Arlen Duke

Arlen Duke is an Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, within the Faculty of Law. He holds a BComm, an LLB with First Class Honours, and an LLM by coursework from the University of Melbourne, achieving first class honours in all eight LLM subjects. Duke joined Melbourne Law School as a full-time lecturer in February 2005 and has since been promoted to Associate Professor. He previously held the position of Associate Dean for the Melbourne Juris Doctor (JD) program.

Duke's research specializations focus primarily on competition law, encompassing domestic competition policy reform, the interface between competition law and intellectual property, and the regulation of emerging business models. His scholarly work examines pivotal issues such as the role of efficiencies in merger analysis and administrative decision-making, regulation of unilateral and anti-competitive coordinated conduct, parallel import restrictions, extraterritorial application of Australia's competition laws, and competition law's potential to mitigate economic inequality. Recent contributions address redefining markets and assessing competitive effects in the era of digital platforms, global markets, and evolving business practices. Duke has also published on consumer protection matters and collaborates frequently with Dr Rhonda Smith on topics including agreements under competition law, price discrimination, market definitions, and inequality.

In teaching, he delivers Competition Law, Legal Method and Reasoning, and Obligations and Contract in the JD program; Principles of Business Law in the breadth curriculum; and Competition Law and Intellectual Property (with Professor Megan Richardson) and Unilateral Conduct (with Dr Rhonda Smith) in the Master of Law and Management program. Duke is a member of the Competition Law and Economics Network (CLEN) and the Obligations research group.

Professional Email: a.duke@unimelb.edu.au