The specific aims of this module are to ensure that students can:
*Understand the legal principles to coporate governance;
*Appreciate the broader economic, political, and economic implications of corporate governance;
*Carry out research in the field of corporate governance;
*Recognise and describe the practice effects and commercial significance of legal rules relating to corporate governance.

(LO1) Demonstrate thorough knowledge of the legal principles underpinning corporate governance systems

(LO2) Demonstrate critical awareness of the broader economic, political and economic implications of corporate governance issues; Learning Outcomes

(LO3) Locate and handle appropriate legal and non-legal materials

(LO4) Carry out research in the field of the law relating to corporate governance

(S1) Critical analysis appropriate for advanced level masters study.

(S2) Problem-solving skills applicable to complex theoretical and practical contexts

(S3) Time management and prioritisation skills by working to deadlines

(S4) Individual and group communication skills by presentations in an online environment (e.g. the virtual classroom).

(S5) Take responsibility for independent learning agenda.

(S6) Reading, analysing and synthesising different viewpoints, becoming familiar with different viewpoints and presenting findings/conclusions in clear, comprehensible, structured format.

(S7) Critical skills with regard to the merits of particular arguments and making reasoned choices between alternative solutions or arguments. Skills

1. Introduction to corporate governance codes
2. Owners and Stakeholders
3. Directors and board structure
4. Directors' performance and remuneration
5. Gatekeeper failure in corporate scandals
6. Responses to corporate scandals in the US, UK, and Europe
7. Corporate governance in the Asia-Pacific and Latin America
8. Tightening corporate governance and issues of convergence

Online discussions.
Module delivery involves the establishment of a virtual classroom in which a relatively small group of students
work under the direction of the module instructor, using an internet-based distance-learning package. Module
delivery proceeds via a series of one-week online seminars. This includes: 1) an online discussion forum,
together with learning materials, posted electronically to a public folder in the virtual classroom and class
discussions and assignments in class, facilitated and moderated by the class instructor, are carried out within
open folders; 2) coursework assignments, which may include both reading assignments and practical work,
results from which are posted to closed folders in the virtual classroom; 3) a final paper assignment which
develops a deeper analysis of the legal issues and discussion across the module. A key feature of the
approach is the use of the moderated discussions of material introduced in the virtual classroom. Every week
each taught module will include a discussion of topics specified by the instructor and participation in these
discussions is a requirement for students attending, and forms part of the basis of assessment. This will ensure
a continuing commitment from the students to the learning process. Communications within the virtual
classroom is asynchronous, preserving the requirement that students are able to pursue the module in their
own time, within the weekly time frame of each seminar.’