Big Tech Antitrust: At War With ItselfThursday 25 July 2019, 8.30am - 9.30am

Dynamic Conmpetition in Dynamic Markets: A Path Forward

The Gaire Blunt Scholarship is offered by the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia for papers on a topic in the field of competition law.Submission closing date: 5pm, 30 August 2019

Civil penalties for cartel conduct: An OECD Review of the Australian RegimeFor much of the early part of the last decade the focus of Australian competition law and enforcement has been on the introduction and implementation of criminal sanctions for individuals for cartel conduct, introduced in 2009. Almost ten years on, a critical review of civil penalties for companies is timely.

George Da Silva is one of our many international students studying for his masters degree in the Global Competition and Consumer Law Program. Our students come from every corner of the globe and bring a diverse array of talent, experiences and perspectives to the student body who learn as much from as with each other.  George shares his insights into what it is like to study online and how much he values the support he receives from the leading academics involved in the program.

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Supermarket Power in Australia: Looking Back and Ahead symposium was held at the State Library of Victoria in October 2017. Click below to watch a short video of highlights.

For lawyer Rowan Kendall, working in Brisbane, London and now Myanmar has been no barrier to completing Melbourne Law School’s Master of Competition and Consumer Law.

A first of its kind Australian conviction of a Japanese company for cartel conduct shows reforms in this area of the law are starting to work and these cases can be prosecuted successfully.

Established in 1967, the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was created to foster greater cooperation in economic and security affairs between its members. Fifty years later, MLS academics are playing a key role in helping the ASEAN states develop their competition and consumer policy and legal regimes, integral to achieving the region’s economic aspirations.

Competition law and policy expert Jose Antonio Batista de Moura Ziebarth was a key architect of MLS’s first fully online masters program. For José, the importance of competition policy stems from its ability to impact people’s everyday lives.

Louise Bell is a senior associate at Herbert Smith Freehills in Brisbane, Australia and her classmate Boniface Kamiti lives in Nairobi, where he is the Manager of Consumer Protection at the Competition Authority of Kenya.

From the bar to the supermarket: Life as a competition lawyer.

How Tacit Collusion Makes Consumers PayThe first study of its kind has revealed how petrol retailers can tacitly collude through their own price signallingBy Dr David Byrne, Centre for Market Design, University of Melbourne

Supermarket unconscionability – the difference two years can make. Professor Caron Beaton-Wells, University of Melbourne

This article appears in The Conversation, March 17, 2016.

Professor Caron Beaton-Wells latest book - Anti-Cartel Enforcement in a Contemporary Age: Leniency Religion - was published in early September.