Corporate Governance - JURD7428
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
Enrolment Requirements:
Pre-requisite: 36 UOC of JURD courses for students enrolled prior to 2013. For students enrolled after 2013, pre-requisite: 72 UOC of JURD courses.
Excluded: LAWS8028
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Main Topics:
- Current developments in corporate governance and its environment: an overview of the legal structure of corporate governance; theories of corporate governance
- Comparative dimensions of corporate governance: global convergence or path dependence
- An introduction to corporate ethics
- The objectives of the corporation: defining corporate purposes and responsibilities: global and human rights dimensions
- Discerning the board's role and function and its optimal structure and process
- Board composition and role differentiation: executive versus non-executive directors
- The moderators of board conduct and standards: the respective roles of legal liability rules, markets and of social and ethical norms; the role of directors and officers liability insurance
- Director and executive remuneration
- The role in which shareholders are cast: reconfiguring for efficacy and function
- Encouraging shareholder activism: merits and feasibility
- The function of professional gatekeepers: auditors, financial advisers and lawyers.