COMPETITION POLICY & LAW
LAW3CPL
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
Competition policy is currently one of the most controversial areas of public policy impacting business. Competition policy represents the framework for legal change creating and encouraging the developments of markets. Competition law, in the form Part IV of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010, regulates competition by proscribing horizontal and vertical practices which are either per se anti-competitive or substantially affect competition. This subject deals both substantially and critically with the economic theory and public policy objectives which underpin competition policy and law, the legal techniques involved in creating and encouraging markets and the laws regulating competition. Students will undertake a number of case studies in competition policy and learn how the law regulating competition applies to various business practices.
School: La Trobe Law School (Pre 2022)
Credit points: 15
Subject Co-ordinator: David Wishart
Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: Yes
Subject year level: Year Level 3 - UG
Available as Elective: No
Learning Activities: Problem solving activities, blog posts, case study and exam
Capstone subject: No
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites: LAW2CTA AND LAW1LIM
Co-requisites: N/A
Incompatible subjects: N/A
Equivalent subjects: N/A
Quota Management Strategy: N/A
Quota-conditions or rules: N/A
Special conditions: N/A
Minimum credit point requirement: N/A
Assumed knowledge: N/A
Learning resources
Annotated Competition Policy Law and Practice
Resource Type: Book
Resource Requirement: Recommended
Author: Miller, Russell, V.
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Publisher: L.B.C., SYDNEY, LATEST EDN
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Report of the independent committee of inquiry: national competition policy review (the Hilmer Report)
Resource Type: Book
Resource Requirement: Recommended
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Year: 1993
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Publisher: AGPS 1993. (AVAILABLE WWW.ACC.GOV.AU)
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Annotated Competition and Consumer Act
Resource Type: Book
Resource Requirement: Recommended
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Publisher: CURRENT EDN, LAW BOOK CO. OR BUTTERWORTHS, ACCESSIBLE ON-LINE
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Competition in Law in Australia
Resource Type: Book
Resource Requirement: Recommended
Author: Corones, S. G.
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Publisher: LAW BOOK CO, SYDNEY, LATEST EDITION
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Career Ready
Career-focused: No
Work-based learning: No
Self sourced or Uni sourced: N/A
Entire subject or partial subject: N/A
Total hours/days required: N/A
Location of WBL activity (region): N/A
WBL addtional requirements: N/A