Professor Caron Beaton-Wells Director of Studies

Caron Beaton-Wells is a Professor specialising in competition law at the Melbourne Law School and Director of the University’s Competition Law & Economics Network. She is also Associate Dean for the Melbourne Law Masters program. Her research and teaching focuses on anti-cartel law and enforcement and her publications include Australian Cartel Regulation: Law, Policy and Practice in an International Context (CUP, 2011), with Brent Fisse and Criminalising Cartels: Critical Studies of an International Regulatory Movement (Hart, 2011), with Ariel Ezrachi. She is a member of several national and international editorial and advisory boards, has consulted to the OECD, ASEAN, SSNED and the New Zealand Government, is a non-governmental adviser to the ICN and the Law School’s representative on UNCTAD’s Research Partnership Platform. Formerly a solicitor at (now) King & Wood Mallesons, Caron is also a member of the Law Council of Australia’s competition and consumer committee and a member of the Victorian Bar.

Courses include

Master of Laws (LLM)Master of Commercial LawMaster of Competition and Consumer LawGraduate Diploma in Competition and Consumer Law

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AUSTRALIA’S NUMBER 1 LAW SCHOOL

Melbourne Law School

The Melbourne Law Masters is a world class program available to law and non-law graduates that deepens knowledge, sharpens practical insights and offers international perspectives in specialised legal fields. Taught by more than 200 leading experts the program offers an extraordinary range of subjects at the cutting edge of law, legal thinking and practice. The program offers more than 175 subjects across 23 specialist legal areas.

COMPETITION AND CONSUMER LAW

Melbourne Law School has the only comprehensive program in Competition and Consumer Law in the Asia-Pacific region. It captures the interdisciplinary legal-economic nature of this field of policy and practice, and emphasises international and comparative dimensions.

The specialisation in competition and consumer law offers highly specialised expertise and skills in an area of law that is growing, complex, interdisciplinary and relevant both in Australia and internationally. The courses in this specialisation are designed to recognise the economic character of the law, and also to offer an applied focus on issues arising in practice. In addition to providing students with a detailed understanding of the policy and law currently regulating competition and consumer protection, law reform initiatives and international and comparative perspectives are at the heart of the program.

A CLASS ABOVETHE MELBOURNE LAW MASTERS 2015

“ All of the subjects that I have chosen to take have been directly relevant to the everyday work of the ACCC, and indeed to that of any competition lawyer. This has made my study at the Law School hugely beneficial, as well as very interesting.”

Daniel McCracken-Hewson, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Graduate Diploma in Competition and Consumer Law

2015 TIMETABLE - COMPETITION AND CONSUMER LAW

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Date Time Subject Lecturers

Semester 1: Full-length semester subjects (2 March - 31 May)

Tuesday 5.30 pm - 7.30 pm Fundamentals of the Common Law† LAWS70217 Ms Claire Kaylock

Thursday 5.30 pm - 7.30 pm Fundamentals of the Common Law† LAWS70217 Ms Erica Grundell

Semester 1: Intensive Subjects

23 - 27 February 9 am - 4 pm Economics for Competition Lawyers LAWS70010 Dr Philip Williams AM

23 - 27 February 9.30 am - 5 pm Criminal Law: Business and Organisations LAWS70385 Professor Jeremy Gans, Associate Professor Alex Steel

2 - 6 March 9 am - 5 pm Fundamentals of the Common Law† LAWS70256 Ms Raelene Harrison

11 - 17 March* 9 am - 5 pm Fundamentals of the Common Law† LAWS70256 Ms Judy Bourke

8 - 11 April 9 am - 5 pm Consumer Redress and Product Defects LAWS90015 Professor Luke Nottage

8 - 14 April* 9.30 am - 4.30 pm Regulatory Policy and Practice LAWS70460 Professor Karen Yeung

15 - 21 April* 9.30 am - 5 pm Trade Marks and Unfair Competition LAWS70046 Ms Janice Luck

25 - 29 May 9 am - 4 pm International and Comparative Competition Law

LAWS70301 Professor Michal S. Gal

17 - 23 June* 9 am - 4 pm Merger Regulation under Competition Law LAWS70347 Mr Bill Reid, Professor Michael Jacobs

Semester 2: Full-length semester subjects (27 July - 25 October)

Wednesday 5.30 pm - 7.30 pm Fundamentals of the Common Law† LAWS70217 Ms Claire Kaylock

Thursday 5.30 pm - 7.30 pm Fundamentals of the Common Law† LAWS70217 Ms Erica Grundell

Semester 2: Intensive Subjects

15 - 21 July* 9 am - 4 pm Global Cartel Law and Enforcement LAWS70050 Professor Caron Beaton-Wells, Professor D. Daniel Sokol

20 - 24 July 1 pm - 6.30 pm Sports and Competition Law: An International and Comparative Analysis

LAWS70437 Professor Stephen Ross

29 July - 4 August* 9 am - 5 pm Fundamentals of the Common Law† LAWS70256 Ms Raelene Harrison

9 - 15 September* 9 am - 4 pm Asian Competition Policy and Law LAWS70416 Professor Mark Williams

23 - 29 September* 9.30 am - 5 pm Trade Marks and Unfair Competition LAWS70046 Ms Janice Luck

28 September - 2 October

9 am - 4 pm Australian Consumer Law LAWS70380 Associate Professor Jeannie Paterson

21 - 27 October* 9 am - 4 pm Market Power and Competition Law LAWS70029 Dr Alexandra Merrett, Dr Rhonda Smith

30 November - 4 December

9.30 am - 4.30 pm Competition Law and Intellectual Property LAWS70208 Mr Arlen Duke, Professor Megan Richardson

Authorised by: Associate Dean, Melbourne Law Masters, The Melbourne Law School, September 2014 .The University of Melbourne has used its best endeavours to ensure that the material contained in this publication was correct at the time of printing. As details may change you are encouraged to visit our website.CRICOS provider code 00116K. © Copyright University of Melbourne 2014.

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*Excluding the weekend † Not available to students in the Graduate Diploma in Competition and Consumer Law

A full list of subjects in Competition and Consumer Law is available on our website law.unimelb.edu.au/masters/specialist-legal-areas/competition-and-consumer-law

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