I have two speaking engagements in April, both on cartels. The first is for the American Bar Association: Slicing the Pie: Defining the Scope of an International Cartel: April 28, 2014 12:00PM to 1:30PM (EST) / 6:00PM to 7:30PM (CET) The second is at the IBC Advanced EU Competition Law event in London on 29 & 30 April, where I’ll be speaking with Johan Ysewyn on recent cartel developments. IBC bills the conference as “The […]

The third edition of Faull and Nikpay: The EU Law of Competition has just been published. This is a significantly expanded edition: Fully updated in this third edition, the work includes full coverage of the latest legislation, case law and guidance, giving competition lawyers a comprehensive commentary on recent developments. It includes new material on industries of growing importance in the competition field, including Pharma and High Tech. It also analyses the R&D and Specialisation […]

A post in another place about Areeda’s article on essential facilities – “an epithet in need of limiting principles” – reminded me that limiting principles are not only needed to decrease the risks of over-enforcement. Areeda’s legitimate concern about nuance being lost in the application of precedent applies also to precedents which limit liability. They are relevant to under-enforcement as well. From hard cases to bad law Areeda wrote: “As with most instances of judging […]

Alfonso Lamadrid on Chillin Competition, commented earlier today on an interesting paper by Javier Berasategi bringing together issues of competition law, supermarkets and technology. In passing he noted that I’d already brought groceries and tech together with my “exploding banana hypothesis.” I’m grateful to him for highlighting my valuable contribution to the jurisprudence on perishable fruit and cross border trade. For the curious, here are the relevant paragraphs from my book on competition law and […]