Business Law
Units of study
| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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Master of Business Law |
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| Exemption from core units of study should not be assumed to be automatic. Formal approval must be obtained from the Faculty of prior to enrolment | |||
| Candidates 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 candidates without a law background; or | |||
| (ii) 48 credit points of elective units of study, for candidates with a law background | |||
2016 Core Units of Study |
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| Candidates without a law degree from a common law jurisdiction must undertake the unit below prior or concurrent to enrolling in other law units. | |||
| LAWS6252 Legal Reasoning and the Common Law System |
6 | N LAWS6881 International students who are required to enrol in this unit must undertake classes during the first week of their study. Health Law and Public Health students should enrol in LAWS6881 Introduction to Law for Health Professionals in lieu of LAWS6252, if available. This unit is not available to MLawIntDev students who have been granted a reduced volume of learning. Students must attend all classes on the timetabled dates as prescribed for their enrolled session/group. An Absent Fail grade may be granted to students who fail to attend the correct session/group. |
Intensive April Intensive July Intensive March Intensive September |
2016 Elective Units of Study |
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| LAWS6310 Advanced Competition Law: Selected Issues |
6 | P LAWS6838 or LAWS3419 or LAWS5119 |
Intensive October |
| LAWS6014 Advanced Financing Techniques |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| LAWS6209 Australian International Taxation |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| LAWS6169 Capital Gains Tax |
6 | Intensive May |
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| LAWS6091 Chinese International Taxation |
6 |
The unit is available to students who have successfully completed either one undergraduate unit of study in tax law or one unit of study in a postgraduate tax program. |
Intensive August |
| LAWS6001 Chinese Laws and Chinese Legal Systems |
12 | A LAWS6252 N LAWS6857 or LAWS3014 or LAWS3068 or LAWS5368 Note: Department permission required for enrolment This unit is not available to students who have completed a law degree in the People's Republic of China. Students must register their attendance before enrolling. 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. To register, please visit the Shanghai Winter School website http://sydney.edu.au/law/cstudent/offshore/index.shtml Registration enquiries law.offshore@sydney.edu.au Enrolment enquiries law.postgraduate@sydney.edu.au |
Intensive November |
| 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 |
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| LAWS6153 Comparative Corporate Taxation |
6 | Intensive March |
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| LAWS6128 Comparative International Taxation |
6 | Intensive April |
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| LAWS6838 Competition Law |
6 | A LAWS6252 |
Semester 1 |
| LAWS6264 Compliance: Financial Services Industry |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| 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 |
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| LAWS6222 Corporate Governance |
6 | Intensive April |
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| 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 |
| LAWS6030 Corporate Taxation |
6 | Intensive March Semester 1 Semester 1a |
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| 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 |
| LAWS6852 Doing Business in China |
6 | A LAWS6252 |
Intensive August |
| LAWS6984 Economics of Tax Policy |
6 | N LAWS6257 |
Intensive October |
| LAWS6937 Employment Law Advocacy |
6 | Intensive August |
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| 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 |
| LAWS6991 Fundamentals of Contract Law |
6 | C LAWS6252 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. This unit replaced LAWS6991 Introduction to Contract Law. Available to MLLR students who commence after Jan 2015. |
Intensive May |
| 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 |
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| LAWS6933 Global Oil and Gas Contracts and Issues |
6 |
This unit replaced LAWS6933 International Petroleum Transactions. |
Intensive May |
| LAWS6214 Goods and Services Tax Principles A |
6 | Intensive March |
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| LAWS6846 Human Rights and the Global Economy |
6 | N LAWS5178 Master of Law and International Development students may undertake this unit as an elective or capstone unit |
Intensive August |
| LAWS6147 Independent Research Project |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment Closing date 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2) |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| LAWS6182 Independent Research Project A |
6 | C LAWS6183 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Closing date 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or two semesters. |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| LAWS6183 Independent Research Project B |
6 | C LAWS6182 Note: Department permission required for enrolment Closing date 30 September (Semester 1) and 30 April (Semester 2). Students must complete both LAWS6182 and LAWS6183 within one or two semesters. |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| 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 |
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| LAWS6037 International Import/Export Laws |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| LAWS6939 International Insolvency Law |
6 | Intensive February |
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| LAWS6916 International Investment Law |
6 | Intensive August |
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| LAWS6243 International Law I |
6 | N LAWS5005 This unit replaced LAWS6243 Public International Law. This unit is compulsory for MIL and GradDipIntLaw students who have not completed any previous study in international law and 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. |
Intensive March Semester 2 |
| LAWS6339 International Sports Law |
6 | Intensive August |
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| LAWS6326 Interpretation of Statutes and Other Texts |
6 | Intensive October |
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| LAWS6825 Introduction to Australian Business Tax |
6 | Intensive August Intensive March Semester 1a Semester 1b |
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| LAWS6857 Introduction to Chinese Law |
6 | A LAWS6252 N LAWS6001 Prohibition: Students who have completed a law degree in the People's Republic of China |
Intensive May |
| 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 |
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| LAWS6953 Law of Asset Protection |
6 | Intensive August |
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| LAWS6112 Law of Tax Administration |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| LAWS6848 Law, Business and Healthy Lifestyles |
6 |
This unit replaced LAWS6848 Law and Healthy Lifestyles (formerly: New Directions in Public Health Law and Policy). This unit may be substituted for LAWS6839 Critical Issues in Public Health Law as a compulsory unit in the MHL. |
Intensive March |
| LAWS6928 Law, Justice and Development |
6 | N LAWS3478 This unit is compulsory for MLawIntDev students and replaced LAWS6928 Law and Economic Development. |
Intensive April |
| LAWS6149 Legal Pluralism in Southeast Asia |
12 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment This unit will be taught offshore with the cooperation of Gadjah Mada University (Yogyakarta, Indonesia) and International Islamic University (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia). These institutions will provide guest lecturers. These institutions can be contacted through Assoc Prof Simon Butt and Dr Salim Farrar. Students must register their attendance before enrolling. For further information, please visit http://sydney.edu.au/law/caplus Registration enquiries law.offshore@sydney.edu.au Enrolment enquiries law.postgraduate@sydney.edu.au |
Intensive July |
| 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 |
| LAWS6257 Public Policy |
6 | N LAWS6139 or LAWS6042 or LAWS6113 or LAWS6984 Core unit for MALP students. |
Intensive September |
| LAWS6340 Quantitative Methods in Criminal Justice |
6 | Intensive May |
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| 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 |
| LAWS6965 Tax Avoidance and Anti-Avoidance |
6 | Intensive April |
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| LAWS6177 Tax Treaties |
6 | Intensive May |
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| LAWS6946 Tax Treaties Special Issues |
6 | Intensive October |
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| LAWS6127 Taxation and Regulation of Superannuation |
6 | N LAWS6213 |
Semester 1 |
| LAWS6840 Tax of Business and Investment Income A |
6 | Intensive April Semester 1 Semester 1a |
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| LAWS6841 Tax of Business and Investment Income B |
6 | Intensive October Semester 2 Semester 2a |
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| LAWS6125 Taxation of Corporate Finance |
6 |
First class commences Feb 29 |
Semester 1 |
| LAWS6244 Taxation of Corporate Groups |
6 | Intensive August |
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| LAWS6892 Taxation of Mergers and Acquisitions |
6 | C LAWS6030 |
Semester 2 |
| LAWS6129 Taxation of Offshore Operations |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| LAWS6118 Taxation of Partnerships and Trusts |
6 | Intensive September |
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| LAWS6336 Taxation of Real Property Transactions |
6 | Intensive October |
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| LAWS6123 Transfer Pricing in International Tax |
6 | Intensive May |
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| LAWS6109 UK International Taxation |
6 | Intensive August |
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| LAWS6844 US Corporate Law |
6 | Intensive May |
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| LAWS6171 US International Taxation |
6 | Intensive May |
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| LAWS6063 World Trade Organization Law I |
6 | A limited knowledge of law of treaties This unit replaced LAWS6063 International Trade Regulation |
Intensive April |