Continuing Professional Development

The course explores the sources, key rules, and principles of international human rights law, including their development, scope, and enforcement, as well as related institutional frameworks.

The effective and efficient governance of corporations is crucial to their success as vehicles for the creation of wealth. The course will explore the legal, regulatory, and market-based mechanisms by which corporations are governed and how governance practices can contribute to superior decision-making by corporate boards.

This course develops an understanding of the various forms of intellectual property and intangible assets that may require protection. It also examines the preconditions for protection and remedies for any infringement.

Society comprises individuals. While there are many things people do for themselves by individual effort or by exchange with others, certain needs can be addressed more conveniently by collective action. These include the protection of life, liberty and property, and the provision of essential public goods.

The course will deepen student understanding of the application and purposes of public law with particular analysis of criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, and administrative law.

The course will explore the application of equitable doctrines and remedies with the following three broad categories: commercial arrangements and the conscience of equity; equitable property in a commercial context; and equitable remedies in a commercial context.

This course deals with a range of mechanisms available for managing international commercial disputes. One of these mechanisms, international commercial arbitration, is a major growth area of legal practice and a widely used dispute resolution method in international business.

The vast majority of worldwide imports and exports are carried by sea, whether in bulk form, for example, oil, grain and coal, or as containerised cargo. This course covers the international contractual arrangements that facilitate this trade, with a focus on the contracts for the carriage of such goods by sea, including charterparties and bills of lading, as well as the insurance contracts that ensure the viability of this maritime trade. The course covers the solutions adopted in the international standard form contracts used in international trade and the interpretations of these by the courts in the context of mandatory international conventions such as the Hague-Visby Rules or the Rotterdam Convention. Given the international focus of this course it will suite both Australian and overseas students and provides the basis for the consideration of a range of other international trade issue. For a comprehensive coverage of international maritime law, this course should be taken together with LAWS7865 International Admiralty and Maritime Law.