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Commercial Law

Units of study

Unit of study Credit points A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session

Graduate Diploma in Commercial Law

Candidates must complete 24 credit points.

2016 Units of Study

LAWS6310
Advanced Competition Law: Selected Issues
6    P LAWS6838 or LAWS3419 or LAWS5119
Intensive October
LAWS6014
Advanced Financing Techniques
6      Semester 2
LAWS6169
Capital Gains Tax
6      Intensive May
LAWS6824
Commercial Conflict of Laws
6    N LAWS6884


This unit replaced LAWS6824 Transnational Commercial Litigation
Intensive February
LAWS6333
Commercial Trusts
6   

Available to students who have previously completed trust law or corporations law as part of an undergraduate law degree.
Intensive September
LAWS6337
Communications/Technology Regulation
6      Intensive August
LAWS6838
Competition Law
6    A LAWS6252
Semester 1
LAWS6264
Compliance: Financial Services Industry
6      Semester 2
LAWS6328
Contract Management
6    A LAWS6991
N LAWS1002 or LAWS1015 or LAWS2008 or LAWS5002
Intensive August
LAWS6874
Contractual Damages
6   
Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Intensive July
LAWS6250
Controlling Liability by Contract
6      Semester 2
LAWS6222
Corporate Governance
6      Intensive April
LAWS6318
Corporate Innovation and Regulation
6   

This unit replaced LAWS6318 Corporate Innovation and Abuse.
Intensive September
LAWS6140
Corp Soc Responsibility: Theory/Pol
6   

Available to MLLR students who commence after Jan 2015.
Intensive July
LAWS6997
Cross-Border Deals
6   

This unit replaced LAWS6997 Cross-Border Deals ¿ A US Perspective. 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 their home jurisdiction.
Intensive October
LAWS6307
Expert Evidence and Class Action Procedure
6    N LAWS6230 or LAWS6869


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.
Semester 1
LAWS6987
Fundamentals of Commercial Law
6    N LAWS3400


This unit replaced LAWS6987 Introduction to Commercial Law.
Intensive April
LAWS6810
Fundamentals of Corporate Law
6   

This unit replaced LAWS6810 Introductory Corporate Law. Available to MLLR students who commence after Jan 2015. Prohibition: students who have undertaken the equivalent of Corporations Law in Australia within the last 5 years
Intensive March
LAWS6330
Fundamentals of Regulation
6   

Available to MLLR students who commence after Jan 2015.
Intensive August
LAWS6334
Gender Inequality and Development
6      Intensive March
LAWS6964
Global Energy and Resources Law
6      Intensive May
LAWS6933
Global Oil and Gas Contracts and Issues
6   

This unit replaced LAWS6933 International Petroleum Transactions.
Intensive May
LAWS6159
Insolvency Law
6    A law degree with good background in Australian corporate law
N CLAW6006 or LAWS3403 or LAWS3445 or LAWS5103


This unit replaced LAWS6159 Corporate Insolvency Law.
Intensive July
LAWS6882
Insurance Contract Law
6    A LAWS6991


The unit replaced LAWS6882 Insurance law.
Intensive September
LAWS6817
Interaction of Tort and Contracts
6    A undergraduate law degree


This unit replaced LAWS6817 Practical Legal Effects of the Interaction of Tort and Contract
Intensive March
LAWS6059
International Business Law
6    A LAWS6252


Core unit for MIntBus&L students. This unit is available as one of the core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students.
Intensive March
LAWS6060
International Commercial Arbitration
6   

This is available as one of the core units for GradDipIntBusLaw students
Intensive October
LAWS6958
International Contract Law
6    A undergraduate law degree


This unit replaced LAWS6958 Comparative Commercial Contracts.
Intensive February
LAWS6138
Internatl Fin Transactions: Law and Prac
6      Intensive March
LAWS6037
International Import/Export Laws
6      Semester 1
LAWS6939
International Insolvency Law
6      Intensive February
LAWS6916
International Investment Law
6      Intensive August
LAWS6339
International Sports Law
6      Intensive August
LAWS6879
Japanese Law
6   
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/cstudent/offshore/index.shtml Registration enquiries law.offshore@sydney.edu.au Enrolment enquiries law.postgraduate@sydney.edu.au
Intensive February
LAWS6932
Law and Investment in Asia
6      Intensive May
LAWS6953
Law of Asset Protection
6      Intensive August
LAWS6944
Market Manipulation and Insider Trading
6   

This unit replaced LAWS6944 Regulation of Market Manipulation and Abuse (formerly Manipulation and Abuse in Global Securities Markets).
Intensive October
LAWS6332
Media Law in Practice
6   

A legal or media background (or both) would be useful but not required.
Intensive August
LAWS6341
Media Law: Comparative Perspectives
6   
Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Intensive July
LAWS6950
Plain English in Legal Writing
6    A LAWS6252

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Intensive October
LAWS6873
Principles of Intellectual Property
6    N LAWS6854 or LAWS3480 or LAWS3479 or LAWS5180 or LAWS5179


This unit replaced LAWS6873 Intellectual Property: Principles and Context (formerly LAWS6854 Introduction to Intellectual Property). Students who have previously completed an equivalent undergraduate or postgraduate unit in intellectual property.
Intensive July
LAWS6990
Principles of Oil and Gas Law
6   
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
MIL and GradDipIL students may enrol in either LAWS6990 Principles of Oil and Gas Law or LAWS6933 Global Oil and Gas Contracts and Issues, but not both.
Intensive July
LAWS6340
Quantitative Methods in Criminal Justice
6      Intensive May
LAWS6317
Regulation of Corporate Crime
6   

Additional Info: It is recommended that students have some knowledge of corporate law and criminal law and procedure, or have had practical experience in these areas.
Intensive March
LAWS6247
Securities and Markets Regulation
6   

This unit replaced LAWS6247 Australian Financial Services Regulation. Students should hold a law degree with good background in Australian corporate law.
Intensive January
LAWS6957
Shareholders' Remedies
6   

Students should hold a law degree with good background in Australian corporate law
Intensive January
LAWS6008
Takeovers and Reconstructions
6      Semester 1
LAWS6844
US Corporate Law
6      Intensive May
LAWS6063
World Trade Organization Law I
6    A limited knowledge of law of treaties


This unit replaced LAWS6063 International Trade Regulation
Intensive April