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Interests in Securities - LAWS3140
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Faculty: Faculty of Law
 
 
School:  Faculty of Law
 
   
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: LAWS1001 and LAWS1011 and Corequisite: LAWS2311; Prerequisite: JURD7101 and JURD7111 and Corequisite: JURD7211
 
 
Excluded: JURD7340
 
 
Fee Band: 3 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

This course focuses primarily on the principles under various strands of law that underlie dealings in securities and in interests in securities. It is a mix of the laws of property (and, in particular, relating to intangibles and secured transactions), contract and corporate insolvency as well as thorny questions of the conflict of laws. We look at these not only from an Anglo-Australian perspective but on a comparative basis examining the analysis in other countries including the United States, Japan and Germany. We also consider international initiatives underway to harmonise law in this area. The course necessarily provides background on the modern clearance and settlement structures used in Australia and around and the variety of holding patterns that are now common place

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