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LAW 459 — Maritime LawCredit Points: 15 pointsOffered: First SemesterContact Hours: Lectures — 3 hours per weekCoordinator: Associate Professor Paul MyburghPrerequisites: LAW 201, 211, 231, 241Course Description:An introduction to shipping lawContent Outline:Topics covered may include: ownership and proprietary interests in ships, ship registration, charter parties, shipmortgages, shipboard crimes and torts, the law of collisions, salvage and wrecks, the admiralty jurisdiction,enforcement of maritime liens and other maritime claims, national shipping law and policy, the internationalregulatory framework, and conflict of laws issues applicable to maritime disputes.Assessment:Final Examination (Plussage 30% Opinion)LAW 460 — Advanced Employment LawCredit Points: 15 pointsOffered: Second SemesterContact Hours: Lectures — 3 hours per weekCoordinator: Associate Professor Bill HodgePrerequisites: LAW 231 Torts, LAW 241 Contract Law, LAW 430Course Description:Advanced study of both collective and individual aspects of employment law. Analysis of comparative topics inoverseas jurisdictions.Content Outline:The first part of the course will consist of a brief survey of individual employment rights at common law and by statutein New Zealand followed by a review of collective obligations and rights under the Employment Relations Act 2000.The second part of the course will consist of in-depth analysis of topics in New Zealand employment law, including:• Whether s103A requires the employment institutions to go behind the Hale decision of the Court of Appeal;• The parties’ obligation to supply economic information under s34;• The Employment Court’s ability to judge, objectively, the subjective quality of good faith in collective bargaining.The third part of the course will consist of analysis of comparative topics in overseas jurisdictions, including:• Australian personal grievance law, including the difference between unlawful and unfair dismissal;• Developments in the law of good faith in collective bargaining in the US;• Aspects of employment law in the EU including ‘Acquired Rights’ and non-coverage of small employers.Assessment:Final Examination (Plussage 30% Opinion)56 | 2010 Faculty of Law Handbook