The New EU Competition Law

This innovative new textbook offers a unifying analytical framework cutting across cases and sectors for students of competition law. This fresh approach breaks down the traditional substantive/institutional approach ensuring that the student is offered the broadest possible perspective and deepest understanding of the issues at play at the heart of EU competition law. At the same time, it makes meaningful contributions to existing debates in concrete areas by offering a fresh perspective on well- trodden arguments. Material is clearly organised into two parts, the first of which explores the features of this 'new' EU competition law and proposes an analytical framework against which the evolution of the field can be assessed. The second part addresses some of the most salient recent cases, which would be examined as manifestations of the field. Thought-provoking, engaging and informative, this is required reading for all students of the subject.

Auteur
Pablo Ibáñez Colomo is Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He is also an Ordinary Member of the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal and a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Belgium.

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This book provides the first comprehensive account of the New EU Competition Law: an emerging understanding of the discipline that breaks from the consensus that emerged in the early 2000s and that leads it into uncharted territories. Competition law has undergone fundamental transformations in the past decade: from the rise and fall of the 'effects-based approach' to the challenge of Big Tech and the growing interaction with intellectual property. Making sense of these changes and fully grasping their implications can be difficult. The book discusses the shift from traditional enforcement in the industrial era to the sort of regulatory intervention that a knowledge-based economy demands. It presents the changes that the field is undergoing (policy priorities, relationship with regulation and intangible assets, move away from efficiency and consumer welfare) and illustrates them by reference to the most significant developments in the field. The analysis includes an up-to-date evaluation of the Digital Markets Act and discusses the application of EU competition law to key areas, including energy, pharma, telecommunications, and online platforms. The companion website (https://www.bloomsburyonlineresources.com/the-new-eu-competition-law) provides access to the data behind the charts and tables included in the book, and gives readers the tools to investigate the latest developments in this fast-changing area. Conceived as a 'modular' book, practitioners and advanced students will find it useful as a map to navigate the underlying trends in the field and as an in-depth dissection of the key case law and administrative practice of the past decade.

Contenu
Introduction Part I: Mapping the Transformation 1. The Changing Face of Enforcement under Regulation 1/2003 2. The Rise and Decline of the 'More Economics-based Approach' 3. Competition Law and Economic Regulation 4. Competition Law and Intangible Property 5. The DMA as the Expression (and Endgame) of the New Competition Law Part II: Case Studies 6. Energy and Telecommunications 7. Patents and Copyright 8. Digital Markets Conclusions