Using the link between the Law School and the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy (CCP), this module utilises the cutting-edge research which is going on in the CCP. The module is convened by a law faculty member of the CCP and the convenor attends all the seminars, but the module involves the other law faculty members of the CCP as well as CCP research associates, post-docs and research students. The module is research-led, based around a number of recent research papers either by CCP members or others and interdisciplinary. The topics change year by year, depending on who on the faculty are involved and the interests of the students. Three or four different topics within competition law and economics are chosen for the semester. Each topic opens with an introductory lecture ' by a faculty member who gives a thorough overview of the subject and the current state of research in that area, along with potential research avenues - followed by a general discussion of these issues in class. For the remaining seminars on that subject, there are two types of presentations for each subject: a CCP member presents a piece of his/her research to and a student presents a piece of research by a CCP member with the author in the audience. The second type of presentation is to be preceded by the author explaining the background to the paper, eg the choice of that particular subject, the choice of that particular methodology, etc. Both types of presentations are to be followed by a discussion of the paper in the class. Each student on the module presents a research paper, thereby determining the number of papers presented by a CCP member. The module will be open to research students who will be encouraged to participate.