Business and the Law

Professor Andrew Terry, LLM (Cant. NZ), Barrister and Solicitor (NZ), Solicitor (NSW), is Head of the School of Business Law and Taxation in the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales and is Special Counsel to Deacons Lawyers. He is a past director of the Franchise Council of Australia, of which he is an Honorary Member, and is an inductee into the Australian Franchising Hall of Fame. Des Giugni LLM(hons)(syd),MscSoc(UNSW), is a Solicitor and former Senior Lecturer in the School of Business Law and Taxation at the University of New South Wales.

PART 1: THE AUSTRALIAN LEGAL SYSTEM
1. The nature and role of law and legal systems
2. The Australian legal system
3. The Australian Constitution
4. The courts and case law
5. The Parliament and statute law
6. The executive and law-making by administrative agencies
7. Litigation, the legal process and alternative dispute resolution
8. Legal method, research and reasoning
PART 2: GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS LAW
9. Crimes: concepts of control
10. Torts: concepts of liability
11. Property and securities: concepts of ownership
12. Contracts: concepts of agreement
PART 3: BUSINESS ORGANISATION
13. Alternative business structures
14. The modern corporation
15. Partnership
16. Agency
17. Licensing
18. Franchising
19. Business failure
PART 4: BUSINESS, CONSUMERS AND FAIR TRADING
20. Consumer protection and fair trading
21. Misleading and unconscionable conduct
22. Advertising and sales promotion
23. Supply of goods and services
PART 5: BUSINESS AND COMPETITIVE TRADING
24. Competition and regulation
25. Restrictive trade practices
26. Intellectual Property
PART 6: BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS AND OPERATIONS
27. Negotiable instruments
28. Consumer credit
29. Guarantees
30. Insurance
31. Privacy
32. e-business
33. International business
34. Employment and industrial law
35. Discrimination
36. Taxation
PART 7: BUSINESS AND THE LAW
37. Business, society and the law