The Melbourne LLB

Arlen Duke joined the Law School as a full-time lecturer in February 2005.  His main research interests include: the regulation of anti-competitive practices, consumer protection, the law of obligations, law and economics and contract law.  His interest in competition law has led to him publishing articles examining the relevance of efficiencies to merger analysis, the regulation of unilateral anti-competitive conduct, anti-competitive signalling and the difficulties associated with establishing the existence of anti-competitive arrangements by inference as well as a competition analysis of the music industry.  In 2008 Arlen joined Dr Jeannie Paterson and Professor Andrew Robertson as a co-author of Contracts: cases and materials and Principles of contract law.  He has also published an article that applies findings from the behavioural law and economics school to determine the likely effects of implying a universal duty of good faith into contracts.

In 2000, Arlen graduated from the University of Melbourne with an LLB (First Class Honours) and a BComm.  He has recently completed a LLM by coursework at the University of Melbourne (first class honours awarded in all eight subjects).

In 2009 Arlen will teach Obligations in the JD programme and Competition Law in the LLB programme.   In 2010 he is likely to again teach Obligations in the JD programme and Competition Law in the LLB programme.  In addition, he will also teach Competition Law and Intellectual Property in the MLM programme.

Arlen is the academic responsible for the Law School's incoming exchange programme.  His responsibilities include:

• assessing incoming exchange applications
• welcoming incoming students and assisting them to settle into the faculty
• developing and implementing policies to encourage participation in the exchange programme