Courses - Graduate Diploma
Graduate Diploma in Competition Law L06
- Director of Studies: Associate Professor Caron Beaton-Wells
- Other Related Courses: Master of Commercial Law 504
Objectives and Skills
Overview
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.
Competition Law Overview
This one day seminar is designed to give a general understanding of competition law and the provisions of Part IV of the Trade Practices Act 1974. It is ideal for junior practitioners with an interest in this area, as well as those considering enrolling in subjects in the graduate program in competition law.
Requirements
All candidates must complete four subjects from the prescribed list.
Candidates who do not have a law degree from a common law system must complete the preliminary subject ‘Australian Legal Process and Legal Institutions’. This preliminary subject does not count towards the four subjects of the Graduate Diploma.
Course Planning
Subject to student demand and teacher availability, all subjects will be offered at least bi-annually.
With the exception of Managerial Economics, all course subjects are taught intensively (over five days). Managerial Economics is a subject offered by the Melbourne Business School and is run over a MBS term (of which there are three in the year), in weekly classes from 5-9pm.
Economics for Competition Lawyers will be offered each year as it is a foundational subject in that it provides students with an understanding of the economic terminology, concepts and theories that underpin and are crucial to the application of competition law.
2009 subjects and seminars
Competition Law Overview
Mr Arlen Duke, Melbourne Law School
Saturday 21 February
International and Comparative Competition Law
Professor Michal Gal
11 – 17 February (excluding the weekend)
Economics for Competition Lawyers
Professor Philip Williams, Frontier Economics
Mr Daniel Clough, Victorian Bar
25 – 31 March (excluding the weekend)
United States Competition Law and Policy
Professor George Hay, Cornell Law School, United States
24 – 30 June (excluding the weekend)
Competition Law Overview
Mr Arlen Duke, Melbourne Law School
Saturday 11 July
Cartels and Competition Law
Mr Brent Fisse, Brent Fisse Lawyers
5 – 11 August (excluding the weekend)
Law and Economics of Access Regulation
Mr Richard York, Australian Competition Tribunal
Mr Simon Uthmeyer, DLA Phillips Fox
2 – 8 September (excluding the weekend)
Managerial Economics
Associate Professor Catherine de Fontenay, Melbourne Business School
Offered every trimester (non-intensive format)
Further information regarding these subjects is now online.
This one day seminar is designed to give a general understanding of competition law and the provisions of Part IV of the Trade Practices Act 1974. It is ideal for junior practitioners with an interest in this area, as well as those considering enrolling in subjects in the graduate program in competition law.
Single Subjects
All subjects can be taken as a single subject enrolment. Individual subjects may be taken with or without assessment and may fulfil CPD/CLE requirements.
