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NOTE: Course offerings change. Classes offered this semester may not be offered in future semesters.253.4 sec. 1 - Modern Financial Products (Spring 2011)
Instructor: Jan H. Dalhuisen (view instructor's teaching evaluations)
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Units: 3
Meeting Time: MWF 8:25-9:50
Meeting Location: 244
Course Start: January 10, 2011
Course End: March 10, 2011
Course Control Number (Non-1Ls): 49721
This course will deal with (a) a number of modern financial products operating in the international financial markets, (b) the essences of risk management in terms of modern hedging instruments (futures, options and swaps), securitisations, and credit derivatives, (c) the characterisation of modern financial products in the applicable legal systems and the legal risk, and (d) the objectives and impact of banking regulation focusing also on the new international standards for capital adequacy (Basel II and III).
In view of the recent financial crisis and calls for more regulation, the course will open with a short introduction to financial regulation, its objectives, form and effect. In this connection, the major risks of the recycling of money through both the banking system and the capital markets will be indentified.
Prerequisites:
none
This course satisfies the Constitutional Law Requirement.
Exam Notes: F,Mid
Special Notes: LE(35)
Course Category: Business Law
This course is cross-listed in the following categories:
International and Comparative Law
Law and Economics
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Books:
Required Books are in blue
- Dalhuisen on Transnational Comparative Commercial Financial and TradeLaw
Jan Dalhuisen
Edition: 4th Edition
Publisher: Hart Publishing Oxford
ISBN: 9781849460613
Copyright Date: To Be Determined
Price: $110.00
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