Rate My Professor Mel Marquis

Dr. Mel Marquis is a Senior Lecturer in Law and Deputy Associate Dean at Monash Law School within the Faculty of Law at Monash University. He earned a BA in political science from the University of Washington (Seattle), a JD magna cum laude from Seton Hall University (Newark), an LLM from the European University Institute (Florence), and a doctorate from the Institute of International and European Union Law at the University of Macerata (Italy). Prior to joining Monash University, he taught law for over ten years at Italian universities, serving as Part-time Professor of Law at the European University Institute in Florence from 2011 to 2019, Contract Professor at the Free University of Rome (LUMSA) from 2012 to 2019, and Contract Professor at the University of Verona Faculty of Economics from 2008 to 2014. He has held positions as Chair Professor, Visiting Professor, or Visiting Scholar at Renmin University (Beijing), Central University of Finance and Economics (Beijing), Doshisha University (Kyoto), and the University of Melbourne. A former Fulbright Scholar, he practiced law in the United States and Belgium before entering academia. Marquis is an Advance HE Fellow (FHEA) since 2024, recipient of the Dean's Award for Excellence in Research in 2025, and Monash Teaching Award for the 2020 academic year. He also received Readers' Choice Awards in the Antitrust Writing Awards in 2016 and 2018, and served on the jury and Academic Steering Committee in 2021-2022.

Marquis's scholarship centers on competition law, with a focus on Australia, East Asia, and ASEAN member countries. Notable publications include his monograph Confucian Culture and Competition Law in East Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2022; softcover reprint 2025, co-authored with Jingyuan Ma), as managing co-editor of Australian Competition Law and Economics, Volume I: The Competition Law System: Context, Law and Economics and Volume II: Competition and Consumer Law: Principles, Enforcement, and Comparative Perspectives (Routledge, 2025), and co-editor of the forthcoming Australian Competition Law in a Changing Context (Thomson Reuters). His article 'Australian Merger Control in 2026 and Beyond: A Book of Changes' appeared in the 2025 European Competition Law Review. A member of the Editorial Board of World Competition Law and Economics Review, he co-founded and co-organises the annual ACCC-Monash Australia Competition Summit launched in 2025 and co-leads the Monash-Warwick Alliance project 'Regulating Digital Markets: Insights from the United Kingdom, Australia and the European Union'. He serves on the Executive Board of the Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies (CLARS), convenes the Monash High Achievers' Program, acts as a University of Oxford Ambassador for the Value of Competition, and holds appointments as academic Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network (by the ACCC), advisor to the Trade Competition Commission of Thailand (2022), and expert for the United Nations, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and others. In 2026, he will be Visiting Scholar at Doshisha University Law Faculty in Kyoto. He accepts PhD supervisions in competition law.