開講科目名

International Corporate Law and Practice担当教員

Hasani bin MOHD ALI、飯田 秀総

開講区分

単位数

前期2単位

授業のテーマと到達目標
The course is aimed at providing students a deep understanding of international corporate law and practice. Thecourse will keep abreast with some current themes on the subject of corporate law such as corporate governanceand corporate social responsibility at a time when global cooperation is growing in many areas. The discussion inthis course will revolve around issues, particularly in that, to what extent domestic corporate law has been
affected by the processes of globalization and technological advancement. The discussion will involve the focus
on both the characteristics of modern national corporate laws, either from the perspective of civil law
jurisdictions or common law jurisdictions, with some elements of comparison.
By the end of the course, students should:- Understand some of the practical problems associated with running meetings.
- Have a knowledge of current issues in international corporate law
The skills the course will seek to develop in students are as follows:- planning and organization - through preparation of seminar work, choice of topic for 3-minute presentation(pitching); choice of opinion paper topics and the subsequent presentations- written and oral communication - through seminar discussions, presentations and writing opinion papers- independent research skill - through the work required for the writing of the short research paper
The course is to serve the interests of students as well as among practitioners/lawyers advising their clients either
direct and/or joint venture issues in other jurisdictions.

授業の概要と計画
The course is wide in scope incorporating most of the essential company law principles and concepts including
the corporate veil; the nature of the firm; directors duties and responsibilities; conduct of shareholders meeting;shareholder remedies; the creditors bargain and insolvency regimes; corporate criminal responsibilities;
corporate restructuring; mergers and acquisitions and groups, multinational and transnational companies. All thetopics will be covered in 15 meetings.

成績評価と基準
The course will be assessed by a 3-minute pitching exercise; the subsequent 2 pages report; a piece of written
work of at least 1,500 words; 15 minutes class presentations by the students and the final examination. There isno marks given for preparation of the proposal (outline) even though students are encouraged to consult thecourse organisers before the write-up. The allocation of marks for each way will be:
Assignment:
50%
Presentation:
20%
Pitching:
15%(10% by the course organizers/5% by students
Subsequent Report: 15%

peer review)

The students should be able to judge their own progress in this course in several ways:- The students will obtain formal feedback through comments on outline of their choice research papers andcomments on the research papers themselves.
- The students should also be able to judge their progress from their contribution to and understanding of thediscussion in class.
- The students can discuss their progress individually with the course organizers throughout the term.
In the last 4 meetings of the course, students are allowed to do direct consultations with the organizers for thepurpose of preparing the presentations and full write-ups.

履修上の注意（準備学習・復習、関連科目情報等を含む）
This taught course is a combination of a series of mini lectures and seminars. In each class, the first half isgenerally for lectures, whilst the second half is for seminars. Students are required in seminar preparation to findand read the specified relevant materials before each seminar as specified in the syllabus part below, but thestudents are free to read beyond those specified.
Each student is also required to prepare a topic for pitching exercise (7th meeting). This exercise requires student
to deliver a short speech on a particular topic of interest in concise, precise but interestingly with creativity. The
timeframe for the pitching should not be more than 3 minutes. The recorded video may be surrendered manuallyor through any other means to be informed by the course organizers.
Towards the end of the course, students are required to submit written assignments. Prior to this, students are
required to prepare the outlines of written assignments, and to make presentations on the topic chosen. Thesemay involve students going beyond the reading materials listed in this course outline.

オフィスアワー・連絡先
To be announced later

学生へのメッセージ
今年度の工夫
教科書
Comparative Company Law &#8211; Text and Cases on the Laws Governing Corporations in Germany, the UK andthe USA / Cahn, A., Donald, D.C. : Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom ,2010 ,ISBN:

参考書・参考資料等<For more details, please refer to the more detailed syllabus to be provided later.>
Malaysia Company Law: Principles and Practices / Aiman Nariman Mohd Sulaiman, Effendy Othman : Wolters
Kluwer, Kuala Lumpur ,2015 ,ISBN:
Directors' decisions and the law / Belcher, Alice : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York ,2014,ISBN:
Gower and Davies' Principles Of Modern Company Law, Ninth Edition / Davies, Paul. L. : Sweet & Maxwell, London, 2012 ,ISBN:
Corporations and Partnerships in Japan / Kawamoto, Ichiro, Kawaguchi, Yasuhiro, and Kihira, Takayuki : Wolters
Kluwer Law & Business, The Netherlands ,2012 ,ISBN:An Asia-Pacific Critique / Low Chee Keong (ed.) Corporate Governance : Sweet & Maxwell Asia ,2002 ,ISBN:

授業における使用言語
Englishキーワード