Structured class participation (10%)

Students will be allocated to lead the class discussion for a particular class session. Students will be individually assessed on the quality of their class contributions according to the following criteria:

- the extent to which the student has identified the important and relevant issues;

- the depth and thoroughness of understanding of the seminar materials (both theoretical and doctrinal); and

- the strength and clarity of the arguments presented, and generally, the level of constructive engagement in class discussion.

This assessment item will satisfy Learning Outcome 1 (LO1) by requiring students to demonstrate an understanding of the key principles underpinning financial regulation and how those principles are translated into regulation and applied to regulated entities (such as banks) and their activities and transactions. It will satisfy Learning Outcome 2 (LO2) by requiring students to demonstrate an understanding of the design of financial regulation and financial regulatory models around the world. It will satisfy Learning Outcome 3 (LO3) to demonstrate understanding of the developing areas of financial regulation, such as decentralised finance or ESG investing.

Short Release Assignment (90%) 

Students will be presented with a choice of 5 short essay topics and will be required to answer 2 of the topics. This is not a research essay and reference to the prescribed reading materials is sufficient.  The assignment will be released at 6pm on 24 March 2023 and due at 6pm on 27 March 2023 (Sydney, Australia time). The word limit is 7,000 words (3,500 words for each essay). This is a maximum not a minimum, although an essay that was shorter than 2,000 words would be unlikely to cover sufficient material to provide a satisfactory answer to the question.

This assessment item will satisfy Learning Outcome 1 (LO1) by requiring students to demonstrate an understanding of the key principles underpinning financial regulation and how those principles are translated into regulation and applied to regulated entities (such as banks) and their activities and transactions. It will satisfy Learning Outcome 2 (LO2) by requiring students to demonstrate an understanding of the design of financial regulation and financial regulatory models around the world. It will satisfy Learning Outcome 3 (LO3) to demonstrate understanding of developing areas of financial regulation, such as decentralised finance and/or ESG investing.

The outcome of a grant of special consideration application may include an alternative task, at the discretion of the Unit Coordinator.  

Word Limit Penalty: A piece of assessment which exceeds the prescribed word limit will attract a penalty of 10% of the total marks available for the piece of assessment for every 100 words, or part thereof. The total word count for essay and other written assessments will include all footnotes.

Use of editors or proof-readers:

The use of assistance in preparing and editing assessment tasks in this unit of study is strictly prohibited. Assistance includes human and automated writing tools (not including spell checking).

Assessment requirement to pass a unit of study:
A student must make a genuine attempt at all assessment tasks set out in this Unit of Study in order to obtain a Pass mark and grade (or above); otherwise an Absent Fail grade will be recorded as the student’s result for this Unit of Study.