730-359 Commercial Law in Asia

Legal Method and Reasoning; Principles of Public Law; Torts; Legal Theory; Obligations; Contracts or in each case their equivalents.

This subject will examine commercial regulation in at least three of the following Asian countries in the year that it is taught: China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, East Timor and Vietnam. The subject will include a joint venture hypothetical, which will be expanded each week, to give students experience of managing an investment. The hypothetical is based on actual cases. There is no overlap in content between this subject and the faculty's complementary offerings in Asian law. No knowledge of Asia or Asian languages is assumed for this subject.

Topics covered in the subject will include Asian legal systems: an overview; historical origins, colonial and postcolonial legal orders, civil codes in an Asian setting and transplantation of the common law; current issues in contract and foreign investment regulations; civil procedure; commercial codes and corporate forms; issues in corporate governance, labour organisation and its regulation, competition policy; dispute resolution and reform of legal institutions: current issues in domestic and transnational legal practice; and regional and multilateral regulation affecting commercial transactions including WTO.

Note: The essay in this subject is regarded as a substantial piece of legal writing for honours purposes.

Research assignment 5000 words 100% OR a final examination three hours 100%.

Printed materials will be issued by the Faculty of Law.