LWS075 International Business and Law
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| Unit code: | LWS075 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,756 |
| International unit fee | $5,244 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2025, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | LWS075 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Coordinator: | Nicholas Godfrey | nic.godfrey@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit addresses a broad range of legal problems that arise in the formation and operation of commercial transactions of an international nature. An understanding of the law and practice regarding international commercial transactions is a basic prerequisite for the development of trade with Australian businesses, such activity being generally recognised as crucial to Australia's economic well-being.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the salient aspects of international trade law in regard to commercial transactions of an international nature
- Appraise skills and strategies for successful engagement in international commercial dealings, relative to the practical concerns of busines regarding the need to recognise and manage risk attendant to such transactions in the international legal environment
- Analyse the major divergences in practices and arrangements of national jurisdictions in their regulation of international commercial transactions
- Critically evaluate contemporary developments in international economic law, especially the initiatives of inter-governmental and non-governmental trade agencies in developing a unified body of international commercial law, and
- Plan, conduct and evaluate research at an advanced level and write a substantial research paper on current topics in areas of law relating to international business transactions.
Content
Topics covered in this unit may include:
1. the impact of the World Trade Organisation on business transactions
2. current issues arising in international trade law
3. international sale of goods
4. international commercial arbitration
5. the digital economy.
Learning Approaches
This unit employs an active and collaborative approach to learning. It involves online, self-led learning practice and live workshops where you will learn from experts and your peers. Prior to workshops you will be supported and engaged in this unit through the delivery of snapshots of unit material, podcasts delivered by experts, interactive quizzes or formative learning activities, and/or collaborative discussions that will introduce a range of practical and theoretical perspectives.
Your participation in the unit will include:
- Participation in live workshops
- Engagement with online materials
- Discussions on Canvas and in live workshops
- Collaboration with peers and experts to network and share your understanding
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You are provided with feedback to assist your learning throughout the semester. The feedback is provided through:
- interaction with the workshop leader and other students during discussions in the live workshops
- interactive self-paced online learning activities that enable you to self-test your understanding of the unit content and concepts
- an interactive community platform
- the individual and generic feedback provided on the unit's assessment items
- examples of past student assessment to facilitate self-reflection
- the option of consultation with a member of the teaching team.
Assessment
Overview
The assessment is both formative and summative.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Presentation
You will be asked to prepare a brief 3-5 minute presentation introducing or explaining a particular topic covered in the unit. The presentation may be made either face to face in class or via video. You will choose your topic in consultation with the Unit Coordinator. This component is intended to evaluate comprehension of, and the capacity to critically analyse, the written materials studied in this unit. Assessment will be based upon the extent to which the paper demonstrates a reflective understanding of a single topic of relevance to the unit.
Assessment: Quiz
You will be asked to complete a quiz examining your understanding of the unit content covered in unit modules 1-3.
Assessment: Research paper
The research paper will require to you critically analyse and respond to a number of questions of current concern in areas of international commercial transactions. You will be assessed on your demonstrated familiarity with relevant literature and its critical review together with synthesis of this material into a coherent argument/discussion and the level of critical ability revealed by the analysis. A list of research questions will be provided to you at the commencement of the semester.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Mo, J, International Commercial Law (Butterworths, Sydney, 6th ed, 2015)
Other
Di Lieto, G and Treisman, D International Trade Law (Federation Press, Sydney, 2018)
Other materials and bibliographical information will be available on the unit Canvas site.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with this unit.
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2025, Online
| Unit code: | LWS075 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
Overview
This unit addresses a broad range of legal problems that arise in the formation and operation of commercial transactions of an international nature. An understanding of the law and practice regarding international commercial transactions is a basic prerequisite for the development of trade with Australian businesses, such activity being generally recognised as crucial to Australia's economic well-being.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the salient aspects of international trade law in regard to commercial transactions of an international nature
- Appraise skills and strategies for successful engagement in international commercial dealings, relative to the practical concerns of busines regarding the need to recognise and manage risk attendant to such transactions in the international legal environment
- Analyse the major divergences in practices and arrangements of national jurisdictions in their regulation of international commercial transactions
- Critically evaluate contemporary developments in international economic law, especially the initiatives of inter-governmental and non-governmental trade agencies in developing a unified body of international commercial law, and
- Plan, conduct and evaluate research at an advanced level and write a substantial research paper on current topics in areas of law relating to international business transactions.
Content
Topics covered in this unit may include:
1. the impact of the World Trade Organisation on business transactions
2. current issues arising in international trade law
3. international sale of goods
4. international commercial arbitration
5. the digital economy.
Learning Approaches
This unit employs an active and collaborative approach to learning. It involves online, self-led learning practice and live workshops where you will learn from experts and your peers. Prior to workshops you will be supported and engaged in this unit through the delivery of snapshots of unit material, podcasts delivered by experts, interactive quizzes or formative learning activities, and/or collaborative discussions that will introduce a range of practical and theoretical perspectives.
Your participation in the unit will include:
- Participation in live workshops
- Engagement with online materials
- Discussions on Canvas and in live workshops
- Collaboration with peers and experts to network and share your understanding
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You are provided with feedback to assist your learning throughout the semester. The feedback is provided through:
- interaction with the workshop leader and other students during discussions in the live workshops
- interactive self-paced online learning activities that enable you to self-test your understanding of the unit content and concepts
- an interactive community platform
- the individual and generic feedback provided on the unit's assessment items
- examples of past student assessment to facilitate self-reflection
- the option of consultation with a member of the teaching team.
Assessment
Overview
The assessment is both formative and summative.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Presentation
You will be asked to prepare a brief 3-5 minute presentation introducing or explaining a particular topic covered in the unit. The presentation may be made either face to face in class or via video. You will choose your topic in consultation with the Unit Coordinator. This component is intended to evaluate comprehension of, and the capacity to critically analyse, the written materials studied in this unit. Assessment will be based upon the extent to which the paper demonstrates a reflective understanding of a single topic of relevance to the unit.
Assessment: Quiz
You will be asked to complete a quiz examining your understanding of the unit content covered in unit modules 1-3.
Assessment: Research paper
The research paper will require to you critically analyse and respond to a number of questions of current concern in areas of international commercial transactions. You will be assessed on your demonstrated familiarity with relevant literature and its critical review together with synthesis of this material into a coherent argument/discussion and the level of critical ability revealed by the analysis. A list of research questions will be provided to you at the commencement of the semester.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Mo, J, International Commercial Law (Butterworths, Sydney, 6th ed, 2015)
Other
Di Lieto, G and Treisman, D International Trade Law (Federation Press, Sydney, 2018)
Other materials and bibliographical information will be available on the unit Canvas site.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with this unit.