Library Guides: Competition and Consumer Law: Introduction

Overview

This guide includes a selection of legislation and case law sources from commercial databases and free websites. In addition, relevant journal databases, journal titles and ebooks are listed.

For country specific information, select the country above.

Please note, this research guide does not cover all available resources but will provide you with a place to start your research. It will be regularly updated and over time will include resources for additional jurisdictions.

If you have suggestions for expansion or improvement of the guide, please get in touch by emailing law-library@unimelb.edu.au.

Keywords

A multitude of terms may be used, for example in:

EU competition
China monopoly
The United States antitrust

Also, many unfair commercial practices may be considered unfair competition, such as:

unconscionable contracts
fraud
misrepresentation

Getting Started - Databases

International Encyclopaedia of Laws - IEL Competition Law
Covers the competition laws of more than thirty countries, including Australia, China and the U.S. Each chapter provides a description of the substantial and procedural rules of a particular jurisdiction as well as a list of the leading cases and a bibliography.
Kluwer Competition Law
Extensive collection on EU competition law and materials for non-EU countries, including China and the U.S. Topics include antitrust, cartels, mergers, state aid and liberalisation and are divided in legislation, court and commission decisions and commentary.
Lexology PRO (formerly Getting the Deal Through)
Provides concise country specific reports outlining the legal environment in, for example, cartel regulation, dominance, merger control, IP & antitrust and private antitrust litigation.
Global Competition Review
A competition law and policy journal and news service, publishing breaking competition news, commentary and analysis, as well as original in-depth reports, interviews and features on antitrust enforcement worldwide.

Foreign Research

View our Foreign Research Guides for detailed information on foreign research methods, legislation and case law research:

China and Hong Kong Legal Research Library Guide

European Union Legal Research Library Guide

South East Asia Legal Research Library Guide

United States of America Legeal Research Library Guide

Getting Started - Print and E-books

This section lists recent books on Competition Law in a global, regional or comparative context.

ASEAN Consumer Law by Luke Nottage, Justin Malbon, Jeannie Marie Paterson & Caron Beaton-Wells
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: CUP, 2019
The guide to merger remedies by editors Ronan P Harty and Nathan Kiratzis.
Call Number: KN 266.12 GUID
Publication Date: Global Competition Review, 2018.
The Regionalisation of Competition Law and Policy Within the ASEAN Economic Community by Burton Ong
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: CUP, 2018
Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law by Jan M. Smits (Editor)
Publication Date: 2012
Discusses comparative law and different areas of law, including Competition Law in EU and the U.S. and the legal system of various countries.
Research Handbook on International Competition Law by Ariel Ezrachi (Editor)
Publication Date: 2012
Covers competition in developed and developing countries, enforcement trends, competition agency networks and comparative analysis of intellectual property and competition law and merger control worldwide.
Comparative Competition Law by John Dun; Brendan Sweeney; Arlen Duke (Editors)
Publication Date: 2016
Focuses on global issues facing competition law and policy. This volume is specially commissioned chapters by major writers from the United States, Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia provide a synthesis of how these current topics are addressed by drawing on the approaches from varioius jurisdictions around the world.

Getting Started - Journal Databases

This section includes main law journal databases as well as business journal databases relevant to your research. For more information on searching for journal articles see the:

Secondary Resources for Legal Researh Library Guide

Main Law Journal Databases

AGIS (Informit)
A predominately Australian law journal database including some law journals from New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region. Some articles are in full text and date from 1970 onwards.
HeinOnline - Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
A multilingual index to articles in legal journals published worldwide. Covers public and private law for comparative and international legal research.
HeinOnline - Law Journal Library
A full text legal journal database that includes core U.S. law journals. Covers some journals from other jurisdictions, such as Australia, the UK, Europe, Canada. There are delays in availability of recent issues for some titles.
Index to Legal Periodicals
An index to important legal scholarly articles from the U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Content includes over 1,000 titles of which more than 400 are in full text.
Kluwer Law Online
The gateway to Kluwer Law International publications, including competition law journals. Select Journals tab to browse or search journals.
LegalTrac
Indexes major law reviews, international legal journals from the U.S, Canada, U.K and Australia.
Lexis Advance US Research
A full text database including U.S. legal journals and law reviews. Includes some Canadian journals. Select 'Secondary Legal' and then US & Canadian Law Reviews, Combined.
Westlaw (previously Westlaw International)
Contains 700+ full text journals, law reviews and bar journals. Focus is on U.S., Canadian and U.K. materials.

Business Journal Databases

Business Source Complete
A large international scholarly business database including both bibliographic and full text content.
EconLit
An economics specific database that includes journal articles, working papers and theses.
ABI/INFORM Complete
A large international business database which includes competition law.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
A law, business and economics database that includes journal articles, working papers and forthcoming papers.

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SSRN Research Papers are free to all, but all users must register and create an account to download papers.
Informit
Large Australasian journal database. To search broader than legal content, select 'by Subject' and tick 'Business & Law'.

Contact

If you need assistance finding and using any of the books, journal articles, databases and resources in this guide, please contact a law librarian. You can use the 'Ask a Librarian' chat service for quick questions, or for more in-depth enquiries, please email: law-library@unimelb.edu.au