Teaching

The Melbourne Law School has a very strong graduate program in corporate law and securities regulation. Students enrolled in either the Master of Laws Degree, the Master of Commercial Law Degree or the Graduate Diploma in Corporations and Securities Law may choose from the following subjects:

• Accounting for Commercial Lawyers
• Company Takeovers
• Comparative Companies Law in Asia
• Comparative Corporate Governance
• Corporate Criminal Law and Regulation
• Corporate Governance and Directors' Duties
• Corporate Insolvency and Reconstruction
• Corporate Taxation A (Shareholders, Debt and Equity)
• Corporate Taxation B (Companies and Consolidation)
• Current Issues in Corporate Law
• Derivatives Law and Practice
• Electronic Commerce Law
• Equity and Commerce
• Financial Sector Compliance Management
• Financial Sector Regulation
• Financial Services Law
• Governing Not-for-Profit Organisations
• International Financial System: Law and Practice
• International Financial Transactions: Law and Practice
• International Securities Regulation
• International Taxation: Treaties and Overseas Entities 
• Law of Secured Finance
• Managed Investments Law
• Principles of Corporate Finance
• Principles of Corporate Law
• Project Finance
• Regulation of Securities Offerings
• Securitisation
• Shareholders' Remedies
• Sports Law: Entities and Governance
• State Taxes and Duties
• Superannuation Law
• Taxation of Business and Investment Income A
• Taxation of Business and Investment Income B
• Taxation of Financial Instruments
• Taxation of Small and Medium Enterprises
• The Corporation as Criminal
• United States Securities Regulation
• Unjust Enrichment in Commercial Law

At the undergraduate level, the following subjects are offered:

• Corporations Law
• Corporate Governance in the Modern Company
• Insolvency Law
• Takeovers and Securities Regulation

In addition, the Faculty is responsible for teaching the subject Corporate Law in the Faculty of Economics and Commerce.

A feature of the graduate program in corporate law is the use of international corporate lawyers. These have included Professor Roberta Karmel who is a former Commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, Professor Deborah DeMott of Duke University School of Law, Professor Douglas Branson of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Professor Paul Mahoney of University of Virginia, Professor Dale Oesterle of the University of Colorado School of Law, Ms Cally Jordan of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank and Professor Steven Schwarcz of Duke University School of Law