Monetary Law in Comparative Perspective
Training Provider: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
Course Reference: TGS-2024046484
S$5,400
About This Course
By the end of the course, participants should have become familiar with:
1. The distinctive legal conception of money, and with the economic and historical influences that have shaped it, seen from a comparative perspective;
2. The role of law in constructing different categories of money and notions of monetary value;
3. The distinctive application of private law conceptions of property to money;
4. The role of law in managing variations in currency exchange rates when parties transact across monetary systems; and
5. The capacity of private law to respond to technological innovations in the use of money.
What You'll Learn
This course is offered under the Faculty of Law's Graduate Coursework Programmes in Corporate & Financial Services Law.
Money is an all-pervasive legal concept, and an integral part of public dealings by the state and most private transactions. The course aims to develop a distinctive understanding of the legal institution of money, seen as a subject in itself, from private law and public law perspectives.� Although the course may be of interest to those with a background in financial or banking regulation, it deliberately avoids considering the subject of money from those perspectives. It is primarily concerned with the common law of money, as it would apply in Singapore.� It does however draw on the comparative perspectives from mixed and civil law jurisdictions, and from legal history.� Together these demonstrate the broad functional commonalities that any legal system must develop if is construct a legal notion of money and main purposes its serves in the economy.
The course explains the role of law in the creation of money and in the ordering of a monetary system.� It explains how law has a role to play in recognising and enforcing concepts of monetary value in private transactions.� It considers the distinctive ways that property law applies to money, including the role of property law in controlling the consequences of failed or wrongly-procured payment transactions.� The course considers the capacity of private law to respond to the special problems of monetary transactions involving a foreign currency system, and the legal challenges posed by new monetary developments such as cyber-currencies.
Money is an all-pervasive legal concept, and an integral part of public dealings by the state and most private transactions. The course aims to develop a distinctive understanding of the legal institution of money, seen as a subject in itself, from private law and public law perspectives.� Although the course may be of interest to those with a background in financial or banking regulation, it deliberately avoids considering the subject of money from those perspectives. It is primarily concerned with the common law of money, as it would apply in Singapore.� It does however draw on the comparative perspectives from mixed and civil law jurisdictions, and from legal history.� Together these demonstrate the broad functional commonalities that any legal system must develop if is construct a legal notion of money and main purposes its serves in the economy.
The course explains the role of law in the creation of money and in the ordering of a monetary system.� It explains how law has a role to play in recognising and enforcing concepts of monetary value in private transactions.� It considers the distinctive ways that property law applies to money, including the role of property law in controlling the consequences of failed or wrongly-procured payment transactions.� The course considers the capacity of private law to respond to the special problems of monetary transactions involving a foreign currency system, and the legal challenges posed by new monetary developments such as cyber-currencies.
Entry Requirements
A good Bachelor's or Juris Doctor degree in Law
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