Eu Competition Law: An Analytical Guide to the Leading Cases

'... an invaluable tool for both students and practitioners that] provides a compact overview of the fundamental cases and highlights the essential problems in a clear and sharp analysis.'
Christoph Voelk, Antitrust Practice Group, McDermott, Will & Emery LLP, Brussels

This unique textbook is designed as a working tool for the study and practice of European competition law, focused on case law analysis. Each chapter begins with an introduction which outlines the relevant laws, regulations and guidelines for each of the topics, setting the analytical foundations for the case entries. Within this framework, cases are reviewed in summary form, accompanied by useful analysis and commentary.

The 7th edition includes recent judgments from the European Court of Justice on the scope of object and effects based analysis (including Generics and Budapest Bank), as well as those on abuse of dominance. It examines developments in parallel trade, online sales restrictions, advertising bans, enforcement powers and procedure. Expanding its coverage of merger decisions, it explores non-collusive oligopoly (including CK Telecoms) and the treatment of innovation and data under the EU Merger Regulation.

This unique textbook offers the competition law student an insightful guide to EU competition law cases, an understanding of which is crucial. Rigorous, comprehensive and authoritative, it simply is a must read.