About the Programme

Students will learn substantive provisions of competition law, case law, how firms and markets are organized, use of economics in investigations, and court hearings; challenges with dealing with extra regional cross border conduct; interrogating the contending views on how competition law should be tailored and enforced.

What Will I Study?

You will discover: 

• Prohibition of anticompetitive agreements, abuse of dominance; case law; merger review;
• how firms organize themselves, the way they make decisions, and the effects of those decisions on market outcomes
• investigating cases using economics
• prepare and present legal and economic evidence before competition authorities and for court proceedings in CARICOM.
• The challenges of dealing with extra regional cross border anticompetitive conducts
• How relevant are imported laws for developing economies: the debate

Facilities and Resources

Enhance your learning experience by fully utilising our:

• Fully equipped Law Library;
• Access to Regional and International Legal Online Databases

https://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/lawlibrary/legal-resources.aspx

Career Opportunities

The LLM programme in Competition Law and Policy are designed for practitioners in law, including in-house counsel, economists in firms, private sector lawyers, the judiciary, and staff of competition commissions to prepare them for representing their firms or clients in competition cases, for becoming enforcers in competition commissions, or for the judiciary in adjudicating competition cases.
 

Why Study in Barbados

The programme is offered synchronous online so there is no need to come to Barbados

Additional Information

The courses will be taught on two week days from 5-8 pm AST and on Saturdays from 9-12 AST so as to facilitate working professionals

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