Japanese Law and the Economy takes a problem-based approach to examining how Japanese law regulates commercial transactions. Students will work on a hypothetical business deal between an Australian and Japanese party. Throughout the course, students will be exposed to a wide variety of commercial law topics - contract law, anti-trust, product liability, corporate law, intellectual property, banking and finance regulations, and commercial dispute resolution - as part of advising on the transaction. In the process, students will learn how Japanese law defines business relationships, allocates commercial risk, ensures compliance with public policy responsibilities, and generally regulates commercial conduct. By the end of the course, students will gain such practical legal skills as negotiating across cultural domains, drafting transnational documents and issue-spotting in international transactions.