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Corporate, Securities and Finance Law

Units of study

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

Graduate Diploma in Corporate, Securities and Finance 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
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
LAWS6153
Comparative Corporate Taxation
6      Intensive March
LAWS6838
Competition Law
6    A LAWS6252
Semester 1
LAWS6264
Compliance: Financial Services Industry
6      Semester 2
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
LAWS6030
Corporate Taxation
6      Intensive March
Semester 1
Semester 1a
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
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
LAWS6933
Global Oil and Gas Contracts and Issues
6   

This unit replaced LAWS6933 International Petroleum Transactions.
Intensive May
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
LAWS6125
Taxation of Corporate Finance
6   

First class commences Feb 29
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