This unit explores the nature, function and regulation of companies in Australia, with a view to understanding and being able to apply corporations law principles arising at common law, in equity and under statute. It engages with corporate governance principles, comparative pespectives and recent developments in the law to critically study the internal structure and governance of the company, placing emphasis on duties owed by directors to the company and rights and remedies available to members. In the context of ongoing debate concerning the role and theory of the corporation, students consider the relationship between corporations and the outside world in the form of corporate... -- Course Website
Prerequisites: LAWS4101 Legal Process (formerly LAWS5101 Legal Process) and LAWS4103 Contract (formerly LAWS5103 Contract) and LAWS4106 Torts (formerly LAWS5106 Torts) and LAWS5103 Equity and Trusts (formerly LAWS6103 Equity and Trusts)
