A concise, practical approach to teaching corporations lawThis product is the accompanying write-in workbook to the Corporations Law: Concepts, Cases, and Culture textbook.
Corporations Law: Concepts, Cases, and Culture examines the three distinct and overlapping areas relating to corporate law.
Concepts explores the main concepts and theories behind the law, rules and principles relevant to companies.
Cases focuses on key case law underpinning the corporation and provides an insight into how modern company law has developed.
Culture examines the corporate context with a focus on corporate governance and regulation, and how cultural shortcomings can lead to corporate misconduct.
This write-in workbook provides targeted exercises to allow students to develop strong practical skills. It takes a scaffolded approach, starting with easy activities and building to more complex tasks within chapters, and as the book progresses. These activities can be used in tutorials or for student ‘at-home’ self-assessment.KEY FEATURESAn explicit visual learning approach in order to better understand key conceptsVisual learning summaries of the principles set out in the textbook elaborated with explanatory diagrams, overviews, flowcharts, and tablesCritical reflection and problem-solving questions test students’ understandingEnd of chapter scaffolded revision questions and case studies assist in embedding that knowledge furtherLinks to the textbook throughout.
1 The Corporation: Introduction and Overview2 Business and Business Entities 3 Establishing the company- practicalities of registration4 The rules of the corporation and the role of statute 5 The Corporation entering into contracts 6 Stakeholders of the corporation 7 Company leadership and the board of directors 8 Directors as agents of the company- roles and responsibilities 9 Shares- property, investment, and potential return 10 Membership: meetings, rights, responsibilities 11 Share capital and control issues 12 Corporate Finance I: Raising share capital from shareholders13 Corporate Finance II: Loan Capital 14 External Administration 15 Winding up the corporation 16 The corporation and the contemporary cultural context17 Legal skills and Law in the 21st century 18 Revision activity answers
Andrew Clarke - LL.B. and B Juris UWA; LL.M Bristol; Grad Cert HE UNE; Masters Professional Ed and Training Deakin; MBA (Training & Development Spec) Asia Pacific Graduate School of Management CSU, Doctor of Legal Science (Comparative Corporate Governance), Bond. Andrew was appointed inaugural Dean of the College of Law and Justice in 2012, a position he held until December 2016. Currently Professor Clarke is coordinator for and lecturing in the Corporations Law subject
