Competition and Consumer Law (BLAW30004)

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this subject, students should be able to:

• Appreciate the relationship between the disciplines of law and economics in the context of competition and consumer law;
• Explain the policy objectives in legislating to control anti-competitive practices;
• Explain the policy objectives that underpin consumer protection legislation;
• Examine different forms of business behaviour with a view to identifying competition law and consumer protection law issues;
• Undertake statutory interpretation;
• Analyse and apply case law; and
• Construct and communicate a written legal argument based on understanding the facts, identifying the issues, analysing the applicable law and applying the law to the facts.

Generic skills

Students studying Competition and Consumer Law will develop the following generic skills:

• The capacity for close reading and analysis of a range of sources;
• The capacity to communicate, both orally and in writing;
• The capacity to participate as a member of a team;
• The capacity to plan and manage time; and
• The capacity to solve problems, including through the collection and evaluation of information.

In addition, on completion of the subject, students should have developed the following skills specific to the discipline of law:

• Capacity to solve competition and consumer law problems by collecting and evaluating information from a variety of sources;
• Communicate solutions to competition and consumer law problems both orally and in writing;
• Ability to work in groups to solve competition and consumer law problems; and
• Critically analyse materials in a classroom setting.