Melbourne Law Masters 2013 Competition and Consumer Law specialisation

Posted by D. Daniel Sokol

Melbourne Law
Masters 2013

Competition
and Consumer Law specialisation

The Melbourne Law School, recently ranked in the top ten law schools in the world^*, is the only law school in the Asia Pacific region to offer a comprehensive masters program in the important challenging field of competition and consumer law.

Details of the 2013 program are now available and can be viewed here. There will be nine subjects in the Competition and Consumer Law specialty spanning the areas of competition economics, cartels, mergers and consumer law, amongst others.  For the first time the program will feature a subject dedicated to East Asian Competition Policy and Law, taught by Professor Mark Williams from Hong Kong.

Competition and Consumer Law subjects can be credited to a range of courses, including the Graduate Diploma in Competition
Law or another specialty degree such as the Masters of Commercial Law. All subjects can also be taken as a single subject, with or without assessment, by suitably qualified applicants who do not wish to take a full degree (information about selection criteria is here). All of the subjects in this specialty are scheduled intensively over 5 days in Melbourne.

Taught by experts in this field from around the world, all classes are small and interactive, giving students the opportunity to network with teachers and other students who come from practice, government and competition authorities. International students have additional opportunities such as professional mentoring, internships and research centre affiliation (see the Competition Law & Economics
Network).

The Competition and Consumer Law specialty is part of the world class Melbourne Law Masters program. In 2013 the program offers 22 specialties (including new specialties in Energy Law and Environmental Law) and 167 subjects, taught by an eminent faculty that includes 57 international visiting lecturers. A copy of the 2013 Prospectus is readily available on request: law-masters@unimelb.edu.au.

Date Time Code Subject Lecturers

Semester 1: Intensive subjects

13–19 February

(excluding the weekend)

9 am–4 pm LAWS70010 Economics for Competition Lawyers Dr Philip Williams

10–16 April

(excluding the weekend)

9 am–4 pm LAWS70050 Cartels Professor Caron Beaton-Wells, Adjunct Professor

Brent Fisse

10–16 April

(excluding the weekend)

9.30 am–5 pm LAWS70046 Trade Marks and Unfair Competition Ms Janice Luck

3–7 June 9 am–4 pm LAWS70380 Australian Consumer Law Dr Jeannie Paterson, Ms Ros Grady

Semester 2: Intensive subjects

8–12 July 1–6.30 pm LAWS70437 Sports and Competition Law: An

International and Comparative Analysis

Professor Stephen Ross

15–19 July

(excluding the weekend)

9.30 am–5 pm LAWS70419 Fundamentals of Regulation Professor Colin Scott

24–30 July

(excluding the weekend)

9 am–4 pm LAWS70347 Merger Regulation under

Competition Law

Mr Bill Reid, Professor Michael Jacobs

23–29 October

(excluding the weekend)

9 am–4 pm LAWS70416 East Asian Competition Policy and Law Professor Mark Williams

6–12 November

(excluding the weekend)

9.30 am–5 pm LAWS70046 Trade Marks and Unfair Competition Ms Janice Luck

13–19 November

(excluding the weekend)

9.30 am–5 pm LAWS70385 Corporate and White Collar Criminal Law Associate Professor Jeremy Gans