LAWS6955 - Key Legal Concepts in Finance Law

Objectives

Identify and analyse key legal concepts that impact on the operation of financial markets.

Content

An introductory examination of how contractual and other relationships underlie financial transactions; how financial assets (including financial instruments) are created, traded and used as security; how corporate and trust structures are used by market participants as financing vehicles; and how financial transactions may be challenged in an insolvency.

Session

Professor Sheelagh McCracken & Professor John Stumbles
Semester 1 2010
Thursday Evenings, 6-8pm

Professor Sheelagh McCracken
Semester 2 Intensive
4 (Introduction) & 16-17 & 23-24 August 2010

The timetable is subject to frequent changes. Please refer to the latest version of the Postgraduate Timetable.

Assessment

1 x 3000 Word Assignment (30%)
1 x 2 Hour Open Book Exam (70%)

Courses this unit is available in

Sydney Law School