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COLW-PSPECCommercial and corporate law
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The Commercial and corporate law specialisation equips you to develop a thorough theoretical and practical grounding in commercial and corporate law and to expand your expertise by pursuing new areas of study or explore existing knowledge...
LAW5445Commercial equity
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This unit is designed to deepen your understanding of commercial equity. You will examine the evolution of certain core equitable doctrines most relevant to commercial practice and their application in contemporary contexts. Building on...
Semester 2Monash Law Chambers
LAW5502Comparative and international contract law
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This unit will explore contract law principles and issues from a comparative and international perspective. This unit will compare, contrast and critically evaluate contract law from the perspective of different legal systems and...
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LAW5648Comparative commercial transactions law
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This unit introduces you to the legal issues relating to transactions undertaken by companies in order to borrow money for their activities. The unit is in two parts. In the first part of the unit, measures of obtaining finance are...
LAW5331Comparative constitution and rights
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The unit will cover a series of topics arising in the comparative study of constitutional systems, mostly in the western-liberal tradition. Comparative constitutional law is a rapidly expanding and maturing field, embedded in a context of...
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LAW5378Comparative corporate governance
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This unit explores contemporary thinking, regulation, and practice surrounding the connected areas of corporate governance, responsibility, and sustainability in Australia and comparable corporate regulatory systems worldwide, with...
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LAW5495Comparative financial regulation
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This unit explores the law and policy of financial regulation from a comparative perspective. The unit will explore approaches to financial regulation and ask students to think critically about the policy choices underlying various...
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LAW5611Comparative issues in patent law
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This unit will examine from an international and comparative perspective some fundamental questions that arise in patent law: - Why is a twenty-year monopoly in the form of a patent available for inventions? We will critically analyse this...
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LAW5312Competition law
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The unit examines the competition provisions of the Australian Competition and Consumer legislation. Topics to be discussed include the rationale and objectives of competition law; mergers; misuse of market power; anti-competitive...
Semester 1Monash Law Chambers
LAW5372Contemporary perspectives on construction law
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This unit will allow you to acquire knowledge and understanding of a specialist, and increasingly important, area of the law. The unit begins with a critical analysis of the different types of contracts and project delivery methods used by...
LAW5335Contemporary problems in the administration of criminal justice
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The unit will vary so as to maintain a focus of developing significance. Topics covered may include: concepts of criminal justice, managerialism in criminal justice, juries, legal aid in the post-Dietrich era, the nature and extent of...
Semester 2Monash Law Chambers
LAW5633Contemporary workplace relations law
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This unit will examine the following major areas: 1. the development of systems for regulating dispute settlement and determining conditions of employment, including the Australian federal system for regulating workplace relations,...
LAW5301Copyright
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The unit covers copyright, the branch of intellectual property law concerned with protecting various forms of creative and informational expression. We will study the rationales for granting protection, the international treaty framework,...
LAW5489Coronial law
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This unit examines the doctrines, procedures and theories of coronial law in Australia. It introduces you to the coronial investigation process into sudden, unexpected, violent and accidental deaths, and the role of the coroner in...
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LAW5356Corporate and white collar crime
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This unit examines the criminal liability of corporations and what is broadly described as 'white collar crime'; that is, crime which is committed in an occupational context. The unit will begin with criminological perspectives on the...
Semester 1Monash Law Chambers
LAW5385Corporate finance law
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The unit introduces postgraduate students to the legal principles that underpin how companies and other institutions borrow money or otherwise access credit facilities. It will deal with the statutory law regulating the finance markets in...
LAW5357Corporate governance and directors' duties
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This unit will explore a range of recent trends and issues in corporate governance from an international perspective. Key areas discussed in this unit include:- the link between corporate scandals and corporate law reform; comparative...
Semester 1Monash Law Chambers
LAW5488Corporations, ESG and society
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This unit explores significant changes in real world expectations of the relationship between corporations and society, as exemplified by the current emphasis on environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations in corporate...
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CLAF-PSPECCriminal law and forensics
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The Criminal Law and Forensics specialisation equips you to develop a thorough theoretical and practical grounding in criminal law and forensics. You can choose from a range of units relating to international and domestic criminal law,...
LAW5303Current issues in child law
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This unit focuses on the law concerning children, at a domestic, regional, and international level. It will provide an in-depth analysis of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, its strengths and weaknesses, and the challenges for...
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