Economic Analysis of Law - LAWS3335
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: http://www.law.unsw.edu.au/
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: Completion of 78 UOC in LAWS courses.
Excluded: JURD7335
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
Description
This course provides an introduction to economic analysis of law and policy.
Main Topics
Legal topics
Main Topics
Legal topics
- Contractual damages
- Surrogacy law
- Environmental law and wind power
- Indigenous rights and mining
- Sex discrimination law
- International rights to cultural property
Economic topics/concepts
- Pareto Efficiency
- Rational Risk-taking
- Behavioural Biases
- Moral Hazard
- Asymmetric Information
- Externalities
- Public Choice or Interest Group Theories
- Social Choice Theory
- Game Theory
- Empirical Legal Methods
More information can be found on the Course Outline Website.