Mel Marquis

Visiting Scholar, Doshisha University (Kyoto), 2026

Monash-Warwick Alliance Associate

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5310-8205

SSRN Author page:  https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=732529

e-mail:  [email protected]

Personal profile

Dr Marquis, an Advance HE Fellow (FHEA), is an internationally recognised scholar in the field of competition law and policy. He co-founded and co-organises the annual ACCC-Monash Australia Competition Summit, launched in 2025. He co-leads the Monash-Warwick research project on 'Regulating Digital Markets: Insights from the United Kingdom, Australia and the European Union' and he is a Visiting Scholar at the Law Faculty of Doshisha University in Kyoto (January to June 2026). 

Dr Marquis has published two books and eleven edited books, including recently (as managing co-editor) Australian Competition Law and Economics, Volumes I and II  (Routledge, 2025). Early academic praise includes this assessment: "Two main strengths of [Volume I] are its logical and coherent structure, with each chapter building on the previous analyses, and its inclusion of detailed contextual information explaining the history, institutions and objectives of the Australian regime." - Brenda Xiong, University of Southern Queensland

Dr Marquis is also co-editor and contributing author of a new work in progress, Australian Competition Law in a Changing Context (forthcoming from Thomson Reuters, co-edited with Dr Julian Scarff). Other recent publications include his article 'Australian Merger Control in 2026 and Beyond: A Book of Changes' (2025) 46 European Competition Law Review 262. In 2024 he completed a research project entitled Competition Law Principles for Vertical Agreements in the ASEAN Economic Community. His 2022 monograph, from Cambridge University Press, is Confucian Culture and Competition Law in East Asia (416 pp, written with the late Jingyuan Ma, Associate Professor at CUFE in Beijing; the book was re-published in soft cover by Cambridge University Press in 2025). Dr Marquis is a member of the Editorial Board of World Competition Law and Economics Review.

Prior to joining Monash he taught law for over 10 years at universities in Italy. He is a former Fulbright Scholar and has lectured and taught law courses in many countries especially in Europe and Asia. Prior to his academic career he practiced law in the United States and Belgium. 

He was Part-time Professor of Law at the European University Institute (Florence) from 2011 to 2019, and Contract Professor at the Free University of Rome (LUMSA) from 2012 to 2019. He was Contract Professor at the University of Verona (Faculty of Economics) from 2008 to 2014. He has been a Chair Professor, Visiting Professor or Visiting Scholar at Renmin University (Beijing), the Central University of Finance and Economics (Bejing), Doshisha University (Kyoto) and the University of Melbourne. 

Dr Marquis earned his Doctorate from the Institute of International and European Union Law at the University of Macerata in Italy. He obtained his LL.M from the European University Institute (Florence). He graduated magna cum laude with a J.D. from Seton Hall University (Newark), and he has a B.A. in political science from the University of Washington (Seattle). 

He is Convenor of the Monash High Academic Achievers Program and a member of the Executive Board of the Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies (CLARS). He also co-organises inter-faculty events with the Monash Business-Economics Faculty. 

He is a University of Oxford Ambassador for the Value of Competition, and has been appointed by the ACCC as an academic Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network. He is also a member of the Competition and Consumer Law Committee of the Law Institute of Victoria.

In 2022 he was appointed as International Expert to advise the Trade Competition Commission of Thailand. In 2023 he was awarded a research grant by the Australian Commonwealth and the ACCC to examine the application of competition law to distribution agreements in ASEAN countries, with a focus on Thailand. In the past he has also worked as an expert on short-term appointments by the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, the International Trade Centre, and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

His other current legal research focuses on competition issues in Australia and East Asia, and in the member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. He is also a member of the East Asia Academic Network on Competition Policy and Law (established by 13^th East Asia Top Level Meeting in Bali, 2017); and a member of the Virtual ASEAN Competition Research Centre.

Dr Marquis welcomes PhD supervisions in all areas of competition law, including subjects with a global, comparative, interdisciplinary and/or Australian focus. 

Awards

Grant recipient, 2026 - Monash-Warwick Alliance Activation Fund

Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, 2025

Advance HE Fellow (FHEA) since 2024

Grant recipient, 2024 - Competition Law Principles for Vertical Agreements in the ASEAN Economic Community

Grant recipient, 2023 - Distribution Agreements (funded by the Australian Commonwealth and administered by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission)

Antitrust Writing Awards, 2021-2022 - Named to Jury and Academic Steering Committee

Monash Teaching Award, 2020 academic year

Monash teaching and grading commitments have included:

LAW 4702 Competition and Consumer Law

LAW 5312 Competition Law

LAW 3601/5662 Global Issues in Competition Law (Malaysia)

LAW 4801 Research Project

LAW 5084 Masters Thesis