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Caron Beaton-Wells

Associate Professor Caron Beaton-Wells

Director of Studies, Competition Law
Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
T +61 3 8344 1004; M 0418 108 483; F +61 3 9347 2392
c.beaton-wells@unimelb.edu.au

Associate Professor Caron Beaton-Wells is the senior academic and Director of Studies in Competition Law at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. She is widely published on competition law issues, including Proof of Antitrust Markets (Federation Press, 2003), a ground-breaking study of the evidence used to establish markets for the purposes of antitrust analysis. Her recent research focuses on cartel regulation and she has authored a series of substantial papers and articles on Australia's proposal to criminalise serious cartel conduct, published in leading national and international journals. She has also spoken at many conferences on the subject in Australia and overseas and is frequently called upon to comment in the media on cartel and other competition related developments. Together with eminent criminal and corporate law scholar, Brent Fisse, Associate Professor Beaton-Wells is contracted by Cambridge University Press to produce the first book dedicated to cartel regulation in Australia, due to be published in 2010.

Associate Professor Beaton-Wells teaches the subject Competition Law at the Melbourne Law School, and is a co-author of the 2006 edition of a leading casebook on the subject. She has also developed, with Associate Professor Christine Parker, a new graduate subject, Enforcing Competition Law. Associate Professor Beaton-Wells regularly supervises competition law research by students at undergraduate and graduate level. She also oversees a significant graduate program in competition law at the Melbourne Law School, which offers a wide range of subjects taught by eminent lawyers and economists from Australia and overseas, as well as the opportunity to obtain a specialist qualification in competition law (a first in Australia). See http://www.masters.law.unimelb.edu.au/index.cfm?objectid=CFBA64BE-1422-207C-BA6DC09C63142583.

Associate Professor Beaton-Wells has been a member of the Victorian Bar since 1997 practising predominantly in federal jurisdictions. She is a member of the Trade Practices Committee of Australia peak legal body, the Law Council of Australia, and of the American Bar Association's Sections of Antitrust Law and International Law. In December 2008 Associate Professor Beaton-Wells became an inaugural member of the Academic Board of the Asian Competition Law and Economics Centre in Hong Kong.

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A selection of relevant publications by Associate Professor Beaton-Wells includes:

 

 

 

 


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