Department of Business Law
The Department of Business Law teaches law to students enrolled in a range of Bachelor degrees in areas such as: Arts, Applied Finance, Commerce-Accounting, Business Administration, Commerce, Economics, e-Business and Health.
Graduates in these areas work in a wide range of occupations such as accounting, marketing and management. The business law units aim to alert and inform prospective professionals to legal issues arising in commerce and professional accounting practice.
More specific objectives include:
- reinforcing an understanding of the fundamental ideas in the law;
- focusing on the institutions of the law;
- developing knowledge of specific rules and principles in certain branches of the law;
- continuing the development of the basic skills of legal analysis, through the eliciting and application of the law to hypothetical fact situations;
- developing general skills of research, analysis and written and oral communication in the context of a language based discipline.
The great majority of students taking units in business law do so as part of their education towards a professional career. A specialisation in BUSL250 Business Law, BUSL301 Corporations Law and BUSL320 Revenue Law leads to recognition by the professional accounting bodies when taken as part of the professional accounting sequence. These qualifying units cover basic legal concepts and techniques, commercial law, company law and revenue law. Other study opportunities are also available, either instead of or in addition to business law study for accounting purposes. These include a business law major.