR. However, the requirement to take this unit may be waived upon application to the Program Coordinator if the student can demonstrate proficiency in the unit objectives gained through completing a recent undergraduate law unit in labour law or work experience. Credit will not be granted for WORK6116 Employment and the Law and completion of this unit will not be sufficient to obtain an exemption from this MLLR compulsory unit. LAWS6848 6 Intensive Law, Business and Healthy Lifestyles September LAWS6932 6 Intensive May Law and Investment in Asia LAWS6953 6 Intensive Law of Asset Protection August LAWS6047 6 Intensive Law of the Sea October LAWS6928 6 N LAWS3478, LAWS5178 Intensive April Law, Justice and Development This unit is compulsory for MLawIntDev students. LAWS6149 12 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive July Legal Pluralism in Southeast Asia provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6252 6 N LAWS6881 Intensive April Legal Reasoning and the Common Students are recommended to enrol well in advance of classes in order to complete pre-class Intensive Law System readings (normally available to enrolled students 3 weeks prior to the first class). Law graduates August from a non-common law jurisdiction are also recommended to complete classes for this unit Intensive during the first week of their commencing semester. March Intensive September LAWS6827 6 Semester 2 Legal Responsibility and Philosophy of Mind LAWS6944 6 Intensive Market Manipulation and Insider November Trading LAWS6341 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive July Media Law: Comparative provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit Perspectives http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6821 6 N LAWS6935 Intensive April Mediation - Skills and Theory Note: Department permission required for enrolment Intensive Students enrolling in this unit need to commit themselves to attending all classes. The skills December learning takes place in class and skills are built incrementally from the beginning to the end of the unit. Students cannot catch up on elements they have missed by doing reading outside class - they must participate in all scheduled sessions. If students have a problem with attendance, they should postpone enrolling or withdraw well in advance of the first class so their place can be offered to the next student. Please note enrolment priority will be given to MLLR students who are currently enrolled at Sydney Law School. LAWS6877 6 Intensive Mental Illness: Law and Policy September LAWS6956 6 Intensive June Personal Property Securities LAWS6308 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive July Philosophy of Law provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6197 6 Intensive Policing: Crime, Control and Security August LAWS6065 6 This unit replaced LAWS6065 Pollution and Contaminated Land. Intensive May Pollution, Corporate Liability and Govern LAWS6345 6 Intensive May Principles of Financial Regulation LAWS6257 6 N LAWS6139 or LAWS6042 or LAWS6113 or LAWS6984 Intensive Public Policy Core unit for MALP students. September LAWS6194 6 Intensive April Punishment
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6317 6 It is recommended that students have some knowledge of corporate law and criminal law and Intensive April Regulation of Corporate Crime procedure, or have had practical experience in these areas. LAWS6888 6 Intensive May Risk, Fear and Insecurity LAWS6247 6 A Students should hold a law degree with good background in Australian corporate law. Intensive Securities and Markets Regulation February LAWS6957 6 A This is a fairly technical unit which focuses on Australian Law, and a good working knowledge Intensive Shareholders© Remedies of corporate law is assumed. January LAWS6008 6 A There are no prerequisite enrolment requirements. But students will be required to read and Semester 1 Takeovers and Reconstructions comprehend some technical material, including court judgments, Panel reasons for decisions, regulatory papers and academic literature. LAWS6965 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive April Tax Avoidance and Anti-Avoidance taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6840 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Tax of Business and Investment taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate March Income A study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or Semester 1 accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who Semester 1a do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6841 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Tax of Business and Investment taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate August Income B study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or Semester 2 accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who Semester 2a do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6125 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 1 Taxation of Corporate Finance taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax and LAWS6030 Corporate Taxation before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6244 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Taxation of Corporate Groups taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate August study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6129 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 1 Taxation of Offshore Operations taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6118 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 2 Taxation of Partnerships and Trusts taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6336 6 A Students should have completed LAWS6214 Goods and Services Tax Principles A and at Intensive Taxation of Real Property least one unit in Australian income tax (LAWS6825, LAWS6840 or LAWS6841) before enrolling October Transactions in this unit. Those with a solid working knowledge of both taxes may not need to meet this requirement. If in doubt, please contact the unit coordinator for advice. LAWS6177 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive May Tax Treaties taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6946 6 P LAWS6177 Intensive Tax Treaties Special Issues October LAWS6338 6 Intensive May The Nature of the Common Law LAWS6119 6 Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective Intensive May The State and Global Governance or capstone unit. LAWS6316 6 Intensive June Theories of the Judiciary
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6123 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive June Transfer Pricing in International Tax taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6109 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive UK International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. September LAWS6844 6 Intensive May US Corporate Law LAWS6171 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May US International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. LAWS6096 6 A LAWS6252 or a law degree and LAWS6071 (MLLR students) Intensive May Work Health and Safety: Law and Policy LAWS6305 6 A LAWS6252 or a law degree and LAWS6071 Labour Law (MLLR students) Intensive Workplace Investigations Note: Department permission required for enrolment October This unit has a restricted class size. Please note enrolment priority will be given to MLLR students who are currently enrolled at Sydney Law School. LAWS6063 6 A limited knowledge of law of treaties Intensive World Trade Organization Law I N LAWS3439 or LAWS5139 September LAWS6192 6 N LAWS6069 Intensive Young People, Crime and the Law October
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Graduate Diploma in Law
Students must complete 24 credit points of units of study. Units of Study
LAWS6011 6 A undergraduate law degree or LAWS6252 (core unit for MALP and Environmental Law Intensive April Administrative Law students) N LAWS2010, LAWS5010 Core unit for MALP students. Students who do not hold a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before undertaking other law units. LAWS6947 6 A Available to law graduates only Intensive July Advanced Obligations and Remedies Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6141 6 Intensive Asia Pacific Environmental Law August LAWS6209 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 2 Australian International Taxation taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6165 6 Intensive April Biodiversity Law LAWS6105 6 Semester 2 Child Sexual Abuse: Diverse Perspectives LAWS6091 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May Chinese International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. LAWS6001 12 A undergraduate law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction or LAWS6252 Intensive Chinese Laws and Chinese Legal N LAWS6857 or LAWS3014 or LAWS3068 or LAWS5368 December Systems This unit is not available to students who have completed a law degree in the People©s Republic of China. Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective or capstone unit conditional on (i) students must write an essay that focuses on a development topic and (ii) that topic being pre-approved by the Unit Coordinator. Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6320 6 This unit replaced LAWS6320 Climate Disaster Law. Intensive Climate Justice and Disaster Law September LAWS6824 6 A undergraduate law degree Intensive Commercial Conflict of Laws N LAWS6884 October LAWS6333 6 Available to students who have previously completed trust law or corporations law as part of Intensive Commercial Trusts an undergraduate law degree. October LAWS6153 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative Corporate Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. August LAWS6128 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. March LAWS6264 6 Semester 2 Compliance: Financial Services Industry LAWS6328 6 A undergraduate law degree or LAWS6991 Intensive Contract Management August LAWS6250 6 A undergraduate law degree Intensive Controlling Liability by Contract February LAWS6222 6 Intensive Corporate Governance March LAWS6318 6 Intensive Corporate Innovation and Regulation December LAWS6140 6 Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. Intensive July Corp Soc Responsibility: Theory/Pol
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6030 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive April Corporate Taxation taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate Semester 1a study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6314 6 Intensive Coastal and Marine Law March LAWS6032 6 Core unit for MCrim and GradDipCrim students and co-requisite for other criminology units. Semester 1 Crime Research and Policy LAWS6325 6 Intensive Crime, Responsibility and Policy September LAWS6193 6 Intensive May Criminal Justice: Prevention and Control LAWS6034 6 Core unit for MCrim students. This unit is an introduction to aspects of criminal law for Semester 2 Criminal Liability non-lawyers and is therefore not available to students who have completed a law degree or studies in criminal law from a common law jurisdiction. LAWS6997 6 A Available to law graduates only. Students undertaking this unit must have a good working Intensive Cross-Border Deals knowledge of the Australian Corporations Act and the rules and practices applicable to securities October offerings and takeovers or the equivalent in their home jurisdiction. LAWS6889 6 Intensive May Death Law LAWS6974 12 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive Development, Law and Human Rights provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit February http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml LAWS6066 6 Intensive Discretion in Criminal Justice October LAWS6039 6 MLLR students may enrol in this unit before completing LAWS6071 Labour Law, but must Intensive Discrimination in the Workplace have either completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the August Common Law System. LAWS6852 6 A Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Intensive May Doing Business in China have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6937 6 A Available to law graduates only. Students who have previously completed LAWS6013 Intensive Employment Law Advocacy Advanced Employment Law may also enrol with permission of the Program Coordinator. September Students who have previously completed LAWS6013 Advanced Employment Law may also enrol with permission of the Program Coordinator. LAWS6355 6 Students who have previously completed both LAWS6191 Water Law and Climate Change Intensive Energy and Water Security Law and LAWS6163 Energy and Climate Law are not permitted to enrol in this unit. October LAWS6044 6 A LAWS6252 or law degree from a common law jurisdiction Intensive Environmental Law and Policy N LAWS3430 or LAWS5130 March Students who do not hold a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before undertaking the environmental law units. LAWS6041 6 Intensive Environmental Litigation August LAWS6354 6 A students who do not hold an undergraduate law degree must have completed LAWS6252 Intensive Environ Planning and Impact Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit and LAWS6044 October Assessment Law Environmental Law and Policy (MEL only) N LAWS6043, LAWS6045, LAWS3430, LAWS5130 LAWS6307 6 N LAWS6230 or LAWS6869 Semester 1 Expert Evidence and Class Action Students without a law degree or equivalent may enrol in this unit but should be aware that Procedure the unit focuses on legal and evidentiary issues.This unit replaced LAWS6230 Expert Evidence and LAWS6869 Class Actions and Complex Litigation. LAWS6048 6 Core unit for MCrim and GradDipCrim students and co-requisite for other criminology elective Semester 1 Explaining Crime units. LAWS6970 6 N PSYC1001 or PSYC3020 Semester 1 Forensic Psychology JURS6019 6 Intensive Freedom of Speech August LAWS6187 6 Intensive Functional Analysis of Law and Soc March Control LAWS6987 6 A This unit assumes no previous knowledge and is available to non-lawyers and to lawyers Intensive Fundamentals of Commercial Law who have not previously studied or practised in the area. September N LAWS3400 LAWS6991 6 C LAWS6252 Intensive May Fundamentals of Contract Law N LAWS1002 or LAWS1015 or LAWS2008 or LAWS5002 This unit is only available to non-law graduates who have not undertaken any previous study of contract law. Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. LAWS6810 6 N LAWS2014, LAWS5014. Students who have undertaken the equivalent of Corporations Law Intensive Fundamentals of Corporate Law in Australia within the last 5 years. March Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. LAWS6912 6 N LAWS2015 or LAWS3474 Intensive April Fundamentals of the Law of Trusts Students who have previously completed a law degree in a common law jurisdiction are not permitted to enrol in this unit, except with the permission of the Unit Coordinator
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6334 6 Intensive Gender Inequality and Development August LAWS6964 6 Intensive May Global Energy and Resources Law LAWS6920 6 Intensive July Global Health Law LAWS6214 6 Intensive Goods and Services Tax Principles September A LAWS6052 6 MHL students may select this unit as one of the three core units required in addition to Intensive Govt Regulation, Health Policy and LAWS6252. October Ethics LAWS6054 6 Core unit for Core unit for GradDipHL students. MHL students may select this unit as one of Intensive May Health Care and Professional Liability the three core units required in addition to LAWS6252. LAWS6846 6 N LAWS5178 or LAWS3478 Intensive May Human Rights and the Global Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective Economy or capstone unit LAWS6058 6 N LAWS3452 or LAWS5152 Intensive Information Rights in Health Care Core unit for GradDipHL students. MHL students may select this unit as one of the three core September units required in addition to LAWS6252. Students who have previously completed LAWS5152, LAWS3452 or equivalent Medical Law unit in their undergraduate degree are not permitted to enrol in this unit. LAWS6159 6 A undergraduate law degree with good background in Australian corporate law Intensive July Insolvency Law N CLAW6006 or LAWS3403 or LAWS3445 or LAWS5103 LAWS6882 6 A undergraduate law degree or LAWS6991 Intensive Insurance Contract Law September LAWS6022 6 Intensive May International and Comparative Labour Law LAWS6059 6 A Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Intensive International Business Law have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common September Law System before enrolling in this unit. N LAWS3438, LAWS5138 LAWS6060 6 This is available as one of the core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students Intensive May International Commercial Arbitration LAWS6061 6 Intensive May International Environmental Law LAWS6138 6 Intensive Internatl Fin Transactions: Law and March Prac LAWS6161 6 N GOVT6117 Intensive International Human Rights Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. October LAWS6218 6 N LAWS3483 or LAWS5183 Intensive International Humanitarian Law August LAWS6037 6 Semester 1 International Import/Export Laws LAWS6916 6 Intensive International Investment Law March LAWS6243 6 N LAWS1023, LAWS5005 Intensive International Law I This unit replaced LAWS6243 Public International Law. This unit is compulsory for MIL and March GradDipIntLaw students who have not completed any previous study in international law and Semester 2 must be taken during the first semester of candidature.This unit is not available to MLawIntDev students who have been granted a reduced volume of learning. This unit is available as one of the core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students. LAWS6167 6 A LAWS6243 Intensive May International Law II Compulsory core unit for MIL and GradDipIntLaw students. This unit replaced LAWS6167 Semester 2 International Law and Australian Institutions. LAWS6062 6 N LAWS3483 or LAWS5183 Intensive International Law-the Use of Armed August Force LAWS6326 6 Intensive Interpretation of Statutes and Other October Texts LAWS6903 6 A undergraduate law degree Intensive Interpreting Commercial Contracts Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be September provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6825 6 Intensive Introduction to Australian Business August Tax Intensive March Semester 1a LAWS6879 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive Japanese Law provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit February http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. Students may also substitute one or two days from Feb 13, 14 in Tokyo. LAWS6068 6 Intensive Judicial Review-P©ciple, Pol and August Procedure
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6071 6 A MLLR students must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Intensive Labour Law Reasoning and the Common Law System (core) as well as this unit before undertaking the March labour law elective units N LAWS5146 The unit is compulsory for students enrolled in the MLLR. However, the requirement to take this unit may be waived upon application to the Program Coordinator if the student can demonstrate proficiency in the unit objectives gained through completing a recent undergraduate law unit in labour law or work experience. Credit will not be granted for WORK6116 Employment and the Law and completion of this unit will not be sufficient to obtain an exemption from this MLLR compulsory unit. LAWS6848 6 Intensive Law, Business and Healthy Lifestyles September LAWS6932 6 Intensive May Law and Investment in Asia LAWS6953 6 Intensive Law of Asset Protection August LAWS6047 6 Intensive Law of the Sea October LAWS6928 6 N LAWS3478, LAWS5178 Intensive April Law, Justice and Development This unit is compulsory for MLawIntDev students. LAWS6149 12 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive July Legal Pluralism in Southeast Asia provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6252 6 N LAWS6881 Intensive April Legal Reasoning and the Common Students are recommended to enrol well in advance of classes in order to complete pre-class Intensive Law System readings (normally available to enrolled students 3 weeks prior to the first class). Law graduates August from a non-common law jurisdiction are also recommended to complete classes for this unit Intensive during the first week of their commencing semester. March Intensive September LAWS6827 6 Semester 2 Legal Responsibility and Philosophy of Mind LAWS6944 6 Intensive Market Manipulation and Insider November Trading LAWS6341 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive July Media Law: Comparative provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit Perspectives http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6821 6 N LAWS6935 Intensive April Mediation - Skills and Theory Note: Department permission required for enrolment Intensive Students enrolling in this unit need to commit themselves to attending all classes. The skills December learning takes place in class and skills are built incrementally from the beginning to the end of the unit. Students cannot catch up on elements they have missed by doing reading outside class - they must participate in all scheduled sessions. If students have a problem with attendance, they should postpone enrolling or withdraw well in advance of the first class so their place can be offered to the next student. Please note enrolment priority will be given to MLLR students who are currently enrolled at Sydney Law School. LAWS6877 6 Intensive Mental Illness: Law and Policy September LAWS6956 6 Intensive June Personal Property Securities LAWS6308 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive July Philosophy of Law provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6197 6 Intensive Policing: Crime, Control and Security August LAWS6065 6 This unit replaced LAWS6065 Pollution and Contaminated Land. Intensive May Pollution, Corporate Liability and Govern LAWS6345 6 Intensive May Principles of Financial Regulation LAWS6257 6 N LAWS6139 or LAWS6042 or LAWS6113 or LAWS6984 Intensive Public Policy Core unit for MALP students. September LAWS6194 6 Intensive April Punishment LAWS6317 6 It is recommended that students have some knowledge of corporate law and criminal law and Intensive April Regulation of Corporate Crime procedure, or have had practical experience in these areas. LAWS6888 6 Intensive May Risk, Fear and Insecurity LAWS6247 6 A Students should hold a law degree with good background in Australian corporate law. Intensive Securities and Markets Regulation February LAWS6957 6 A This is a fairly technical unit which focuses on Australian Law, and a good working knowledge Intensive Shareholders© Remedies of corporate law is assumed. January LAWS6008 6 A There are no prerequisite enrolment requirements. But students will be required to read and Semester 1 Takeovers and Reconstructions comprehend some technical material, including court judgments, Panel reasons for decisions, regulatory papers and academic literature.
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6965 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive April Tax Avoidance and Anti-Avoidance taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6840 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Tax of Business and Investment taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate March Income A study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or Semester 1 accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who Semester 1a do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6841 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Tax of Business and Investment taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate August Income B study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or Semester 2 accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who Semester 2a do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6125 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 1 Taxation of Corporate Finance taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax and LAWS6030 Corporate Taxation before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6244 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Taxation of Corporate Groups taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate August study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6129 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 1 Taxation of Offshore Operations taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6118 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 2 Taxation of Partnerships and Trusts taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6336 6 A Students should have completed LAWS6214 Goods and Services Tax Principles A and at Intensive Taxation of Real Property least one unit in Australian income tax (LAWS6825, LAWS6840 or LAWS6841) before enrolling October Transactions in this unit. Those with a solid working knowledge of both taxes may not need to meet this requirement. If in doubt, please contact the unit coordinator for advice. LAWS6177 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive May Tax Treaties taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6946 6 P LAWS6177 Intensive Tax Treaties Special Issues October LAWS6338 6 Intensive May The Nature of the Common Law LAWS6119 6 Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective Intensive May The State and Global Governance or capstone unit. LAWS6316 6 Intensive June Theories of the Judiciary LAWS6123 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive June Transfer Pricing in International Tax taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6109 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive UK International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. September LAWS6844 6 Intensive May US Corporate Law LAWS6171 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May US International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. LAWS6096 6 A LAWS6252 or a law degree and LAWS6071 (MLLR students) Intensive May Work Health and Safety: Law and Policy
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6305 6 A LAWS6252 or a law degree and LAWS6071 Labour Law (MLLR students) Intensive Workplace Investigations Note: Department permission required for enrolment October This unit has a restricted class size. Please note enrolment priority will be given to MLLR students who are currently enrolled at Sydney Law School. LAWS6063 6 A limited knowledge of law of treaties Intensive World Trade Organization Law I N LAWS3439 or LAWS5139 September LAWS6192 6 N LAWS6069 Intensive Young People, Crime and the Law October
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Graduate Diploma in Taxation Master of Taxation These resolutions must be read in conjunction with applicable University By-laws, Rules and policies including (but not limited to) the University of Sydney (Coursework) Rule 2014 (the ©Coursework Rule©), the Coursework Policy 2014, the Resolutions of the School, the University of Sydney (Student Appeals against Academic Decisions) Rule 2006 (as amended), the Academic Honesty in Coursework Policy 2015 and the Academic Honesty Procedures 2016. Up to date versions of all such documents are available from the Policy Register: http://sydney.edu.au/policies. Course resolutions 1 Course codes Code Course title GNTAXATN-01 Graduate Diploma in Taxation MATAXATN-02 Master of Taxation 2 Attendance pattern The attendance pattern for these courses is full-time or part-time according to candidate choice. 3 Master©s type The master©s degree in these resolutions is a professional master©s degree, as defined by the Coursework Rule. 4 Embedded courses in this sequence (1) The embedded courses in this sequence are: (a) the Graduate Diploma in Taxation (b) the Master of Taxation (2) Provided that candidates satisfy the admission requirements for each stage, a candidate may progress to the award of either of the courses in this sequence. Only the longer award completed will be conferred. 5 Admission to candidature (1) Available places will be offered to qualified applicants based on merit, according to the following admissions criteria. (2) Admission to candidature for the Graduate Diploma in Taxation requires: (a) a bachelor©s degree from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification. (3) Admission to candidature for the Master of Taxation requires: (a) a bachelor©s degree with a minimum credit average from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification; or (b) a bachelor©s degree from the University of Sydney, or an equivalent qualification; and the applicant provides evidence of two years of professional experience; or (c) completion of the requirements of the Graduate Diploma in Taxation with a minimum credit average, or an equivalent qualification. 6 Requirements for award (1) The units of study that may be taken for the Graduate Diploma in Taxation are set out in the table of units of study for the Graduate Diploma in Taxation. To qualify for the award of the Graduate Diploma in Taxation, a candidate must complete 24 credit points. (2) The units of study that may be taken for the course are set out in the table of units of study for the Master of Taxation. To qualify for the award of the Master of Taxation, a candidate must complete 48 credit points. 7 Course transfer A candidate for the master©s degree may elect to discontinue study and graduate with the shorter award from this embedded sequence, with the approval of the Head of School and Dean, and provided the requirements of the shorter award have been met. 8 Transitional provisions (1) These resolutions apply to students who commenced their candidature on or after 1 January 2017. (2) Students who commenced prior to 1 January 2017 will complete the requirements in accordance with the resolutions in force at the time of their commencement. The School may specify a later date for completion or specify alternative requirements for completion of candidatures that extend beyond the prescribed time limit.
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Units of study
Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Master of Taxation
Students must complete 48 credit points. Units of study
LAWS6209 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 2 Australian International Taxation taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6091 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May Chinese International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. LAWS6153 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative Corporate Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. August LAWS6128 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. March LAWS6030 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive April Corporate Taxation taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate Semester 1a study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6214 6 Intensive Goods and Services Tax Principles September A LAWS6147 6 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 1 Independent Research Project Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose Semester 2 application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6182 6 C LAWS6183 Semester 1 Independent Research Project A Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6183 6 C LAWS6182 Semester 1 Independent Research Project B Note: Department permission required for enrolment Semester 2 Applications close on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or over two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. LAWS6037 6 Semester 1 International Import/Export Laws LAWS6326 6 Intensive Interpretation of Statutes and Other October Texts LAWS6825 6 Intensive Introduction to Australian Business August Tax Intensive March Semester 1a LAWS6953 6 Intensive Law of Asset Protection August LAWS6257 6 N LAWS6139 or LAWS6042 or LAWS6113 or LAWS6984 Intensive Public Policy Core unit for MALP students. September
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6965 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive April Tax Avoidance and Anti-Avoidance taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6177 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive May Tax Treaties taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6946 6 P LAWS6177 Intensive Tax Treaties Special Issues October LAWS6840 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Tax of Business and Investment taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate March Income A study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or Semester 1 accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who Semester 1a do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6841 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Tax of Business and Investment taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate August Income B study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or Semester 2 accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who Semester 2a do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6125 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 1 Taxation of Corporate Finance taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax and LAWS6030 Corporate Taxation before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6244 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Taxation of Corporate Groups taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate August study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6129 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 1 Taxation of Offshore Operations taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6118 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 2 Taxation of Partnerships and Trusts taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6336 6 A Students should have completed LAWS6214 Goods and Services Tax Principles A and at Intensive Taxation of Real Property least one unit in Australian income tax (LAWS6825, LAWS6840 or LAWS6841) before enrolling October Transactions in this unit. Those with a solid working knowledge of both taxes may not need to meet this requirement. If in doubt, please contact the unit coordinator for advice. LAWS6123 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive June Transfer Pricing in International Tax taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6109 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive UK International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. September LAWS6171 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May US International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law.
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Units of study
Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Graduate Diploma in Taxation
Students must complete 24 credit points. Units of Study
LAWS6209 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 2 Australian International Taxation taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6091 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May Chinese International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. LAWS6153 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative Corporate Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. August LAWS6128 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. March LAWS6030 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive April Corporate Taxation taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate Semester 1a study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6214 6 Intensive Goods and Services Tax Principles September A LAWS6037 6 Semester 1 International Import/Export Laws LAWS6326 6 Intensive Interpretation of Statutes and Other October Texts LAWS6825 6 Intensive Introduction to Australian Business August Tax Intensive March Semester 1a LAWS6953 6 Intensive Law of Asset Protection August LAWS6257 6 N LAWS6139 or LAWS6042 or LAWS6113 or LAWS6984 Intensive Public Policy Core unit for MALP students. September LAWS6965 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive April Tax Avoidance and Anti-Avoidance taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6177 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive May Tax Treaties taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6946 6 P LAWS6177 Intensive Tax Treaties Special Issues October
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6840 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Tax of Business and Investment taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate March Income A study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or Semester 1 accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who Semester 1a do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6841 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Tax of Business and Investment taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate August Income B study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or Semester 2 accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who Semester 2a do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6125 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 1 Taxation of Corporate Finance taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax and LAWS6030 Corporate Taxation before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6244 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive Taxation of Corporate Groups taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate August study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6129 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 1 Taxation of Offshore Operations taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6118 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 2 Taxation of Partnerships and Trusts taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6336 6 A Students should have completed LAWS6214 Goods and Services Tax Principles A and at Intensive Taxation of Real Property least one unit in Australian income tax (LAWS6825, LAWS6840 or LAWS6841) before enrolling October Transactions in this unit. Those with a solid working knowledge of both taxes may not need to meet this requirement. If in doubt, please contact the unit coordinator for advice. LAWS6123 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive June Transfer Pricing in International Tax taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6109 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive UK International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. September LAWS6171 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May US International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law.
190 Commercial Law Commercial Law
Continuing students only There is no new intake for this course. The following information is provided for continuing students only. Course resolutions for previous years may be found in the handbook archive.
Units of study
Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Graduate Diploma in Commercial Law
Students must complete 24 credit points. Units of Study
LAWS6947 6 A Available to law graduates only Intensive July Advanced Obligations and Remedies Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6809 6 A undergraduate law degree Semester 1 Breach of Contract This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6169 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive May Capital Gains Tax taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate This unit of study is not available in 2018 study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6824 6 A undergraduate law degree Intensive Commercial Conflict of Laws N LAWS6884 October LAWS6333 6 Available to students who have previously completed trust law or corporations law as part of Intensive Commercial Trusts an undergraduate law degree. October LAWS6838 6 A undergraduate law degree or LAWS6252 Semester 1 Competition Law This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6264 6 Semester 2 Compliance: Financial Services Industry LAWS6328 6 A undergraduate law degree or LAWS6991 Intensive Contract Management August LAWS6250 6 A undergraduate law degree Intensive Controlling Liability by Contract February LAWS6100 6 A undergraduate law degree with corporate law background Semester 1 Corporate Fundraising This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6222 6 Intensive Corporate Governance March LAWS6318 6 Intensive Corporate Innovation and Regulation December LAWS6140 6 Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. Intensive July Corp Soc Responsibility: Theory/Pol LAWS6997 6 A Available to law graduates only. Students undertaking this unit must have a good working Intensive Cross-Border Deals knowledge of the Australian Corporations Act and the rules and practices applicable to securities October offerings and takeovers or the equivalent in their home jurisdiction. LAWS6945 6 Intensive Doing Business in Emerging Markets September This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6307 6 N LAWS6230 or LAWS6869 Semester 1 Expert Evidence and Class Action Students without a law degree or equivalent may enrol in this unit but should be aware that Procedure the unit focuses on legal and evidentiary issues.This unit replaced LAWS6230 Expert Evidence and LAWS6869 Class Actions and Complex Litigation. LAWS6321 6 A Undergraduate knowledge of equitable principles or company law would be desirable Intensive Fiduciary Duties and Conflicts of January Interest This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6987 6 A This unit assumes no previous knowledge and is available to non-lawyers and to lawyers Intensive Fundamentals of Commercial Law who have not previously studied or practised in the area. September N LAWS3400
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6810 6 N LAWS2014, LAWS5014. Students who have undertaken the equivalent of Corporations Law Intensive Fundamentals of Corporate Law in Australia within the last 5 years. March Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. LAWS6955 6 A This unit assumes no previous knowledge and is available to non-lawyers and to lawyers Intensive Fundamentals of Finance Law who have not previously studied or practised in the area. September This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6330 6 Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. Intensive Fundamentals of Regulation September This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6912 6 N LAWS2015 or LAWS3474 Intensive April Fundamentals of the Law of Trusts Students who have previously completed a law degree in a common law jurisdiction are not permitted to enrol in this unit, except with the permission of the Unit Coordinator LAWS6334 6 Intensive Gender Inequality and Development August LAWS6964 6 Intensive May Global Energy and Resources Law LAWS6159 6 A undergraduate law degree with good background in Australian corporate law Intensive July Insolvency Law N CLAW6006 or LAWS3403 or LAWS3445 or LAWS5103 LAWS6882 6 A undergraduate law degree or LAWS6991 Intensive Insurance Contract Law September LAWS6059 6 A Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Intensive International Business Law have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common September Law System before enrolling in this unit. N LAWS3438, LAWS5138 LAWS6060 6 This is available as one of the core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students Intensive May International Commercial Arbitration LAWS6138 6 Intensive Internatl Fin Transactions: Law and March Prac LAWS6037 6 Semester 1 International Import/Export Laws LAWS6916 6 Intensive International Investment Law March LAWS6903 6 A undergraduate law degree Intensive Interpreting Commercial Contracts Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be September provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6879 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive Japanese Law provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit February http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. Students may also substitute one or two days from Feb 13, 14 in Tokyo. LAWS6932 6 Intensive May Law and Investment in Asia LAWS6953 6 Intensive Law of Asset Protection August LAWS6944 6 Intensive Market Manipulation and Insider November Trading LAWS6341 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive July Media Law: Comparative provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit Perspectives http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6956 6 Intensive June Personal Property Securities LAWS6345 6 Intensive May Principles of Financial Regulation LAWS6873 6 N LAWS6854 or LAWS3480 or LAWS3479 or LAWS5180 or LAWS5179 Intensive July Principles of Intellectual Property This unit replaced LAWS6873 Intellectual Property: Principles and Context (formerly LAWS6854 This unit of study is not available in 2018 Introduction to Intellectual Property). Students who have previously completed an equivalent undergraduate or postgraduate unit in intellectual property. LAWS6990 6 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Intensive July Principles of Oil and Gas Law MIL and GradDipIL students may enrol in either LAWS6990 Principles of Oil and Gas Law or This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6933 Global Oil and Gas Contracts and Issues, but not both. LAWS6317 6 It is recommended that students have some knowledge of corporate law and criminal law and Intensive April Regulation of Corporate Crime procedure, or have had practical experience in these areas. LAWS6957 6 A This is a fairly technical unit which focuses on Australian Law, and a good working knowledge Intensive Shareholders© Remedies of corporate law is assumed. January LAWS6247 6 A Students should hold a law degree with good background in Australian corporate law. Intensive Securities and Markets Regulation February LAWS6008 6 A There are no prerequisite enrolment requirements. But students will be required to read and Semester 1 Takeovers and Reconstructions comprehend some technical material, including court judgments, Panel reasons for decisions, regulatory papers and academic literature. LAWS6336 6 A Students should have completed LAWS6214 Goods and Services Tax Principles A and at Intensive Taxation of Real Property least one unit in Australian income tax (LAWS6825, LAWS6840 or LAWS6841) before enrolling October Transactions in this unit. Those with a solid working knowledge of both taxes may not need to meet this requirement. If in doubt, please contact the unit coordinator for advice. LAWS6844 6 Intensive May US Corporate Law LAWS6063 6 A limited knowledge of law of treaties Intensive World Trade Organization Law I N LAWS3439 or LAWS5139 September
192 Corporate, Securities and Finance Law Corporate, Securities and Finance Law
Continuing students only There is no new intake for this course. The following information is provided for continuing students only. Course resolutions for previous years may be found in the handbook archive.
Units of study
Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Graduate Diploma in Corporate, Securities and Finance Law
Students must complete 24 credit points. Units of Study
LAWS6353 6 Intensive Business Crime December This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6824 6 A undergraduate law degree Intensive Commercial Conflict of Laws N LAWS6884 October LAWS6333 6 Available to students who have previously completed trust law or corporations law as part of Intensive Commercial Trusts an undergraduate law degree. October LAWS6153 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative Corporate Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. August LAWS6838 6 A undergraduate law degree or LAWS6252 Semester 1 Competition Law This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6264 6 Semester 2 Compliance: Financial Services Industry LAWS6250 6 A undergraduate law degree Intensive Controlling Liability by Contract February LAWS6100 6 A undergraduate law degree with corporate law background Semester 1 Corporate Fundraising This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6222 6 Intensive Corporate Governance March LAWS6318 6 Intensive Corporate Innovation and Regulation December LAWS6140 6 Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. Intensive July Corp Soc Responsibility: Theory/Pol LAWS6030 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive April Corporate Taxation taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate Semester 1a study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6997 6 A Available to law graduates only. Students undertaking this unit must have a good working Intensive Cross-Border Deals knowledge of the Australian Corporations Act and the rules and practices applicable to securities October offerings and takeovers or the equivalent in their home jurisdiction. LAWS6852 6 A Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Intensive May Doing Business in China have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6321 6 A Undergraduate knowledge of equitable principles or company law would be desirable Intensive Fiduciary Duties and Conflicts of January Interest This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6987 6 A This unit assumes no previous knowledge and is available to non-lawyers and to lawyers Intensive Fundamentals of Commercial Law who have not previously studied or practised in the area. September N LAWS3400 LAWS6810 6 N LAWS2014, LAWS5014. Students who have undertaken the equivalent of Corporations Law Intensive Fundamentals of Corporate Law in Australia within the last 5 years. March Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. LAWS6955 6 A This unit assumes no previous knowledge and is available to non-lawyers and to lawyers Intensive Fundamentals of Finance Law who have not previously studied or practised in the area. September This unit of study is not available in 2018
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6912 6 N LAWS2015 or LAWS3474 Intensive April Fundamentals of the Law of Trusts Students who have previously completed a law degree in a common law jurisdiction are not permitted to enrol in this unit, except with the permission of the Unit Coordinator LAWS6330 6 Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. Intensive Fundamentals of Regulation September This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6334 6 Intensive Gender Inequality and Development August LAWS6846 6 N LAWS5178 or LAWS3478 Intensive May Human Rights and the Global Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective Economy or capstone unit LAWS6159 6 A undergraduate law degree with good background in Australian corporate law Intensive July Insolvency Law N CLAW6006 or LAWS3403 or LAWS3445 or LAWS5103 LAWS6059 6 A Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Intensive International Business Law have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common September Law System before enrolling in this unit. N LAWS3438, LAWS5138 LAWS6060 6 This is available as one of the core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students Intensive May International Commercial Arbitration LAWS6037 6 Semester 1 International Import/Export Laws LAWS6138 6 Intensive Internatl Fin Transactions: Law and March Prac LAWS6879 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive Japanese Law provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit February http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. Students may also substitute one or two days from Feb 13, 14 in Tokyo. LAWS6816 6 A LAWS6252 or a law degree and LAWS6071 Intensive July Labour Law in the Global Economy This unit replaced LAWS6816 Labour Law in the New Economy This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6932 6 Intensive May Law and Investment in Asia LAWS6944 6 Intensive Market Manipulation and Insider November Trading LAWS6352 6 Intensive June Mergers and Acquisitions in Asia This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6956 6 Intensive June Personal Property Securities LAWS6345 6 Intensive May Principles of Financial Regulation LAWS6873 6 N LAWS6854 or LAWS3480 or LAWS3479 or LAWS5180 or LAWS5179 Intensive July Principles of Intellectual Property This unit replaced LAWS6873 Intellectual Property: Principles and Context (formerly LAWS6854 This unit of study is not available in 2018 Introduction to Intellectual Property). Students who have previously completed an equivalent undergraduate or postgraduate unit in intellectual property. LAWS6990 6 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Intensive July Principles of Oil and Gas Law MIL and GradDipIL students may enrol in either LAWS6990 Principles of Oil and Gas Law or This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6933 Global Oil and Gas Contracts and Issues, but not both. LAWS6317 6 It is recommended that students have some knowledge of corporate law and criminal law and Intensive April Regulation of Corporate Crime procedure, or have had practical experience in these areas. LAWS6247 6 A Students should hold a law degree with good background in Australian corporate law. Intensive Securities and Markets Regulation February LAWS6957 6 A This is a fairly technical unit which focuses on Australian Law, and a good working knowledge Intensive Shareholders© Remedies of corporate law is assumed. January LAWS6008 6 A There are no prerequisite enrolment requirements. But students will be required to read and Semester 1 Takeovers and Reconstructions comprehend some technical material, including court judgments, Panel reasons for decisions, regulatory papers and academic literature. LAWS6125 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 1 Taxation of Corporate Finance taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax and LAWS6030 Corporate Taxation before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6844 6 Intensive May US Corporate Law LAWS6063 6 A limited knowledge of law of treaties Intensive World Trade Organization Law I N LAWS3439 or LAWS5139 September
194 International Business Law International Business Law
Continuing students only There is no new intake for this course. The following information is provided for continuing students only. Course resolutions for previous years may be found in the handbook archive.
Units of study
Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points Graduate Diploma in International Business Law
Exemption from core units of study should not be assumed to be automatic. Formal approval must be obtained from the Sydney Law School prior to enrolment. Students must complete 24 credit points, including a minimum of 12 credit points from the core units of study. Core Units of Study
LAWS6128 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. March LAWS6059 6 A Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Intensive International Business Law have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common September Law System before enrolling in this unit. N LAWS3438, LAWS5138 LAWS6060 6 This is available as one of the core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students Intensive May International Commercial Arbitration LAWS6243 6 N LAWS1023, LAWS5005 Intensive International Law I This unit replaced LAWS6243 Public International Law. This unit is compulsory for MIL and March GradDipIntLaw students who have not completed any previous study in international law and Semester 2 must be taken during the first semester of candidature.This unit is not available to MLawIntDev students who have been granted a reduced volume of learning. This unit is available as one of the core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students. LAWS6063 6 A limited knowledge of law of treaties Intensive World Trade Organization Law I N LAWS3439 or LAWS5139 September Elective Units of Study
LAWS6209 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Semester 2 Australian International Taxation taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6091 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May Chinese International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. LAWS6824 6 A undergraduate law degree Intensive Commercial Conflict of Laws N LAWS6884 October LAWS6333 6 Available to students who have previously completed trust law or corporations law as part of Intensive Commercial Trusts an undergraduate law degree. October LAWS6153 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive Comparative Corporate Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. August LAWS6264 6 Semester 2 Compliance: Financial Services Industry LAWS6328 6 A undergraduate law degree or LAWS6991 Intensive Contract Management August LAWS6222 6 Intensive Corporate Governance March LAWS6318 6 Intensive Corporate Innovation and Regulation December LAWS6140 6 Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. Intensive July Corp Soc Responsibility: Theory/Pol LAWS6997 6 A Available to law graduates only. Students undertaking this unit must have a good working Intensive Cross-Border Deals knowledge of the Australian Corporations Act and the rules and practices applicable to securities October offerings and takeovers or the equivalent in their home jurisdiction. LAWS6852 6 A Students who do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Intensive May Doing Business in China have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit.
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6945 6 Intensive Doing Business in Emerging Markets September This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6984 6 N LAWS6257 Intensive Economics of Tax Policy September This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6987 6 A This unit assumes no previous knowledge and is available to non-lawyers and to lawyers Intensive Fundamentals of Commercial Law who have not previously studied or practised in the area. September N LAWS3400 LAWS6991 6 C LAWS6252 Intensive May Fundamentals of Contract Law N LAWS1002 or LAWS1015 or LAWS2008 or LAWS5002 This unit is only available to non-law graduates who have not undertaken any previous study of contract law. Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. LAWS6810 6 N LAWS2014, LAWS5014. Students who have undertaken the equivalent of Corporations Law Intensive Fundamentals of Corporate Law in Australia within the last 5 years. March Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. LAWS6955 6 A This unit assumes no previous knowledge and is available to non-lawyers and to lawyers Intensive Fundamentals of Finance Law who have not previously studied or practised in the area. September This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6138 6 Intensive Internatl Fin Transactions: Law and March Prac LAWS6037 6 Semester 1 International Import/Export Laws LAWS6916 6 Intensive International Investment Law March LAWS6879 6 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive Japanese Law provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit February http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. Students may also substitute one or two days from Feb 13, 14 in Tokyo. LAWS6932 6 Intensive May Law and Investment in Asia LAWS6953 6 Intensive Law of Asset Protection August LAWS6977 6 A LAWS6243 International Law I or equivalent unit in public international law Intensive Law of International Institutions N GOVT6116 February This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6928 6 N LAWS3478, LAWS5178 Intensive April Law, Justice and Development This unit is compulsory for MLawIntDev students. LAWS6149 12 Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be Intensive July Legal Pluralism in Southeast Asia provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. LAWS6944 6 Intensive Market Manipulation and Insider November Trading LAWS6352 6 Intensive June Mergers and Acquisitions in Asia This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6990 6 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Intensive July Principles of Oil and Gas Law MIL and GradDipIL students may enrol in either LAWS6990 Principles of Oil and Gas Law or This unit of study is not available in 2018 LAWS6933 Global Oil and Gas Contracts and Issues, but not both. LAWS6317 6 It is recommended that students have some knowledge of corporate law and criminal law and Intensive April Regulation of Corporate Crime procedure, or have had practical experience in these areas. LAWS6965 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive April Tax Avoidance and Anti-Avoidance taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6177 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive May Tax Treaties taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6946 6 P LAWS6177 Intensive Tax Treaties Special Issues October LAWS6123 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income Intensive June Transfer Pricing in International Tax taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. LAWS6109 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive UK International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. September
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Unit of study Credit A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session points LAWS6844 6 Intensive May US Corporate Law LAWS6171 6 A It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an Intensive May US International Taxation undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law.
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institutions. Unit topics will be divided into four sub-regions: Pacific Sydney Law School postgraduate Island Developing Countries; South East Asia Region (ASEAN and units of study A-E Mekong countries); North Asian Region (Japan, People©s Republic of China); South Asian Region (South Asian Association of Regional LAWS6011 Cooperation [SAARC] Countries). In relation to each region, the Administrative Law implications of international and regional environmental law and Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Margaret Allars Session: institutions will be explored, followed by country specific case studies Intensive April Classes: Mar 23, 24 and Apr 20, 21 (9-5) Prohibitions: involving a range of issues such as biodiversity, access to modern LAWS2010, LAWS5010 Assumed knowledge: undergraduate law degree or energy services, natural resources and environmental planning; LAWS6252 (core unit for MALP and Environmental Law students) Assessment: industrial pollution; environmental impact assessment; climate change; 7500wd essay or 2 x 3750wd essays (100%) Mode of delivery: Block mode and protection of the marine and coastal environment. Case studies Note: Core unit for MALP students. Students who do not hold a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled on regional environmental issues such as ASEAN Haze will also be in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before included. undertaking other law units. LAWS6209 The aim of the unit is to develop a critical perspective upon the Australian International Taxation accountability of government decision-makers. The unit examines theoretical frameworks for analysis of a range of issues concerning Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Michael Dirkis Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week.The first class will start on 25 July 2017, 6-8pm. accountability, with reference to relevant principles of administrative Assumed knowledge: It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have law. Part 1 of the unit examines the concept of administrative an understanding of Australian income taxation law commensurate with that discretion, alternative theories of the rule of law, human rights, ethics which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian and managerialism. Part 2 of the unit is concerned with the taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students accountability of the executive branch of government. It includes who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake analysis of separation of powers and the doctrine of ministerial LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. responsibility, merits review tribunals, investigative tribunals and The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of tribunal procedure. Part 3 of the unit examines theories of participatory Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work democracy, with reference to relevant legal principles drawn from experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully procedural fairness, rules of standing and consultation requirements completing this unit. Assessment: in-class assessment (30%) and 2hr exam in rule making. Part 4 examines theories of open government, with (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening reference to statutory duties to give reasons for decisions and freedom Australian International Taxation is a detailed study of the fundamental of information legislation. Part 5 examines the proper scope of principles of Australia©s international taxation regime as it applies to administrative law by discussion of the issue of its extension to cross-border business and investment transactions. The unit focuses government business enterprises which are corporatised, privatised on corporate residence, source, non-resident withholding tax, relief or contracted out. from international double taxation, CFCs, transferor trusts and transfer pricing.This advanced unit will examine both the issues of international LAWS6947 tax rule design and policy, and the relevant provisions in the legislation, Advanced Obligations and Remedies cases and rulings. The unit focuses on the international tax rules in Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Barbara McDonald, Prof Elisabeth Australia©s domestic law. Although the role of double tax treaties is Peden Session: Intensive July Classes: Jul 9, 10 and 12, 13 (9-5) Assumed knowledge: Available to law graduates only Assessment: Option 1: case note introduced, double tax treaties are covered in the companion unit Tax (20%) and 6000wd essay (80%) or Option 2: 8000wd essay (100%) Practical Treaties. Students should gain an understanding of the policies field work: Sydney Law School in Europe Mode of delivery: Block mode underlying Australia©s rules for taxing international transactions, as Note: Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment well as a detailed knowledge of the foundation principles of law instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For applicable to the taxation of inbound and outbound transactions. further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml.
This unit will explore a number of contentious issues arising in the law LAWS6165 of civil obligations and remedies. It will revise and build on the Biodiversity Law fundamentals in the areas of torts, contracts and equity and place Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Ed Couzens Session: particular emphasis on the interaction of these three fields of the law. Intensive April Classes: Apr 13, 14 and 20, 21 (9-5) Assessment: class Particular topics and problems will involve issues of: causation and presentation and 2000wd essay (25%) and 6000wd (75%) Practical field work: If possible, an appropriate practical component (along field trip lines) will be scope of liability; controlling liability by contract; tort duties to third added to give further insight. Mode of delivery: Block mode parties to contracts; assessing loss; duties of good faith; fiduciary duties and conflicts. The unit will also include a number of guest Biological diversity is the variability among living organisms and the lectures, to be announced. ecological complexes of which they are part, including diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems. Aside from whatever LAWS6141 intrinsic value it may possess, biodiversity is crucial to support human Asia Pacific Environmental Law life and welfare. Australia is fortunate to have some of the world¿s Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Saiful Karim, Dr Manuel Solis most complex and unique biodiversity - unfortunately, also to have Session: Intensive August Classes: Aug 22-25 (9-5) Assessment: class one of the highest rates of extinction and loss of biodiversity. Despite participation (20%), 7000wd essay (80%) Mode of delivery: Block mode a sophisticated system of environmental governance and a relatively In this unit, the environmental law and policy of selected countries high degree of environmental awareness, biodiversity continues to and regional organisations in the Asia Pacific will be studied against decline rapidly in Australia. This unit will consider the international the background of relevant international environmental law and legal regime related to the protection of biodiversity; how international instruments are incorporated into (or otherwise affect) Australia¿s
For internal use by University of Sydney staff only. 199 Units of study A-E regime; and the operation of Australia¿s regime at both national and the campus of the East China University of Politics and Law in state levels (the latter, particularly in NSW) - and will include Shanghai, People©s Republic of China. Lectures will be given in English consideration of various threats to biodiversity, different protection in Shanghai by professors from the East China University of Politics options (in situ and ex situ), and how biodiversity-related considerations and Law. There will also be a visit to a Chinese law firm. affect and are affected by other Environmental Law fields LAWS6320 LAWS6105 Climate Justice and Disaster Law Child Sexual Abuse: Diverse Perspectives Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Rosemary Lyster Session: Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Rita Shackel, Prof Judith Intensive September Classes: Aug 31, Sep 1 and 7, 8 (9-5) Assessment: Cashmore Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Assessment: class participation (10%) and 8000wd essay (90%) Mode of delivery: Block 4500wd essay (60%) and critical review comprising oral presentation (20%) mode and written paper (20%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening Note: This unit replaced LAWS6320 Climate Disaster Law.
This unit of study examines the socio-legal complexities of responding Climate change impacts are already being felt around the world and to child sexual abuse in society. The unit presents students with a governments are called upon to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, theoretical and multidisciplinary framework for understanding and engage in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, and evaluating contemporary issues relevant to child sexual abuse. More respond to the loss and damage caused by climate disasters. Climate specifically the unit of study will analyse the nature of child sexual disasters demand an integration of multilateral negotiations on abuse and the underlying dynamics of such victimisation. Students emissions reduction and adaptation, disaster risk reduction, will critically evaluate different strategies and models directed at sustainable development, Human Rights and human security. Via identification and prevention of child sexual abuse and critically analyse detailed examination of recent law and policy initiatives from developed legal responses to child sexual victimisation. and developing countries, this unit offers students a unique approach to human and non-human Climate Justice and its application to all LAWS6091 stages of a disaster: prevention; response, recovery and rebuilding; Chinese International Taxation and compensation and risk transfer. The role of insurance plays an Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Jinyan Li Session: Intensive important part in compensation and risk transfer. The unit of study May Classes: May 2-4 and 7, 8 (9-3.30) Assumed knowledge: It is assumed comprehensively analyses the complexities of climate science, that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an economics and their interfaces with the climate law-and policy-making undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. Assessment: class participation (10%), 1500wd essay (20%) and 2hr exam (70%) Mode of processes, and also provides an in-depth analysis of multilateral delivery: Block mode climate change negotiations dating from the establishment of the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) The object of this unit is to provide an overview of the income tax to the 2015 Paris Agreement. system of China and a detailed analysis of the most important legislative and treaty rules of China in the area of international income LAWS6824 tax, especially in dealings with Australia. Upon successful completion Commercial Conflict of Laws of the unit, students will have an advanced understanding of the Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Adj Prof Andrew Bell, Adj Prof Donald policies underlying the Chinese rules for taxing international Robertson, Prof Richard Garnett Session: Intensive October Classes: Sep 1, transactions as well as a detailed knowledge of the principles of 15 and Oct 19, 20 (9-5) Prohibitions: LAWS6884 Assumed knowledge: income tax law applicable to inbound and outbound transactions.This undergraduate law degree Assessment: class participation/quiz (20%) and unit includes a study of: overview of the Chinese income tax system; 7000wd essay or assignment (80%) Mode of delivery: Block mode taxation of inbound investment into China; taxation of outbound The unit, taught by two experienced commercial litigators (Andrew investment from China; transfer pricing issues, and China©s tax treaties. Bell SC of the Sydney Bar and Don Robertson of Herbert Smith Freehills), will focus on commercial disputes with a transnational LAWS6001 dimension and explore both the law and strategic considerations Chinese Laws and Chinese Legal Systems involved in jockeying for forum: why it can matter, how it is done and Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Vivienne Bath Session: how it can be resisted. This will involve a consideration of the Intensive December Classes: Nov 26-Dec 14 Prohibitions: LAWS6857 or jurisdictional rules for bringing proceedings in Australia against foreign LAWS3014 or LAWS3068 or LAWS5368 Assumed knowledge: undergraduate law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction or LAWS6252 Assessment: defendants; the law relating to obtaining temporary and permanent 2hr exam to be completed in Shanghai (30%) and 8000wd essay (70%) due in stays of proceedings both on forum non conveniens grounds and by February Practical field work: field school in Shanghai, China Mode of reference to exclusive jurisdiction and arbitration agreements; the role delivery: Block mode of anti-suit injunctions and negative declarations and some Note: This unit is not available to students who have completed a law degree consideration of the enforcement of foreign judgments. Ancillary in the People©s Republic of China. Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective or capstone unit conditional on practical issues of great importance which are also considered include (i) students must write an essay that focuses on a development topic and (ii) incoming and outgoing letters of request, the taking of evidence by that topic being pre-approved by the Unit Coordinator. Students cannot enrol video link, the role and proof of foreign law, foreign state immunity directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be provided and provisional measures such as transnational freezing orders. The upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. unit has a strong practical bent and is particularly designed for those engaged or wanting to become engaged in commercial litigation and This unit will provide students with an overall picture of the modern arbitration with a transnational dimension. Chinese legal system. It will develop a perception of its unique Textbooks character by tracing its role through major social epochs and the role Davies, Bell and Brereton Nygh©s Conflict of Laws in Australia 9th ed., 2014 of law in a socialist market economy. It will examine the concept of law as a political function and the implementation of law, not so much LAWS6333 through courts, as through administrative fiats and authority, making Commercial Trusts law essentially a function of politics and administration. The unit will Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nuncio D©Angelo Session: Intensive illustrate these perceptions through the study of various legal regimes. October Classes: Sep 21, 22 and Oct 5, 6 (9-5) Assessment: class Lecture topics may include: Chinese legal history; Chinese legal participation (10%), assignment (40%), 5000wd essay (50%) Mode of delivery: system; criminal law and procedure; constitutional law; civil law and Block mode procedure; legal profession; environmental law; contract law; property Note: Available to students who have previously completed trust law or corporations law as part of an undergraduate law degree. law; company law; intellectual property law; foreign joint ventures; arbitration and mediation; foreign trade law and taxation law. The This unit explores Australian trading trusts and managed investment coursework component of the unit is residential and is conducted on schemes and the legal position of the investors, trustees and external
200 Units of study A-E parties who are involved with them. The use of these trusts is LAWS6264 widespread and in aggregate they hold massive wealth. In many Compliance: Financial Services Industry senses they operate as surrogate companies but participants do not Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Adj Prof Kevin Lewis Session: enjoy the protections provided by the Corporations Act 2001 to those Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Assessment: assignment (40%) who are involved with companies; their governing regime remains the and 2hr exam (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening general law of trusts (with some statutory overlay). Many of the issues The unit will examine in detail the legal and regulatory requirements are not well understood and sometimes not even identified; even relevant to the financial services industry, and how the risk of where they are, privately structured solutions are not always effective. breaching those requirements can be managed by compliance The issues acquired prominence in the post-GFC environment as systems. It will focus not only on legal theory but also on the practical these trusts faced financial distress and litigation. Outcomes have not day to day business issues involved with compliance. always been predictable or consistent with participants© expectations The unit is divided into two parts: (a) Core compliance issues: licensing and gaps in the law have emerged. This unit builds on conventional of financial service providers; compliance systems; insider trading trust and company law units by examining, in an applied way, the and Chinese walls; market conduct rules; shareholding restrictions; commercial trust as a modern business association. The material trade practices; anti-money laundering, counter-terrorism financing assumes that students have successfully completed at least and other measures to combat crime; retail customer obligations; undergraduate level study of trust law (even if as part of a more marketing financial products; client money rules; privacy; fiduciary general course on property and/or equity) and corporations law. duties and conflicts of interest; confidentiality; phone taping; and Textbooks investigating compliance breaches (including reporting obligations N D©Angelo, Commercial Trusts, LexisNexis Butterworths, 2014 and HR issues); and (b) Specialist compliance issues relevant to: managed investments; deposit products, non cash payment facilities; LAWS6153 credit facilities, stockbroking; derivatives; warrants; foreign exchange; Comparative Corporate Taxation futures broking; financial planning; margin lending; insurance and Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Peter Harris Session: Intensive August Classes: Aug 8-10 and 13, 14 (9-3.30) Assumed knowledge: It is insurance broking; superannuation and retirement savings accounts. assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. Assessment: 2hr exam LAWS6328 or 7000wd essay (100%) Mode of delivery: Block mode Contract Management Globalisation is driving corporate tax systems closer together and Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Ms Anne McNaughton Session: Intensive August Classes: Aug 10, 11 and 24, 25 (9-5) Assumed knowledge: often into conflict. For many tax practitioners, it is now not enough to undergraduate law degree or LAWS6991 Assessment: assignment (30%) and know their own corporate tax system - they must grapple with and take-home exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode question the operation of other corporate tax systems.This unit seeks to develop an ability to understand and analyze any corporate tax This unit builds on the foundational unit LAWS6991 Fundamentals of system and assess its impact on corporate decision making. With a Contract Law. It provides students with a detailed treatment of aspects dedicated textbook (written by the presenter), it does this by comparing of contract construction; the nature and effect of particular types of a number of influential and archetypal corporate tax systems (both contractual terms; equitable and common law remedies; statutory common law and civil law) and assessing their behaviour in the context measures having an impact on contracts and contract law (eg statutory of a number of practical problems. For tax professionals, the unit unconscionability; misleading or deceptive conduct). Content and develops an ability to ask direct and informed questions about a foreign learning in this unit is scaffolded onto that of LAWS6991 Fundamentals corporate tax system and discuss that system at a high level with of Contract Law which is a pre-requisite for this unit. foreign tax professionals. Topics include: corporate entities and Textbooks hybrids, groups, interface with accounting, service companies, debt John Carter, Carter©s Guide to Australian Contract Law, 3nd edn, LexisNexis, vs. equity, dividend relief, cross-border issues, incorporation, 2016 takeovers, trading in loss companies, share buy-backs, liquidation, LAWS6250 bonus issues, convertible notes, mergers and demergers. Controlling Liability by Contract LAWS6128 Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Elisabeth Peden Session: Intensive February Classes: Feb 9, 10 and Mar 2, 3 (9-5) Assumed Comparative International Taxation knowledge: undergraduate law degree Assessment: compulsory 2500wd Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Michael Dirkis, Assoc Prof Celeste essay (25%) and 2hr exam (75%) Mode of delivery: Block mode Black Session: Intensive March Classes: Mar 21-23 and 26, 27 (9-3.30) Assumed knowledge: It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have This unit brings together the doctrinal, theoretical and practical issues successfully completed an undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. raised by contract risk management, especially the control of liability Assessment: class work (30%) and 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Block for breach of contract and negligence.The unit will consider: categories mode of risk; drafting options; protection of third parties; statutory control of Comparative International Taxation is a detailed study of the basic risk management devices, including the Trade Practices Act 1974 principles of international taxation (residence, source, relief from (Cth); contract drafting and management issues. The drafting options international double taxation, anti-deferral rules, withholding tax, which are considered include the use of exclusion clauses, indemnity transfer pricing, thin capitalisation, and tax treaties).The unit is taught provisions and force majeure clauses. The operation of these types from a global perspective with the emphasis being on comparative of clauses, and the relevant common law and statutory rules, will be analysis (focusing particularly on Anglo, US and continental European considered in the context of various types of contracts, but with approaches, and also developed and developing country approaches). particular emphasis on contracts for the provision of services and sale The unit examines the core issues in developing international tax rules of goods. One particular feature of the course is a consideration of and identifies different approaches countries have taken in dealing the operation of the privity rule in the context of risk management. with these issues. As part of this study, recent trends in international Thus, issues such as the protection of related bodies corporate and tax rule development will be identified (particularly in the context of the liability of agents and sub-contractors are dealt with in some detail. globalisation) and critiqued. Students should gain an understanding of the different approaches that countries have taken in the LAWS6222 development of their international tax rules. Corporate Governance Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Jennifer Hill Session: Intensive March Classes: Mar 12, 13 and 21, 22 (9-4) Assessment: general class participation and specialised seminar discussion (20%), class quiz (written) to be held on Day 4 (20%) and essay or take-home exam (60%) Mode of delivery: Block mode
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This unit will explore a range of recent trends and issues in corporate completing this unit. Assessment: in-class test (30%) and 2hr exam or 7000wd governance including:- the link between corporate scandals and essay (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode, Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day corporate law reform; the board and independent directors; This advanced unit consists of a detailed examination of the tax rules principles-based versus rules-based regulation; shareholder applied to companies and shareholders in a domestic setting in empowerment and institutional investor activism; takeovers and the Australia. The goals of the unit are to develop an understanding of regulation of executive pay. The unit will examine these issues from the policies, detailed rules and current practical problems involved in a comparative law perspective, analysing fundamental differences in the taxation of companies and shareholders and to explore why corporate governance structure and techniques in a range of different solutions are used for these entities when compared to jurisdictions, including the US, UK, Germany, China and Australia. partnerships and trusts. Upon successful completion of this unit, a student should have an advanced understanding of the policies LAWS6318 underlying Australia©s corporate tax system, as well as a detailed Corporate Innovation and Regulation knowledge of the technical detail involved in the rules for the taxation Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Elizabeth Pollman Session: of companies and their shareholders in Australia.Topics to be covered Intensive December Classes: Nov 29, 30 and Dec 6, 7 (9-4) Assessment: general class participation and specialised seminar discussions (20%), written include: the policy and problems of taxing companies and class quiz to be held on Day 4 (20%) and essay or exam (60%) (choice of shareholders; taxation of company distributions and dealings with research mode to be discussed with students) Mode of delivery: Block mode interests in companies, including liquidations and share repurchases; imputation, including dividends passing through partnerships and This unit will cover recent developments in innovation and the law, trusts and intercorporate dividends; debt equity classification; including disruptive technology and new business models in a range shareholder rules; dividend and capital streaming and stripping; and of contexts including the sharing economy, fintech, and more. The value shifting. unit will also consider the role of trust, the increasing importance of politics in corporate governance, and a range of new global public law LAWS6314 issues that have affected the role of the corporation, and the impact Coastal and Marine Law of technology, in society. As well as discussing cutting-edge Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Rosemary Lyster, Assoc Prof Ed developments in innovation, the unit will discuss challenges for the Couzens Session: Intensive March Classes: Mar 21-24 (9-5) Assessment: regulator in staying abreast and ahead of these fast moving changes Presentation and 2000wd essay (25%) and 6000wd essay (75%) Mode of in society. delivery: Block mode This unit examines legal and policy frameworks for the management LAWS6140 of coastal and marine areas in Australia. Topics addressed include Corp Soc Responsibility: Theory/Pol the characteristics of Australian coastal and marine environments, Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Ian B Lee Session: Intensive July Classes: Jul 19, 20 and 23, 24 (9-4) Assessment: class the constitutional framework for the management of offshore areas, participation (15%), assignment (10%) and 6000wd essay (75%) Mode of the regulation of marine pollution, marine parks and reserves, fisheries delivery: Block mode management, the regulation of offshore oil and gas resource Note: Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. extraction, and the management of climate change impacts on coastal and marine areas. Today there is an apparent consensus in favour of corporate responsibility, as reflected in instruments such as ASX Principle 3 LAWS6032 ("Act ethically and responsibly"), but behind the appearance of Crime Research and Policy consensus lie difficult questions of principle, policy and practical Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Judith Cashmore Session: application. This unit aims to equip participants to engage in a Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Assessment: class participation sophisticated manner in the analysis of such questions. The seminar (10%), 2000wd research problem (30%) and 4000wd research proposal (60%) is organized around two broad themes. First, the seminar will examine Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening corporate responsibility in the traditional sense of the consideration Note: Core unit for MCrim and GradDipCrim students and co-requisite for other that corporations may be expected to give to the impact of their criminology units. activities have on society, even as they strive to earn profits for their This unit provides an examination of research methods in the context shareholders. Topics include environmental responsibility, corporate of criminology. The relationship between theory and methodology is philanthropy, and the respective roles of directors, managers and explored. The production of knowledge about crime is critically shareholders. Second, the seminar will deal with current debates assessed. Sources and forms of crime data are discussed and their about the rights and responsibilities that arise from corporate significance is assessed. Research design, evaluation and analysis personhood, including those concerning corporate criminal are also studied. responsibility, corporate political participation, and the status of corporations under international law. Participants will learn to work LAWS6325 with relevant primary and secondary legal materials, including materials Crime, Responsibility and Policy from selected foreign jurisdictions, especially in North America. They Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Thomas Crofts Session: Intensive will also become familiar with the conceptual tools available from September Classes: Aug 17, 18 and Aug 31, Sep 1 (9-5) Assessment: various interdisciplinary perspectives (e.g., law, economics, philosophy, Take-home exam (30%), 5000wd essay (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode politics) for analysing problems of corporate responsibility. This unit critically examines the theoretical and policy issues underlying the formulation and implementation of criminal law and the treatment LAWS6030 of certain groups by the criminal justice system. Following analysis of Corporate Taxation the principles of criminalisation and theories of criminal responsibility Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Richard Vann Session: Intensive April, Semester 1a Classes: Session S1CIAP: Apr 4-6 and 9, 10 (9-3.30) a number of contemporary topics will be explored to foster an Assumed knowledge: It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have understanding of the policies and pressures that shape criminal law. an understanding of Australian income taxation law commensurate with that Such topics include, how the law responds to violence (e.g. one-punch which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian deaths, provocation, duress); sexuality and sex work; sexting by adults taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students and young people; and anti-social behaviour. who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. LAWS6193 The completion of other foundation units such as LAWS6840 Taxation of Criminal Justice: Prevention and Control Business and Investment Income A and LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Income B will provide students, without such knowledge or work Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Garner Clancey Session: Intensive experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully May Classes: May 4, 5 and 25, 26 (9-5) Assessment: 1500wd seminar paper (35%) and 5000wd essay (65%) Mode of delivery: Block mode
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This unit examines responses to crime and crime prevention with LAWS6889 reference to shifting notions of crime and responsibility for crime. It Death Law encourages a critical appreciation of the limitations of criminal justice Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Cameron Stewart Session: system responses to crime and the necessity to develop a broader Intensive May Classes: Apr 12, 13 and May 10, 11 (9-5) Assessment: class approach to crime prevention policy which responds to economic, presentation (20%) and assignment or 7000wd essay (80%) Mode of delivery: Block mode social and cultural issues.The unit examines different ways of thinking about criminal justice, such as a means of order maintenance, dispute Western attitudes toward death have undergone a remarkable resolution, or risk management, and the shifting focus towards the transformation in the last century. For many, death now takes place prevention of future harms. Specific topics may include: restorative in the hospital or the hospice following the decision of a doctor to justice specialist courts, privatisation and contractualism, security, cease providing treatment. As the management of death has passed policing, and approaches to crime prevention and community safety. from the family to health care professionals, it now makes sense to regard the moment and circumstances of death as largely medical LAWS6034 phenomena. Moreover, as ©autonomy© has taken a dominant place Criminal Liability amongst ethical values, it also makes sense to describe and measure Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Graeme Coss Session: Semester death in terms of its ©acceptability© both to the dying person and his 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Assessment: 3000wd essay (50%) and 2hr or her survivors. In tandem with these changes, technological open-book exam (50%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening innovations have transformed the dead or dying body into a potential Note: Core unit for MCrim students. This unit is an introduction to aspects of criminal law for non-lawyers and is therefore not available to students who have source of valuable (and recyclable) biological material. These completed a law degree or studies in criminal law from a common law jurisdiction. developments have thrown up new and urgent challenges for legal understandings about the timing of, and criminal responsibility for In this unit, students will examine the ways in which criminal liability causing, death both within and outside medical settings. These is established, and the central factors governing liability; analyse the developments have also disturbed conventional understandings of general principles of criminal law, constituent elements of particular the corpse as sacred. Topics to be covered may include: death in offences and the definition of a range of defences from historical, contemporary Australia, the legal definition of life and death, medical theoretical and practical context perspectives, with a special focus on futility and the concept of ©lives not worth living©, euthanasia (with and male violence; and gain an appreciation of the tensions and perceived without request), physician-assisted suicide, refusing and withholding prejudices inherent in the criminal law and the criminal justice system. life-prolonging treatment in adults and children, the Shipman/Patel The unit will cover the following: phenomenon of criminal law; violence; scandals, ownership of the corpse and body parts, dead donor organ capacity; proof; attempts and accessorial liability; offences: sexual transplantation, organ sale and theft, posthumous reproduction, ©mercy© and non-sexual assault, murder and manslaughter; defences: killing outside medical settings and the jurisdiction of the Coroner. provocation and self-defence, ©insanity© and substantial impairment, The unit will interrogate these and other contemporary challenges for automatism, infanticide, intoxication, necessity and duress. the law relating to death and dying both within Australia and, where appropriate, other selected comparator jurisdictions (US, UK and LAWS6997 Canada).These will be mapped against socio-historical understandings Cross-Border Deals of the changing meaning of death, dying and serious disability in Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Ronald C Barusch Session: Western societies, and students will be encouraged to reflect on the Intensive October Classes: Oct 5, 6 and 12, 13 (9-4) Assumed knowledge: broader legal implications of these developments. Available to law graduates only. Students undertaking this unit must have a good working knowledge of the Australian Corporations Act and the rules and practices applicable to securities offerings and takeovers or the equivalent in LAWS6974 their home jurisdiction. Assessment: class participation (10%), in-class quiz Development, Law and Human Rights (10%) and assignment (80%) Mode of delivery: Block mode Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof David Kinley Session: Intensive February Classes: Jan 22-Feb 3 Assessment: assignment (30%) and 8000wd This unit is for law graduates who have, or intend to have, a practice essay (70%) Practical field work: field school in Nepal Mode of delivery: that exposes them to cross-border financings and acquisitions. The Block mode unit highlights the distinctive concepts and practices relating to Note: Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment overseas securities and corporate laws in cross-border transactions instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For (focusing to a significant extent on US laws and practices). It further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml concentrates on resolving the challenges non-Australian issues can This unit exposes students to the role and limits of law in addressing pose to transactions even if Australian law applies to many aspects acute problems of socio-economic development and human rights in of the deal. The US segment will begin with a brief examination the developing countries, through an interactive field school conducted US Federal system in which corporate and securities law responsibility over two weeks in Nepal, one of the world©s poorest countries. The is allocated between the states and Federal government, proceed to themes to be explored are likely to include: The transition from armed a detailed discussion of the process of offering securities in the US conflict to peace in the aftermath of a Maoist insurgency and the end and how it can affect non-US offerings in practice, and finally will of the monarchy in Nepal (including issues of transitional criminal conclude with an exploration of the regulation of takeovers under US justice, the drafting of a new constitution, and building a new legal law. Significant US M and A concepts and practices, including mergers, and political system in light of Nepalese legal traditions and foreign break-up fees, poison pills, and proxy fights will be discussed. The legal influences); The protection of socio-economic rights (including remainder of the unit will focus on deal regulation of selected other rights to food, water, housing, and livelihoods), minority rights (of overseas jurisdictions in which there have been recent activity. We ©tribals©, and ©dalits© in the caste system), and the ©right to development© will also examine practical consequences of the regulatory under constitutional and international law; The interaction between requirements of these jurisdictions, particularly in so far as they relate local disputes over natural resources, human displacement caused to M and A, as well as certain subjects that have worldwide by development projects, environmental protection and climate change applicability. The unit will be taught by a series of seminars, and may in the context of fragile Himalayan ecologies; The legal protection of include an occasional guest lecture/panel discussion.The purpose of refugees (Tibetan or Bhutanese) in camp or mass influx situations, in the unit is to assist Australian and other non-US lawyers in: identifying the context of the limited resources of a developing country and the potential cross-border issues; and being creative in solving the causes of, and solutions to, human displacement; and The experience challenges that arise in international securities transactions. The of women in development and human rights processes. The issues lecturer writes the Dealpolitik column for The Wall Street Journal and will be drawn together by reflection upon the influence of, and was for over 30 years a merger and acquisition and securities lawyer resistance to, human rights and international law in developmental in the US (resident for several years in Australia). processes.
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LAWS6066 LAWS6937 Discretion in Criminal Justice Employment Law Advocacy Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Adj Prof Nicholas Cowdery Session: Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr David Chin, Ms Elizabeth Raper Intensive October Classes: Oct 12, 13 and 26, 27 (9-5) Assessment: Session: Intensive September Classes: Intro Class: Aug 21 (6-8) then Sep 7, take-home exam (60%) and essay (40%) Mode of delivery: Block mode 8 and 21, 22 (9-5) Assumed knowledge: Available to law graduates only. Students who have previously completed LAWS6013 Advanced Employment This unit looks at the ways in which the exercise of discretionary Law may also enrol with permission of the Program Coordinator. Assessment: judgment arises for consideration in the course of the criminal justice class participation (40%), short tests (20%), problem question and drafting process and the ways in which that judgment should be exercised at exercise (40%) Mode of delivery: Block mode each step. It deals with each stage from the reporting or observation Note: Students who have previously completed LAWS6013 Advanced Employment Law may also enrol with permission of the Program Coordinator. of crime, through investigation, arrest, charging, bail, plea, hearing, appeal, retrial and publicity. It describes how actors at each step This unit examines key aspects of employment law principles and (citizens, police, prosecutors and judges) confront decision making, practice and their application in employment litigation and advocacy. the laws (legislation, common law) and rules (prosecution guidelines, This unit of study is designed especially for students in the Master of memoranda and procedures) that apply and provides examples of Laws (LLM) and Master of Labour Law and Relations (MLLR) degree the exercise of such discretions. It also looks at the place of public programs who have completed an LLB or JD degree and focuses commentary (personal, the media and political) in the process. The specifically on the principles of employment law within a litigation unit explores nuances in the conduct of any criminal prosecution aside context. from the application of the letter of the law. LAWS6355 LAWS6039 Energy and Water Security Law Discrimination in the Workplace Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Rosemary Lyster Session: Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Belinda Smith Session: Intensive October Classes: Sep 21, 22 and 28, 29 (9-5) Assessment: class Intensive August Classes: Intro Class: Jul 24 (6-8) then Aug 10, 11 and 24, 25 participation (10%) and 8000wd essay (90%) Mode of delivery: Block mode (9-5) Assessment: Three components of assessment and students can choose Note: Students who have previously completed both LAWS6191 Water Law the weighting: Regime A - class participation (0%), online short-answer quiz and Climate Change and LAWS6163 Energy and Climate Law are not permitted (35%) and 5500 wd essay (65%); or Regime B - class participation (15%), online to enrol in this unit. short-answer quiz (25%) and 5500 wd essay (60%) Mode of delivery: Block mode The unit grapples with the issues of global energy and water security Note: MLLR students may enrol in this unit before completing LAWS6071 Labour at a time of climate change and considers how different jurisdictions Law, but must have either completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 such as the United States, the European Union and Australia have Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System. developed very different law and policy responses to the issues. It In this unit we examine the nature of discrimination in the workplace investigates the inevitable links between energy and water security and the legal response to it in Australia. We start by considering the such as where governments choose to rely on hydroelectric power to theoretical perspectives on equality that underpin our legislation and generate renewable energy at a time of water scarcity, or where the ideas about effective regulation. We then examine how extraction of energy resources might impact on water and food anti-discrimination law is applied in respect of a number of different security. Australia is used as a case study to critically analyse how grounds of discrimination - such as sex, race, disability, and family National Competition Principles and deregulatory tendencies may responsibilities - reviewing recent cases and current issues. We will persuade governments to establish national markets to try to best also discuss enforcement mechanisms and processes under allocate scarce resources. Australia©s National Electricity Market and anti-discrimination legislation and what, if any, effect the legislation national water trading markets, as well as the corporatisation and has had on workplace processes and culture. While NSW law will be privatisation of energy and water utilities, provide fascinating examples considered, the focus will be on federal legislation, looking at of this. anti-discrimination laws, anti-discrimination provisions in the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth), and the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 (Cth). LAWS6044 Environmental Law and Policy LAWS6852 Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Rosemary Lyster (Coordinator), Doing Business in China Dr Gerry Bates Session: Intensive March Classes: Mar 14-17 (9-5) Prohibitions: LAWS3430 or LAWS5130 Assumed knowledge: LAWS6252 Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Vivienne Bath Session: Intensive or law degree from a common law jurisdiction Assessment: 2000wd essay May Classes: Apr 20, 21 and May 4, 5 Assumed knowledge: Students who (25%) and assignment (75%) Mode of delivery: Block mode do not hold a law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either Note: Students who do not hold a law degree from a common law jurisdiction have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit. Assessment: 3500wd Reasoning and the Common Law System before undertaking the environmental essay (50%) and take-home exam (50%) or take-home exam (100%) Mode law units. of delivery: Block mode The aim of the unit is to introduce students to overarching themes in This unit aims to provide an introduction to the legal and practical environmental law and policy as a foundation to their more detailed aspects of doing business in China. The unit will commence with an studies for the Environmental Law Program. This is an overview unit overview of the Chinese legal, political and economic system and will addressing a number of environmental issues at various levels of then move on to an examination of the system of commercial analysis; such as policy making, implementation of policy and dispute regulation in China, including contracts, land use, regulation of private resolution. The concept of ecologically sustainable development and and state-owned businesses and Chinese companies and securities its implications for environmental law and policy is a continuing theme. laws. The unit will focus on Chinese contract law and the foreign The unit is designed to develop multi-dimensional thinking about investment regime and the related structuring and regulatory issues environmental issues and the strategies needed to address them.The related to foreign participation in the Chinese market. Areas covered unit provides a broad background of the political and economic issues will discuss the principal issues relating to the establishment of a in so far as they are related to the legal issues involved. corporate or other presence in China and the related negotiation process. The unit will conclude with an examination of methods of LAWS6041 resolution of disputes arising under contracts entered into in China. Environmental Litigation More specialized topics which may be covered include intellectual property, labour law, regulation of financial institutions and Chinese Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Justice Nicola Pain, Justice Rachel Pepper Session: Intensive August Classes: Aug 8-11 (9-5) Assessment: investment overseas. 4000wd paper on a practical task/topic (50%), 4000wd essay (50%) Mode of delivery: Block mode
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This unit focuses on litigation as a tool for resolving environmental presentation (10%) and 3500wd essay (60%) Mode of delivery: Normal disputes. The unit examines different types of environmental litigation (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening and issues that can arise in litigation processes. Candidates will Note: Core unit for MCrim and GradDipCrim students and co-requisite for other criminology elective units. develop an understanding of the characteristics of environmental litigation, the advantages and limitations of different types of This unit examines the relevance of theory to the process of explaining proceedings, and the range of outcomes that are possible for crime as a social phenomenon. It will selectively analyse the history environmental litigation. The topics include litigation strategies, of criminological thought. Special attention will be given to the procedure and evidence, defensive actions (ie SLAPP litigation), and cross-disciplinary nature of efforts to understand crime, criminality the outcomes of litigation. Reference will be made to recent cases, and their causes. A significant section of the unit will deal with such as in the field of climate change, to illustrate the topics. contemporary approaches to criminological explanation including the influence of feminism and postmodernism. Contemporary theorists LAWS6354 such as Foucault, Garland and Braithwaite will also be considered. Environ Planning and Impact Assessment Law The unit will endeavour to make explicit the links between Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Jeff Smith, Ms Susan O©Neill criminological theory and the development of public policy. Session: Intensive October Classes: Oct 3-6 (9-5) Prohibitions: LAWS6043, LAWS6045, LAWS3430, LAWS5130 Assumed knowledge: students who do not hold an undergraduate law degree must have completed LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System before enrolling in this unit and LAWS6044 Environmental Law and Policy (MEL only) Assessment: class presentation and 1000wd essay (25%) and 6000wd essay (75%) Mode of delivery: Block mode
This unit has three aims. The first is to provide a sound analysis of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) procedures and environmental planning laws in NSW and at the Commonwealth level. The second aim is to develop a critical understanding of EIA and environmental planning laws by examining their historical, ethical and political dimensions as well as relevant aspects of legal theory. The third and ultimate aim is to combine these doctrinal and theoretical forms of knowledge so we can suggest possible improvements to current laws and legal practices.
LAWS6307 Expert Evidence and Class Action Procedure Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Peter Cashman Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Prohibitions: LAWS6230 or LAWS6869 Assessment: 4000wd expert evidence essay (50%) and 4000wd class action essay (50%). Information on non-assessable tasks will be made available in the unit outline for enrolled students. Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening Note: Students without a law degree or equivalent may enrol in this unit but should be aware that the unit focuses on legal and evidentiary issues. This unit replaced LAWS6230 Expert Evidence and LAWS6869 Class Actions and Complex Litigation.
The expert evidence component of the unit will examine the role of expert witnesses, their reports and their testimony in civil and criminal cases. This will include an examination of the law governing the admissibility of expert evidence and the procedural means by which such evidence is adduced. Part of the unit will be devoted to current controversies surrounding the role of experts in particular civil and criminal cases. The class actions component of the unit examines the substantive law, legal theories and procedural devices for the litigation and resolution of large scale, complex civil litigation. This encompasses representative actions, class actions and the use of other mechanisms for the aggregation and resolution of mass claims, including under bankruptcy law. There will be a particular focus on Part IVA of the Federal Court Act (Cth) and representative action procedures available in Australia under the rules of court and statutory provisions in various areas (including discrimination, human rights, insurance law, privacy, corporations law and shareholder rights). The unit will also cover comparative material on group litigation procedures and class actions under the laws of other countries, including England and Wales, Canada and the United States. Textbooks Freckleton I, and Selby H, Expert Evidence: Law, Practice, Procedure and Advocacy, Thompson, Sydney; Grave D, Adams K and Betts J, Class Actions in Australia (2nd ed) Thompson Reuters, 2012
LAWS6048 Explaining Crime Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Gail Mason Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Assessment: take-home exam (30%), class
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and is available to non-lawyers and to lawyers who have not previously studied Sydney Law School postgraduate or practised in the area. Assessment: assignment (50%) and take-home exam units of study F-J (50%) Mode of delivery: Block mode This introductory unit provides an overview of commercial law, focusing LAWS6970 on the broad but fundamental concept of commercial dealings. Areas Forensic Psychology for analysis include sources and function of commercial law; the legal Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Helen Paterson Session: Semester basis of dealings in contract and property law; dealings by principals 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Prohibitions: PSYC1001 or PSYC3020 and agents; dealings in tangible goods through leasing and sale; Assessment: class participation (10%), 3500-4000wd essay (40%) and 2hr dealings in intangibles such as receivables through assignment; exam (50%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening sources and methods of financing dealings; protecting dealings through Forensic psychology is the application of psychological knowledge insurance; regulating dealings through statute and common law and theories to all aspects of the criminal and civil justice systems. It restraints; and discharging dealings through a range of common is currently one of the fastest developing and most popular aspects payment methods and instruments. of psychology. In this unit we will draw upon psychological evidence to explain and understand some of the people and processes involved LAWS6991 in the legal system. Through a series of interactive seminars we will Fundamentals of Contract Law discuss topics such as lie detection, profiling, interviewing, jury Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Ms Anne McNaughton Session: deliberation, eyewitness memory, criminal offenders, victims of crime, Intensive May Classes: Apr 13, 14 and 27, 28 (9-5) Corequisites: LAWS6252 Prohibitions: LAWS1002 or LAWS1015 or LAWS2008 or LAWS5002 and police officers. Assessment: assignment (30%) and take-home exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode JURS6019 Note: This unit is only available to non-law graduates who have not undertaken Freedom of Speech any previous study of contract law. Available to MLLR students who commenced Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Wojciech Sadurski Session: after Jan 2015. Intensive August Classes: Aug 10, 11 and Aug 31, Sep 1 (9-5) Assessment: class participation (10%), class presentation (30%) and 5000wd essay (60%) Learn how contracts operate as risk management tools by examining Mode of delivery: Block mode the legal principles arising in the formation, construction and discharge of contracts. This unit will provide students with an understanding of Freedom of speech is among the most hotly discussed constitutional remedies available for breach of contract and factors that may vitiate rights in a liberal democratic state. This unit of study will aim at a contract. The unit prepares students for a range of units** across clarifying some of the fundamental conceptual and normative postgraduate programs in commercial law, corporate, securities and foundations of freedom of speech, always against the background of finance law and international business law where a basic specific legal rules, cases and controversies in Australia and around understanding of contractual law principles is valuable. Unit content the world. The theoretical part will consider such issues as the includes: contract as a risk management device; formation of contracts: fundamental justifications (rationales) for freedom of speech, the idea agreement, consideration, intention to create legal relations, certainty, of ©content neutrality© and ©viewpoint neutrality© of speech restrictions, privity, formalities; construction principles: contractual parties, the distinction between speech and conduct, etc. The unit will then contractual terms (express and implied), classifying terms, principles look at such issues as hate speech, obscenity, defamation, offense of interpretation; estoppel; vitiating factors: misrepresentation, to religious feelings etc., trying to distil general philosophical and legal misleading and deceptive conduct, unconscionable conduct, mistake, principles behind regulation of these categories of expression. The duress; discharge: performance, breach, termination and frustration; unit will be highly interactive, and will largely rely on student remedies: key statutory and common law remedies. presentations of topics which will be then developed in student essays. ** excluding the following advanced contract law units available to law Textbooks graduates only: LAWS6809 Breach of Contract, LAWS6872 Contract Wojciech Sadurski, Freedom of Speech and Its Limits Negotiation, LAWS6851 Construction Law, LAWS6915 Current Issues in Defamation Law, LAWS6954 Financial Risk Allocation in Equity, LAWS6187 LAWS6903 Interpreting Commercial Contracts, LAWS6969 Principles Functional Analysis of Law and Soc Control of Patent Law, LAWS6919 Problems in Contract Formation and units Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Alex Ziegert Session: Intensive March Classes: Mar 16, 17 and 23, 24 (9-5) Assessment: 1000wd as listed in the Faculty Handbook. research note (30%) and 7000wd essay (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode Textbooks John Carter, Carter©s Guide to Australian Contract Law, 3nd edn, LexisNexis, This unit examines the largely diffuse concepts of social control and 2016 the functions of law and proposes a more specific approach to legal theory which incorporates the latest findings of socio-legal research LAWS6810 on the social effects of law. As a result of this discussion, a more Fundamentals of Corporate Law specific concept of social control and an explanatory assessment of Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Olivia Dixon Session: Intensive the social effects of law, including its political use, are presented with March Classes: Feb 22, 23 and 26, 27 (9-4) Prohibitions: LAWS2014, their theoretical implications for legal and political systems and applied, LAWS5014. Students who have undertaken the equivalent of Corporations Law in Australia within the last 5 years. Assessment: general class participation as examples, to historically and societally varied situations. and specified seminar discussions (20%), class quiz (20%), take-home exam (60%) Mode of delivery: Block mode LAWS6987 Note: Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. Fundamentals of Commercial Law Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Sheelagh McCracken Session: This unit is designed for those wishing to pursue postgraduate study Intensive September Classes: Aug 17, 18 and Sep 7, 8 (9-5) Prohibitions: involving aspects of corporate law, but who lack the required previous LAWS3400 Assumed knowledge: This unit assumes no previous knowledge exposure to the subject. As our postgraduate units in corporate law
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(other than this unit and LAWS6319 Fundamentals of the Board and essential infrastructure; addressing potential sources of conflict in the Directors© Duties) are generally specialised and taught at an advanced energy and resources sector including in dealing with international level, those wishing to enrol in such units but who have not studied trade, native title and other indigenous issues, environmental and corporate law in a law school environment should undertake this unit. corporate social responsibility issues; and current national and The unit focuses on the fundamental principles of law applying to international energy and resources controversies. Previous topics public and proprietary companies. It starts with a brief history of the have included the role of renewable energy in energy security, development of the corporate form and the evolution of Australian challenges posed by energy and resources projects in Africa, conflict corporate law, before examining a range of core topics, such as the between Europe and Russia over gas supplies, energy storage, coal nature of corporate personality, the incorporation process, corporate seam gas development, international maritime disputes in Asia over constitution and governance rules, and shareholder rights and offshore oil and gas fields, corruption and transparency, and the remedies. The unit will also include a brief introduction to directors Resource Curse in developing countries. duties, however, students who lack previous exposure to corporate law and wish to examine this topic in greater detail are advised also LAWS6920 to enrol in the unit, LAWS6319 Fundamentals of the Board and Global Health Law Directors© Duties. It is recommended that students wishing to undertake Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Lawrence Gostin Session: further study in the area of shareholder rights enrol in LAWS6957 Intensive July Classes: Jul 17-20 (10-5.30) Assessment: Option 1: 7000wd Shareholders Remedies. essay (80%) and simulation participation and contribution (20%) or Option 2: 4000wd essay (50%), simulation participation and contribution (20%) and Textbooks assignment (30%) Mode of delivery: Block mode Redmond, Corporations and Financial Markets Law: Commentary and Materials (7th edition, 2017) Today, domestic health and global health are recognized as intertwined and inseparable. The determinants of health (e.g. pathogens, air, LAWS6912 water, goods, and lifestyle choices) are increasingly international in Fundamentals of the Law of Trusts origin, expanding the need for health governance structures that Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Jamie Glister Session: transcend traditional and increasingly inadequate national approaches. Intensive April Classes: Mar 23, 24 and Apr 6, 7 (9-5) Prohibitions: LAWS2015 In this unit, students will gain an in-depth understanding of global or LAWS3474 Assessment: class participation (10%) and take-home exam health law through careful examination of the major contemporary (90%) Mode of delivery: Block mode problems in global health, the principal international legal instruments Note: Students who have previously completed a law degree in a common law jurisdiction are not permitted to enrol in this unit, except with the permission of governing global health, the principal international organizations, and the Unit Coordinator innovative solutions for global health governance in the 21st Century. Class sessions will consist of a combination of lecture and interactive This unit begins with an overview of the equity jurisdiction, including discussion, culminating in a global health law simulation. The class fiduciary duties, before going on to consider the law of trusts in more will cover naturally occurring infectious diseases (e.g. extensively drug detail. The unit covers the creation, constitution and validity of both resistant tuberculosis, malaria, Zika virus, and HIV/AIDS), past (e.g., private and public trusts; the rights and duties of trustees; trustee and SARS, influenza A H1N1 and Ebola) and future (e.g., Influenza third-party liability for breaches of trust; and remedies for breach of pandemics), bioterrorism events (e.g., anthrax or smallpox), and/or trust. These principles will be explored in the context of both personal major chronic diseases caused by modern lifestyles (e.g., obesity or and commercial dealings, and particular attention will be paid to certain tobacco use). commercial applications of the trust mechanism, such as Quistclose trusts and retention of title ©proceeds© trusts. Textbooks Lawrence O. Gostin, Global Health Law (March 2014) available from Harvard University Press or Amazon.com. LAWS6334 Gender Inequality and Development LAWS6214 Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Jeni Klugman Session: Intensive Goods and Services Tax Principles A August Classes: Aug 7-10 (9-5) Assessment: class participation (10%), Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Rebecca Millar Session: Intensive presentation (40%), 5000wd essay (50%) Mode of delivery: Block mode September Classes: Sep 12-14 and 17, 18 (9-4) Assessment: class work/test The unit is set up around a series of major policy questions central to (35%) and 2hr exam (65%). A research essay may be undertaken in lieu of the exam with the permission of the Unit Coordinator. Mode of delivery: Block the gender equality agenda, and linked to the post 2015 international mode development debates. Following an overview session about global and regional patterns, the unit will tackle a series of major policy This unit introduces the key concepts that underpin the Australian challenges in turn, concluding with an examination of major global GST, the policies underlying the tax, and the way those policies are proposals. The unit will go beyond gender inequality in the labour (or are not) reflected in the design of the GST law. The aim is to give market to explore patterns of violence and political participation, and participants a working knowledge of the operation of the GST law and the role of quotas, including on corporate boards, among others. Links an awareness of the practical problems encountered in practice, to legal reform and human rights will be explored. Students will be informed by an understanding of the way in which the law is intended asked to work on a specific policy challenge, applying and developing to operate. the findings discussed in class and in the readings. The unit is The unit will commence with an examination of the basic design designed to facilitate student questioning, engagement and features of value added taxes in general and of Australia©s GST in participation. No specific textbook is prescribed. There will normally particular. It will then examine the core elements of the GST law, be 2 to 3 required readings for each day, a paper and/or book chapters including: the taxpayer (entities, enterprise, and the obligation to and additional readings for greater depth. register for GST), the liability for tax on supplies made for consideration; the value of taxable supplies and the amount of GST LAWS6964 payable on supplies; the entitlement to input tax credits and the range Global Energy and Resources Law of subsequent adjustments that may be required; attributing GST and Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Penny Crossley Session: Intensive input tax credits to tax periods; adjustments for adjustment events; May Classes: May 3, 4 and 10, 11 (9-5) Assessment: take-home exam (100%) basic principles of GST-free and input taxed supplies (including an or take-home exam (70%) and optional essay or problem question (30%) Mode introduction to real property transactions and intermediation services, of delivery: Block mode primarily focussing on financial supplies); basic cross-border issues, This unit provides a framework for understanding the role of law in: including the treatment of imports and exports. the discovery, financing, development and utilisation of energy and resources projects; energy trading on wholesale markets; mining and resources projects, including competition issues and access to
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LAWS6052 the real actors behind the economic and human rights power blocs Govt Regulation, Health Policy and Ethics on the global stage? This unit seeks both to frame these questions Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Cameron Stewart Session: and to address them by reference to the most recent discussion, Intensive October Classes: Sep 27, 28 and Oct 25, 26 (9-5) Assessment: thinking and action in the area. class presentation (20%) and 7000wd essay (80%) Mode of delivery: Block mode LAWS6147 Note: MHL students may select this unit as one of the three core units required Independent Research Project in addition to LAWS6252. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Supervised by an appointed Sydney This unit examines government regulation of health care and Law School academic staff member Session: Semester 1, Semester 2 professional practice. With regard to each area of government Assessment: 8000 to 10,000wd research project (100%) due on 15 June (Semester 1) or 15 November (Semester 2) Mode of delivery: Supervision decision-making, issues are analysed by reference to the interplay Note: Department permission required for enrolment. Note: Applications close between social goals, human rights, legal rights and ethical on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose considerations.Topics covered include the constitutional and statutory application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should sources of government power with respect to health care: regulatory not apply until after the official results release date. If you have any concerns, models and reform of public health legislation; therapeutic goods please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. administration; health insurance; pharmaceutical benefits and the The goal of this unit of study is to provide students with an opportunity pharmacy industry; human tissue legislation; discipline of health to pursue advanced research in an area of their choosing, under the professionals with a focus on the National Law; health care complaints limited supervision of a School member. The unit is only available in tribunals; a right to health care; ethical theories in law and medicine; special circumstances, and with the approval of the relevant Program the ethics of human experimentation; and ethics committees. Coordinator. Please refer to the Sydney Law School website for details on eligibility criteria and application material. LAWS6054 Health Care and Professional Liability LAWS6182 Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Cameron Stewart Session: Independent Research Project A Intensive May Classes: Apr 26, 27 and May 24, 25 (9-5) Assessment: class presentation (20%) and assignment or 7000wd essay (80%) Mode of delivery: Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Supervised by an appointed Sydney Block mode Law School academic member Session: Semester 1, Semester 2 Corequisites: LAWS6183 Assessment: 15,000 to 20,000wd research project (100%) due Note: Core unit for Core unit for GradDipHL students. MHL students may select on 15 June (Semester 1) or 15 November (Semester 2) of the final semester this unit as one of the three core units required in addition to LAWS6252. in which a student is enrolled in the research project. Mode of delivery: Supervision This unit will provide a foundation for further study in health law by Note: Department permission required for enrolment. Note: Applications close examining laws that govern the liability of health professionals across on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose a range of fields (eg criminal law, torts, contract, discrimination law) application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should and mechanisms for the oversight and disciplining of health not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete professionals. The unit will explore the role of law as a means to both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or two semesters. If you have any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: regulate/set limits on the conduct of health professionals and examine [email protected]. debates about the proper role of law in regulating the provision of health care. It will also critically evaluate law reform initiatives with The goal of this unit of study is to provide students with an opportunity respect to legal liability, complaints mechanisms and disciplinary action to pursue advanced research in an area of their choosing, under the against health professionals where relevant. Topics to be covered limited supervision of a School member. The unit is only available in may include: Legal and non-legal methods of regulating the practices special circumstances, and with the approval of the relevant Program of health professionals; the limits imposed on health professionals by Coordinator. Please refer to the Sydney Law School website for details the criminal law; the principles of negligence and their application to on eligibility criteria and application material. the liability of health professionals; contractual and fiduciary duties of health professionals; liability of hospitals; discrimination in health care; LAWS6183 procedures for complaints against health professionals; disciplinary Independent Research Project B proceedings and the statutory reporting obligations of health Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Supervised by an appointed Sydney professionals. Law School academic staff member Session: Semester 1, Semester 2 Corequisites: LAWS6182 Assessment: 15,000 to 20,000wd research project (100%) due on 15 June (Semester 1) or 15 November (Semester 2) of the final LAWS6846 semester in which a student is enrolled in the research project. Mode of Human Rights and the Global Economy delivery: Supervision Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof David Kinley Session: Intensive Note: Department permission required for enrolment. Note: Applications close May Classes: May 18, 19 and 25, 26 (9-5) Prohibitions: LAWS5178 or on 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students whose LAWS3478 Assessment: class participation (20%), 7000wd essay (80%) application is pending on the outcome of their previous semester©s results should Mode of delivery: Block mode not apply until after the official results release date. Students must complete Note: Master of Law and International Development students may undertake both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or over two semesters. If you have this unit as an elective or capstone unit any concerns, please contact Sydney Law School E: [email protected]. The questions of whether and how the global economy and human Please refer to LAWS6182 Independent Research Project A. rights interrelate and interact have excited much recent controversy on the streets, in the courts and legislatures, in corporate board rooms LAWS6058 and in the corridors of the UN and the international trade and financial Information Rights in Health Care organizations. It is a controversy that will almost certainly intensify Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Belinda Reeve Session: Intensive over the next few years. The debate is controversial because it is September Classes: Intro Class: Aug 29 (6-8) then Sep 6, 7 and Oct 4, 5 important, and it is important because it involves two great globalizing (9.30-4.30) Prohibitions: LAWS3452 or LAWS5152 Assessment: class forces namely, the promotion of free market ideology through trade presentation and 1500wd paper (20%) and assignment (80%) Mode of delivery: liberalization and the protection of human rights through the Block mode universalization of the norms that underpin human dignity. On the Note: Core unit for GradDipHL students. MHL students may select this unit as one of the three core units required in addition to LAWS6252. Students who face of it the two projects do sit easily together. Are they, in fact, have previously completed LAWS5152, LAWS3452 or equivalent Medical Law implacably opposed to each other? Where or how do they overlap unit in their undergraduate degree are not permitted to enrol in this unit. and what are the consequences or opportunities presented thereby? What role can the law play in regulating their interaction whether it be This unit deals with patients¿ rights to information in the modern domestic or international law, ©hard© or ©soft© law. And what or who are health care system. The unit will focus on consent to treatment and
209 Units of study F-J will include discussion of: capacity, the duty of health professionals ombudspeople, tax and criminal prosecution authorities; (4) involving to disclose the risks of treatment, refusal of treatment and emergency third parties in the realization of individual labour standards, for health care.The unit will also examine duties of confidentiality in health example, NGOs, trade unions, parliamentary and other public inquiries, care, ownership of and access to medical records, and information consumers, campaigners and the press; (5) focussing on employer rights in medical research. activities that moderate individual labour and equality standards, like human resources practices, corporate social responsibility regimes LAWS6159 and general managerial strategizing. Threaded through the unit will Insolvency Law be consideration of different methodological approaches to legal Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Lindsay Powers Session: Intensive research, with the twin goals of increasing what students take from July Classes: Jul 5, 6 and 12, 13 (9-5) Prohibitions: CLAW6006 or LAWS3403 the materials covered and of improving their legal research and or LAWS3445 or LAWS5103 Assumed knowledge: undergraduate law degree analytical skills, including for use in the final essay. Prof Barmes draws with good background in Australian corporate law Assessment: assignment (50%) and 4000wd essay (50%) Mode of delivery: Block mode on her extensive previous research in this area and her varied background, for example, in legal practice, conducting research for The unit provides an introduction to the mainly statutory law regulating the Law Commission of England and Wales, as co-editor of the Recent bankrupt individuals and insolvent companies to be found in the Cases section of the Industrial Law Journal and as co-Director of the Bankruptcy Act 1966 and Corporations Act 2001. It explores the QMUL School of Law Centre for Research on Law, Equality and objectives and key principles of insolvency law, the pari passu Diversity (LEAD). principle, the various forms of insolvent administration including informal workouts, bankruptcy, liquidation, receivership, voluntary LAWS6059 administration, schemes of arrangement and associated procedures International Business Law together with the avoidance of transactions in insolvency. The unit Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Em Prof Gabriel Moens Session: also considers the impact of insolvency on existing contractual and Intensive September Classes: Sep 7, 8 and 14, 15 (9-5) Prohibitions: proprietary rights from the perspective of employees, unsecured LAWS3438, LAWS5138 Assumed knowledge: Students who do not hold a creditors, shareholders, trustees of trusts and third parties generally. law degree from a common or civil law jurisdiction must either have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common The unit also considers cross border insolvency and the Cross Border Law System before enrolling in this unit. Assessment: 3500wd essay (50%) Insolvency Act 2008. The impact of the PPSA on insolvency is also and 1hr exam (50%) or 2hr exam (100%) Mode of delivery: Block mode analysed. The unit involves a significant component of statutory The objective of this unit is to provide students with an introduction to interpretation. a number of areas of international business law and to provide an LAWS6882 opportunity to study some of those areas in more detail. The unit Insurance Contract Law begins with an overview of the scope of the law relating to international transactions.The core topics are international sale of goods, carriage Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Robert Merkin Session: Intensive September Classes: Sep 13, 14 and 17, 18 (9-5) Assumed knowledge: of goods, international payments and financing of international sales undergraduate law degree or LAWS6991 Assessment: 2000wd case note and methods of doing business in foreign markets, including through (30%) and assignment or 6000wd essay (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode agents and distributors and international licensing transactions. Other The unit objectives are to identify and analyse the key legal concepts topics may vary from year to year and may include an introduction to that govern the relationship between insurers and policyholders. The international tax, elementary customs law and international dispute unit will examine the statutory and contractual principles applicable settlement. to insurance contracts, including: the principle of utmost good faith; Textbooks the content and regulation of policy terms; the measure of indemnity; Burnett and Bath, Law of International Business in Australasia (Federation press, 2009) the rights of insurers following loss; the principles applicable to particular forms of policy (including life, property, liability, marine and LAWS6060 reinsurance); and the role of intermediaries. International Commercial Arbitration Textbooks Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Chester Brown, Prof Luke Nottage Latest edition of Ian Enright, Rob Merkin and Michael Kirby, Sutton©s Law of Session: Intensive May Classes: May 3, 4 and 17, 18 (9-5) Assessment: Insurance in Australia; Peter Mann, Annotated Insurance Contracts Act 1984; assignment (40%) and 5000wd essay (60%) Mode of delivery: Block mode Greg Pynt, Insurance Law, A First Primer. Note: This is available as one of the core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students
LAWS6022 This unit introduces students to the preferred method of resolving International and Comparative Labour Law international commercial disputes. It aims primarily to: (a) outline key Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Elizabeth Barmes Session: principles in the law of international commercial arbitration, and (b) Intensive May Classes: Apr 13, 14 and 27, 28 (9-5) Assessment: class discuss a range of cutting-edge legal issues raised in international participation (10%), 1000wd assignment (20%) and 6000wd essay (70%) Mode commercial arbitration, to nurture a sophisticated understanding of of delivery: Block mode the historical development and likely future path of international This unit will examine the growing use of individual labour and equality commercial arbitration. In doing so the unit also briefly compares the rights to protect working people, with the overall aim of assessing the burgeoning field of treaty-based investor-state arbitration (examined capacity of this type of regulation to enhance justice, both in the in more detail in LAWS6916 International Investment Law). This unit workplace and more widely. It will use experience in the UK of a highly considers how international commercial arbitration relates to litigation individualized workplace rights and enforcement system to identify and ADR, surveys some of the most important transnational and strengths and weaknesses in this kind of workplace protection. This Australian ©legislative© instruments, and introduces major trends. It will involve consideration of EU and European Convention on Human goes on to consider in detail specific issues including the arbitration Rights standards, while some comparative readings will also be set agreement; the constitution of the arbitral tribunal; applicable law and students will be encouraged themselves to bring a comparative issues, including consideration of the law governing the arbitration, dimension to the issues and assignments. Jumping off from the UK the role of the seat, and the role of national courts; procedure in experience, the unit will evaluate various strategies for enhancing the international arbitration; the jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunal; the role protective capacity of individual workplace rights. These include: (1) of arbitral institutions; the arbitral award and challenges to the award; conceiving of such rights as fundamental human or constitutional and recognition and enforcement of the award. rights; (2) imposing positive duties on employers and others to promote and secure observance of individual labour and equality rights; (3) LAWS6061 institutional innovation to secure workplace protections, for example International Environmental Law via equality and human rights commissions, labour inspectorates, Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Rosemary Lyster, Assoc Prof Ed Couzens Session: Intensive May Classes: Apr 27, 28 and May 4, 5 (9-5)
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Assessment: compulsory in-class practical assessment (40%) and assignment (international tribunals, domestic courts, multilateral bodies - including (60%) Mode of delivery: Block mode United Nations organs - regional agencies, non-governmental This unit aims to provide an introduction to the framework, concepts, organisations, academic institutions, and the media); (b) settings sources and techniques of international environmental law, and to where international human rights law is being deployed (in Australia provide an overview of international law responses to current and and elsewhere); and (c) particular identities/subjects that international emerging environmental challenges. The history and framework of human rights law aspires to shape, regulate or secure. By the end of international environmental law will be examined before exploring a this unit, students should be able to formulate written and oral range of topical international environmental law issues, including arguments by reference to key international human rights law atmospheric protection and climate change, hazardous substances instruments and principles; give strategic advice as to available and wastes, biodiversity and GMOs, the protection of marine living avenues of recourse in international human rights law; and advance resources, the protection of freshwater resources and issues an informed critique of particular dimensions of international human concerning trade.The unit will also survey the influence of international rights law scholarship and practice, by reference to contemporary environmental law on domestic environmental law through case literature in this field. studies. Overarching themes will include the interdependence of environmental issues, the effects of scientific uncertainty on LAWS6218 international environmental regulation, implementation of international International Humanitarian Law environmental obligations between states at difference levels of Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Emily Crawford Session: Intensive August Classes: Aug 3, 4 and 17, 18 (9-5) Prohibitions: LAWS3483 or economic development and the need for effectiveness in LAWS5183 Assessment: class participation (20%), assignment (10%) and implementation and enforcement. 7000wd essay (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode
LAWS6138 How to limit and regulate violence in times of war or armed conflict is Internatl Fin Transactions: Law and Prac one of the most pressing challenges for international law. This unit Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Jan Job de Vries Robbé Session: introduces you to the principles and practices of international Intensive March Classes: Mar 15, 16 and 19, 20 (9-4) Assessment: class humanitarian law (ÁIHL¿), also known as the laws of war or the law participation (15%) and 8000wd essay (85%) Mode of delivery: Block mode of armed conflict, including treaty law and customary international humanitarian law. This unit explores: the origins, purposes, sources International finance is front page news: from litigation against and critiques of IHL; its scope of application (spatial, temporal and mis-selling banks, to the fall-out of the sovereign debt crises (bail-in), personal); the different types and thresholds of conflict (including the contentious role of activist hedge funds and the (over)reliance on international, non-international and ¿transnational¿ conflicts); the rating agencies, there is no escape. Banks are perhaps still on the status and treatment of combatants and non-combatants and other back foot, having to prove their value to the community by mains of categories (such as spies, ¿unlawful combatants¿ and delivering sustainable finance.This unit introduces and digs deep into ¿terrorists¿); the permissible means and methods of warfare the suite of international financial transactions, with a profoundly (including the principles of distinction and proportionality, and practical perspective, whilst also showcasing sustainable and prohibitions and restrictions on certain weapons such as chemical, development finance in practice. biological and nuclear weapons); the difference in rules governing Key pillars of the unit include lending, capital markets instruments, international armed conflicts (IACs) and those governing derivative markets and project finance. Within each pillar specific non-international armed conflicts (NIACs); the relationship between financial products are analysed, both from a legal and structuring international human rights law and IHL; and the relationship between perspective. We look at lending and negotiate a term sheet. We the international terrorism suppression regime and IHL. uncover the drivers and documentation of structured finance products such as securitisation and covered bonds. We will also look at the LAWS6037 international regulatory reform of for instance the derivatives market International Import/Export Laws and its impact on documentation. Insight is given into credit derivatives. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Adj Prof Alan Bennett Session: Investor litigation is also a prominent feature of the unit. The lecturer Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Assessment: class assignments shares his own transactional experience in development finance, from (10%), mid-semester take-home exam (25%) and final semester take-home Asia to Africa and Latin America. Guest lecturers from top tier law exam (65%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening firms and major banks explain transactions and risks, giving a broader This unit is a comparative study of international import/export laws. It perspective. Case studies and a negotiation session are also included, does not look in detail at Australian law. The material covered in the making this a both challenging and exciting unit. Bottom line: this unit unit is based on the WTO multilateral agreements which the 159 WTO will enhance your skills for application in legal practice. No prior member countries have adopted and which bind them on the topics experience in the financial markets is required. To assist students in covered. getting up to speed, some materials will be shared on-line before The unit commences with an introduction to the relevant WTO classes commence. agreements underpinning international import and export laws affecting WTO members. It then provides an introduction to international import LAWS6161 dispute mechanisms through the WTO Dispute Settlement International Human Rights Understanding. The Kyoto Convention is then examined to determine Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof David Kinley Session: Intensive October Classes: Oct 5, 6 and 12, 13 (9-5) Prohibitions: GOVT6117 the key elements of a modern customs statute. Assessment: 2000wd assignment (30%) and 5000wd essay (70%) or 7000wd The unit also examines: Free Trade Agreements; anti-dumping duty; (100%) Mode of delivery: Block mode discriminatory taxes/laws on imports; markings and intellectual property Note: Available to MLLR students who commenced after Jan 2015. rights on imported goods; importers© remedies against customs This unit introduces students to the principles and practice of decisions; customs valuation and tariffs; and, customs "post entry" international human rights law - a field of public international law and audits. policy of ever-expanding dimensions. It will introduce students to some key concepts, debates, documents and institutions in this field, while LAWS6916 encouraging critical examination of these from a variety of angles. In International Investment Law summary, this unit considers the question: what happens when we Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Chester Brown Session: Intensive March Classes: Feb 20, 21 and 26, 27 (9-5) Assessment: 6000wd essay regard a situation or predicament as one involving a breach of (70%) and assignment (30%) Mode of delivery: Block mode international human rights law - what possibilities and problems does this entail? Addressing this question, students in this unit will examine: This unit introduces students to the international regulation of foreign (a) forums where international human rights law is being produced investment. It examines core principles of international investment
211 Units of study F-J law, regional and bilateral investment treaties, the settlement of The objectives of this unit are to understand and gain a sound investment disputes, and the international economic and political knowledge of the legal principles and rules governing the resort to context in which the law has developed.The unit considers the origins armed force by States; be able to analyse a complex factual situation, and evolution of international investment law through to the recent recognise the issues arising, and determine the international legal formation of the current international legal framework for foreign rights and responsibilities of the parties involved; and gain awareness investment through bilateral and regional investment treaties. It and understanding of current issues relating to the use of force and examines the substantive standards of protection contained within United Nations practice in matters affecting international peace and investment treaties (such as the fair and equitable treatment standard, security. The course looks at the legal principles and rules governing and the prohibition on expropriation without compensation), recent the resort to force by States; operation of the relevant provisions of arbitral awards, and considers controversial issues surrounding the United Nations Charter dealing with the use of force, self-defence investor-state arbitration. It examines the procedural framework for and collective security; relevant state practice in interpreting the UN investment treaty arbitration under the auspices of the International Charter; the legal issues arising from the use of force against terrorism; Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the the "Bush Doctrine" of pre-emptive self-defence and its legality under UNCITRAL Rules. This unit also considers the increased focus on international law; legality of the use of force to assist rebels; the role investor responsibility in relation to environmental protection, human of the United Nations in peace-building, peace-making, peace-keeping, rights, development issues, and labour standards. It also examines and peace enforcement; and the legal issues arising from humanitarian recent developments including the negotiation of mega-regional trade intervention and the emerging principle of the responsibility to protect. and investment agreements, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership This unit does not cover the law regulating the conduct of armed Agreement and the negotiations towards the Transatlantic Trade and conflict (jus in bello), which is the subject of the separate unit Investment Partnership. LAWS6218 International Humanitarian Law.
LAWS6243 LAWS6326 International Law I Interpretation of Statutes and Other Texts Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Alison Pert Session: Intensive Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Ms Chloe Burnett Session: Intensive March, Semester 2 Classes: S1CIMR (Group A): Mar 16, 17 and 23, 24 (9-5); October Classes: Oct 3-5 and 8, 9 (9-4) Assessment: assignment (30%) and S2C (Group B): 1x2-hr lecture/week Prohibitions: LAWS1023, LAWS5005 take-home exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode Assessment: 5000wd essay (60%) and take-home exam (40%) Mode of delivery: Block mode, Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening Students will develop their understanding of the principles of statutory Note: This unit replaced LAWS6243 Public International Law. This unit is interpretation, and hone their ability to apply those principles in compulsory for MIL and GradDipIntLaw students who have not completed any practice.The interpretation of contracts, constitutions and treaties will previous study in international law and must be taken during the first semester also be explored, observing where the core principles of statutory of candidature. This unit is not available to MLawIntDev students who have been granted a reduced volume of learning. This unit is available as one of the interpretation (text, context and purpose/intent) also apply to those core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students. texts, as well as learning rules particular to contracts, constitutions and treaties. Interpretation is a day-to-day task of the lawyer but many This unit provides an introduction to public international law. Its practising lawyers (and other professionals who work with the law) purpose is to ensure that students have a thorough understanding of do not have a background in the discipline. This unit will teach the the core principles and problems of, and contemporary issues in, principles of interpretation, with a particular focus on practical international law. The unit covers the following topics: nature and application through the use of real-world examples, in-class exercises, scope of public international law, sources of public international law, and ©how to© guides. The unit will cover topics in- (i) Statutory international legal personality, the law of treaties, how title to territory interpretation (7 lectures): Modern approach, text, context and purpose; is acquired, state jurisdiction in international law, immunity from Canons and presumptions; Overlap and boundaries with common jurisdiction, state responsibility for international wrongs, dispute law; Acts interpretation legislation; Regulations and other subordinate settlement, and the legality of the use of force. legislation;The role of extrinsic materials; Practical steps to take when construing a provision; Exercises in commercial, administrative, LAWS6167 environmental, labour and tax statues; and Recent controversies and International Law II the approach of the current High Court (ii) Contract interpretation (2 Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Alison Pert Session: Intensive lectures): A private instrument: similarities and differences to statutory May, Semester 2 Classes: S1CIMY (Group A): Apr 20, 21 and May 11, 12 (9-5); S2C (Group B): 1x2-hr lecture/week Assumed knowledge: LAWS6243 interpretation; and Surrounding circumstances and status of Codelfa Assessment: 5000wd essay (60%) and take-home exam (40%) Mode of ©true rule© (iii) Constitutional interpretation (1.5 lectures) - Dynamic delivery: Block mode, Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening document or original intent; and Practical examples from Note: Compulsory core unit for MIL and GradDipIntLaw students. This unit Commonwealth and NSW constitutions and (iv) Treaty interpretation replaced LAWS6167 International Law and Australian Institutions. (1.5 lectures) - Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties; Treaty This unit of study consolidates and builds upon knowledge gained in obligations and domestic legislation; and Exercises in international LAWS6243 International Law I.The relationship between international arbitration, immigration, environmental, insolvency and tax law. Two law and domestic law is explored in depth, both in a comparative of the above lectures will be given by guest lecturers from the judiciary perspective and with reference to the impact of international law on and senior bar.The final two lectures will involve revision and overview, Australian law and legal institutions.The unit also addresses specialist additional problems and assessment preparation. topics not covered, or only briefly covered, in LAWS6243 International Law I, which may include a more detailed examination of the limits of LAWS6903 state jurisdiction, the role of the individual in international law, Interpreting Commercial Contracts international human rights, and the right of states to respond to Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Elisabeth Peden, Prof Richard international wrongs. Other topics of current interest in public Calnan Session: Intensive September Classes: Sep 10-13 (9-5) Assumed knowledge: undergraduate law degree Assessment: 1500wd essay (20%) international law will also be examined, with students given an and 6000wd essay (80%) Practical field work: Sydney Law School in Europe appreciation of the role and relevance of international law in major Mode of delivery: Block mode events in contemporary international affairs. Note: Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For LAWS6062 further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. International Law-the Use of Armed Force Commercial lawyers spend much of their time reading and writing Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Alison Pert Session: Intensive contracts. Understanding how the courts interpret contracts is therefore August Classes: Aug 10, 11 and Aug 31, Sep 1 (9-5) Prohibitions: LAWS3483 a key part of the job of any commercial lawyer. In practice, much of or LAWS5183 Assessment: 3000wd problem question (40%), 5000wd essay (60%) Mode of delivery: Block mode contract law is about the interpretation of the promises which the
212 Units of study F-J parties have made to each other rather than about particular rules of further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. law. Students may also substitute one or two days from Feb 13, 14 in Tokyo. Over the last twenty years, the common law has seen an explosion This unit provides an introduction to Japanese law in global context, in the number of cases on contractual interpretation, and a focusing on its interaction with civil justice, criminal justice, business, corresponding increase in its academic discussion. This unit will politics, consumers, gender, the legal professions and pop culture. It critically discuss those developments, with a view to trying to establish is taught intensively at Ritsumeikan University campuses in Kyoto the principles by which the courts do - and should - interpret contracts. and Tokyo (http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/japanese-law/kyoto-seminar/). In doing so, it will discuss the developments in Australia, England and Students are encouraged to take all classes taught in Kyoto (24 hours), New Zealand. but can also substitute up to 12 hours of classes taught in Tokyo (with The unit will be structured around ten principles which, it is suggested, more of a business law focus) subject to pre-approval by the can help to explain the way in which the courts interpret contracts and Coordinator. Lecturers include academics from Ritsumeikan and other the continuing divergences of view about the approach to leading Japanese universities, as well as from Australia (especially interpretation. from The University of Sydney, Queensland University of Technology The following issues will be discussed: What is the guiding principle and Western Australia), with guest lectures by prominent practitioners of contractual interpretation? To what extent do the courts look to the and a field study to a local bar association and/or the courts. Students objective intention of the parties? Is subjective intention of any will also interact with participants from Japanese, Australian and other relevance? What materials are available when interpreting a contract? universities or institutions taking this unit, supported by the Australian What is meant by reading the contract as a whole? Contracts must Network for Japanese Law (sydney.edu.au/law/anjel). be read in the light of their background facts, but what does this mean LAWS6068 in practice? What do words mean? Do words have ordinary meanings? Judicial Review-P©ciple, Pol and Procedure When are words ambiguous? To what extent is the court entitled to disregard the words used by the parties if it thinks that they cannot Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Margaret Allars Session: Intensive August Classes: Jul 20, 21 and Aug 17, 18 (9-5) Assessment: have intended them? When can words be implied into a contract? 7500wd essay or 2x3750wd essays (100%) Mode of delivery: Block mode When can the court change the words in a contract? When are rectification and estoppel by convention available? This unit provides a specialised and thematic account of judicial review The unit will conclude with a discussion of the way in which contracts as one means for making the executive branch of government should be drafted. How should the principles of contractual accountable. It aims to develop an understanding of trends reflected interpretation affect drafting? Is it possible to contract out of the in principles relating to justiciability, standing to seek review, excess principles? Is it desirable to do so? of power and abuse of power, and procedural fairness. A critical evaluation of the policy choices which account for development of LAWS6825 common law principles is encouraged. The procedures and remedial Introduction to Australian Business Tax powers available under statutes which reform the procedure for gaining Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Graeme Cooper (Intensive March), judicial review are examined, with judicial and administrative procedure Prof Michael Dirkis (Intensive August) Session: Intensive August, Intensive compared. A consistent theme is the development of a critical March, Semester 1a Classes: Intensive March (Group A): Mar 14-16 and 19, appreciation of the proper relationship between the judicial and 20 (9-3.30) and Intensive August (Group B): Aug 15-17 and 20, 21 (9-3.30) executive branches of government. Assessment: class work/test (30%) and 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode
This unit introduces the basic elements of Australia©s income tax (including fringe benefits tax and capital gains tax), with an emphasis on their impact on businesses, whether conducted directly or via a partnership, trust or company. The unit covers the following topics: the main structural features of the tax system; assessability of business revenue; treatment of business expenses; timing rules for revenue and expense recognition; trading forms (companies, partnerships, trusts), capital raising and costs of servicing invested capital; cross-border issues; anti-avoidance rules. The unit is intended for participants who have not undertaken a recent and thorough undergraduate unit (or postgraduate equivalent) in Australian income tax. Participants are primarily from two groups: (a) foreign students who have studied their own domestic tax system and now wish to acquire a detailed knowledge of the operation of the Australian tax system; and (b) Australian graduates in law, commerce, accounting, or other disciplines, who have not previously studied income tax. This unit is suitable as both an entry-level precursor to the more specialised units offered in the Tax Program and as a unit for practitioners and others who do not seek to be tax specialists but want to improve their general understanding of the tax ramifications of commercial operations.
LAWS6879 Japanese Law Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Luke Nottage Session: Intensive February Classes: Intro Class: Jan 29 (5-7) in Sydney then Feb 5-9 in Kyoto and/or Feb 13 and 14 in Tokyo (select 4 days) Assessment: 1000wd reflective notes (2x10%), 6500wd essay (80%) Practical field work: Kyoto (and, with pre-approval, Tokyo), Japan Mode of delivery: Block mode Note: Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For
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lifestyle-related risk factors as the personal responsibility of each Sydney Law School postgraduate individual? Does a regulatory approach to the prevention of NCDs units of study K-O imply coercion? Does it signal the emergence of the ©nanny state©? Does progress depend on motivating people to consciously improve LAWS6071 their habits and lifestyles? Is it possible to regulate business without Labour Law micro-managing or dictating commercial decisions and ©legislating the Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Joellen Riley Session: Intensive recipe for tomato ketchup?© Throughout the unit, students will be March Classes: Intro class: Mar 13 (6-8) then Mar 23, 24 and Apr 6, 7 (9-5) encouraged to explore the tension between personal responsibility Prohibitions: LAWS5146 Assumed knowledge: MLLR students must either and freedom, and the broader public interest in a healthy population have completed or be concurrently enrolled in LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and a productive economy. Key topics include: Frameworks for thinking and the Common Law System (core) as well as this unit before undertaking the labour law elective units Assessment: assignment (20%) and 1.5hr in-semester about law, and environments that support healthier lifestyles; Global exam (80%) Mode of delivery: Block mode health governance and the prevention of non-communicable diseases; Note: The unit is compulsory for students enrolled in the MLLR. However, the Tobacco control: where to from here? Personal responsibility for requirement to take this unit may be waived upon application to the Program health, and law©s role; Regulating alcohol; Obesity prevention; and Coordinator if the student can demonstrate proficiency in the unit objectives Law©s role in improving diet and nutrition, and encouraging active gained through completing a recent undergraduate law unit in labour law or work experience. Credit will not be granted for WORK6116 Employment and living. the Law and completion of this unit will not be sufficient to obtain an exemption from this MLLR compulsory unit. LAWS6932 Law and Investment in Asia The purpose of this unit is to introduce students to the principles of labour law. It is designed specifically for MLLR students who do not Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Simon Butt, Prof Vivienne Bath Session: Intensive May Classes: Apr 13, 14 and 27, 28 (9-5) Assessment: have a law degree or for any students with a law degree who have assignment (30%), 6000wd essay (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode not recently undertaken an undergraduate labour law course. The goal of the unit is to equip students with the fundamental principles The aim of this unit is to provide students with a broad overview, on of labour law that they will need to undertake more advanced labour a comparative basis, of the key legal issues commonly faced when law units within the MLLR and LLM Degrees. It provides an introduction investing and doing business in Asia. This unit looks at the regulation to the contract of employment and the relevant principles governing of investment across chosen jurisdictions across Asia, including Japan, the employment relationship, including termination of employment. It China and Southeast Asia (particularly Indonesia, but it may also look then introduces students to the workplace relations framework at jurisdictions such as Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar and India) and including collective bargaining and industrial conflict; the modern role compares them with each other and with the Australian regulatory of awards and statutory regulation of wages and conditions. system. It also looks at international treaties which increasingly impact on foreign trade and investment regulation in the region; aspects of LAWS6848 corporate governance, contract and/or competition law; corporate Law, Business and Healthy Lifestyles social responsibility and anti-corruption law; dispute resolution Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Roger Magnusson Session: (especially international commercial and investor-state arbitration); Intensive September Classes: Intro Class: Aug 6 (6-8) then Aug 16, 17 and and key issues in modern comparative law which may assist students Sep 13, 14 (9-4.30) Assessment: Option 1: one short response question (20%) in their study of ©foreign© legal systems. The unit also involves case and 6000wd essay (80%) or Option 2: one short response question (20%), studies and occasional guest lecturers. 3000-3500wd essay (40%) and one take-home exam question (40%) or Option 3: one short response question (20%) and two 3000-3500wd essays (80%) Mode of delivery: Block mode LAWS6953 Law of Asset Protection This unit is about legal and regulatory responses to tobacco use, Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof David Chaikin Session: obesity, poor diet, harmful use of alcohol and sedentary lifestyle - the Intensive August Classes: Aug 17, 18 and 24, 25 (8.30-4.30) Assessment: leading causes of preventable disease in Australia, in high-income in-class assessment (30%) and 6000 to 7000wd essay (70%) Mode of delivery: countries generally, and increasingly, in developing economies. Block mode Cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and tobacco-related diseases Asset protection is concerned with the preservation and transmission (known as ©non-communicable diseases© or NCDs) are society©s of property of individuals, families or corporations. It has the broad greatest killers. But what can law do - and what should law be doing purpose of minimising legal, business and political risks, by - to prevent them? Unlike other health threats, NCDs and their risk safeguarding assets from seizure, loss and diminution in value. It is factors are partly caused by consumer choices that are lived out every concerned with the protection of assets from potential creditors, day across the country. The challenge of encouraging healthier government expropriation, excessive taxation and catastrophic loss. lifestyles cannot be separated, then, from the regulation of the It is a vital component of tax advice, wealth management and financial businesses that all too often have a vested interest in unhealthy planning. lifestyles. Law©s relationship with smoking, alcohol and food is complex and contested. Nevertheless, governments around the world are This unit examines the legal aspects of asset protection, from both experimenting with a wide range of legal strategies to encourage Australian and international perspectives. It provides a sound healthier lifestyles. This unit will focus on developments in Australia understanding of the legal techniques and principles of asset and the United States, placing legal developments in these countries protection. The complex interaction between company law, the law in an international context. During the course, we will confront some of trusts and property, tax and estate planning laws, bankruptcy and important over-arching questions. What are the global determinants insolvency laws is analysed. The unit focuses on the laws of a select of NCDs, and to what extent are global solutions needed? What do number of offshore jurisdictions, as well as international trust law. It global solutions look like? To what extent should law intervene to examines the legal impediments and ethics of asset protection. influence the behaviour of populations-as distinct from treating Anti-money laundering rules and the civil and criminal liabilities of trustees and professional advisers are also covered.
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LAWS6047 entering the: Master of Administrative Law and Policy; Master of Law of the Sea Business Law; Master of Environmental Law; Master of Environmental Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Tim Stephens Session: Intensive Science and Law; Master of Health Law; Master of Labour Law and October Classes: Oct 18, 19 and 25, 26 (9-5) Assessment: 5000wd essay Relations as well as Graduate Diplomas offered in these programs. (60%) and take-home exam (40%) Mode of delivery: Block mode The unit has been designed to equip students with the necessary The oceans cover two-thirds of the world©s surface, and are vital to legal skills and legal knowledge to competently apply themselves in international commerce, are a store of important living and non-living their chosen area of law. Instruction will cover the legislative process; resources, and provide indispensable environmental services including the judiciary and specialist tribunals; precedent; court hierarchies; stabilising the global climate system.This unit reviews the major areas legal reasoning; constitutional law; administrative law; contracts; and of the law of the sea as it has developed over the centuries. The unit torts. Some elements of the unit will be tailored in accordance with takes as its focus the ©constitution© of the oceans, the 1982 UN the requirements of the particular specialist programs. Convention on the Law of the Sea and also considers a range of other international conventions and agreements, and current state practice. LAWS6827 Each of the major maritime zones is assessed, and there is also a Legal Responsibility and Philosophy of Mind detailed review of several sectoral issues, including the protection of Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Adj Prof Christopher Birch Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Assessment: class participation the marine environment, fisheries, navigational rights and freedoms, exercise (20%) and 6000wd essay (80%) Mode of delivery: Normal and military uses of the oceans. Where appropriate, reference will be (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening made throughout the unit to relevant Australian law and practice, and to other state practice in the Asia Pacific Region. Many legal doctrines in both criminal and civil law depend upon being able to characterise conduct as intentional, leading to ascriptions of LAWS6928 fault, blame or responsibility. Most serious criminal offences depend Law, Justice and Development upon establishing mens rea as a relevant mental element. Civil liability Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Adj Prof Livingston Armytage Session: is often dependent upon whether conduct was intended, or whether Intensive April Classes: Apr 3, 4 and 23, 24 (9-5) Prohibitions: LAWS3478, the cause of loss was brought about by either intentional conduct or LAWS5178 Assessment: class participation (20%), 2x3000wd essays (2x40%) conduct involving some lesser notion of fault. All of these doctrines Mode of delivery: Block mode make important assumptions about the nature of our mental states Note: This unit is compulsory for MLawIntDev students. and the operation of mind. Many of these assumptions are This unit provides a critical overview to law and justice reform in philosophically controversial and current developments in the international development. It analyses the global reform experience philosophy of mind may lead us to reconsider or radically revise our over the past half-century. It interrogates the nature and justification(s) attitudes to the law. The unit will look at contemporary philosophical of reform ©theory©, studies the empirical evidence of various work on free will consciousness, mind, and causation and apply this approaches, and examines the conceptual/practical challenges of work to present problems in regard to concepts of legal responsibility. evaluating development endeavour, using case studies from the Textbooks Asia/Pacific region. Students enrolling in this unit will develop an Lowe, EJ An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, Cambridge U.P., Cambridge evidence-based understanding of the use of law and justice reform 2000 in broader development strategies. LAWS6944 Market Manipulation and Insider Trading LAWS6149 Legal Pluralism in Southeast Asia Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Greg O©Mahoney Session: Intensive November Classes: Oct 25, 26 and Nov 1, 2 (9-4) Assessment: Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Simon Butt, Assoc Prof Salim class participation (20%), presentation (20%) and 5000wd essay (60%) Mode Farrar Session: Intensive July Classes: Jul 9-13 (Indon) and 16-19 (Malay) of delivery: Block mode Assessment: class participation (10%), take-home exam (40%), 8000wd essay (50%) Practical field work: field school in Indonesia/Malaysia Mode of This unit aims to introduce students to key concepts at the heart of delivery: Block mode capital market regulation focusing on practices that threaten the Note: Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment integrity of global securities markets. The unit focuses on recent instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. developments (including high profile prosecutions for market abuse) in Australia and the United States while selecting other jurisdictions This unit introduces students to the legal systems of Southeast Asia, (most notably China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Europe and Hong focusing on Indonesia and Malaysia. The unit surveys a very wide Kong) that are relevant to the different subjects considered.The topics range of topical legal issues from the region - from human rights and addressed will include: market manipulation, insider trading, development, environmental law, to the practice of commercial law, non-disclosure and fraud-on-the-market, penalties, regulation of hedge including Islamic banking. The unit emphasises legal pluralism - that funds and developments in emerging markets. is, the operation of different bodies of law for particular groups in those countries, colonial, national, Islamic and customary law - and compares LAWS6341 how countries in Southeast Asia have handled it. Media Law: Comparative Perspectives Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof David Rolph Session: Intensive LAWS6252 July Classes: Jul 9, 10 and 12, 13 (9-5) Assessment: 2000wd casenote (30%), Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System 7000wd essay (70%) Practical field work: Sydney Law School in Europe Mode of delivery: Block mode Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Ms Alexandra Fowler Session: Intensive April, Intensive August, Intensive March, Intensive September Classes: Note: Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment S1CIMR (Group A): Mar 5, 6 and 8, 9 (9-5); S1CIAP (Group B): Mar 26, 27 and instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For Apr 9 and 10 (9-5); S2CIAU (Group C): Jul 30, 31 and Aug 2, 3 (9-5); S2CISE further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. (Group D): Aug 20, 21 and Sep 3, 4 (9-5) Prohibitions: LAWS6881 Assessment: in-class test (30%) and take-home exam (70%) Mode of delivery: There are striking similarities and overlaps between Australian and Block mode English media law, reflecting their common origins, but there are also Note: Students are recommended to enrol well in advance of classes in order important differences and divergences. In relation to English media to complete pre-class readings (normally available to enrolled students 3 weeks law, the impact of the United Kingdom©s membership of the European prior to the first class). Law graduates from a non-common law jurisdiction are Union is a significant factor. This unit of study analyses a number of also recommended to complete classes for this unit during the first week of their commencing semester. key issues in media law, ranging from defamation law, privacy and breach of confidence, contempt of court, open justice, suppression This is a compulsory unit for all postgraduate students who do not and non-publication orders and other restrictions on court reporting, hold a law degree or equivalent from a common law jurisdiction as they arise in Australia, the United Kingdom and the European
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Union. In 2016, the unit taught in Cambridge will include guest lectures by leading media law academics, lawyers and commentators from the United Kingdom. Textbooks Rolph, Vitins, Bannister and Joyce, Media Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, 2015
LAWS6821 Mediation - Skills and Theory Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Tania Sourdin, Mr Garth Brown Session: Intensive April, Intensive December Classes: Intensive April (Group A): Apr 6, 7 and 20, 21 (9-5); Intensive December (Group B): Nov 30 and Dec 1, 7 and 8 (9-5) Prohibitions: LAWS6935 Assessment: class and role play participation evidenced by reflective journal (formative assessment) (30%) and 5000wd essay (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode Note: Department permission required for enrolment. Note: Students enrolling in this unit need to commit themselves to attending all classes.The skills learning takes place in class and skills are built incrementally from the beginning to the end of the unit. Students cannot catch up on elements they have missed by doing reading outside class - they must participate in all scheduled sessions. If students have a problem with attendance, they should postpone enrolling or withdraw well in advance of the first class so their place can be offered to the next student. Please note enrolment priority will be given to MLLR students who are currently enrolled at Sydney Law School.
This unit will teach you the fundamental skills and theory of mediation. The skills component of the unit is extensive and is the reason for the limited enrolment. The unit is designed to enable interested students to progress to accreditation as mediators (additional external study with coaching and assessment will be required) and the content of the unit is designed to meet the content requirements of the National Mediator Accreditation System. In particular the content of the subject is designed to explore the competency areas required for accreditation and the knowledge, skills and ethical understanding competency framework set out in the National Mediator Accreditation Standards. However, mediation is not simply a procedural template that can be learned and applied to every dispute with benefit. It raises interesting and complex issues of theory and ethics, which will be integrated with the skills components of the unit. Issues of culture, power, mediator neutrality and ethical dilemmas for the mediator will be considered. Textbooks Tania Sourdin, Alternative Dispute Resolution (5th ed) 2016 Thomson Reuters
LAWS6877 Mental Illness: Law and Policy Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Adj Prof Duncan Chappell Session: Intensive September Classes: Aug 27, 28 and 30, 31 (9-5) Assessment: 3000wd assignment (40%) and 4500wd essay (60%) Mode of delivery: Block mode
This unit deals with the law relating to mental health issues in Australia including human rights principles. Background material on the nature and incidence of mental illness, psychiatric and medical issues, as well criminological and public policy literature will be considered where relevant. The unit covers substantive issues from civil treatment, welfare law, and criminal law. Topics covered will include: the social context of mental illness and the current and historical approaches to treatment of the mentally ill; contemporary State, Territorial and Federal involvement in mental health policy and legislation; the present framework of NSW mental health law and related welfare law including the Mental Health Act, Guardianship Act, Protected Estates Act and Mental Health (Criminal Procedure) Act; the process of scheduling persons with a mental illness; review mechanisms including the roles of the medical superintendent, magistrates, the mental health review tribunal and the Supreme Court; longer term detention of the mentally ill; community treatment and community counselling orders; protected estates and guardianship orders; electroconvulsive therapy; consent to surgery and special medical treatment; the defence of not guilty on the grounds of mental illness, the review of forensic patients and the exercise of the executive discretion; the issue of unfitness to be tried; the involuntary treatment of prisoners in the correctional system; and proposals and options for reform.
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LAWS6956 LAWS6345 Personal Property Securities Principles of Financial Regulation Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Sheelagh McCracken Session: Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Hilary J Allen Session: Intensive June Classes: May 18, 19 and Jun 1, 2 (9-5) Assessment: Intensive May Classes: May 7, 8 and 10, 11 (9-5) Assessment: class assignment (30%) and take-home exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode participation (10%) and take-home exam (90%) Mode of delivery: Block mode
This unit analyses the Personal Property Securities legislation, drawing The financial crisis of 2007-9 revealed serious failings in the regulation attention to how it has changed the pre-existing law regulating the of financial institutions and markets. This prompted a fundamental rights of secured creditors. The unit focuses on the concepts of reconsideration of the design of financial regulation, which governs a security, attachment and perfection. It examines the nature of security financial system that has become ever-more complex and interests regulated by the legislation, together with the registration, interconnected, and which evolves at an ever-accelerating pace. This priority and enforcement regimes. In discussing the Australian position, course presents a holistic overview of the key principles underpinning the unit compares similar legislation in Canada and New Zealand. financial regulation. It draws on economic theory to explain the way in which the financial system functions, and then to analyse the goals LAWS6308 of financial regulation. This analytic framework is then applied to a Philosophy of Law series of substantive topics in financial regulation, spanning the Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Wojciech Sadurski Session: traditionally-separate fields of banking, markets, and consumer finance. Intensive July Classes: Jul 19, 20 and 23-25 Assessment: Pre-class reaction The unit also considers the operation of the new tools of note (20%), class participation (20%) and take-home exam (60%). Attendance ©macro-prudential policy© and the international coordination of financial at all classes is compulsory. Students will not be eligible to submit their exam regulation in the global financial system. While the substantive topics unless they have attended all classes (except in the case of serious illness or misadventure). Practical field work: Sydney Law School in Europe Mode of are considered in terms of EU and US rules, the analytic tools delivery: Block mode developed are of more general application. Topics covered in this Note: Students cannot enrol directly into this unit in Sydney Student. Enrolment unit:The financial system; Goals and challenges of financial regulation; instructions will be provided upon successful pre-enrolment registration. For Consumer finance; Market regulation; Bank capital and liquidity further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/offshore/index.shtml. regulation; Bank governance and resolution; Shadow banking and The main objective of this unit is to provide a critical understanding Macro-prudential and international coordination. Students who of the fundamental principles of legal theory and philosophy of law. complete this unit successfully will have an overview of the economic The unit will discuss, in particular, the concept of law, the notions of principles underpinning financial regulation, to be able to understand obligation, authority, and legitimacy of law; the main theories of legal and critically evaluate the principal substantive aspects of financial interpretation; the special role of the concept of "rights" in legal theory, regulation in the US and EU, as well as their international coordination. and the principles determining the moral limits of legal coercion. LAWS6257 LAWS6197 Public Policy Policing: Crime, Control and Security Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Patricia Apps Session: Intensive September Classes: Sep 5, 6 and 12, 13 (10-5) Prohibitions: LAWS6139 or Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Murray Lee Session: Intensive LAWS6042 or LAWS6113 or LAWS6984 Assessment: 1000wd essay (10%), August Classes: Aug 10, 11 and 24, 25 (9-5) Assessment: class discussion class presentation (10%), 5000-7000wd essay (80%) Mode of delivery: Block leadership (20%), essay (50%), group scenario exercise (30%) Mode of mode delivery: Block mode Note: Core unit for MALP students. This unit critically examines the power relations that are policing (public and private). It recognizes and builds upon the essential and often The aim of the unit is to provide an understanding of the role of problematic role of policing in crime control and security. Major aspects government policy within the analytical framework of welfare of police work and the discretion on which it depends, are analysed economics. Questions of central interest include: What are the in order to understand the dynamics of social control in an age of risk conditions that justify government intervention? How can policies be and security. designed to support basic principles of social justice? What kinds of reforms promote economic efficiency? Applications will range from LAWS6065 taxation and social security to environmental regulation and protection, Pollution, Corporate Liability and Govern and will cover the following specific topics: The structure of the Australian tax-benefit system; Uncertainty and social insurance; Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Rosemary Lyster, Dr Kate Owens, Dr Gerry Bates Session: Intensive May Classes: May 18, 19 and 25, 26 (9-5) Unemployment, health and retirement income insurance; Externalities, Assessment: class participation (10%) and 8000wd essay (90%) Mode of environmental taxes and tradeable permits; Monopoly and delivery: Block mode environmental regulation; Utility pricing and access problems; Cost Note: This unit replaced LAWS6065 Pollution and Contaminated Land. benefit analysis, intergenerational equity and growth. The unit will The aim of the unit of study is to provide an introduction to the provide an overview of the main empirical methodologies used in framework, concepts, sources and techniques of pollution control law evaluating policy reforms in these areas. Students may select to and corporate environmental liability. The history and framework of specialise in one or more of the policy areas. international laws regulating pollution will be examined before exploring a range of legal and regulatory measures for pollution control and corporate environmental liability at both the Commonwealth level and within New South Wales. An overarching theme will be the need for
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LAWS6194 co-regulation of financial products markets, including the role and Punishment powers of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Gail Mason Session: Intensive Australian Securities Exchange Limited and other market operators; April Classes: Mar 23, 24 and Apr 20, 21 (9-5) Assessment: assignment the licensing of financial services professionals; the conduct of (30%), 5000wd essay (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode securities business, including the legal structure of securities exchange The objective of this unit is to explore punishment, sentencing and transactions and the incidents of the broker-client relationship; and penalty in modern society, particularly through an understanding of abusive trading on financial products markets, including market the relationship between punishment and social structure and the manipulation and insider trading. significance of punishment within the social and political order. The unit will adopt an interdisciplinary approach which draws on history, LAWS6957 law, literature, sociology and criminology.Topics which will be covered Shareholders© Remedies include new sentencing regimes (such as mandatory sentencing), Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Adj Prof Elizabeth Boros Session: Intensive January Classes: Jan 15, 16 and 18, 19 (9-4) Assumed knowledge: women in prison, juvenile imprisonment, inequality and punishment, This is a fairly technical unit which focuses on Australian Law, and a good privatisation, immigration detention and various new forms of working knowledge of corporate law is assumed. Assessment: in-class test on involuntary confinement, and the impact of law and order politics on the final day of class (20%) and 6400wd essay (80%) Mode of delivery: Block punishment. mode The unit objectives are: Examine the common problems experienced LAWS6317 by members of various types of company; Understand strategies for Regulation of Corporate Crime preventing or remedying those problems without recourse to litigation; Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Olivia Dixon Session: Intensive Understand the litigious remedies available to combat those problems; April Classes: Apr 5, 6 and 12, 13 (9-4) Assessment: class participation (10%), 2500wd case study (35%), 5500wd essay (55%) Mode of delivery: Block and Explore likely trends for future development of the law. The unit mode examines shareholders© remedies, exploring both litigious and Note: It is recommended that students have some knowledge of corporate law non-litigious remedies. Litigious remedies include: class actions and and criminal law and procedure, or have had practical experience in these areas. recent developments in derivative litigation, as well as oppression, winding up, alteration of the constitution, dilution of equity stakes and This unit will examine, from a comparative (particularly United States compulsory acquisition of minority shareholdings. Non-litigious and United Kingdom) perspective, the current debates over the remedies include: the role of advance planning, drafting issues in regulation of corporate crime from both legal and policy perspectives. relation to shareholders© agreements and constitutional provisions, Different theoretical perspectives on the nature and causes of and the scope for activism by institutional and retail shareholders in corporate crime, and the role of the state in regulating corporate listed public companies. behaviour will be examined, with a view to determining the reasons for the failure of the criminal justice and regulatory systems to respond LAWS6008 to corporate crime. The role of criminal, civil and regulatory sanctions Takeovers and Reconstructions in deterring corporate crime will also be examined. Offenses covered Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Robert P Austin Session: Semester will include fraud, bribery, corruption, money laundering, revenue 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Assumed knowledge: There are no offenses, competition law offenses, corporate manslaughter and prerequisite enrolment requirements. But students will be required to read and various offenses under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). With this comprehend some technical material, including court judgments, Panel reasons foundation, students will be encouraged to think critically and to apply for decisions, regulatory papers and academic literature. Assessment: 2 x class assignments (total 20%) and final assignment (80%) Mode of delivery: the principles they have learned to case studies. Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening
LAWS6888 This unit considers the Australian law and regulatory policies governing Risk, Fear and Insecurity corporate control transactions. We examine the requirements for a Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Murray Lee Session: Intensive successful acquisition by a bidder of 100% of the issued securities of May Classes: Apr 13, 14 and 27, 28 (9-5) Assessment: topic summary a target corporation; why 100% ownership of the target is desirable; (compulsory but not assessed) and 3000wd essay (40%) and 4000wd policy and how to achieve it if the bid falls short. We consider regulated assessment assignment (60%) Mode of delivery: Block mode takeover bids under Chapter 6 of the Corporations Act, and the This unit considers the significance of anxiety, ©fear of crime©, risk and available alternatives to a regulated bid, including members© schemes insecurity in the late modern world. It uses sophisticated analytical of arrangement and other control-affecting transactions such as tools to discuss both the supposed growth in ©fear of crime© and the selective reductions of capital and share buy-backs. We also look at emergence of an array of technologies aimed at the reduction of crime corporate control transactions from the target©s point of view, risks. It also critically examines just what ©fear of crime© might actually considering the available defensive measures and how the law and be and how newspapers, security products, and insurance can be regulatory policy impose limits on defensive strategies.We review the sold to us using the hook of our own anxieties. It also examines the respective roles of the Takeovers Panel and courts. A special feature anxieties related to terrorism and threats to national security and of this unit is the extensive experience in corporate control transactions sovereignty. that our team of lecturers will bring to the classroom, overseen by Dr Textbooks Austin, a barrister and retired judge who is Challis Lecturer in Lee, M (2007) Inventing Fear of Crime, Willan, Devon Corporate Law.
LAWS6247 LAWS6965 Securities and Markets Regulation Tax Avoidance and Anti-Avoidance Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Adj Prof Justice Ashley Black Session: Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Graeme Cooper Session: Intensive February Classes: Jan 22-25 and 29 (2-6) and Jan 30 (11-6) Intensive April Classes: Apr 11-13 and 16, 17 (9-3.30) Assumed knowledge: Assumed knowledge: Students should hold a law degree with good background It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of in Australian corporate law. Assessment: class participation (10%) and 7000wd Australian income taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained essay (90%) Mode of delivery: Block mode from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry This unit examines the structure and regulation of markets for financial role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such products, with particular emphasis on corporate securities. The study knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. Assessment: is primarily a legal analysis, but also explores some financial theory 2500wd class assignment (30%) and 2hr exam or 7000wd essay (70%) Mode relevant to legal response to market operation. Particular topics of delivery: Block mode covered include: structures, institutions and participants in Australian financial products markets and current developments in such markets;
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This unit examines the pervasive phenomenon of tax avoidance, and This unit will cover the following topics: issues in business financing, the design (and effectiveness) of common judicial and legislative including asset leasing; tax issues related to the use and development responses to it. The unit starts by deconstructing typical examples of of land and buildings; the treatment of ©black hole© expenses; tax avoidance to elicit the common design features of avoidance practices. accounting for income, expenses and profits; and specific and general We will also examine the inter-relationship between the process of anti-avoidance rules. This unit can be taken alone or in conjunction statutory interpretation and the opportunities for avoidance. A particular with LAWS6840 Tax of Business and Investment Income A. focus of the unit will be on the scope and operation of Australia©s general anti-avoidance rule (Part IVA), but the unit will also consider LAWS6125 the various judicial anti-avoidance doctrines and some of the specific Taxation of Corporate Finance anti-avoidance rules found in Australia©s tax legislation. The unit will Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Paul O©Donnell Session: Semester also consider the kinds of approaches to tax avoidance and the 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Assumed knowledge: It is assumed that anti-avoidance regimes employed in other countries. Finally, the unit students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing will examine some of the procedural regimes used to curb the offering undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with of tax avoidance products to taxpayers. Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or LAWS6840 work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax and LAWS6030 Corporate Taxation before enrolling in this unit. Tax of Business and Investment Income A Assessment: classwork (30%) and 2hr exam or 7000wd essay (70%) Mode Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Michael Dirkis Session: Intensive of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening March, Semester 1, Semester 1a Classes: Session S1C: 1x2-hr lecture/week. All classes scheduled from 8am-10am. First class starts on Feb 28. Assumed This advanced unit will analyse the current law on the tax treatment knowledge: It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an of the principal forms of raising corporate finance from sources both understanding of Australian income taxation law commensurate with that which in Australia and offshore, in Australian and foreign currencies, and of would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice hedging the various exposures that a taxpayer may have from of its in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not fund-raising and investments. The unit will consider the taxpayer©s have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 position both within and outside the TOFA regime. Common forms of Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. Assessment: innovative financial instruments will be examined, including debt, class work (30%) and 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day equity and hybrid instruments, forward and futures contracts, derivative instruments, and various asset-based forms of corporate financing. This unit, along with LAWS6841 Taxation of Business and Investment Selected non-resident withholding tax issues will be examined. Income B, is designed to provide an advanced study of the tax treatment of various important business transactions. It provides a LAWS6244 detailed examination of the income tax and capital gains treatment of Taxation of Corporate Groups selected complex commercial transactions and their impact on the Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Richard Vann Session: Intensive tax base. The goal of the unit is to develop an understanding of the August Classes: Aug 15-17 and 20, 21 (9-3.30) Assumed knowledge: It is policies, detailed rules and current practical problems involved in this assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian area of taxation, through the analysis of a number of specific problems income taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working discussed in each seminar. Because of continual change to the with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in taxation system, recent legislative amendments and judicial decisions the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge will be examined in detail where applicable. The unit will cover the or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to following topics: core income and expense rules and operational Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. Assessment: classwork (30%) and 2hr exam or 7000wd essay (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode concepts underlying the income tax system; treatment of realised business income and the differentiation of capital gains; treatment of The object of this unit is to examine the policy and practical issues business expenses and the differentiation of expenses recoverable that arise in the tax consolidation regime in Australia.The unit covers: under depreciation, CGT or not at all; issues in the treatment of trading policy and history of grouping and consolidation; entry into stock; issues in the tax treatment of the costs (and revenues) consolidation; effects of consolidation; exit from consolidation; losses associated with business equipment and intangibles. This unit can be and bad debts in consolidation; and international rules in consolidation taken alone or in conjunction with LAWS6841 Taxation of Business including MEC groups. and Investment Income B. LAWS6129 LAWS6841 Taxation of Offshore Operations Tax of Business and Investment Income B Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Graeme Cooper Session: Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr Micah Burch Session: Intensive Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Assumed knowledge: It is assumed August, Semester 2, Semester 2a Classes: Session S2C: 1x2-hr lecture/week. that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income First class starts on Jul 24, 6-8pm. Assumed knowledge: It is assumed that taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. Assessment: class work (30%) and or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening, Normal successfully completing this unit. Assessment: assignment (30%) and 2hr (lecture/lab/tutorial) day exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) evening
This unit, along with LAWS6840 Tax of Business and Investment This unit examines Australia¿s rules for taxing the income earned Income A, is designed to provide an advanced study of the income from offshore operations.The unit examines the taxation of conducting and capital gains tax treatment of various complex commercial business and holding investments offshore through foreign branches, transactions. The goal of this unit is to develop an understanding of companies, trusts, partnerships, and hybrid entities. It also examines the policies, detailed rules and current practical problems involved in the repatriation of profits from these entities, the treatment of the cost this area of taxation, through the analysis of a number of specific of financing these operations and the consequences of offshore problems that will be discussed in the seminars. Because of continual reorganisations and relocations. The unit examines in detail change to the taxation system, recent legislative amendments and Australia¿s CFC rules, transferor trust regime, the FITO regime, thin judicial decisions will be examined in detail where applicable. capitalisation rules and foreign hybrid rules.
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LAWS6118 assists in successfully completing this unit. Assessment: classwork (30%) and Taxation of Partnerships and Trusts 2hr exam or 7000wd essay (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Richard Vann Session: Semester This unit is designed to study the policy, detailed rules and practical 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Assumed knowledge: It is assumed that application of Australia©s international tax treaties against the students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing background of the OECD Model Tax Convention on Income and on undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Capital. Upon successful completion of this unit a student should have Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the an advanced understanding of the policies underlying the Australian Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or tax treaty position in relation to the taxation of various kinds of income, work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. Assessment: in-class assessment as well as a detailed knowledge of the law applicable to interpretation (30%) and 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) of Australia©s treaties. The unit includes a study of: principles of tax evening treaties; interpretation of tax treaties; and selected articles of the The objective of this unit is to examine the policy and practical issues OECD Model and Australian tax treaties. that arise in Australia for the taxation of income derived through LAWS6946 partnerships and trusts which are generally transparent for tax Tax Treaties Special Issues purposes. The focus of the course is twofold. First, it looks at the use of these vehicles by small business and in the case of trusts by high Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Richard Vann Session: Intensive October Classes: Oct 17-19 and 22, 23 (9-3.30) Prerequisites: LAWS6177 wealth individuals. Secondly it looks at the use of these (and other Assessment: 3000wd essay (30%) and 2hr exam or 7000wd essay (70%) effectively tax-transparent) vehicles for collective investment. Given Mode of delivery: Block mode the recent focus by the government on rewriting the existing rules and developing new vehicles for collective investment, and the failure over This advanced unit of study considers a number of specialised topics many years to rewrite the rules for small business tax-transparent in the area of tax treaties, largely reflecting the work of the OECD and entities, the main emphasis of the unit will be on the recent and United Nations on tax treaties currently and in the last decade, on-going developments in relation to collective investment. The goals particularly the OECD/G20 project on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting of the unit are to develop a detailed understanding of the policies, (BEPS). Topics covered include a selection of: OECD and UN policy technical rules and practical problems involved in the taxation of development processes, permanent establishment, high value services partnerships and trusts. Upon successful completion of this unit, and the digital economy, transfer pricing, harmful tax practices, treaty students should have an advanced understanding of the technical abuse, non-discrimination, entities and tax treaties (especially rules underlying the taxation of partnerships and trusts in a variety of partnerships and collective investment vehicles), transparency and forms and in a variety of commercial situations. The unit covers: assistance in collection, dispute resolution, BEPS multilateral problems of taxing entities (partnerships and trusts contrasted with instrument. The goal of this unit is to provide in depth analysis of the companies); classification of entities for tax purposes; taxation of policy and practical issues in recent tax treaty developments. Upon partners and trust beneficiaries in a small business/high wealth context; completion of this unit, students will have a detailed understanding of taxation of collective investment vehicles mainly in the form of trusts the current driving forces and issues in the development of tax treaties and partnerships, including AMITs and MITs, public trading trusts, and other international tax standards. LPs, venture capital, foreign hybrids, listed investment companies LAWS6338 and investment manager regime. The Nature of the Common Law LAWS6336 Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Michael Sevel Session: Intensive May Classes: May 11, 12 and 18, 19 (9-5) Assessment: assignment (20%) Taxation of Real Property Transactions and 7000wd essay (80%) or 8000wd essay (100%) Mode of delivery: Block Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Rebecca Millar Session: Intensive mode October Classes: Oct 10-12 and 15, 16 (9-4) Assumed knowledge: Students should have completed LAWS6214 Goods and Services Tax Principles A and The common law is an essential part of the Australian legal system, at least one unit in Australian income tax (LAWS6825, LAWS6840 or LAWS6841) as well as many others around the world. This unit of study examines before enrolling in this unit. Those with a solid working knowledge of both taxes the nature of the common law from the point of view of jurisprudence. may not need to meet this requirement. If in doubt, please contact the unit coordinator for advice. Assessment: class work (35%), 2hr exam or 7000wd We will begin with a survey of the classic Common Law Theories essay (65%) Mode of delivery: Block mode developed in England during the seventeenth century; from there, a variety of problems surrounding the common law which these theories This unit will exam they key aspects of the application of taxes to real made salient, and which still puzzle us today, will be examined.Topics property transactions. The unit will commence with an introduction to include: the nature and authority of precedent, the distinctiveness of the tax policy considerations relevant to the taxation of real property. legal reasoning, the nature and questions surrounding the validity of The application of taxes to real property transactions will then be customary law, the relation between the common law and the ideal considered. In addition to focussing on the acquisition, development, of the rule of law, among others. sale, and leasing of real property, the unit will consider tax issues for the development of commercial, residential, hotel/serviced apartment LAWS6119 complexes, and retirement villages. Practical case studies will be used The State and Global Governance to draw out the impact of income tax, GST, stamp duty (primarily Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Jacqueline Mowbray NSW), and land tax on real property transactions. Session: Intensive May Classes: Apr 19, 20 and May 3, 4 (9-5) Assessment: Textbooks 1000-2000wd critique of a selected reading (25%), 250wd essay abstract and Thomson Reuters Fundamental Tax Legislation 2018 or equivalent one page reading list (10%) and 5000-6000wd essay (65%) Mode of delivery: Block mode LAWS6177 Note: Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective or capstone unit. Tax Treaties Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Richard Vann Session: Intensive How will Donald Trump©s presidency affect international law and May Classes: Apr 26, 27 and Apr 30, May 1 (9-5) Assumed knowledge: It is international relations? How do non-state actors like Islamic State assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian challenge the existing international order? How do we respond to income taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working international health emergencies, such as the outbreaks of the Zika with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in and Ebola viruses? These questions all raise issues of global the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge governance, that is, how international affairs are governed on a global or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to scale. They also raise questions about the roles and capacities of Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such individual states within the global order.This unit explores how current knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will systems of global governance operate, the place of states within those
222 Units of study P-T systems, and the significance of law to those systems. In doing so, the unit introduces students to a range of historical and contemporary approaches to understanding the role of law in international affairs, and gives students an opportunity to consider these in relation to current events of global import. The sorts of questions with which the unit is concerned may include the following: Are systems of global governance lawful? Are they democratic? What is the role of violence in the contemporary global order? How does/should international law seek to address pressing transnational issues, such as poverty, environmental degradation, global health threats and human rights abuses?
LAWS6316 Theories of the Judiciary Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Michael Sevel Session: Intensive June Classes: Jun 1, 2 and 8, 9 (9-5) Assessment: class presentation (20%) and 7500wd essay (80%) Mode of delivery: Block mode
The judge has long been an important legal actor in common law countries, but over the past several decades, there has been a rise in judicial power globally, with the proliferation of constitutional courts and the strengthening of judiciaries in countries around the world. This seminar will consider views in jurisprudence which examines the judge, the activity of judging, and the proper role of the judiciary within a legal system and a just society more generally. Among the goals of the seminar are to determine the nature of judicial obligation, how judges ought to decide cases, the arguments for and against judicial review, the role of the judiciary in establishing and maintaining the rule of law, and the relation between the business of courts, politics, and morality.
LAWS6123 Transfer Pricing in International Tax Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Ms Melissa Ogier Session: Intensive June Classes: May 23-25 and 28, 29 (9-3.30) Assumed knowledge: It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have an understanding of Australian income taxation law commensurate with that which would be obtained from completing undergraduate study in Australian taxation law or five years working with Australian tax law in a law or accounting practice in an industry role or in the Australian Taxation Office. For students who do not have such knowledge or work experience they first should undertake LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax before enrolling in this unit. The Completion of LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation will provide students, without such knowledge or work experience, with additional knowledge and skills that will assists in successfully completing this unit. Assessment: 3000wd assignment (30%) and 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode
The unit examines transfer pricing law and practice in Australia and globally. Transfer pricing continues to be rated by tax directors as the number one international tax issue they face. The release of the revised OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations in 2010 and the ongoing projects, the rewrite of the Australian transfer pricing legislation, and the substantial transfer pricing rulings program of the Australian Taxation Office, have together significantly increased the international and Australian materials available on the law and practice in transfer pricing. Students will gain an understanding of the policy, and detailed application of transfer pricing rules within Australia and an understanding of the international framework.
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behind the US taxation of international transactions as well as the Sydney Law School postgraduate rules and principles of income tax law applicable to inbound and units of study - U-Z outbound transactions in the US.
LAWS6109 LAWS6096 UK International Taxation Work Health and Safety: Law and Policy Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Malcolm Gammie Session: Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Richard Johnstone Session: Intensive September Classes: Sep 5-7 and 10, 11 (9-3.30) Assumed Intensive May Classes: May 18, 19 and 25, 26 (9-5) Assumed knowledge: knowledge: It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully LAWS6252 or a law degree and LAWS6071 (MLLR students) Assessment: completed an undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. Assessment: class participation (10%), 3000wd essay (40%) and assignment (50%) Mode take-home exam or 7000wd essay (100%) Mode of delivery: Block mode of delivery: Block mode
This unit covers the domestic provisions of UK direct tax law dealing This unit of study is on work health and safety law and practice. Its with international transactions, as well as UK treaties and the impact main focus is on the role of law in preventing disease, injury and death of EU law on the UK tax system. The UK remains one of Australia©s at work, principally by focusing on the Work Health and Safety Act major trading partners. UK taxation thus has significant effects for 2011 (NSW), the relevant case law, and the enforcement of the Act. inbound and outbound investment between Australia and the UK.This The Work Health and Safety Act 2011 will be placed in its broader unit will be of interest to tax professionals who have dealings with the context, including the extent of injury and disease at work, the UK. The objective of the unit is to provide an overview of the UK tax principles of work health and safety management, changing work system focusing on cross-border investment and expatriate arrangements, the history of work health and safety regulation and employment issues and a detailed analysis of the most important broader principles of regulatory theory. Regulatory provisions legislative and treaty rules of the UK in the international direct tax governing health and safety in the mining, transport and clothing, area, especially in dealings with Australia. Upon successful completion textile and footwear industries will also briefly be examined. of the unit, participants will have an advanced understanding of the policies of the UK rules for taxing international transactions as well LAWS6305 as a detailed knowledge of the principles of company and personal Workplace Investigations taxation applicable to inbound and outbound transactions in the UK. Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Ms Kate Petersen Session: Intensive The unit includes a study of: 1. Overview of the UK tax system; 2. October Classes: Intro Class: Sep 25 (6-8) then Oct 5, 6 and 26, 27 (9-5) Assumed knowledge: LAWS6252 or a law degree and LAWS6071 Labour Taxation of inbound investment in the UK; 3. Taxation of outbound Law (MLLR students) Assessment: class participation (15%), class presentation investment in the UK; 4. Transfer pricing in the UK; 5. UK tax treaties (15%) and assignment (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode including the Australia UK Tax Treaty; 6. EU tax law as it affects the Note: Department permission required for enrolment. Note: This unit has a UK. restricted class size. Please note enrolment priority will be given to MLLR students who are currently enrolled at Sydney Law School.
LAWS6844 Lawyers and HR/IR practitioners are increasingly required to deal with US Corporate Law complaints of sexual harassment, bullying and discrimination, and Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Jennifer Hill Session: Intensive address suspected misconduct such as Code of Conduct breaches, May Classes: Apr 26, 27 and May 3, 4 (9-4) Assessment: class participation fraud/theft, and safety and other breaches. In order to take, and if (10%) and quiz (20%) and essay or take-home exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode necessary defend, disciplinary and other action, a proper factual and legal foundation must be established, through a workplace The objectives of this unit are: understand the history, structure and investigation.We also specifically consider how concepts of ©procedural operation of US corporate law and corporate governance; to examine fairness© and ©natural justice© impact a workplace investigation. The the common law, statutory provisions; and to explore the tension unit explores the various stages of a workplace investigation, including: between state and federal law, including recent regulatory (1) establishing the scope of the investigation and particularizing the developments under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002 and the Dodd-Frank alleged complaint or misconduct; (2) conducting interviews and Act 2010. Specific issues discussed in the course include the "race gathering other information; (3) managing participants, including stand to the bottom" vs "race to the top" hypotheses; the US approach to down/suspension; (4) evaluating information and making findings veil-piercing; the governance role of shareholders under US law; applying the relevant standard of proof and legal test(s); and (5) directors© duties, including the duty of care and the duty of loyalty; the implementing investigation findings. operation of the business judgment rule; derivative litigation; the law relating to closely held corporations; judicial review of tender offer LAWS6063 defences. World Trade Organization Law I Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Brett Williams Session: Intensive LAWS6171 September Classes: Aug 24, 25 and Sep 21, 22 (9-5.30) Prohibitions: US International Taxation LAWS3439 or LAWS5139 Assumed knowledge: limited knowledge of law of treaties Assessment: 3000 to 3500wd essay (40%) and take-home exam Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Ethan Yale Session: Intensive (60%) Mode of delivery: Block mode May Classes: May 9-11 and 14, 15 (9-3.30) Assumed knowledge: It is assumed that students undertaking this unit have successfully completed an This unit is a comprehensive introduction to the law of the World Trade undergraduate/postgraduate unit of study in tax law. Assessment: in-class assessment (30%) and 2hr exam (70%) Mode of delivery: Block mode Organization (WTO) and to the context of economics and politics within which the law operates. It also offers some comparisons with The object of this unit is to provide an overview of the income tax regulation under bilateral and regional trade agreements. It can be system of the US with a focus on the most important legislative and taken as either a stand-alone introduction to WTO law or to acquire treaty rules of the US in the international income tax area, especially a solid basis for further study of WTO law. (Students may wish to in dealings with Australia. The unit will examine both the policies continue on to take LAWS6249 World Trade Organization Law II which
For internal use by University of Sydney staff only. 225 Units of study U-Z builds upon the knowledge gained in this unit and considers some additional topics of WTO law.) The introductory topic considers the functions of the WTO through the consideration of some basic economics of trade and of public choice. We review the history of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the creation of the Agreement Establishing the WTO ending with a review of the institutions of the WTO and of the framework of rules applying under the GATT (and comparing with some bilateral and regional trade agreements). There follows a detailed study of the WTO dispute settlement system, under the WTO Understanding on Dispute Settlement, its concepts, procedures and enforcement. We study the framework of rules under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and compare it with the negative list approach used under some bilateral and regional trade agreements; and the rules of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS), emphasizing patents, copyright and trademarks, and noting some TRIPS plus aspects of some bilateral and regional trade agreements. The unit analyses in more detail some of the fundamental rules of the GATT: rules on tariff bindings and customs duties, national treatment, non-tariff barriers, the MFN rule on non-discrimination and an introduction to the rules on subsidies. We conclude with a synopsis of WTO developments to the present day. This unit is assessed in two ways: an essay on the object and function of the WTO system and its dispute settlement system; and an exam requiring students to apply the basic rules of the GATT, GATS and TRIPS to fact situations.
LAWS6192 Young People, Crime and the Law Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Garner Clancey, Prof Murray Lee Session: Intensive October Classes: Oct 5, 6 and 19, 20 (9-5) Prohibitions: LAWS6069 Assessment: class presentation (10%), 3000wd essay (40%) and take-home exam (50%) Mode of delivery: Block mode
The unit aims to provide a broad overview of the functioning of the juvenile justice system and its relationship to juvenile offending.There is a specific emphasis on NSW in terms of understanding the operation of a particular system, however reference is frequently made to the wider Australian and international context. The unit analyses the historical development of a separate system of juvenile justice and the system of ideas about juvenile delinquency as distinct entities separable from broader notions of criminality and criminal justice.The unit also analyses the contemporary nature of juvenile crime and specific issues in relation to offending, policing, community-based corrections and detention centres. Social relations which mediate between the juvenile justice system and young people will be investigated through a focus on gender, race and class. The broader political determinants surrounding the operation of the juvenile justice system and moral panics in relation to juvenile offending will also be examined. The unit aims to develop a critical understanding of the link between theory and juvenile justice policy, and to develop an appreciation of the multi-disciplinary nature of criminological explanation.
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C J CISS6001 New Security Challenges, 150 JURS6018 Constitutional Theory, 107, 107, 159, 159, CISS6002 Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific, 150 161, 161 JURS6019 Freedom of Speech, 137, 159, 161, 174, 180, CISS6004 Health and Security, 150 207 CISS6006 Statebuilding and ©Fragile States©, 150 JURS6034 Jurisprudence Research Project A, 159, 159 CISS6012 Civil-Military Relations, 149 JURS6035 Jurisprudence Research Project B, 159, 159 CISS6013 Middle East Conflict and Security, 150 L CISS6016 Chinese Foreign and Security Policy, 149 CISS6018 Nuclear Arms Control and Non-proliferation, LAWS1006 Foundations of Law, 12, 12, 16, 16, 20, 20, 150 25, 25, 28, 28, 29, 29, 32, 32 CISS6019 War and Strategy, 150 LAWS1012 Torts, 29, 29, 34, 34 CISS6022 Cybersecurity, 150 LAWS1013 Legal Research I, 29, 29, 32, 32 LAWS1014 Civil and Criminal Procedure, 29, 29, 31, 31 D LAWS1015 Contracts, 29, 29, 31, 31 DVST6901 Development: Civil Society and Wellbeing, LAWS1016 Criminal Law, 29, 29, 31, 31 167, 169 DVST6904 Rethinking Poverty, 167 LAWS1017 Torts and Contracts II, 29, 29, 34, 34 LAWS1019 Legal Research II, 29, 29, 33, 33 E LAWS1021 Public Law, 29, 29, 33, 33 ECOP6015 Global Employment and Migration, 166 LAWS1023 Public International Law, 29, 29, 33, 33, 40, ECOP6101 Core Concepts in Political Economy, 166 40, 77, 77 G LAWS2010 Administrative Law, 29, 29, 31, 31 LAWS2011 Federal Constitutional Law, 29, 29, 32, 32 GOVT6108 Democracy, Development and Rights in SE Asia, 149 LAWS2012 Intro to Property and Commercial Law, 29, 29, 32, 32 GOVT6111 Chinese Politics, 149 LAWS2013 The Legal Profession, 29, 29, 33, 33 GOVT6116 International Organisations, 149 LAWS2014 Corporations Law, 29, 29, 31, 31 GOVT6119 International Security, 149 LAWS2015 Equity, 29, 29, 32, 32 GOVT6121 Northeast Asian Politics, 149 LAWS2016 Evidence, 29, 29, 32, 32 GOVT6123 Globalisation and Governance, 108, 149 LAWS2017 Real Property, 29, 29, 33, 33 GOVT6135 Global Environmental Politics, 108, 149 LAWS2018 Private International Law A, 29, 29, 33, 33 GOVT6136 Asia Pacific Politics, 149 LAWS3044 Law International Exchange Electives, 36, GOVT6137 Forces of Change in Int Relations, 149 36, 45, 45 GOVT6147 Foundations of International Relations, 149 LAWS3068 Chinese Laws and Chinese Legal Systems, GOVT6150 Challenges of Democratic Politics, 108, 149 35, 35, 40, 40 GOVT6156 Governance and Civil Society, 108, 149 LAWS3401 Advanced Constitutional Law, 35, 39 GOVT6225 Essential Readings in Int©l Relations, 149 LAWS3402 Advanced Contracts, 35, 39 GOVT6301 Public Sector Ethics and Corruption, 108, LAWS3403 Advanced Corporate Law, 35, 39 149 LAWS3404 Advanced Criminal Law, 35, 35, 39, 39 GOVT6304 Development and World Politics, 149 LAWS3408 Advanced Public International Law, 35, 39 GOVT6313 Leadership in Theory and Practice, 108, 149 LAWS3409 Advanced Taxation Law, 35, 35, 40, 40 GOVT6316 Policy Making, Power and Politics, 107, 108, LAWS3411 Anti-Discrimination Law, 35, 40 149 LAWS3412 Australian Income Tax, 35, 35, 40, 40 GOVT6319 Governance and Public Policy Making, 108, 149 LAWS3413 Banking and Financial Instruments, 35, 35, 40, 40 GOVT6331 Public Management and Governance, 108, 149 LAWS3417 Commercial Land Law, 35, 40 GOVT6357 International Policy Making, 108, 149 LAWS3419 Competition Law, 35, 35, 41, 41 GOVT6358 Comparative Migration Policy, 108 LAWS3422 Contract and Equity in Land Dealings, 35, 35, 41, 41 GSOG6002 Public Sector Leadership, 169 LAWS3426 Criminology, 35, 35, 41, 41 H LAWS3428 Media Law: Defamation and Privacy, 36, 36, HRTD6906 The Philosophy of Human Rights, 159 45, 45 LAWS3430 Environmental Law, 35, 35, 42, 42 I LAWS3431 Social Justice Legal Clinic B, 36, 47 INFS5001 Project Management, 168 LAWS3432 Family Law, 35, 35, 42, 42
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LAWS3434 International Human Rights Law, 36, 36, 43, LAWS5007 Public Law, 69, 69, 70, 70, 73, 73 43 LAWS5008 Intro to Property and Commercial Law, 69, LAWS3435 Indigenous Peoples and Public Law, 35, 42 69, 70, 70, 72, 72 LAWS3437 International Commercial Arbitration, 35, 35, LAWS5009 The Legal Profession, 69, 69, 70, 70, 73, 73 43, 43 LAWS5010 Administrative Law, 69, 69, 70, 70, 71, 71 LAWS3438 International Commercial Transactions, 35, LAWS5011 Federal Constitutional Law, 69, 69, 70, 70, 35, 43, 43 72, 72 LAWS3441 Introduction to Islamic Law, 36, 36, 2013, 2013 LAWS5012 Real Property, 69, 69, 70, 70, 73, 73 LAWS3443 Interpretation, 36, 36, 43, 43 LAWS5013 Evidence, 69, 69, 70, 70, 72, 72 LAWS3444 Japanese Law, 36, 36, 2013, 2013 LAWS5014 Corporations Law, 69, 69, 70, 70, 71, 71 LAWS3445 Insolvency Law, 35, 35, 42, 42 LAWS5015 Equity, 69, 69, 70, 70, 72, 72 LAWS5017 Private International Law A, 69, 69, 70, 70, LAWS3446 Labour Law, 36, 2013 73, 73 LAWS3447 Law and Economics, 38, 38, 56, 56 LAWS5018 Legal Research, 69, 72 LAWS3452 Medical Law, 36, 36, 45, 45 LAWS5101 Advanced Constitutional Law, 87, 89 LAWS3454 Philosophy of Law, 38, 38, 57, 57 LAWS5102 Advanced Contracts, 87, 89 LAWS3455 Policing, Crime and Society, 36, 36, 46, 46 LAWS5103 Advanced Corporate Law, 87, 89 LAWS3457 Private International Law B, 36, 36, 46, 46 LAWS5104 Advanced Criminal Law, 87, 87, 89, 89 LAWS3460 Roman Law, 36, 36, 46, 46 LAWS5108 Advanced Public International Law, 75, 77 LAWS3461 Social Justice Legal Clinic A, 36, 47 LAWS5109 Advanced Taxation Law, 87, 87, 89, 89 LAWS3462 Sociological Theories of Law, 57, 57 LAWS5111 Anti-Discrimination Law, 87, 90 LAWS3465 Sydney Law Review, 36, 36, 47, 47 LAWS5112 Australian Income Tax, 87, 87, 90, 90 LAWS3468 Theories of Justice, 38, 58 LAWS5113 Banking and Financial Instruments, 87, 87, LAWS3469 Theories of Law, 38, 58 90, 90 LAWS3471 Theories of Conscientious Obedience, 38, LAWS5117 Commercial Land Law, 87, 90 38, 58, 58 LAWS5119 Competition Law, 87, 87, 90, 90 LAWS3475 Philosophy of International Law, 38, 38, 57, LAWS5122 Contract and Equity in Land Dealings, 87, 57 87, 90, 90 LAWS3478 Development, Law and Human Rights, 35, 35, 41, 41 LAWS5126 Criminology, 87, 87, 91, 91 LAWS3479 IP: Trademarks and Patents, 36, 36, 2013, LAWS5128 Media Law: Defamation and Privacy, 88, 88, 2013 93, 93 LAWS3480 IP: Copyright and Designs, 36, 36, 2013, LAWS5130 Environmental Law, 87, 87, 91, 91 2013 LAWS5131 Social Justice Legal Clinic B, 88, 95 LAWS3483 War Law: Use of Force and Humanitarian LAWS5132 Family Law, 87, 87, 91, 91 Law, 36, 36, 47, 47 LAWS5134 International Human Rights Law, 75, 75, 78, LAWS3484 Secured Transactions in Commercial Law, 78 36, 47 LAWS5135 Indigenous Peoples and Public Law, 87, 91 LAWS3489 International Moot, 36, 36, 43, 43 LAWS5137 International Commercial Arbitration, 75, 75, LAWS3494 Legal Systems in South East Asia, 36, 36, 77, 77 45, 45 LAWS5138 International Commercial Transactions, 75, LAWS3495 The Rule of Law and its Value, 38, 38, 57, 75, 78, 78 57 LAWS5141 Introduction to Islamic Law, 75, 75, 78, 78 LAWS3499 Migration, Refugees and Forced Migration, 36, 36, 45, 45 LAWS5143 Interpretation, 87, 87, 92, 92 LAWS3503 Insurance Law and Risk, 35, 35, 42, 42 LAWS5144 Japanese Law, 75, 75, 78, 78 LAWS3507 Energy Law: Renewables and Emerging LAWS5145 Insolvency Law, 87, 87, 92, 92 Tech, 35, 41 LAWS5146 Labour Law, 87, 93 LAWS3508 Interdisciplinary Project, 35, 42 LAWS5147 Law and Economics, 99, 99, 101, 101 LAWS3509 Redfern Legal Centre Clinic, 36, 46 LAWS5152 Medical Law, 88, 88, 93, 93 LAWS3510 Industry and Community Projects, 35, 42 LAWS5154 Philosophy of Law, 99, 99, 101, 101 LAWS3512 Law and Social Theories, 38, 57 LAWS5155 Policing, Crime and Society, 88, 88, 93, 93 LAWS3513 Philosophy of Criminal Law, 38, 57 LAWS5157 Private International Law B, 75, 75, 79, 79 LAWS3514 Race and the Law, 36, 46 LAWS5160 Roman Law, 88, 88, 94, 94 LAWS3900 Law Honours, 36, 36, 45, 45 LAWS5161 Social Justice Legal Clinic A, 88, 94 LAWS5000 Foundations of Law, 69, 69, 72, 72 LAWS5165 Sydney Law Review, 88, 88, 95, 95 LAWS5001 Torts, 69, 69, 74, 74 LAWS5168 Theories of Justice, 99, 102 LAWS5002 Contracts, 69, 69, 70, 70, 71, 71 LAWS5169 Theories of Law, 99, 102 LAWS5003 Civil and Criminal Procedure, 69, 69, 70, 70, LAWS5171 Theories of Conscientious Obedience, 99, 71, 71 99, 102, 102 LAWS5004 Criminal Law, 69, 69, 70, 70, 71, 71 LAWS5175 Philosophy of International Law, 99, 99, 101, LAWS5005 Public International Law, 40, 40, 69, 69, 73, 101 73, 77, 77 LAWS5178 Development, Law and Human Rights, 75, LAWS5006 Torts and Contracts II, 69, 69, 70, 70, 74, 74 75, 77, 77 LAWS5179 IP: Trademarks and Patents, 87, 87, 93, 93
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LAWS5180 IP: Copyright and Designs, 87, 87, 92, 92 LAWS6054 Health Care and Professional Liability, 37, LAWS5183 War Law: Use of Force and Humanitarian 37, 52, 52, 88, 88, 97, 97, 141, 141, 143, 143, 175, 175, Law, 75, 75, 79, 79 181, 181, 209, 209 LAWS5184 Secured Transactions in Commercial Law, LAWS6058 Information Rights in Health Care, 141, 141, 88, 94 143, 143, 175, 175, 181, 181, 209, 209 LAWS6059 International Business Law, 112, 112, 116, LAWS5189 International Moot, 75, 75, 78, 78 116, 136, 136, 147, 147, 152, 152, 175, 175, 181, 181, LAWS5194 Legal Systems in South East Asia, 75, 75, 192, 192, 194, 194, 195, 195, 210, 210 78, 78 LAWS6060 International Commercial Arbitration, 112, LAWS5195 The Rule of Law and its Value, 99, 99, 102, 112, 116, 116, 136, 136, 147, 147, 152, 152, 175, 175, 102 181, 181, 192, 192, 194, 194, 195, 195, 210, 210 LAWS5199 Migration, Refugees and Forced Migration, LAWS6061 International Environmental Law, 37, 37, 53, 75, 75, 79, 79 53, 76, 76, 83, 83, 128, 128, 129, 129, 136, 136, 147, LAWS5203 Insurance Law and Risk, 87, 87, 92, 92 147, 152, 152, 168, 168, 175, 175, 181, 181, 210, 210 LAWS5207 Energy Law: Renewables and Emerging LAWS6062 International Law-the Use of Armed Force, Tech, 75, 77 147, 147, 152, 152, 175, 175, 181, 181, 212, 212 LAWS6063 World Trade Organization Law I, 38, 38, 56, LAWS5208 Interdisciplinary Project, 87, 92 56, 76, 76, 85, 85, 114, 114, 118, 118, 137, 137, 147, LAWS5209 Redfern Legal Centre Clinic, 88, 94 147, 152, 152, 178, 178, 184, 184, 192, 192, 194, 194, LAWS5210 Industry and Community Projects, 87, 91 195, 195, 225, 225 LAWS6065 Pollution and Contaminated Land, 38, 54, LAWS5212 Law and Social Theories, 99, 101 76, 84, 128, 129, 176, 182, 219 LAWS5213 Philosophy of Criminal Law, 99, 101 LAWS6065 Pollution, Corporate Liability and Govern, LAWS5214 Race and the Law, 88, 94 38, 54, 76, 84, 128, 129, 176, 182, 219 LAWS5344 Law International Exchange Electives, 87, LAWS6066 Discretion in Criminal Justice, 37, 37, 50, 50, 87, 93, 93 88, 88, 96, 96, 121, 121, 123, 123, 133, 133, 174, 174, LAWS5360 Independent Research Project, 87, 87, 91, 180, 180, 204, 204 91 LAWS6068 Judicial Review-P©ciple, Pol and Procedure, LAWS5368 Chinese Laws and Chinese Legal Systems, 108, 108, 128, 128, 129, 129, 132, 132, 134, 134, 176, 75, 75, 77, 77 176, 181, 181, 213, 213 LAWS6001 Chinese Laws and Chinese Legal Systems, LAWS6071 Labour Law, 134, 134, 135, 135, 165, 165, 111, 111, 115, 115, 131, 131, 135, 135, 148, 148, 167, 166, 166, 174, 174, 176, 176, 178, 178, 180, 180, 182, 167, 168, 168, 173, 173, 179, 179, 200, 200 182, 184, 184, 204, 204, 215, 215, 225, 225 LAWS6008 Takeovers and Reconstructions, 113, 113, LAWS6077 Legal Research 1, 61, 61, 63, 63, 65, 65 117, 117, 177, 177, 182, 182, 192, 192, 194, 194, 220, LAWS6091 Chinese International Taxation, 36, 36, 48, 220 48, 75, 75, 80, 80, 111, 111, 115, 115, 131, 131, 135, LAWS6011 Administrative Law, 107, 107, 127, 127, 129, 135, 147, 147, 151, 151, 153, 153, 173, 173, 179, 179, 129, 133, 133, 173, 173, 179, 179, 199, 199 187, 187, 189, 189, 195, 195, 200, 200 LAWS6096 Work Health and Safety: Law and Policy, 38, LAWS6013 Advanced Employment Law, 112, 116, 165, 38, 56, 56, 88, 88, 98, 98, 165, 165, 178, 178, 183, 183, 174, 180, 204 225, 225 LAWS6022 International and Comparative Labour Law, 37, 52, 76, 82, 136, 148, 152, 165, 175, 181, 210 LAWS6100 Corporate Fundraising, 191, 193 LAWS6030 Corporate Taxation, 112, 112, 114, 114, 116, LAWS6105 Child Sexual Abuse: Diverse Perspectives, 116, 117, 117, 133, 133, 135, 135, 154, 154, 155, 155, 36, 36, 48, 48, 88, 88, 95, 95, 121, 121, 123, 123, 173, 174, 174, 177, 177, 180, 180, 183, 183, 187, 187, 188, 173, 179, 179, 200, 200 188, 189, 189, 190, 190, 193, 193, 194, 194, 202, 202, LAWS6107 Tax Litigation, 154 221, 221 LAWS6109 UK International Taxation, 38, 38, 55, 55, LAWS6032 Crime Research and Policy, 37, 37, 49, 49, 76, 76, 84, 84, 114, 114, 118, 118, 132, 132, 137, 137, 88, 88, 96, 96, 121, 121, 123, 123, 131, 131, 133, 133, 149, 149, 152, 152, 153, 153, 178, 178, 183, 183, 188, 174, 174, 180, 180, 202, 202 188, 190, 190, 196, 196, 225, 225 LAWS6034 Criminal Liability, 121, 121, 123, 123, 133, LAWS6118 Taxation of Partnerships and Trusts, 114, 133, 159, 159, 161, 161, 174, 174, 180, 180, 203, 203 114, 118, 118, 132, 132, 135, 135, 155, 155, 177, 177, LAWS6037 International Import/Export Laws, 37, 37, 53, 183, 183, 188, 188, 190, 190, 222, 222 53, 76, 76, 83, 83, 112, 112, 116, 116, 136, 136, 148, LAWS6119 The State and Global Governance, 38, 55, 148, 152, 152, 153, 153, 175, 175, 181, 181, 187, 187, 76, 84, 147, 152, 159, 161, 168, 169, 177, 183, 222 189, 189, 192, 192, 194, 194, 196, 196, 211, 211 LAWS6123 Transfer Pricing in International Tax, 114, LAWS6039 Discrimination in the Workplace, 165, 165, 114, 118, 118, 132, 132, 137, 137, 149, 149, 152, 152, 174, 174, 180, 180, 204, 204 153, 153, 178, 178, 183, 183, 188, 188, 190, 190, 196, LAWS6041 Environmental Litigation, 37, 37, 51, 51, 88, 196, 223, 223 88, 96, 96, 127, 127, 129, 129, 174, 174, 180, 180, 204, LAWS6125 Taxation of Corporate Finance, 114, 114, 204 117, 117, 135, 135, 155, 155, 177, 177, 183, 183, 188, LAWS6044 Environmental Law and Policy, 37, 37, 51, 188, 190, 190, 194, 194, 221, 221 51, 88, 88, 96, 96, 107, 107, 127, 127, 129, 129, 133, LAWS6127 Taxation and Regulation of Superannuation, 133, 174, 174, 180, 180, 204, 204, 205, 205 154, 154 LAWS6047 Law of the Sea, 37, 37, 53, 53, 76, 76, 83, LAWS6128 Comparative International Taxation, 37, 37, 83, 128, 128, 129, 129, 132, 132, 137, 137, 147, 147, 49, 49, 75, 75, 80, 80, 111, 111, 115, 115, 131, 131, 133, 152, 152, 176, 176, 182, 182, 216, 216 133, 136, 136, 148, 148, 151, 151, 153, 153, 168, 168, LAWS6048 Explaining Crime, 121, 121, 123, 123, 132, 173, 173, 179, 179, 187, 187, 189, 189, 195, 195, 201, 132, 133, 133, 174, 174, 180, 180, 205, 205 201 LAWS6052 Govt Regulation, Health Policy and Ethics, LAWS6129 Taxation of Offshore Operations, 114, 114, 37, 37, 52, 52, 88, 88, 96, 96, 107, 107, 134, 134, 141, 118, 118, 132, 132, 135, 135, 153, 153, 177, 177, 183, 141, 143, 143, 175, 175, 181, 181, 209, 209 183, 188, 188, 190, 190, 221, 221 LAWS6130 Dispute Resolution in Australia, 107, 107, 141, 141, 143, 143
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LAWS6138 Internatl Fin Transactions: Law and Prac, LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation, 38, 38, 55, 112, 112, 116, 116, 132, 132, 136, 136, 148, 148, 152, 55, 76, 76, 84, 84, 111, 111, 113, 113, 114, 114, 115, 152, 168, 168, 175, 175, 181, 181, 192, 192, 194, 194, 115, 117, 117, 118, 118, 132, 132, 133, 133, 135, 135, 196, 196, 211, 211 137, 137, 147, 147, 149, 149, 151, 151, 152, 152, 153, LAWS6140 Corp Soc Responsibility: Theory/Pol, 37, 37, 153, 173, 173, 177, 177, 178, 178, 179, 179, 183, 183, 49, 49, 75, 75, 80, 80, 111, 111, 115, 115, 133, 133, 136, 187, 187, 188, 188, 189, 189, 190, 190, 195, 195, 196, 136, 148, 148, 151, 151, 165, 165, 168, 168, 173, 173, 196, 199, 199, 221, 221, 222, 222, 223, 223 179, 179, 191, 191, 193, 193, 195, 195, 202, 202 LAWS6214 Goods and Services Tax Principles A, 37, 37, 52, 52, 88, 88, 96, 96, 112, 112, 114, 114, 116, 116, LAWS6141 Asia Pacific Environmental Law, 36, 36, 48, 118, 118, 134, 134, 154, 154, 175, 175, 177, 177, 181, 48, 75, 75, 79, 79, 127, 127, 129, 129, 135, 135, 147, 181, 183, 183, 187, 187, 188, 188, 189, 189, 190, 190, 147, 151, 151, 173, 173, 179, 179, 199, 199 192, 192, 208, 208, 222, 222 LAWS6147 Independent Research Project, 107, 107, 112, 112, 127, 127, 132, 132, 134, 134, 136, 136, 141, LAWS6218 International Humanitarian Law, 136, 136, 141, 154, 154, 165, 165, 168, 168, 175, 175, 187, 187, 147, 147, 152, 152, 168, 168, 175, 175, 181, 181, 211, 209, 209 211, 212, 212 LAWS6222 Corporate Governance, 37, 37, 49, 49, 75, LAWS6149 Legal Pluralism in Southeast Asia, 113, 113, 75, 80, 80, 111, 111, 115, 115, 131, 131, 133, 133, 136, 117, 117, 137, 137, 148, 148, 152, 152, 169, 169, 176, 136, 148, 148, 151, 151, 173, 173, 179, 179, 191, 191, 176, 182, 182, 196, 196, 216, 216 193, 193, 195, 195, 201, 201 LAWS6153 Comparative Corporate Taxation, 111, 111, 115, 115, 131, 131, 133, 133, 135, 135, 148, 148, 151, LAWS6233 Criminology Research Project A, 121, 121 151, 153, 153, 173, 173, 179, 179, 187, 187, 189, 189, LAWS6234 Criminology Research Project B, 121, 121 193, 193, 195, 195, 201, 201 LAWS6243 International Law I, 113, 113, 116, 116, 136, LAWS6159 Insolvency Law, 112, 112, 116, 116, 134, 136, 147, 147, 151, 151, 167, 167, 169, 169, 175, 175, 134, 175, 175, 181, 181, 192, 192, 194, 194, 210, 210 181, 181, 195, 195, 196, 196, 212, 212 LAWS6161 International Human Rights, 136, 136, 147, LAWS6244 Taxation of Corporate Groups, 114, 114, 147, 152, 152, 166, 166, 168, 168, 175, 175, 181, 181, 117, 117, 135, 135, 155, 155, 177, 177, 183, 183, 188, 211, 211 188, 190, 190, 221, 221 LAWS6163 Energy and Climate Law, 37, 51, 76, 81, 107, LAWS6247 Securities and Markets Regulation, 113, 113, 127, 129, 136, 148, 151, 168, 174, 180, 204 117, 117, 177, 177, 182, 182, 192, 192, 194, 194, 220, LAWS6165 Biodiversity Law, 36, 48, 88, 95, 127, 129, 220 131, 133, 173, 179, 199 LAWS6250 Controlling Liability by Contract, 111, 111, LAWS6167 International Law II, 136, 136, 147, 147, 151, 115, 115, 173, 173, 179, 179, 191, 191, 193, 193, 201, 151, 175, 175, 181, 181, 212, 212 201 LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law LAWS6169 Capital Gains Tax, 154, 154, 191, 191 System, 37, 37, 50, 50, 51, 51, 76, 76, 81, 81, 88, 88, LAWS6171 US International Taxation, 38, 38, 56, 56, 96, 96, 107, 107, 111, 111, 112, 112, 115, 115, 116, 116, 76, 76, 85, 85, 114, 114, 118, 118, 132, 132, 137, 137, 127, 127, 129, 129, 131, 131, 132, 132, 133, 133, 136, 149, 149, 152, 152, 154, 154, 178, 178, 183, 183, 188, 136, 141, 141, 143, 143, 148, 148, 151, 151, 165, 165, 188, 190, 190, 197, 197, 225, 225 167, 167, 173, 173, 174, 174, 176, 176, 179, 179, 180, LAWS6177 Tax Treaties, 38, 38, 55, 55, 76, 76, 84, 84, 180, 182, 182, 193, 193, 195, 195, 199, 199, 204, 204, 113, 113, 117, 117, 135, 135, 137, 137, 149, 149, 152, 205, 205, 210, 210, 215, 215, 216, 216 152, 153, 153, 177, 177, 183, 183, 188, 188, 189, 189, LAWS6257 Public Policy, 107, 107, 113, 113, 117, 117, 196, 196, 222, 222 128, 128, 129, 129, 134, 134, 154, 154, 169, 169, 176, LAWS6182 Independent Research Project A, 107, 107, 176, 182, 182, 187, 187, 189, 189, 219, 219 112, 112, 127, 127, 132, 132, 134, 134, 136, 136, 141, LAWS6264 Compliance: Financial Services Industry, 141, 154, 154, 166, 166, 168, 168, 175, 175, 187, 187, 111, 111, 115, 115, 133, 133, 136, 136, 173, 173, 179, 209, 209 179, 191, 191, 193, 193, 195, 195, 201, 201 LAWS6183 Independent Research Project B, 108, 108, LAWS6305 Workplace Investigations, 135, 135, 165, 112, 112, 128, 128, 132, 132, 134, 134, 136, 136, 141, 165, 178, 178, 184, 184, 225, 225 141, 154, 154, 166, 166, 168, 168, 175, 175, 187, 187, LAWS6307 Expert Evidence and Class Action Procedure, 209, 209 37, 37, 51, 51, 76, 76, 81, 81, 112, 112, 116, 116, 133, LAWS6184 International Law Research Project A, 148, 133, 141, 141, 143, 143, 174, 174, 180, 180, 191, 191, 148 205, 205 LAWS6185 International Law Research Project B, 148, LAWS6308 Philosophy of Law, 137, 137, 159, 159, 161, 148 161, 176, 176, 182, 182, 219, 219 LAWS6187 Functional Analysis of Law and Soc Control, LAWS6314 Coastal and Marine Law, 37, 37, 49, 49, 88, 38, 38, 58, 58, 99, 99, 102, 102, 137, 137, 159, 159, 161, 88, 95, 95, 127, 127, 129, 129, 136, 136, 148, 148, 151, 161, 174, 174, 180, 180, 207, 207 151, 174, 174, 180, 180, 202, 202 LAWS6191 Water Law and Climate Change, 37, 51, 76, LAWS6316 Theories of the Judiciary, 38, 38, 58, 58, 99, 81, 107, 108, 127, 129, 136, 148, 151, 168, 169, 174, 99, 102, 102, 137, 137, 159, 159, 161, 161, 177, 177, 180, 204 183, 183, 223, 223 LAWS6192 Young People, Crime and the Law, 38, 38, LAWS6317 Regulation of Corporate Crime, 38, 38, 55, 56, 56, 88, 88, 98, 98, 122, 122, 123, 123, 178, 178, 184, 55, 88, 88, 97, 97, 113, 113, 117, 117, 177, 177, 182, 184, 226, 226 182, 192, 192, 194, 194, 196, 196, 220, 220 LAWS6193 Criminal Justice: Prevention and Control, 37, LAWS6318 Corporate Innovation and Regulation, 37, 37, 50, 50, 88, 88, 96, 96, 121, 121, 123, 123, 174, 174, 37, 49, 49, 75, 75, 80, 80, 111, 111, 115, 115, 173, 173, 180, 180, 202, 202 179, 179, 191, 191, 193, 193, 195, 195, 202, 202 LAWS6194 Punishment, 38, 38, 54, 54, 88, 88, 97, 97, LAWS6320 Climate Justice and Disaster Law, 37, 48, 121, 121, 123, 123, 176, 176, 182, 182, 220, 220 75, 80, 127, 129, 133, 135, 148, 151, 168, 173, 179, 200 LAWS6197 Policing: Crime, Control and Security, 121, LAWS6321 Fiduciary Duties and Conflicts of Interest, 123, 176, 182, 219 191, 193 LAWS6198 Refugee Law, 108, 169 LAWS6325 Crime, Responsibility and Policy, 37, 37, 49, 49, 88, 88, 96, 96, 121, 121, 123, 123, 174, 174, 180, 180, 202, 202
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LAWS6326 Interpretation of Statutes and Other Texts, LAWS6848 Law, Business and Healthy Lifestyles, 37, 113, 113, 116, 116, 134, 134, 154, 154, 175, 175, 181, 37, 53, 53, 88, 88, 97, 97, 113, 113, 117, 117, 142, 142, 181, 187, 187, 189, 189, 212, 212 143, 143, 168, 168, 176, 176, 182, 182, 215, 215 LAWS6328 Contract Management, 111, 111, 115, 115, LAWS6852 Doing Business in China, 37, 37, 50, 50, 76, 133, 133, 173, 173, 179, 179, 191, 191, 195, 195, 201, 76, 81, 81, 112, 112, 116, 116, 132, 132, 136, 136, 148, 201 148, 151, 151, 174, 174, 180, 180, 193, 193, 195, 195, LAWS6330 Fundamentals of Regulation, 107, 107, 141, 204, 204 141, 143, 143, 192, 192, 194, 194 LAWS6873 Principles of Intellectual Property, 192, 194 LAWS6333 Commercial Trusts, 111, 111, 115, 115, 173, LAWS6877 Mental Illness: Law and Policy, 37, 37, 54, 173, 179, 179, 191, 191, 193, 193, 195, 195, 200, 200 54, 88, 88, 97, 97, 108, 108, 121, 121, 123, 123, 134, LAWS6334 Gender Inequality and Development, 37, 37, 134, 142, 142, 143, 143, 176, 176, 182, 182, 217, 217 51, 51, 76, 76, 82, 82, 112, 112, 116, 116, 134, 134, 136, LAWS6879 Japanese Law, 113, 113, 117, 117, 132, 132, 136, 148, 148, 151, 151, 168, 168, 175, 175, 181, 181, 137, 137, 148, 148, 152, 152, 176, 176, 181, 181, 192, 192, 192, 194, 194, 208, 208 192, 194, 194, 196, 196, 213, 213 LAWS6335 Neurolaw: Brain Mind Law and Ethics, 142, LAWS6882 Insurance Contract Law, 112, 112, 116, 116, 143, 159, 161 134, 134, 175, 175, 181, 181, 192, 192, 210, 210 LAWS6336 Taxation of Real Property Transactions, 114, LAWS6888 Risk, Fear and Insecurity, 38, 38, 55, 55, 88, 114, 118, 118, 154, 154, 177, 177, 183, 183, 188, 188, 88, 98, 98, 121, 121, 123, 123, 177, 177, 182, 182, 220, 190, 190, 192, 192, 222, 222 220 LAWS6338 The Nature of the Common Law, 38, 38, 58, LAWS6889 Death Law, 37, 50, 76, 81, 121, 123, 131, 58, 99, 99, 102, 102, 137, 137, 159, 159, 161, 161, 169, 133, 141, 143, 174, 180, 203 169, 177, 177, 183, 183, 222, 222 LAWS6892 Taxation of Mergers and Acquisitions, 155, LAWS6341 Media Law: Comparative Perspectives, 37, 155 37, 54, 54, 76, 76, 83, 83, 113, 113, 117, 117, 176, 176, LAWS6903 Interpreting Commercial Contracts, 113, 116, 182, 182, 192, 192, 216, 216 134, 176, 181, 192, 207, 212 LAWS6345 Principles of Financial Regulation, 38, 54, LAWS6912 Fundamentals of the Law of Trusts, 112, 116, 76, 84, 113, 117, 132, 176, 182, 192, 194, 219 174, 180, 192, 194, 208 LAWS6350 Criminal Law: History and Theory, 159, 161 LAWS6916 International Investment Law, 112, 112, 116, LAWS6352 Mergers and Acquisitions in Asia, 194, 196 116, 136, 136, 148, 148, 152, 152, 168, 168, 175, 175, LAWS6353 Business Crime, 193 181, 181, 192, 192, 196, 196, 210, 210, 211, 211 LAWS6920 Global Health Law, 37, 37, 51, 51, 76, 76, LAWS6354 Environ Planning and Impact Assessment 82, 82, 136, 136, 141, 141, 143, 143, 148, 148, 151, 151, Law, 37, 51, 88, 96, 107, 127, 129, 133, 174, 180, 205 168, 168, 175, 175, 181, 181, 208, 208 LAWS6355 Energy and Water Security Law, 37, 50, 76, LAWS6928 Law, Justice and Development, 37, 37, 54, 81, 107, 127, 129, 136, 148, 151, 168, 174, 180, 204 54, 76, 76, 83, 83, 113, 113, 117, 117, 128, 128, 129, LAWS6809 Breach of Contract, 191, 207 129, 132, 132, 134, 134, 137, 137, 148, 148, 152, 152, LAWS6810 Fundamentals of Corporate Law, 112, 112, 167, 167, 176, 176, 182, 182, 196, 196, 216, 216 116, 116, 165, 165, 174, 174, 180, 180, 192, 192, 193, LAWS6932 Law and Investment in Asia, 37, 37, 53, 53, 193, 196, 196, 207, 207 76, 76, 83, 83, 113, 113, 117, 117, 132, 132, 137, 137, LAWS6816 Labour Law in the Global Economy, 168, 148, 148, 152, 152, 169, 169, 176, 176, 182, 182, 192, 194 192, 194, 194, 196, 196, 215, 215 LAWS6821 Mediation - Skills and Theory, 134, 134, 166, LAWS6933 Global Oil and Gas Contracts and Issues, 166, 176, 176, 182, 182, 217, 217 192, 194, 196 LAWS6824 Commercial Conflict of Laws, 111, 111, 115, LAWS6937 Employment Law Advocacy, 112, 112, 116, 115, 135, 135, 148, 148, 151, 151, 173, 173, 179, 179, 116, 165, 165, 174, 174, 180, 180, 204, 204 191, 191, 193, 193, 195, 195, 200, 200 LAWS6940 Theories of Law, 159, 161 LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax, 38, LAWS6944 Market Manipulation and Insider Trading, 37, 38, 55, 55, 76, 76, 84, 84, 111, 111, 112, 112, 113, 113, 37, 54, 54, 76, 76, 83, 83, 113, 113, 117, 117, 134, 134, 114, 114, 115, 115, 116, 116, 117, 117, 118, 118, 132, 137, 137, 148, 148, 152, 152, 176, 176, 182, 182, 192, 132, 133, 133, 134, 134, 135, 135, 137, 137, 147, 147, 192, 194, 194, 196, 196, 216, 216 149, 149, 151, 151, 152, 152, 153, 153, 154, 154, 155, 155, 173, 173, 174, 174, 176, 176, 177, 177, 178, 178, LAWS6945 Doing Business in Emerging Markets, 153, 179, 179, 180, 180, 181, 181, 183, 183, 187, 187, 188, 168, 191, 196 188, 189, 189, 190, 190, 191, 191, 193, 193, 194, 194, LAWS6946 Tax Treaties Special Issues, 113, 113, 117, 195, 195, 196, 196, 199, 199, 202, 202, 213, 213, 220, 117, 135, 135, 137, 137, 149, 149, 152, 152, 153, 153, 220, 221, 221, 222, 222, 223, 223 177, 177, 183, 183, 188, 188, 189, 189, 196, 196, 222, LAWS6836 Precedent, Interpretation and Probability, 222 159, 161 LAWS6947 Advanced Obligations and Remedies, 36, LAWS6838 Competition Law, 191, 191, 193, 193 48, 88, 95, 111, 115, 133, 173, 179, 191, 199 LAWS6953 Law of Asset Protection, 113, 113, 117, 117, LAWS6839 Critical Issues in Public Health Law, 141 132, 132, 134, 134, 154, 154, 176, 176, 182, 182, 187, LAWS6840 Tax of Business and Investment Income A, 187, 189, 189, 192, 192, 196, 196, 215, 215 113, 113, 117, 117, 135, 135, 155, 155, 177, 177, 183, LAWS6955 Fundamentals of Finance Law, 192, 193, 183, 188, 188, 190, 190, 221, 221 196 LAWS6841 Tax of Business and Investment Income B, 113, 113, 117, 117, 135, 135, 155, 155, 177, 177, 183, LAWS6956 Personal Property Securities, 113, 117, 132, 183, 188, 188, 190, 190, 221, 221 134, 176, 182, 192, 194, 219 LAWS6844 US Corporate Law, 38, 38, 55, 55, 76, 76, LAWS6957 Shareholders© Remedies, 113, 113, 117, 117, 85, 85, 114, 114, 118, 118, 132, 132, 137, 137, 149, 149, 177, 177, 182, 182, 192, 192, 194, 194, 220, 220 152, 152, 178, 178, 183, 183, 192, 192, 194, 194, 197, LAWS6964 Global Energy and Resources Law, 37, 37, 197, 225, 225 51, 51, 76, 76, 82, 82, 112, 112, 116, 116, 127, 127, 129, LAWS6846 Human Rights and the Global Economy, 112, 129, 136, 136, 148, 148, 151, 151, 168, 168, 175, 175, 112, 116, 116, 134, 134, 136, 136, 148, 148, 151, 151, 181, 181, 192, 192, 208, 208 168, 168, 175, 175, 181, 181, 194, 194, 209, 209 LAWS6965 Tax Avoidance and Anti-Avoidance, 113, 113, 117, 117, 154, 154, 177, 177, 183, 183, 188, 188, 189, 189, 196, 196, 220, 220
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LAWS6970 Forensic Psychology, 121, 121, 123, 123, 133, 133, 141, 141, 143, 143, 174, 174, 180, 180, 207, 207 LAWS6974 Development, Law and Human Rights, 131, 136, 148, 151, 168, 174, 180, 203 LAWS6977 Law of International Institutions, 169, 196 LAWS6984 Economics of Tax Policy, 154, 154, 196, 196 LAWS6986 Criminal Justice Internship, 121, 121, 123, 123 LAWS6987 Fundamentals of Commercial Law, 112, 112, 116, 116, 174, 174, 180, 180, 191, 191, 193, 193, 196, 196, 207, 207 LAWS6990 Principles of Oil and Gas Law, 192, 194, 196 LAWS6991 Fundamentals of Contract Law, 112, 112, 116, 116, 133, 133, 165, 165, 174, 174, 180, 180, 196, 196, 201, 201, 207, 207 LAWS6997 Cross-Border Deals, 37, 37, 50, 50, 75, 75, 81, 81, 112, 112, 116, 116, 131, 131, 133, 133, 136, 136, 148, 148, 151, 151, 174, 174, 180, 180, 191, 191, 193, 193, 195, 195, 203, 203 LAWS7001 Legal Research 2, 61, 61 LAWS7002 Legal Research 3, 61, 61 M MIPH5131 Foundations of International Health, 169 P PACS6911 Key Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies, 169 S SCLG6901 Citizenship Rights and Social Movements, 108 SCLG6903 New Debates in Social Theory, 108 SCWK6948 Social Policy Frameworks, 108, 108 SCWK6949 Global Social Policy, 108, 108, 169, 169 SUST5001 Introduction to Sustainability, 169 W WORK5002 People, Work and Employment, 166 WORK5003 Management and Organisations, 166 WORK6001 Organisational Analysis and Behaviour, 166 WORK6002 Strategic Management, 166 WORK6012 Industrial Relations Policy, 165, 166 WORK6017 Human Resource Strategies, 166 WORK6026 Organisational Change and Development, 166 WORK6030 Performance and Rewards, 166 WORK6033 Organisational Sustainability, 166 WORK6108 International Dimensions of HRM, 166 WORK6111 Management Consulting, 166 WORK6116 Employment and the Law, 134, 165, 176, 182, 215 WORK6118 Managing Communication in Organisations, 166 WORK6130 Leadership in Organisations, 166
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A Chinese Laws and Chinese Legal Systems LAWS3068, 35, 35, 40, 40 Administrative Law LAWS2010, 29, 29, 31, 31 Chinese Laws and Chinese Legal Systems LAWS5368, Administrative Law LAWS5010, 69, 69, 70, 70, 71, 71 75, 75, 77, 77 Administrative Law LAWS6011, 107, 107, 127, 127, 129, Chinese Laws and Chinese Legal Systems LAWS6001, 129, 133, 133, 173, 173, 179, 179, 199, 199 111, 111, 115, 115, 131, 131, 135, 135, 148, 148, 167, 167, 168, 168, 173, 173, 179, 179, 200, 200 Advanced Constitutional Law LAWS3401, 35, 39 Chinese Politics GOVT6111, 149 Advanced Constitutional Law LAWS5101, 87, 89 Citizenship Rights and Social Movements SCLG6901, Advanced Contracts LAWS3402, 35, 39 108 Advanced Contracts LAWS5102, 87, 89 Civil-Military Relations CISS6012, 149 Advanced Corporate Law LAWS3403, 35, 39 Civil and Criminal Procedure LAWS1014, 29, 29, 31, 31 Advanced Corporate Law LAWS5103, 87, 89 Civil and Criminal Procedure LAWS5003, 69, 69, 70, 70, Advanced Criminal Law LAWS3404, 35, 35, 39, 39 71, 71 Advanced Criminal Law LAWS5104, 87, 87, 89, 89 Climate Justice and Disaster Law LAWS6320, 37, 48, 75, 80, 127, 129, 133, 135, 148, 151, 168, 173, 179, 200 Advanced Employment Law LAWS6013, 112, 116, 165, 174, 180, 204 Coastal and Marine Law LAWS6314, 37, 37, 49, 49, 88, 88, 95, 95, 127, 127, 129, 129, 136, 136, 148, 148, 151, Advanced Obligations and Remedies LAWS6947, 36, 151, 174, 174, 180, 180, 202, 202 48, 88, 95, 111, 115, 133, 173, 179, 191, 199 Commercial Conflict of Laws LAWS6824, 111, 111, 115, Advanced Public International Law LAWS3408, 35, 39 115, 135, 135, 148, 148, 151, 151, 173, 173, 179, 179, Advanced Public International Law LAWS5108, 75, 77 191, 191, 193, 193, 195, 195, 200, 200 Advanced Taxation Law LAWS3409, 35, 35, 40, 40 Commercial Land Law LAWS3417, 35, 40 Advanced Taxation Law LAWS5109, 87, 87, 89, 89 Commercial Land Law LAWS5117, 87, 90 Anti-Discrimination Law LAWS3411, 35, 40 Commercial Trusts LAWS6333, 111, 111, 115, 115, 173, 173, 179, 179, 191, 191, 193, 193, 195, 195, 200, 200 Anti-Discrimination Law LAWS5111, 87, 90 Comparative Corporate Taxation LAWS6153, 111, 111, Asia Pacific Environmental Law LAWS6141, 36, 36, 48, 115, 115, 131, 131, 133, 133, 135, 135, 148, 148, 151, 48, 75, 75, 79, 79, 127, 127, 129, 129, 135, 135, 147, 151, 153, 153, 173, 173, 179, 179, 187, 187, 189, 189, 147, 151, 151, 173, 173, 179, 179, 199, 199 193, 193, 195, 195, 201, 201 Asia Pacific Politics GOVT6136, 149 Comparative International Taxation LAWS6128, 37, 37, Australian Income Tax LAWS3412, 35, 35, 40, 40 49, 49, 75, 75, 80, 80, 111, 111, 115, 115, 131, 131, 133, 133, 136, 136, 148, 148, 151, 151, 153, 153, 168, 168, Australian Income Tax LAWS5112, 87, 87, 90, 90 173, 173, 179, 179, 187, 187, 189, 189, 195, 195, 201, Australian International Taxation LAWS6209, 38, 38, 55, 201 55, 76, 76, 84, 84, 111, 111, 113, 113, 114, 114, 115, Comparative Migration Policy GOVT6358, 108 115, 117, 117, 118, 118, 132, 132, 133, 133, 135, 135, 137, 137, 147, 147, 149, 149, 151, 151, 152, 152, 153, Competition Law LAWS3419, 35, 35, 41, 41 153, 173, 173, 177, 177, 178, 178, 179, 179, 183, 183, Competition Law LAWS5119, 87, 87, 90, 90 187, 187, 188, 188, 189, 189, 190, 190, 195, 195, 196, 196, 199, 199, 221, 221, 222, 222, 223, 223 Competition Law LAWS6838, 191, 191, 193, 193 Compliance: Financial Services Industry LAWS6264, B 111, 111, 115, 115, 133, 133, 136, 136, 173, 173, 179, Banking and Financial Instruments LAWS3413, 35, 35, 179, 191, 191, 193, 193, 195, 195, 201, 201 40, 40 Constitutional Theory JURS6018, 107, 107, 159, 159, Banking and Financial Instruments LAWS5113, 87, 87, 161, 161 90, 90 Contract and Equity in Land Dealings LAWS3422, 35, Biodiversity Law LAWS6165, 36, 48, 88, 95, 127, 129, 35, 41, 41 131, 133, 173, 179, 199 Contract and Equity in Land Dealings LAWS5122, 87, Breach of Contract LAWS6809, 191, 207 87, 90, 90 Business Crime LAWS6353, 193 Contract Management LAWS6328, 111, 111, 115, 115, 133, 133, 173, 173, 179, 179, 191, 191, 195, 195, 201, C 201 Capital Gains Tax LAWS6169, 154, 154, 191, 191 Contracts LAWS1015, 29, 29, 31, 31 Challenges of Democratic Politics GOVT6150, 108, 149 Contracts LAWS5002, 69, 69, 70, 70, 71, 71 Child Sexual Abuse: Diverse Perspectives LAWS6105, Controlling Liability by Contract LAWS6250, 111, 111, 36, 36, 48, 48, 88, 88, 95, 95, 121, 121, 123, 123, 173, 115, 115, 173, 173, 179, 179, 191, 191, 193, 193, 201, 173, 179, 179, 200, 200 201 Chinese Foreign and Security Policy CISS6016, 149 Core Concepts in Political Economy ECOP6101, 166 Chinese International Taxation LAWS6091, 36, 36, 48, Corporate Fundraising LAWS6100, 191, 193 48, 75, 75, 80, 80, 111, 111, 115, 115, 131, 131, 135, Corporate Governance LAWS6222, 37, 37, 49, 49, 75, 135, 147, 147, 151, 151, 153, 153, 173, 173, 179, 179, 75, 80, 80, 111, 111, 115, 115, 131, 131, 133, 133, 136, 187, 187, 189, 189, 195, 195, 200, 200 136, 148, 148, 151, 151, 173, 173, 179, 179, 191, 191, 193, 193, 195, 195, 201, 201
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Corporate Innovation and Regulation LAWS6318, 37, Employment and the Law WORK6116, 134, 165, 176, 37, 49, 49, 75, 75, 80, 80, 111, 111, 115, 115, 173, 173, 182, 215 179, 179, 191, 191, 193, 193, 195, 195, 202, 202 Employment Law Advocacy LAWS6937, 112, 112, 116, Corporate Taxation LAWS6030, 112, 112, 114, 114, 116, 116, 165, 165, 174, 174, 180, 180, 204, 204 116, 117, 117, 133, 133, 135, 135, 154, 154, 155, 155, 174, 174, 177, 177, 180, 180, 183, 183, 187, 187, 188, Energy and Climate Law LAWS6163, 37, 51, 76, 81, 107, 188, 189, 189, 190, 190, 193, 193, 194, 194, 202, 202, 127, 129, 136, 148, 151, 168, 174, 180, 204 221, 221 Energy and Water Security Law LAWS6355, 37, 50, 76, Corporations Law LAWS2014, 29, 29, 31, 31 81, 107, 127, 129, 136, 148, 151, 168, 174, 180, 204 Energy Law: Renewables and Emerging Tech Corporations Law LAWS5014, 69, 69, 70, 70, 71, 71 LAWS3507, 35, 41 Corp Soc Responsibility: Theory/Pol LAWS6140, 37, 37, 49, 49, 75, 75, 80, 80, 111, 111, 115, 115, 133, 133, 136, Energy Law: Renewables and Emerging Tech 136, 148, 148, 151, 151, 165, 165, 168, 168, 173, 173, LAWS5207, 75, 77 179, 179, 191, 191, 193, 193, 195, 195, 202, 202 Environmental Law and Policy LAWS6044, 37, 37, 51, Crime, Responsibility and Policy LAWS6325, 37, 37, 49, 51, 88, 88, 96, 96, 107, 107, 127, 127, 129, 129, 133, 49, 88, 88, 96, 96, 121, 121, 123, 123, 174, 174, 180, 133, 174, 174, 180, 180, 204, 204, 205, 205 180, 202, 202 Environmental Law LAWS3430, 35, 35, 42, 42 Crime Research and Policy LAWS6032, 37, 37, 49, 49, Environmental Law LAWS5130, 87, 87, 91, 91 88, 88, 96, 96, 121, 121, 123, 123, 131, 131, 133, 133, Environmental Litigation LAWS6041, 37, 37, 51, 51, 88, 174, 174, 180, 180, 202, 202 88, 96, 96, 127, 127, 129, 129, 174, 174, 180, 180, 204, Criminal Justice: Prevention and Control LAWS6193, 37, 204 37, 50, 50, 88, 88, 96, 96, 121, 121, 123, 123, 174, 174, Environ Planning and Impact Assessment Law 180, 180, 202, 202 LAWS6354, 37, 51, 88, 96, 107, 127, 129, 133, 174, 180, Criminal Justice Internship LAWS6986, 121, 121, 123, 205 123 Equity LAWS2015, 29, 29, 32, 32 Criminal Law: History and Theory LAWS6350, 159, 161 Equity LAWS5015, 69, 69, 70, 70, 72, 72 Criminal Law LAWS1016, 29, 29, 31, 31 Essential Readings in Int©l Relations GOVT6225, 149 Criminal Law LAWS5004, 69, 69, 70, 70, 71, 71 Evidence LAWS2016, 29, 29, 32, 32 Criminal Liability LAWS6034, 121, 121, 123, 123, 133, 133, 159, 159, 161, 161, 174, 174, 180, 180, 203, 203 Evidence LAWS5013, 69, 69, 70, 70, 72, 72 Expert Evidence and Class Action Procedure LAWS6307, Criminology LAWS3426, 35, 35, 41, 41 37, 37, 51, 51, 76, 76, 81, 81, 112, 112, 116, 116, 133, Criminology LAWS5126, 87, 87, 91, 91 133, 141, 141, 143, 143, 174, 174, 180, 180, 191, 191, Criminology Research Project A LAWS6233, 121, 121 205, 205 Explaining Crime LAWS6048, 121, 121, 123, 123, 132, Criminology Research Project B LAWS6234, 121, 121 132, 133, 133, 174, 174, 180, 180, 205, 205 Critical Issues in Public Health Law LAWS6839, 141 F Cross-Border Deals LAWS6997, 37, 37, 50, 50, 75, 75, 81, 81, 112, 112, 116, 116, 131, 131, 133, 133, 136, 136, Family Law LAWS3432, 35, 35, 42, 42 148, 148, 151, 151, 174, 174, 180, 180, 191, 191, 193, 193, 195, 195, 203, 203 Family Law LAWS5132, 87, 87, 91, 91 Cybersecurity CISS6022, 150 Federal Constitutional Law LAWS2011, 29, 29, 32, 32 Federal Constitutional Law LAWS5011, 69, 69, 70, 70, D 72, 72 Death Law LAWS6889, 37, 50, 76, 81, 121, 123, 131, Fiduciary Duties and Conflicts of Interest LAWS6321, 133, 141, 143, 174, 180, 203 191, 193 Democracy, Development and Rights in SE Asia Forces of Change in Int Relations GOVT6137, 149 GOVT6108, 149 Forensic Psychology LAWS6970, 121, 121, 123, 123, Development, Law and Human Rights LAWS3478, 35, 133, 133, 141, 141, 143, 143, 174, 174, 180, 180, 207, 35, 41, 41 207 Development, Law and Human Rights LAWS5178, 75, Foundations of International Health MIPH5131, 169 75, 77, 77 Foundations of International Relations GOVT6147, 149 Development, Law and Human Rights LAWS6974, 131, Foundations of Law LAWS1006, 12, 12, 16, 16, 20, 20, 136, 148, 151, 168, 174, 180, 203 25, 25, 28, 28, 29, 29, 32, 32 Development: Civil Society and Wellbeing DVST6901, 167, 169 Foundations of Law LAWS5000, 69, 69, 72, 72 Freedom of Speech JURS6019, 137, 159, 161, 174, 180, Development and World Politics GOVT6304, 149 207 Discretion in Criminal Justice LAWS6066, 37, 37, 50, 50, Functional Analysis of Law and Soc Control LAWS6187, 88, 88, 96, 96, 121, 121, 123, 123, 133, 133, 174, 174, 38, 38, 58, 58, 99, 99, 102, 102, 137, 137, 159, 159, 161, 180, 180, 204, 204 161, 174, 174, 180, 180, 207, 207 Discrimination in the Workplace LAWS6039, 165, 165, Fundamentals of Commercial Law LAWS6987, 112, 112, 174, 174, 180, 180, 204, 204 116, 116, 174, 174, 180, 180, 191, 191, 193, 193, 196, Dispute Resolution in Australia LAWS6130, 107, 107, 196, 207, 207 141, 141, 143, 143 Fundamentals of Contract Law LAWS6991, 112, 112, Doing Business in China LAWS6852, 37, 37, 50, 50, 76, 116, 116, 133, 133, 165, 165, 174, 174, 180, 180, 196, 76, 81, 81, 112, 112, 116, 116, 132, 132, 136, 136, 148, 196, 201, 201, 207, 207 148, 151, 151, 174, 174, 180, 180, 193, 193, 195, 195, Fundamentals of Corporate Law LAWS6810, 112, 112, 204, 204 116, 116, 165, 165, 174, 174, 180, 180, 192, 192, 193, Doing Business in Emerging Markets LAWS6945, 153, 193, 196, 196, 207, 207 168, 191, 196 Fundamentals of Finance Law LAWS6955, 192, 193, E 196 Fundamentals of Regulation LAWS6330, 107, 107, 141, Economics of Tax Policy LAWS6984, 154, 154, 196, 196 141, 143, 143, 192, 192, 194, 194
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Fundamentals of the Law of Trusts LAWS6912, 112, 116, Insurance Law and Risk LAWS5203, 87, 87, 92, 92 174, 180, 192, 194, 208 Interdisciplinary Project LAWS3508, 35, 42 G Interdisciplinary Project LAWS5208, 87, 92 Gender Inequality and Development LAWS6334, 37, 37, International and Comparative Labour Law LAWS6022, 51, 51, 76, 76, 82, 82, 112, 112, 116, 116, 134, 134, 136, 37, 52, 76, 82, 136, 148, 152, 165, 175, 181, 210 136, 148, 148, 151, 151, 168, 168, 175, 175, 181, 181, International Business Law LAWS6059, 112, 112, 116, 192, 192, 194, 194, 208, 208 116, 136, 136, 147, 147, 152, 152, 175, 175, 181, 181, Global Employment and Migration ECOP6015, 166 192, 192, 194, 194, 195, 195, 210, 210 Global Energy and Resources Law LAWS6964, 37, 37, International Commercial Arbitration LAWS3437, 35, 35, 51, 51, 76, 76, 82, 82, 112, 112, 116, 116, 127, 127, 129, 43, 43 129, 136, 136, 148, 148, 151, 151, 168, 168, 175, 175, International Commercial Arbitration LAWS5137, 75, 75, 181, 181, 192, 192, 208, 208 77, 77 Global Environmental Politics GOVT6135, 108, 149 International Commercial Arbitration LAWS6060, 112, Global Health Law LAWS6920, 37, 37, 51, 51, 76, 76, 112, 116, 116, 136, 136, 147, 147, 152, 152, 175, 175, 82, 82, 136, 136, 141, 141, 143, 143, 148, 148, 151, 151, 181, 181, 192, 192, 194, 194, 195, 195, 210, 210 168, 168, 175, 175, 181, 181, 208, 208 International Commercial Transactions LAWS3438, 35, Globalisation and Governance GOVT6123, 108, 149 35, 43, 43 Global Oil and Gas Contracts and Issues LAWS6933, International Commercial Transactions LAWS5138, 75, 192, 194, 196 75, 78, 78 Global Social Policy SCWK6949, 108, 108, 169, 169 International Dimensions of HRM WORK6108, 166 Goods and Services Tax Principles A LAWS6214, 37, International Environmental Law LAWS6061, 37, 37, 53, 37, 52, 52, 88, 88, 96, 96, 112, 112, 114, 114, 116, 116, 53, 76, 76, 83, 83, 128, 128, 129, 129, 136, 136, 147, 118, 118, 134, 134, 154, 154, 175, 175, 177, 177, 181, 147, 152, 152, 168, 168, 175, 175, 181, 181, 210, 210 181, 183, 183, 187, 187, 188, 188, 189, 189, 190, 190, International Humanitarian Law LAWS6218, 136, 136, 192, 192, 208, 208, 222, 222 147, 147, 152, 152, 168, 168, 175, 175, 181, 181, 211, Governance and Civil Society GOVT6156, 108, 149 211, 212, 212 Governance and Public Policy Making GOVT6319, 108, International Human Rights Law LAWS3434, 36, 36, 43, 149 43 Govt Regulation, Health Policy and Ethics LAWS6052, International Human Rights Law LAWS5134, 75, 75, 78, 37, 37, 52, 52, 88, 88, 96, 96, 107, 107, 134, 134, 141, 78 141, 143, 143, 175, 175, 181, 181, 209, 209 International Human Rights LAWS6161, 136, 136, 147, 147, 152, 152, 166, 166, 168, 168, 175, 175, 181, 181, H 211, 211 Health and Security CISS6004, 150 International Import/Export Laws LAWS6037, 37, 37, 53, Health Care and Professional Liability LAWS6054, 37, 53, 76, 76, 83, 83, 112, 112, 116, 116, 136, 136, 148, 37, 52, 52, 88, 88, 97, 97, 141, 141, 143, 143, 175, 175, 148, 152, 152, 153, 153, 175, 175, 181, 181, 187, 187, 181, 181, 209, 209 189, 189, 192, 192, 194, 194, 196, 196, 211, 211 Human Resource Strategies WORK6017, 166 International Investment Law LAWS6916, 112, 112, 116, 116, 136, 136, 148, 148, 152, 152, 168, 168, 175, 175, Human Rights and the Global Economy LAWS6846, 112, 181, 181, 192, 192, 196, 196, 210, 210, 211, 211 112, 116, 116, 134, 134, 136, 136, 148, 148, 151, 151, 168, 168, 175, 175, 181, 181, 194, 194, 209, 209 International Law-the Use of Armed Force LAWS6062, 147, 147, 152, 152, 175, 175, 181, 181, 212, 212 I International Law II LAWS6167, 136, 136, 147, 147, 151, Independent Research Project A LAWS6182, 107, 107, 151, 175, 175, 181, 181, 212, 212 112, 112, 127, 127, 132, 132, 134, 134, 136, 136, 141, International Law I LAWS6243, 113, 113, 116, 116, 136, 141, 154, 154, 166, 166, 168, 168, 175, 175, 187, 187, 136, 147, 147, 151, 151, 167, 167, 169, 169, 175, 175, 209, 209 181, 181, 195, 195, 196, 196, 212, 212 Independent Research Project B LAWS6183, 108, 108, International Law Research Project A LAWS6184, 148, 112, 112, 128, 128, 132, 132, 134, 134, 136, 136, 141, 148 141, 154, 154, 166, 166, 168, 168, 175, 175, 187, 187, 209, 209 International Law Research Project B LAWS6185, 148, 148 Independent Research Project LAWS5360, 87, 87, 91, 91 International Moot LAWS3489, 36, 36, 43, 43 Independent Research Project LAWS6147, 107, 107, International Moot LAWS5189, 75, 75, 78, 78 112, 112, 127, 127, 132, 132, 134, 134, 136, 136, 141, International Organisations GOVT6116, 149 141, 154, 154, 165, 165, 168, 168, 175, 175, 187, 187, 209, 209 International Policy Making GOVT6357, 108, 149 Indigenous Peoples and Public Law LAWS3435, 35, 42 International Security GOVT6119, 149 Indigenous Peoples and Public Law LAWS5135, 87, 91 Internatl Fin Transactions: Law and Prac LAWS6138, 112, 112, 116, 116, 132, 132, 136, 136, 148, 148, 152, Industrial Relations Policy WORK6012, 165, 166 152, 168, 168, 175, 175, 181, 181, 192, 192, 194, 194, Industry and Community Projects LAWS3510, 35, 42 196, 196, 211, 211 Industry and Community Projects LAWS5210, 87, 91 Interpretation LAWS3443, 36, 36, 43, 43 Information Rights in Health Care LAWS6058, 141, 141, Interpretation LAWS5143, 87, 87, 92, 92 143, 143, 175, 175, 181, 181, 209, 209 Interpretation of Statutes and Other Texts LAWS6326, Insolvency Law LAWS3445, 35, 35, 42, 42 113, 113, 116, 116, 134, 134, 154, 154, 175, 175, 181, 181, 187, 187, 189, 189, 212, 212 Insolvency Law LAWS5145, 87, 87, 92, 92 Interpreting Commercial Contracts LAWS6903, 113, 116, Insolvency Law LAWS6159, 112, 112, 116, 116, 134, 134, 176, 181, 192, 207, 212 134, 175, 175, 181, 181, 192, 192, 194, 194, 210, 210 Insurance Contract Law LAWS6882, 112, 112, 116, 116, 134, 134, 175, 175, 181, 181, 192, 192, 210, 210 Insurance Law and Risk LAWS3503, 35, 35, 42, 42
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Introduction to Australian Business Tax LAWS6825, 38, Law of International Institutions LAWS6977, 169, 196 38, 55, 55, 76, 76, 84, 84, 111, 111, 112, 112, 113, 113, 114, 114, 115, 115, 116, 116, 117, 117, 118, 118, 132, Law of the Sea LAWS6047, 37, 37, 53, 53, 76, 76, 83, 132, 133, 133, 134, 134, 135, 135, 137, 137, 147, 147, 83, 128, 128, 129, 129, 132, 132, 137, 137, 147, 147, 149, 149, 151, 151, 152, 152, 153, 153, 154, 154, 155, 152, 152, 176, 176, 182, 182, 216, 216 155, 173, 173, 174, 174, 176, 176, 177, 177, 178, 178, Leadership in Organisations WORK6130, 166 179, 179, 180, 180, 181, 181, 183, 183, 187, 187, 188, 188, 189, 189, 190, 190, 191, 191, 193, 193, 194, 194, Leadership in Theory and Practice GOVT6313, 108, 149 195, 195, 196, 196, 199, 199, 202, 202, 213, 213, 220, Legal Pluralism in Southeast Asia LAWS6149, 113, 113, 220, 221, 221, 222, 222, 223, 223 117, 117, 137, 137, 148, 148, 152, 152, 169, 169, 176, Introduction to Islamic Law LAWS3441, 36, 36, 2013, 176, 182, 182, 196, 196, 216, 216 2013 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System LAWS6252, 37, 37, 50, 50, 51, 51, 76, 76, 81, 81, 88, Introduction to Islamic Law LAWS5141, 75, 75, 78, 78 88, 96, 96, 107, 107, 111, 111, 112, 112, 115, 115, 116, Introduction to Sustainability SUST5001, 169 116, 127, 127, 129, 129, 131, 131, 132, 132, 133, 133, 136, 136, 141, 141, 143, 143, 148, 148, 151, 151, 165, Intro to Property and Commercial Law LAWS2012, 29, 165, 167, 167, 173, 173, 174, 174, 176, 176, 179, 179, 29, 32, 32 180, 180, 182, 182, 193, 193, 195, 195, 199, 199, 204, Intro to Property and Commercial Law LAWS5008, 69, 204, 205, 205, 210, 210, 215, 215, 216, 216 69, 70, 70, 72, 72 Legal Research 1 LAWS6077, 61, 61, 63, 63, 65, 65 IP: Copyright and Designs LAWS3480, 36, 36, 2013, 2013 Legal Research 2 LAWS7001, 61, 61 IP: Copyright and Designs LAWS5180, 87, 87, 92, 92 Legal Research 3 LAWS7002, 61, 61 IP: Trademarks and Patents LAWS3479, 36, 36, 2013, Legal Research II LAWS1019, 29, 29, 33, 33 2013 Legal Research I LAWS1013, 29, 29, 32, 32 IP: Trademarks and Patents LAWS5179, 87, 87, 93, 93 Legal Research LAWS5018, 69, 72 J Legal Systems in South East Asia LAWS3494, 36, 36, 45, 45 Japanese Law LAWS3444, 36, 36, 2013, 2013 Legal Systems in South East Asia LAWS5194, 75, 75, Japanese Law LAWS5144, 75, 75, 78, 78 78, 78 Japanese Law LAWS6879, 113, 113, 117, 117, 132, 132, M 137, 137, 148, 148, 152, 152, 176, 176, 181, 181, 192, 192, 194, 194, 196, 196, 213, 213 Management and Organisations WORK5003, 166 Judicial Review-P©ciple, Pol and Procedure LAWS6068, Management Consulting WORK6111, 166 108, 108, 128, 128, 129, 129, 132, 132, 134, 134, 176, Managing Communication in Organisations WORK6118, 176, 181, 181, 213, 213 166 Jurisprudence Research Project A JURS6034, 159, 159 Market Manipulation and Insider Trading LAWS6944, 37, Jurisprudence Research Project B JURS6035, 159, 159 37, 54, 54, 76, 76, 83, 83, 113, 113, 117, 117, 134, 134, 137, 137, 148, 148, 152, 152, 176, 176, 182, 182, 192, K 192, 194, 194, 196, 196, 216, 216 Key Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies PACS6911, Media Law: Comparative Perspectives LAWS6341, 37, 169 37, 54, 54, 76, 76, 83, 83, 113, 113, 117, 117, 176, 176, 182, 182, 192, 192, 216, 216 L Media Law: Defamation and Privacy LAWS3428, 36, 36, Labour Law in the Global Economy LAWS6816, 168, 45, 45 194 Media Law: Defamation and Privacy LAWS5128, 88, 88, Labour Law LAWS3446, 36, 2013 93, 93 Labour Law LAWS5146, 87, 93 Mediation - Skills and Theory LAWS6821, 134, 134, 166, 166, 176, 176, 182, 182, 217, 217 Labour Law LAWS6071, 134, 134, 135, 135, 165, 165, 166, 166, 174, 174, 176, 176, 178, 178, 180, 180, 182, Medical Law LAWS3452, 36, 36, 45, 45 182, 184, 184, 204, 204, 215, 215, 225, 225 Medical Law LAWS5152, 88, 88, 93, 93 Law, Business and Healthy Lifestyles LAWS6848, 37, Mental Illness: Law and Policy LAWS6877, 37, 37, 54, 37, 53, 53, 88, 88, 97, 97, 113, 113, 117, 117, 142, 142, 54, 88, 88, 97, 97, 108, 108, 121, 121, 123, 123, 134, 143, 143, 168, 168, 176, 176, 182, 182, 215, 215 134, 142, 142, 143, 143, 176, 176, 182, 182, 217, 217 Law, Justice and Development LAWS6928, 37, 37, 54, Mergers and Acquisitions in Asia LAWS6352, 194, 196 54, 76, 76, 83, 83, 113, 113, 117, 117, 128, 128, 129, 129, 132, 132, 134, 134, 137, 137, 148, 148, 152, 152, Middle East Conflict and Security CISS6013, 150 167, 167, 176, 176, 182, 182, 196, 196, 216, 216 Migration, Refugees and Forced Migration LAWS3499, Law and Economics LAWS3447, 38, 38, 56, 56 36, 36, 45, 45 Law and Economics LAWS5147, 99, 99, 101, 101 Migration, Refugees and Forced Migration LAWS5199, 75, 75, 79, 79 Law and Investment in Asia LAWS6932, 37, 37, 53, 53, 76, 76, 83, 83, 113, 113, 117, 117, 132, 132, 137, 137, N 148, 148, 152, 152, 169, 169, 176, 176, 182, 182, 192, 192, 194, 194, 196, 196, 215, 215 Neurolaw: Brain Mind Law and Ethics LAWS6335, 142, 143, 159, 161 Law and Social Theories LAWS3512, 38, 57 New Debates in Social Theory SCLG6903, 108 Law and Social Theories LAWS5212, 99, 101 New Security Challenges CISS6001, 150 Law Honours LAWS3900, 36, 36, 45, 45 Northeast Asian Politics GOVT6121, 149 Law International Exchange Electives LAWS3044, 36, 36, 45, 45 Nuclear Arms Control and Non-proliferation CISS6018, 150 Law International Exchange Electives LAWS5344, 87, 87, 93, 93 O Law of Asset Protection LAWS6953, 113, 113, 117, 117, 132, 132, 134, 134, 154, 154, 176, 176, 182, 182, 187, Organisational Analysis and Behaviour WORK6001, 166 187, 189, 189, 192, 192, 196, 196, 215, 215
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Organisational Change and Development WORK6026, Regulation of Corporate Crime LAWS6317, 38, 38, 55, 166 55, 88, 88, 97, 97, 113, 113, 117, 117, 177, 177, 182, Organisational Sustainability WORK6033, 166 182, 192, 192, 194, 194, 196, 196, 220, 220 Rethinking Poverty DVST6904, 167 P Risk, Fear and Insecurity LAWS6888, 38, 38, 55, 55, 88, People, Work and Employment WORK5002, 166 88, 98, 98, 121, 121, 123, 123, 177, 177, 182, 182, 220, 220 Performance and Rewards WORK6030, 166 Roman Law LAWS3460, 36, 36, 46, 46 Personal Property Securities LAWS6956, 113, 117, 132, 134, 176, 182, 192, 194, 219 Roman Law LAWS5160, 88, 88, 94, 94 Philosophy of Criminal Law LAWS3513, 38, 57 S Philosophy of Criminal Law LAWS5213, 99, 101 Secured Transactions in Commercial Law LAWS3484, Philosophy of International Law LAWS3475, 38, 38, 57, 36, 47 57 Secured Transactions in Commercial Law LAWS5184, Philosophy of International Law LAWS5175, 99, 99, 101, 88, 94 101 Securities and Markets Regulation LAWS6247, 113, 113, Philosophy of Law LAWS3454, 38, 38, 57, 57 117, 117, 177, 177, 182, 182, 192, 192, 194, 194, 220, Philosophy of Law LAWS5154, 99, 99, 101, 101 220 Philosophy of Law LAWS6308, 137, 137, 159, 159, 161, Shareholders© Remedies LAWS6957, 113, 113, 117, 117, 161, 176, 176, 182, 182, 219, 219 177, 177, 182, 182, 192, 192, 194, 194, 220, 220 Policing, Crime and Society LAWS3455, 36, 36, 46, 46 Social Justice Legal Clinic A LAWS3461, 36, 47 Policing, Crime and Society LAWS5155, 88, 88, 93, 93 Social Justice Legal Clinic A LAWS5161, 88, 94 Policing: Crime, Control and Security LAWS6197, 121, Social Justice Legal Clinic B LAWS3431, 36, 47 123, 176, 182, 219 Social Justice Legal Clinic B LAWS5131, 88, 95 Policy Making, Power and Politics GOVT6316, 107, 108, Social Policy Frameworks SCWK6948, 108, 108 149 Sociological Theories of Law LAWS3462, 57, 57 Pollution, Corporate Liability and Govern LAWS6065, 38, 54, 76, 84, 128, 129, 176, 182, 219 Statebuilding and ©Fragile States© CISS6006, 150 Pollution and Contaminated Land LAWS6065, 38, 54, Strategic Management WORK6002, 166 76, 84, 128, 129, 176, 182, 219 Strategy and Security in the Asia-Pacific CISS6002, 150 Precedent, Interpretation and Probability LAWS6836, Sydney Law Review LAWS3465, 36, 36, 47, 47 159, 161 Sydney Law Review LAWS5165, 88, 88, 95, 95 Principles of Financial Regulation LAWS6345, 38, 54, 76, 84, 113, 117, 132, 176, 182, 192, 194, 219 T Principles of Intellectual Property LAWS6873, 192, 194 Takeovers and Reconstructions LAWS6008, 113, 113, Principles of Oil and Gas Law LAWS6990, 192, 194, 196 117, 117, 177, 177, 182, 182, 192, 192, 194, 194, 220, 220 Private International Law A LAWS2018, 29, 29, 33, 33 Taxation and Regulation of Superannuation LAWS6127, Private International Law A LAWS5017, 69, 69, 70, 70, 154, 154 73, 73 Taxation of Corporate Finance LAWS6125, 114, 114, Private International Law B LAWS3457, 36, 36, 46, 46 117, 117, 135, 135, 155, 155, 177, 177, 183, 183, 188, Private International Law B LAWS5157, 75, 75, 79, 79 188, 190, 190, 194, 194, 221, 221 Project Management INFS5001, 168 Taxation of Corporate Groups LAWS6244, 114, 114, 117, 117, 135, 135, 155, 155, 177, 177, 183, 183, 188, Public International Law LAWS1023, 29, 29, 33, 33, 40, 188, 190, 190, 221, 221 40, 77, 77 Taxation of Mergers and Acquisitions LAWS6892, 155, Public International Law LAWS5005, 40, 40, 69, 69, 73, 155 73, 77, 77 Taxation of Offshore Operations LAWS6129, 114, 114, Public Law LAWS1021, 29, 29, 33, 33 118, 118, 132, 132, 135, 135, 153, 153, 177, 177, 183, Public Law LAWS5007, 69, 69, 70, 70, 73, 73 183, 188, 188, 190, 190, 221, 221 Public Management and Governance GOVT6331, 108, Taxation of Partnerships and Trusts LAWS6118, 114, 149 114, 118, 118, 132, 132, 135, 135, 155, 155, 177, 177, 183, 183, 188, 188, 190, 190, 222, 222 Public Policy LAWS6257, 107, 107, 113, 113, 117, 117, 128, 128, 129, 129, 134, 134, 154, 154, 169, 169, 176, Taxation of Real Property Transactions LAWS6336, 114, 176, 182, 182, 187, 187, 189, 189, 219, 219 114, 118, 118, 154, 154, 177, 177, 183, 183, 188, 188, 190, 190, 192, 192, 222, 222 Public Sector Ethics and Corruption GOVT6301, 108, 149 Tax Avoidance and Anti-Avoidance LAWS6965, 113, 113, 117, 117, 154, 154, 177, 177, 183, 183, 188, 188, Public Sector Leadership GSOG6002, 169 189, 189, 196, 196, 220, 220 Punishment LAWS6194, 38, 38, 54, 54, 88, 88, 97, 97, Tax Litigation LAWS6107, 154 121, 121, 123, 123, 176, 176, 182, 182, 220, 220 Tax of Business and Investment Income A LAWS6840, R 113, 113, 117, 117, 135, 135, 155, 155, 177, 177, 183, 183, 188, 188, 190, 190, 221, 221 Race and the Law LAWS3514, 36, 46 Tax of Business and Investment Income B LAWS6841, Race and the Law LAWS5214, 88, 94 113, 113, 117, 117, 135, 135, 155, 155, 177, 177, 183, Real Property LAWS2017, 29, 29, 33, 33 183, 188, 188, 190, 190, 221, 221 Tax Treaties LAWS6177, 38, 38, 55, 55, 76, 76, 84, 84, Real Property LAWS5012, 69, 69, 70, 70, 73, 73 113, 113, 117, 117, 135, 135, 137, 137, 149, 149, 152, Redfern Legal Centre Clinic LAWS3509, 36, 46 152, 153, 153, 177, 177, 183, 183, 188, 188, 189, 189, Redfern Legal Centre Clinic LAWS5209, 88, 94 196, 196, 222, 222 Refugee Law LAWS6198, 108, 169
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Tax Treaties Special Issues LAWS6946, 113, 113, 117, Young People, Crime and the Law LAWS6192, 38, 38, 117, 135, 135, 137, 137, 149, 149, 152, 152, 153, 153, 56, 56, 88, 88, 98, 98, 122, 122, 123, 123, 178, 178, 184, 177, 177, 183, 183, 188, 188, 189, 189, 196, 196, 222, 184, 226, 226 222 The Legal Profession LAWS2013, 29, 29, 33, 33 The Legal Profession LAWS5009, 69, 69, 70, 70, 73, 73 The Nature of the Common Law LAWS6338, 38, 38, 58, 58, 99, 99, 102, 102, 137, 137, 159, 159, 161, 161, 169, 169, 177, 177, 183, 183, 222, 222 Theories of Conscientious Obedience LAWS3471, 38, 38, 58, 58 Theories of Conscientious Obedience LAWS5171, 99, 99, 102, 102 Theories of Justice LAWS3468, 38, 58 Theories of Justice LAWS5168, 99, 102 Theories of Law LAWS3469, 38, 58 Theories of Law LAWS5169, 99, 102 Theories of Law LAWS6940, 159, 161 Theories of the Judiciary LAWS6316, 38, 38, 58, 58, 99, 99, 102, 102, 137, 137, 159, 159, 161, 161, 177, 177, 183, 183, 223, 223 The Philosophy of Human Rights HRTD6906, 159 The Rule of Law and its Value LAWS3495, 38, 38, 57, 57 The Rule of Law and its Value LAWS5195, 99, 99, 102, 102 The State and Global Governance LAWS6119, 38, 55, 76, 84, 147, 152, 159, 161, 168, 169, 177, 183, 222 Torts and Contracts II LAWS1017, 29, 29, 34, 34 Torts and Contracts II LAWS5006, 69, 69, 70, 70, 74, 74 Torts LAWS1012, 29, 29, 34, 34 Torts LAWS5001, 69, 69, 74, 74 Transfer Pricing in International Tax LAWS6123, 114, 114, 118, 118, 132, 132, 137, 137, 149, 149, 152, 152, 153, 153, 178, 178, 183, 183, 188, 188, 190, 190, 196, 196, 223, 223 U UK International Taxation LAWS6109, 38, 38, 55, 55, 76, 76, 84, 84, 114, 114, 118, 118, 132, 132, 137, 137, 149, 149, 152, 152, 153, 153, 178, 178, 183, 183, 188, 188, 190, 190, 196, 196, 225, 225 US Corporate Law LAWS6844, 38, 38, 55, 55, 76, 76, 85, 85, 114, 114, 118, 118, 132, 132, 137, 137, 149, 149, 152, 152, 178, 178, 183, 183, 192, 192, 194, 194, 197, 197, 225, 225 US International Taxation LAWS6171, 38, 38, 56, 56, 76, 76, 85, 85, 114, 114, 118, 118, 132, 132, 137, 137, 149, 149, 152, 152, 154, 154, 178, 178, 183, 183, 188, 188, 190, 190, 197, 197, 225, 225 W War and Strategy CISS6019, 150 War Law: Use of Force and Humanitarian Law LAWS3483, 36, 36, 47, 47 War Law: Use of Force and Humanitarian Law LAWS5183, 75, 75, 79, 79 Water Law and Climate Change LAWS6191, 37, 51, 76, 81, 107, 108, 127, 129, 136, 148, 151, 168, 169, 174, 180, 204 Work Health and Safety: Law and Policy LAWS6096, 38, 38, 56, 56, 88, 88, 98, 98, 165, 165, 178, 178, 183, 183, 225, 225 Workplace Investigations LAWS6305, 135, 135, 165, 165, 178, 178, 184, 184, 225, 225 World Trade Organization Law I LAWS6063, 38, 38, 56, 56, 76, 76, 85, 85, 114, 114, 118, 118, 137, 137, 147, 147, 152, 152, 178, 178, 184, 184, 192, 192, 194, 194, 195, 195, 225, 225 Y
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