Personal details
- Name
- Emeritus Professor Stephen Corones
- Position(s)
- Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Law,
Faculty Office (Law) - Emeritus Professor
Faculty of Law,
Faculty Office (Law) - Discipline *
- Law
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 5211
- Fax
- +61 7 3138 1161
- s.corones@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Qualifications
-
PhD (University of Queensland), LLM (University College London), LLB (University of Queensland), BCom (University of Queensland)
- Keywords
-
Access to infrastructure, Competition law, Consumer protection
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.
Teaching
Units currently taught
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 SG, (2015) Regulating unilateral supermarket misconduct as customer/acquirer of goods and services, Australian Business Law Review p400-419
- Corones SG, (2014) Competition Law in Australia, 6th edition, Competition Law in Australia, 6th edition p1-950
- Corones SG, Stobbs N, Thomas MN, (2014) Professional responsibility and legal ethics in Queensland, 2nd edition p1-556
- Corones SG, (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 p281-315
- Humphrey JS, Corones SG, (2014) Forrest v ASIC: A 'perfect storm', Australian Law Journal p26-37
- Corones SG, Irving KA, (2014) Raising levels of awareness of rights and obligations in the provision of financial product advice to retail clients, Company and Securities Law Journal p192-213
- Corones SG, (2013) The Australian Consumer Law (2nd ed.) p1-266
- Corones SG, Galloway T, (2013) The effectiveness of the best interests duty - enhancing consumer protection?, Australian Business Law Review p5-29
- Corones SG, (2012) Consumer guarantees and the supply of educational services by higher education providers, University of New South Wales Law Journal p1-30
- Corones SG, (2011) Getting what they paid for: Consumer guarantees and extended warranties, Australian Business Law Review p331-353
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Research projects
Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)
- 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;
- Title
- The Use of Information and Cryptographic Technology to Restrict Competition
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP0666521
- Start year
- 2006
- Keywords
- Competition Policy; Digital Rights Management; Restricting Competition; Standards; Vertically Integrated Computer Environments; Security Technologies
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)