Course Title: Enterprise Law: Designing Legal Solutions

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Enterprise Law: Designing Legal Solutions

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
LAW2586	City Campus	Undergraduate	660H Graduate School of Business and Law	Face-to-Face	Sem 2 2021, Sem 2 2022, Sem 1 2024, Sem 2 2024

Course Coordinator: James Gilchrist Stewart

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 (3) 99250814

Course Coordinator Email: james.stewart@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: Building 13, Level 2

Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Recommended prior study: 

Introduction to Contract Law

Advanced Principles of Contract Law

Principles of Administrative Law

Constitutional Law

Civil Dispute Resolution

Trusts

Principles of Criminal Law

Principles of Company Law

Course Description

This course introduces you to the legal needs of enterprises including technological, social enterprise start-ups. You will engage with industry partner, and using the techniques of design thinking in law analyse the needs of a business or organisation. You will collaborate on a presentation or “pitch” to an industry partner addressing the legal needs of their problem. This course includes a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) Experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a simulated workplace context and where feedback from the industry and/or community is integral to your experience. This course is based on a simulation advising enterprises on their legal issues.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

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Upon successful completion of this course, you will:

CLO1: Critique and assess the role of enterprises including technological, social enterprise start-ups in disrupting business and legal regulation. CLO2: Analyse the legal needs of a start-up enterprise as part of a simulation with an industry partner and integrate industry feedback and the use of design thinking in law to meet those needs. CLO3: Research and apply principles of law to the problems associated with an enterprise. CLO4: Communicate in ways that are effective, appropriate and persuasive for legal and non-legal audiences; and collaborate effectively. CLO5: Reflect on and assess personal capabilities and performance in a professional context, and make use of feedback as appropriate, to support personal and professional development.

Overview of Learning Activities

To achieve its objectives this unit requires you to participate as an active learner. You will develop your knowledge and skills through both the course materials supplied and your own self-directed research and intellectual inquiry. You will engage in activities including reading and reflecting on key literature on contract and intellectual property law, as well as innovative technological legal issues, engagement with specific enterprise and start-up problems, and participating in group problem solving exercises and presentations. Your learning will be supported through various in-class and online activities comprising individual and group work. These may include quizzes; assignments; prescribed readings; sourcing, researching and analysing specific information; solving problems; conducting presentations; producing written work and collaborating with peers on set tasks or projects.

Overview of Learning Resources

Various learning resources are available online through MyRMIT Studies\Canvas. You will also be provided with links to relevant online information; readings; audio and video clips; and communication tools to facilitate collaboration with your peers and to share information.

Resources are also available online through RMIT Library databases and other facilities. Visit the RMIT library website for further details. Assistance is available online via our chat and email services, face to face at our campus libraries or via the telephone on (03) 9925 2020.

Additional resources and/or sources to assist your learning will be identified by your course coordinator will be made available to you as required during the teaching period.

For further information and preparation for Work Integrated Learning, please visit https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/student-essentials/work-integrated-learning

WILReady Cred for students: https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/levels-of-study/short-courses/wil-ready

Overview of Assessment

The assessment tasks, their weighting and the course learning outcomes to which they are aligned are as follows:

Assessment Task 1 - 15% CLOS 1,3,4 

Assessment Task 2* - 35% CLOS 1,2,3,4

Assessment Task 3* - 50% CLOS 1,2,3,4,5

*This assessment contributes to your Work Integrated Learning (WIL) experience

Feedback will be provided throughout the semester in class and/or in online forums through individual and group feedback on practical exercises and by individual consultation.