Financial Law and Regulation in the Age of FinTech
Course code: LAWS8174 This course will be offered in Semester 2, 2018.
The FinTech revolution is dramatically shaping financial markets and financial regulation. Innovative technologies include robotics, cryptography, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and smart contracts. These technologies are being applied to provide more affordable, accessible and inclusive financial services. These technologies will also deliver more effective financial regulatory solutions. However, the FinTech revolution also poses new challenges to policymakers, regulators and legal practitioners because it brings increased risks particularly in the areas of consumer protection and data privacy. Laws underpinning financial regulation will need to be adjusted to remain responsive and relevant. This course will provide students with a basic understanding of the FinTech revolution and the implications for financial law and regulation( including RegTech).
State Crime, the Law and Civil Society
Course code: LAWS8193 Taught by Mike Grewcock
Research into State Crime has developed extensively over the past 25 years and draws on a range of disciplines including Criminology, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, Political Science and International Relations. This course reflects this inter-disciplinary approach and introduces students to a range of perspectives on state organised human rights abuses. The topics covered couldn’ t be more timely, and include: theoretical approaches to state crime; genocide; colonial genocide; war crimes; torture; refugees; whistle-blowers; and civil society resistance. One of the main questions posed by this course is: How and why do serious human rights abuses occur? Answers to this question are framed by looking at the roles of governments, perpetrators, victims and bystanders. The roles of the Law, post-conflict Tribunals and Civil Society organisations in identifying, responding and preventing State Crime are also considered.
Globalisation and Intellectual Property Law
Course code: LAWS8050 Taught by Professor Doris Estelle Long
What role do intellectual property laws play in globalisation? How are globalisation and its governance structures changing intellectual property laws worldwide? This highly topical course examines the political debates, alliances, compromises and ideologies that shape global intellectual property law-making, and is taught by a leading academic from John Marshall Law School, Chicago, who holds experience in negotiating trade agreements for the US government.
Censorship, Contempt and the Media
Course code: LAWS8141 Taught by Katherine Giles
How do censorship and contempt laws affect the freedom of the media to publish freely? What challenges are new technologies presenting in this field? This course examines free speech and censorship in Australian law, as well as laws relating to racial vilification, blasphemy, sedition, publication of obscene material and contempt of court.
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