CO5119 - Business Law
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 3 |
| Administered by: | School of Law Office |
This subject addresses the legal foundations of business. Focus will be on the nature, role and sources of law; the major legal systems of the world; the common law system; the laws regulating agreements, obligations and property; industrial and intellectual property; restrictive trade practices and fair trading; financial instruments and securities; technology transfers including licensing and franchising; legal process and alternative dispute resolution.
Learning Outcomes
- To develop an understanding of the different regimes which are relevant to making agreements in an international context, the problems which can arise and how to deal with them;
- To develop the ability to put international trade contracts in their proper framework, in terms of the contracts and their enforcement and enforceability, and in the wider context of how businesses function in the international commercial field.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
- The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
- The ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences.
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | LB5004 CO5108 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 27-Mar-2009 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Professor Stephen Graw. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); other exams (50%). |
| Cairns, Block, Study Period 4 | |
| Census Date 20-Mar-2009 | |
| Face to face teaching 22-Mar-2009 to 26-Apr-2009 (Teaching over three weekends 21/22 March,4/5 April and 24/25/26 April) | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Stephen Graw |
| Lecturer: | Dr Helen Sungaila. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (70%); assignments (30%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 21 | |
| Census Date 17-Apr-2009 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Stephen Graw |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); assignments (50%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 22 | |
| Census Date 14-Aug-2009 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Stephen Graw |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); assignments (50%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 23 | |
| Census Date 11-Dec-2009 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Stephen Graw |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); assignments (50%). |
Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.