Courses - Graduate Diploma
Graduate Diploma in Competition Law L06
- Director of Studies: Associate Professor Caron Beaton-Wells
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. 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.
Competion Law Overview
Melbourne Law School also offers a one-day seminar called Competition Law Overview, providing students with a basic grounding in the competition provisions of the Trade Practices Act 1974.
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.
