Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit convenor
Trish Blazey
Contact via trish.blazey@mq.edu.au
E4A Room 240
Unless otherwise announced on iLearn, Mondays 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Unit Convenor
Kay-Wah Chan
Contact via kay.chan@mq.edu.au
E4A Room 241
Unless otherwise announced on iLearn, Wednesdays 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
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Credit points |
Credit points
4
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
ACCG614 or admission to MAdvProfAcc or MCorpGvnce prior to 2013
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit broadens students' understanding of contemporary China's commercial law system, from both international and national perspectives. As China's Five Year Plans are crucial to understanding how China has developed and continues its development, they will be explored in detail in this unit. It also explores major changes in law and policies regarding labour issues, company, corporate governance, and foreign investments. China, the second largest economy in the world, has to address the downside of production exhibited through the environmental degradation of its air quality, water and waste. As these issues and that of energy production are the focus of China's development programmes for the twenty-first century, they are examined in the latter part of this unit.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Students are required to participate in weekly class seminar discussions and reflective activities.
Criteria upon which class participation is assessed are: students’ preparation, understanding of the materials, depth of arguments, presentation skills, and legal research (detailed explanations are provided on the iLearn site of the unit).
Students will need to make an oral presentation in class on 31 August 2015. Students can use PowerPoint slides (not compulsory) to assist presentations.
Each student will need to submit a research topic and an abstract (for his/her presentation and Assignment) to the unit convenors via email by 3 August 2015. Students are strongly encouraged to submit the proposed topic and an abstract to the unit convenors as soon as possible. Each student will be informed whether his/her proposed topic is approved so that he/she can start to conduct research and prepare a verbal presentation to be made in Class on 31 August 2015.
Criteria upon which presentation is assessed are: students’ preparation, understanding of the materials, depth of arguments and critique, presentation skills, and legal research (detailed explanations are provided on the iLearn site of this Unit).
Marks on the Presentation will be released via Gradebook on iLearn in Week 7.
No extensions of time will be granted in relation to the making of the presentation. Students who have not made the presentation in class on 31 August 2015 will be awarded a mark of 0 (ZERO) for the presentation, except for cases in which an application for disruption to studies is made and approved.
Students will be required to submit an Assignment (excluding footnotes and bibliography: 3,800-4,000 words).
The topics will, as described under Presentation above, be chosen by the students (subject to the convenors' approval).
The Assignment is research based.
Criteria upon which assignment is assessed are: the contents, structure, presentation, and referencing (footnoting and bibliography) of the assignments which show the students’ understanding of the materials, the depth of arguments and critique, the thoroughness of legal research, and adequacy of referencing (detailed explanations are provided on the iLearn site of this Unit).
Footnotes and bibliography (in Australian Guide to Legal Citation (3rd ed) style) are required.
Students must hand in the Assignment before 4:00 p.m. on 3 November 2015 to: Business and Economics Graduate Centre (BEGC) E4A Level 2.
In view of the time given to students to complete the Assignment, no extensions of time will be granted for submission of the Assignment. Late assignment will be accepted up to 48 hours after the submission deadline. There will be a deduction of 20% of the total available marks made from the total awarded mark for each 24 hour period or part thereof that the submission is late (for example, 25 hours late in submission – 40% penalty). For example, if the Assignment is worth 50 marks, a student is 23 hours late in submission and (before penalty) this student's mark is 40, the penalty will be a deduction of 10 marks (50 marks x 20% = 10 marks) (i.e. this student will obtain 30 marks for the Assignment). This penalty does not apply for cases in which an application for disruption to studies is made and approved.
Name | Weighting | Due |
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Class Participation | 20% | Ongoing Weekly |
Presentation | 30% | 31 August 2015 |
Assignment | 50% | 3 November 2015 (4:00 p.m.) |
Due: Ongoing Weekly
Weighting: 20%
Class Participation
Due: 31 August 2015
Weighting: 30%
Presentation
Due: 3 November 2015 (4:00 p.m.)
Weighting: 50%
Research-based assignment.
Classes
The unit is comprised of one 3 hour seminar per week.
The timetable for classes can be found on the University website at: http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au/.
Attendance at the seminar is required and a roll will be taken each week. Students are advised to prepare in advance for the seminar. The week-by-week list of the topics to be covered is set out below. All material inclusive of lecture notes, work to be undertaken in class (reflective activities and discussion forum), videos, reports, newspaper reports will be posted on iLearn.
Required and Recommended Texts and/or Materials
Required Texts and Materials
Recommended Texts and/or Materials
Technology Used and Required
Access to the Internet is required.
There is an iLearn web site. Students have to frequently access this Unit's iLearn site (https://ilearn.mq.edu.au/login/MQ/) for Notes, Seminar Instructions, announcements and detailed information regarding the unit.
The Macquarie University library’s Information and Technology Training Unit (ITTU) provides a range of computing and library research skills.
Unit Web Page
The web page for this unit can be found on iLearn. The site contains all lecture notes, links to relevant legislation and links to other useful sites. It contains extracts from relevant articles and reports.
Teaching and Learning Strategy
The weekly class is a 3-hour seminar. As assessment includes class participation, students will be expected to complete the required reading prior to class and to contribute to class discussions. Detailed seminar instructions are available on this Unit's iLearn site.
Unit Workload is 150 hours.
Week
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Topics (unless otherwise announced on the iLearn site of this unit) |
Prescribed Readings (unless otherwise announced on the iLearn site of this unit) |
Week 1 Seminar 1 (27 July 2015) (PB)
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Doing Business in China |
Textbook Chapter 1 & lecture notes |
Week 2 Seminar 2 (3 August 2015) (KWC) |
The Constitution Governmental System Legal System - video-recording/audio-recording (available on iLearn) & home-based online activities
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Textbook Chapters 3, 4 and 5, & lecture notes
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Week 3 Seminar 3 (10 August 2015) (PB)
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Five Year Plans and Civil Procedure |
Textbook Chapter 2 & lecture notes |
Week 4 Seminar 4 (17 August 2015) (KWC)
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Foreign Investment Law I |
Textbook Chapters 18 and 19 & lecture notes
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Week 5 Seminar 5 (24 August 2015) (PB)
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Contract and Agency Law |
Textbook Chapters 6 and 7 & lecture notes |
Week 6 Seminar 6 (31 August 2015) (PB & KWC)
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Students’ Presentation |
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Week 7 Seminar 7 (7 September 2015) (KWC)
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Foreign Investment Law II |
Textbook Chapters 20 and 21 & lecture notes |
MID TERM BREAK |
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Week 8 Seminar 8 (28 September 2015) (KWC)
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Company Law |
Textbook Chapters 12 and 13 & lecture notes |
Week 9 (5 October 2015) |
Public Holiday (no class) |
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Week 10 Seminar 9 (12 October 2015) (PB)
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Property Law Intellectual Property Law
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Textbook Chapters 8 and 9 & lecture notes |
Week 11 Seminar 10 (19 October 2015) (KWC)
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Labour Law
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Textbook Chapter 11 & lecture notes |
Week 12 Seminar 11 (26 October 2015) (PB)
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Energy and Climate Change Law
Environmental Law
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Textbook Chapters 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26 & lecture notes
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Week 13 Seminar 12 (2 November 2015) (PB & KWC)
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Revision |
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In addition, there is a requirement to pass the Assignment to be awarded a final grade of a Pass or a higher grade.
Grading Appeals
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http://www.businessandeconomics.mq.edu.au/new_and_current_students/undergraduate_current_students/how_do_i/grade_appeals/.
Disruption to Studies Policy
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Our postgraduates will be able to demonstrate a significantly enhanced depth and breadth of knowledge, scholarly understanding, and specific subject content knowledge in their chosen fields.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Our postgraduates will be capable of utilising and reflecting on prior knowledge and experience, of applying higher level critical thinking skills, and of integrating and synthesising learning and knowledge from a range of sources and environments. A characteristic of this form of thinking is the generation of new, professionally oriented knowledge through personal or group-based critique of practice and theory.
This graduate capability is supported by:
Our postgraduates will be capable of systematic enquiry; able to use research skills to create new knowledge that can be applied to real world issues, or contribute to a field of study or practice to enhance society. They will be capable of creative questioning, problem finding and problem solving.
This graduate capability is supported by:
The main changes since the last offering of this Unit (S2, 2014) are:
Research and Practice
1. This unit uses research by Macquarie University researchers:
2. This unit uses research from external sources:
See the Required Reading List above and Class Activity Instructions.
Global and Sustainability
This unit addresses global and sustainability issues as direct areas of study and/or as necessary implications arising from the materials, assessment and academic discussion and debate in classes. We promote sustainability by developing ability in students to research and locate information within the Chinese law discipline. We aim to provide students with an opportunity to obtain skills which will benefit them throughout their career. The global contexts of this unit are found in the contents of the unit (as it is a Chinese Trade and Investment Law unit), including the contents of the seminars and its assessments tasks.