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Emeritus Professor
Stephen Corones
Faculty of Business & Law,
Office of the Executive Dean, Business & Law
Biography
Stephen Corones is a leading researcher and author recognised for his expertise and leadership in the areas of competition law, consumer protection law and market regulation.He was appointed a Professor within the Faculty of Law in 1994, and since then has led successful research and law reform projects with significant impacts on the development of law and policy.
Law Reform
In 2007 Stephen was engaged by the Productivity Commission to prepare a Comparative Study of State and Commonwealth Consumer Protection legislation and advise the Productivity Commission generally in relation to its terms of reference for the reform of Australia’s consumer protection laws.
In 2008 Stephen was appointed by the Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs to the Commonwealth Consumer Affairs Advisory Council (CCAAC) for a three-year term.
In 2009 he led the CCAAC inquiry into the adequacy of existing laws on implied conditions and warranties, the existence of extended warranties and their interaction with laws on implied conditions and warranties, and the need for ‘lemon laws’ in Australia. This report was influential in framing the consumer guarantees regime in the Australian Consumer Law.
In 2011 he was re-appointed to CCAAC for a further three-year term.
In 2015-16, Stephen was appointed by Commonwealth Treasury to prepare a Comparative Study of Consumer Protection Laws as part of the Consumer Affairs Australia and New Zealand review of the Australian Consumer Law.
Research Grants
Stephen has received the following funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC):
- 2006-07 ARC Discovery Grant: $171,304
- 2007-10 ARC Discovery Grant: $394,879
- 2011-14 ARC Linkage Grant with the Financial Services Council of Australia: $505,378.
Professional Associations
From 2005 to 2009, Stephen was Deputy Chair of the Competition and Consumer Committee of the Law Council of Australia.
Recent publications
- 2016: The Australian Consumer Law (3rd ed) (Thomson Reuters, Sydney)
- 2014: Competition Law in Australia (6th ed) (Thomson Reuters, Sydney)
- 2014: Professional Responsibility and Legal Ethics in Queensland (2nd ed) with Nigel Stobbs and Mark Thomas (Thomson Reuters, Sydney).
Research interests
- Competition law and market regulation
- Consumer protection
- Investor protection
- Product liability.
Personal details
Positions
- Emeritus Professor
Faculty of Business & Law,
Office of the Executive Dean, Business & Law
Keywords
Access to infrastructure, Competition law, Consumer protection
Research field
Other law and legal studies
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Queensland)
- LLM (University College London)
- LLB (University of Queensland)
- BCom (University of Queensland)
Teaching
Units currently taught
Undergraduate
Postgraduate
Undergraduate
- LLB204 Commercial and Personal Property Law
- LLB410 Competition Law
Postgraduate
- LWN050 Competition Law
- LWN051 Consumer Law
- LWN406 Interface between Antitrust and Intellectual Property Rights
Publications
- Corones, S., (2015). Regulating unilateral supermarket misconduct as customer/acquirer of goods and services. Australian Business Law Review, 43(5), 400–419. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/87597
- Corones, S., (2014). Competition Law in Australia, 6th edition. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/78917
- Corones, S., Stobbs, N. & Thomas, M. (2014). Professional responsibility and legal ethics in Queensland, 2nd edition. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/70978
- Corones, S., (2014). Australian Competition and Consumer Commission V TPG Internet Pty Ltd; Forrest v Australian securities and investments commission: Misleading conduct arising from public statements: Establishing the knowledge base of the target audience. Melbourne University Law Review, 38(1), 281–315. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/77514
- Humphrey, J. & Corones, S. (2014). Forrest v ASIC: A 'perfect storm'. Australian Law Journal, 88(1), 26–37. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/66926
- Corones, S. & Irving, K. (2014). Raising levels of awareness of rights and obligations in the provision of financial product advice to retail clients. Company and Securities Law Journal, 32(3), 192–213. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/70970
- Corones, S., (2013). The Australian Consumer Law (2nd ed.). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/56735
- Galloway, T. & Corones, S. (2013). The effectiveness of the best interests duty - enhancing consumer protection? Australian Business Law Review, 41(1), 5–29. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/57981
- Corones, S., (2012). Consumer guarantees and the supply of educational services by higher education providers. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 35(1), 1–30. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/56636
- Corones, S., (2011). Getting what they paid for: Consumer guarantees and extended warranties. Australian Business Law Review, 39(5), 331–353. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/52150
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Stephen, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Selected research projects
- Title
- The Value of Financial Planning Advice - Process and Outcome Effects on Consumer Well-Being
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP110200616
- Start year
- 2011
- Keywords
- Financial Advice; Well-Being; Investment; Consumer Protection
- Title
- Technical and Legal Models for Virtual Info-Sharing Networks (VISN) for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP)
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP0773706
- Start year
- 2007
- Keywords
- Information Sharing Network; Critical Infrastructure; Virtual; Legal Framework; SCADA; Information Privacy
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Franchisor Failure: An Assessment of the Adequacy of Regulatory Response (2010)
- The International Regulation of Transnational Mergers (2010)
- Rewarding Inventive Ingenuity through Patent Ownership as part of the Australian Innovation Strategy - patent entitlement in the context of non-joinder or mis-joinder of parties (2007)
- An Examination of the Common Law Obligation of Good Faith in the Performance and Enforcement of Commercial Contracts in Australia (2005)
- Regulating Access to Essential Facilities in Australia: Review and Reform of Part IIIA of the Trade Practices Act (2004)
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.