BLAW20001 Principles of Company Law (University of Melbourne): rated 3.6/5 overall, difficulty 2.5/5 (higher is harder) across 36 reviews collected on UniMelb Wall.
BLAW20001 is a University of Melbourne course taught by the Faculty of Business and Economics in Business Law. This page brings together its handbook details and what UniMelb students say about it.
Review data updated 2026-10-24.
Chinese title: 公司法原理
Type: Undergraduate subject
Subject area: Business Law
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Economics
Level: Undergraduate Level 2
Handbook year: 2026
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BLAW20001 has 36 scored reviews: overall 3.6/5 · usefulness 4.2 · difficulty 2.5 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: the Actuarial Students' Society Subject Review 2025 course guide; 13 StudentVIP reviews (average 4.2 stars); 22 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 3.2/5).
Actuarial Students' Society Subject Review 2025: "A very digestible subject which is covered comprehensively in tutorials and performs a great, easily understandable introduction to corporate law. Though I did not study out of class for most of the semester, the in-class tutorials and questions did a great job of introducing me to the different co…"
On Reddit: "**Subject and Semester:** BLAW20001 Corporate Law in Sem 1, 2022 **My Degree and Major(s)**: BCOM (Accounting and Finance) **Lecturer & Tutor:** Julian Panetta & Kayla Milone **Difficulty:** 7/10 CLAW is a labour-intensive subject where you have to actually watch the lectures, r…"
On Reddit: "I found the content pretty boring, but I'm a Comm student with no real interest in doing Law. You pretty much just learn about the Corporations Act, it's quite useful, but really screwed my WAM while I still passed. Corp Law is so much harder than PBL and most would agree with t…"
The course panel on UniMelb Wall shows every review and discussion in full.
Q: Is BLAW20001 hard?
A: Students rate BLAW20001's difficulty 2.5/5 on average (higher is harder), which makes it moderately difficult.
Q: Is BLAW20001 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 36 reviews: usefulness 4.2/5, overall 3.6/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches BLAW20001, and when is it offered?
A: BLAW20001 is taught by the Faculty of Business and Economics. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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