(JD) Guide - The University of Sydney

8COURSE GUIDETHE SYDNEY JD - PATHWAYS TOOXFORDSydney Law School is pleased to announce Pathways fromthe Sydney JD to the Oxford BCL, a unique collaborationwith the United Kingdom’s largest law school. The initiativewill permit you to receive a Sydney JD as well as an OxfordBCL.The agreement will allow for high-achieving students to beoffered early admission to the BCL. Instead of completingthe final semester of the JD in Sydney, you will be awardedboth a Sydney JD and Oxford BCL. Under this agreementthe time taken to complete both awards will be reduced byone semester. You will receive either:––The Bachelor of Civil Law; or––The Master’s in Law and FinanceEither degree from the Faculty of Law at Oxford Universityrefers to the award of a BCL.The program is open to final year JD students at SydneyLaw School. Admission is competitive and is assessed byOxford. You will commence your BCL studies at Oxford inlate September alongside other BCL candidates, followingsuccessful completion of your penultimate semester of theJD at Sydney Law School. Please note that students areliable for all tuition, travel and living expenses associatedwith the BCL.THE OXFORD MASTER’S IN FINANCE AND LAWThe Masters in Law and Finance consists of core andelective study. You will undertake the following core courses:––Finance I––Finance II––First Principles of Financial Economics––Law & Economics of Corporate TransactionsYou then have the option of completing a further two lawcourses, or one dissertation and one law course. Electivecourses include:––Comparative & European Corporate Law––Competition Law––Conflict of Laws––Corporate Finance Law––Corporate Insolvency Law––European Business Regulation––International Economic Law––International Intellectual Property––Principles of Financial Regulation––Transnational Commercial LawTHE OXFORD BACHELOR OF CIVIL LAW (BCL)Oxford’s Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) is one of the most highlyesteemed master’s-level qualifications in the common lawworld. You are expected to analyse complex material criticallyand to consider it from different perspectives. Attention tolegal puzzles is often combined with discussion of underlyingpolicy problems, and you are expected to make your owncontribution to the debate. In the seminars you are likely tofind students from a range of jurisdictions and backgrounds.This diversity among contributors also helps to stimulatevariety and depth in discussions.You choose your units from a selection of 30 or so and takeeither 3 or 4 BCL courses. Teaching on the BCL is sharedbetween the faculty and the colleges. A typical BCL coursemight have one or two faculty-level events per week. At somepoint in the year there will also be a course of three or fourtutorials in each course at college level. A tutorial is an houror so of intensive discussion between one tutor and typicallytwo or three students. However, teaching methods varysomewhat, as do class sizes. Different courses or differentparts of a single course may take place in different terms.All examinations (except the essay-based examination forJurisprudence and Political Theory) take place at the endof the academic year, in early July.Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford. Photo copyright: James Head, United Kingdom