The purpose of this course is to provide basic financial literacy to students mainly in corporate law, but also in other fields of law. The course covers fundamentals of the operation of financial markets; theoretical concepts such as risk and return; modern developments such as derivative securities and hedge funds; and legal applications, such as damages in securities litigation. The course requires simple numerical calculations (nothing beyond addition, subtraction, multiplication, division), but the emphasis is on gaining an understanding of basic finance and its application to legal problems. This course is open only to students who have not taken a prior course in finance, or who had such a course so long ago that they need a refresher.
LLM Specialisations
Corporate and Commercial Law; Corporate, Commercial and Taxation Law.
For admission details, please contact the Law Faculty's postgraduate team at law@unsw.edu.au.
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) is renowned for the quality of its graduates and its commitment to new and creative approaches to education and research. It was established in 1949 and has expanded rapidly and now has close to 40,000 students, including more than 7000 international students from over 130 different countries. The University offers more than 300 undergraduate and 600 postgraduate programmes, and has developed an extensive network of alumni chapters throughout Asia. The main UNSW campus is located on a 38-hectare site at Kensington, seven kilometres from the centre of Sydney.