LAW37570 Insolvency Law

Academic Year 2023/2024

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)

24
Specified Learning Activities

25
Autonomous Student Learning

80
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
Examination: Assessed by means of a closed book end of trimester two-hour examination. 2 hour End of Trimester Exam No Standard conversion grade scale 40% No

100

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?

Not yet recorded.

Name Role
Mr Andrew Woods Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
 
Autumn
      
Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12 Fri 15:00 - 16:50
Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 7 Thurs 18:00 - 19:50
Autumn