LAW37570 Insolvency Law

Academic Year 2020/2021

This module will exmiane Irish corporate and personal insolvency law. Students will be expected to consider the purposes and policies underpinning an insolvency regime, to consider its distributional impact and to interrogate the role of rescue culture in responding to business failure.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this module students will:
(a) Understand the main feautres of Irish corporate insolvency law
(b) Be able to apply legal doctrine to complex problems
(c) Be able to conduct independent legal resarch at an advanced level.
(d) Be able to communicate the results of legal research in a varierty of media

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Seminar (or Webinar)

20

Specified Learning Activities

25

Autonomous Student Learning

80

Online Learning

4

Total

129

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Students will be expected to engage in pre-class reading and group discussions. Students will be expected to make in class presentations. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations
Learning Recommendations:

LAW20090 Company Law 1 and LAW20170 Company Law 2 .


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Assignment: End of semester written assignment (3,000 words). Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Graded No

80

Project: 500 word blog post Week 7 n/a Graded No

20


Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring Yes - 2 Hour
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Students will be provided with group feedback on Brightspace and may request individual feedback on request from the module coordinators