• Director of Studies: Professor Caron Beaton-Wells
• Other Related Courses: Master of Commercial Law 504

Overview

The competition law specialisation provides students with specialised expertise and skills in this interdisciplinary area of law. In its content and teaching staff, the program recognises the economic character of competition law and offers an applied focus on issues arising in practice. As well as providing students with a detailed understanding of the law regulating competition in Australia, current debates on competition law reform and international and comparative perspectives are incorporated into the program.

Objectives and Skills

The Graduate Diploma in Competition Law focuses on:

• The law regulating competition in Australia
• Economic theories and policies underpinning and influencing the operation of competition law
• How competition law operates in practice and, in particular, the processes and issues involved in dealing with regulatory agencies and courts
• Current debates on the reform of competition law
• The application of competition law knowledge in a commercial context International and comparative perspectives and influences on competition law.

Requirements

Students must complete four subjects from the prescribed list. 

Students who do not have a law degree from a common law jurisdiction or any prior legal studies or experience are also expected to complete the two-day preliminary subject Australian Legal Process and Legal Institutions.

Director of Studies

Caron Beaton-Wells






Lecturers - 2012

• Professor Mark Bauer
• Professor David Caudill
• Mr Arlen Duke
• Associate Professor Jeremy Gans
• Professor Ros Grady
• Professor Stuart Green
• Dr Alexandra Merrett
• Dr Jeannie Paterson
• Professor Megan Richardson
• Dr Rhonda Smith
• Professor Maurice Stucke
• Mr Simon Uthmeyer
• Dr Philip Williams
• Mr Richard York



All lecturers

• Associate Professor Caron Beaton-Wells, Melbourne Law School
• Mr Daniel Clough, Victorian Bar
• Associate Professor Catherine de Fontenay, Melbourne Business School
• Professor Terence Daintith, The University of Western Australia
• Mr Arlen Duke, Melbourne Law School
• Mr Brent Fisse, Brent Fisse Lawyers
• Professor Michal Gal, University of Haifa
• Professor George Hay, Cornell University
• Professor Michael Jacobs, DePaul University
  
• Dr Alexandra Merrett, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
• Associate Professor Christine Parker, Melbourne Law School
• Mr Bill Reid, Ashurst Australia
• Dr Rhonda Smith, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
• Mr Simon Uthmeyer, DLA Piper Australia
• Professor Rip Verkerke, University of Virginia
• Professor Philip Williams, Frontier Economics
• Mr Richard York, Frontier Economics

Advisory Board

• Professor Robert Baxt AO (Chair), Freehills
• Ms Amanda Bodger, King & Wood Mallesons
• Mr Geoffrey Carter, Minter Ellison Lawyers
• Ms Gina Cass-Gottlieb, Gilbert + Tobin
• Mr Michael Corrigan, Clayton Utz
• Ms Fiona Crosbie, Allens Arthur Robinson
• Professor Allan Fels AO, Dean, Australia and New Zealand School of Government
• The Hon. Peter Heerey QC, Victorian Bar
• Mr Will Irving, Group Managing Director, Telstra Business
• Mr Tom Jarvis, Norton Rose
• Mr Daniel Marquet, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
• Mr Michael O'Bryan SC, Victorian Bar
• Mr Bill Reid, Ashurst
• Mr Stephen Ridgeway, Ashurst Australia
• Mr Rod Sims, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
• Mr Simon Uthmeyer, DLA Piper Australia
• Dr Philip Williams, Executive Chairman, Frontier Economics

Course Subjects for 2012

• Australian Consumer Law
• Behavioural Law and Economics
• Competition Law and Intellectual Property
• Corporate and White Collar Criminal Law
• Economics for Competition Lawyers
• Expert Evidence
• International and Comparative Competition Law
• Law and Economics of Access Regulation
• Market Power and Competition Law

# Offered in 2012

All Subjects

• Australian Consumer Law #
• Behavioural Law and Economics #
• Cartels and Competition Law
• Competition and New Technologies
• Competition Law and Intellectual Property #
• Corporate and White Collar Criminal Law #
• Economics for Competition Lawyers #
• Enforcing Competition and Consumer Law (formerly Enforcing Competition Law)
• Expert Evidence #
• International and Comparative Competition Law #
• Law and Economics of Access Regulation #
• Market Power and Competition Law #
• Merger Regulation under Competition Law