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EU Competition Law
Cases, Texts and Context
2nd edition
9781839104664 Edward Elgar Publishing
This innovative textbook, now in its second edition, presents EU competition law in political, economic and comparative context. It brings competition law to life from an EU and global perspective, with cross currents of trade and industrial policy and attention to the intervention of the state in the market. Quintessentially readable, the book deftly and concisely excerpts the key cases and embeds them in explanatory materials, including policy statements and regulations. It is entirely up to date and integrates, for example, new issues of power in the digital economy. Notes accompanying the cases raise hard questions and explain the fascinating issues underlying contemporary competition policy in the European Union and around the world.
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This innovative textbook, now in its second edition, presents EU competition law in political, economic and comparative context. It brings competition law to life from an EU and global perspective, with cross currents of trade and industrial policy and attention to the intervention of the state in the market. Quintessentially readable, the book deftly and concisely excerpts the key cases and embeds them in explanatory materials, including policy statements and regulations. It is entirely up to date and integrates, for example, new issues of power in the digital economy. Notes accompanying the cases raise hard questions and explain the fascinating issues underlying contemporary competition policy in the European Union and around the world.
The book covers the full range of competition law and policy subjects, namely: the Treaties and the single market, cartels, other horizontal and vertical agreements, abuses of dominance, merger control, and state restraints including State aids.
Among key features, the book:
• integrates law, economics and policies, providing a holistic sense of competition law and its place in the EU system
• is unusually concise, given its coverage, while explaining the critical nuances of cases by means of notes and questions
• provides a unique comparative perspective by including excerpts of landmark US antitrust cases and numerous other comparative references.
This book is a perfect textbook for students of EU competition law and even competition law in general, given that most nations in the antitrust family of the world build their competition laws upon the EU model. It is useful for specialized seminars on European, US, and other nations’ and regions’ competition laws. It is also an excellent desk book and resource for academics, enforcers and practitioners in the field.
The book covers the full range of competition law and policy subjects, namely: the Treaties and the single market, cartels, other horizontal and vertical agreements, abuses of dominance, merger control, and state restraints including State aids.
Among key features, the book:
• integrates law, economics and policies, providing a holistic sense of competition law and its place in the EU system
• is unusually concise, given its coverage, while explaining the critical nuances of cases by means of notes and questions
• provides a unique comparative perspective by including excerpts of landmark US antitrust cases and numerous other comparative references.
This book is a perfect textbook for students of EU competition law and even competition law in general, given that most nations in the antitrust family of the world build their competition laws upon the EU model. It is useful for specialized seminars on European, US, and other nations’ and regions’ competition laws. It is also an excellent desk book and resource for academics, enforcers and practitioners in the field.
Critical Acclaim
‘European competition consists of a few provisions that, despite their abstract nature, deeply affect the economy and society as a whole. In the second edition of EU Competition Law, Eleanor Fox and Damien Gerard brilliantly illustrate this impact, not only by presenting the most striking European cases in a comparative law perspective that refers to their main US counter parts, but also by distilling from these cases the essential questions and issues, which students, scholars and practitioners must address when they study or apply EU competition law.’
– Marc van der Woude, President of the EU General Court, Luxembourg
‘In Europe, we don’t have a long tradition of casebooks, but Fox & Gerard is a wonderful exception. Perfect length and focus and perfect combination between the old and revered (Consten & Grundig, Wood Pulp, Delimitis, Hoffmann-La Roche) and the new and revolutionary (Cartes Bancaires, Intel, Google Shopping, CK Telecoms). Substance-procedure, and private-public law of competition are equally treated. In sum, perfect dosage on all fronts.’
– Assimakis Komninos, White & Case LLP, Brussels
‘While remaining a comprehensive, clear and thoughtful introduction to EU competition law, the new edition of this groundbreaking textbook is a welcome and necessary update that contains additional insightful and provocative commentary on the substantive and procedural differences in the respective competition law and policies of the EU and the US, as well as on their respective enforcement context.’
– Mark Leddy, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, US
Acclaim for the previous edition:
‘Reading this brilliant casebook is like being in one of Professor Fox’s famed lectures: well-chosen texts, insightful commentary, historical and economic context, thought-provoking questions, and illuminating international comparisons. Clever, comprehensive, and thoughtful, it provides a fresh, lively, user-friendly perspective of value to students and practitioners alike.’
– Nicholas Levy, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Brussels and London
‘Setting forth the big principles, this book is full of accurate summaries of key topics, and sizzles with interesting questions. The classic cases are very well presented and the judgements of the EU courts examined concisely. Given its provocative approach, it would be easy to hang an entire term of lectures around a single chapter.’
– Ian Forrester, former Judge, General Court of the European Union
‘A book on European competition policy must explain to its readers how this policy has been effective in unifying an initially fragmented market and how different it is from others in its equal attention to both public and private restraints and in preserving competition as an open process over and above efficiency itself. It is precisely what you find here. Exhaustive and simple, sophisticated and clear, this book is a unique source of analysis and materials for scholars, practitioners and students inside and outside Europe.’
– Giuliano Amato, European University Institute and former Prime Minister of Italy
– Marc van der Woude, President of the EU General Court, Luxembourg
‘In Europe, we don’t have a long tradition of casebooks, but Fox & Gerard is a wonderful exception. Perfect length and focus and perfect combination between the old and revered (Consten & Grundig, Wood Pulp, Delimitis, Hoffmann-La Roche) and the new and revolutionary (Cartes Bancaires, Intel, Google Shopping, CK Telecoms). Substance-procedure, and private-public law of competition are equally treated. In sum, perfect dosage on all fronts.’
– Assimakis Komninos, White & Case LLP, Brussels
‘While remaining a comprehensive, clear and thoughtful introduction to EU competition law, the new edition of this groundbreaking textbook is a welcome and necessary update that contains additional insightful and provocative commentary on the substantive and procedural differences in the respective competition law and policies of the EU and the US, as well as on their respective enforcement context.’
– Mark Leddy, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, US
Acclaim for the previous edition:
‘Reading this brilliant casebook is like being in one of Professor Fox’s famed lectures: well-chosen texts, insightful commentary, historical and economic context, thought-provoking questions, and illuminating international comparisons. Clever, comprehensive, and thoughtful, it provides a fresh, lively, user-friendly perspective of value to students and practitioners alike.’
– Nicholas Levy, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Brussels and London
‘Setting forth the big principles, this book is full of accurate summaries of key topics, and sizzles with interesting questions. The classic cases are very well presented and the judgements of the EU courts examined concisely. Given its provocative approach, it would be easy to hang an entire term of lectures around a single chapter.’
– Ian Forrester, former Judge, General Court of the European Union
‘A book on European competition policy must explain to its readers how this policy has been effective in unifying an initially fragmented market and how different it is from others in its equal attention to both public and private restraints and in preserving competition as an open process over and above efficiency itself. It is precisely what you find here. Exhaustive and simple, sophisticated and clear, this book is a unique source of analysis and materials for scholars, practitioners and students inside and outside Europe.’
– Giuliano Amato, European University Institute and former Prime Minister of Italy
Contents
Contents: Preface. Introduction 1. The Treaty, Objectives and the Single Market 2. Cartels 3. Horizontal Restraints 4. Vertical Restraints 5. Abuses of Dominance 6. Merger Control 7. The State and the Competition Afterword Index
