This volume covers general concepts in competition law, providing a high-level introduction to key legal principles and the development of competition policy, featuring a substantial section on the economic context of competition law.

This casebook, designed for a readership of graduate students, policy makers, and practitioners in competition law, aims to provide a comprehensive reference on EU and UK competition law. While the majority of the text comprises analysis supplemented with detailed commentary and analysis of judgments, NCA and Commission decisions, and legislation, the casebook also gives a high-level introduction to the design and history of EU and UK competition law, including an overview of the main actors and their objectives, furnishing students with the understanding of the law required to practise competition law. In particular, the casebook takes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, featuring a substantial section on the economic context of competition law accessible even to those with no economics background. The book is accompanied by specialist volumes on intellectual property and enforcement and procedure.

The European Union now leads the way in setting standards for and shaping key debates in competition policy and law internationally. Professor Lianos and his colleagues have produced a detailed, integrated and up-to-date resource that will prove invaluable to students, scholars, practitioners and enforcement officials around the globe.

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Ioannis Lianos holds the Chair in Global Competition Law and Public Policy at the Faculty of Laws, University College London, and the Gutenberg Research Chair at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration in France. He is the founder and Director of the Centre for Law, Economics and Society at UCL Laws and Chief researcher at the HSE-Skolkovo Institute for Law & Development. He has also been a Non-Governmental Advisor at the International Competition Network since 2009. Valentine Korah is Emeritus Professor of Competition Law at the UCL Faculty of Laws. Paolo Siciliani is a competition expert at the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority and a Visiting Lecturer at UCL Faculty of Laws.

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Preface
1: Institutional actors, design and history of the EU and UK Competition Law Systems
2: The goals of EU and UK Competition Law
3: The economics of competition law: relevant market and market power
4: The personal scope of the EU and UK Competition Law
5: The elements of Article 101 TFEU/ Chapter I CA 98: Collusion
6: The elements of Article 101 TFEU/ Chapter I of the UK Competition Act: Restriction of Competition
7: Horizontal restrictions of competition
8: Abuse of dominant position: Main elements
9: Abuse of a dominant position (specific abuses)
10: Distribution Agreements
11: The oligopoly problem in competition law
12: Mergers