Overview
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 Block Exemption Regulations, the revised Verticals Block Exemption Regulation, and the Technology Transfer Block Exemption. Key cases covered in this edition include Telefonica, Microsoft, Intel, Rambus, RWE, and GdF.
Full Product Details
Author: Jonathan Faull (Director General, Internal Market and Services, European Commission) ,
Ali Nikpay (Partner, Gibson Dunn)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 18.10cm
, Height: 8.00cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 2.668kg
ISBN: 9780199665099
ISBN 10: 0199665095
Pages: 2368
Publication Date: 20 March 2014
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Faull & Nikpay is a must-have for the competition law practitioner. It combines high principles, depth of analysis and breadth of coverage, approaching the subject by economic sector as well as by legal topic. A truly authoritative work. Alec Burnside, Managing Partner, Cadwalader Brussels Review from previous edition Faull & Nikpay is written entirely by officials working for the European Commission Competition Department and competition experts have bought copies to discover more about their thinking. The book is much better than that. Many using the book tell me how happy they are with it. In chapter after chapter the best articles in English are cited and more awareness of the economic analysis is demonstrated than in the European Commission's decisions. The development of the law is lucidly explained. This is the best book ... to consult. Not only are the rules and case law described, the reasons for the rules are explained. This feature should help practitioners to understand their likely future development. Valentine Korah, Journal of World Competition ... an essential guide for all practitioners and regulatory officials whose work touches upon EC competition/antitrust law and practice. European Access The publication of this book is both timely and welcome...The book's extensive treatment of the substantive law...is well structured and is...fluent, coherent and accurate...All in all, this is a fine book and will, no doubt, become established as one of the must have texts for practitioners and academics alike. Peter Kunzlik Nottingham Law Journal Vol 9(2) rather elegant and excellently written. European Voice, 21st Sept. 2000. The EC Law of Competition should be at the right hand of every counsellor. Professor Barry E. Hawk, Skadden, Arps, Meagher and Flom LLP; Director, Fordham Corporate Law Institute The in-depth working knowledge that the authors possess makes this an unique work. It is likely to become the new standard reference for EC competition law. Christopher Bright, Clifford Chance ...this book provides a concise description of the case law and the administrative practice and explains the rationale behind the law. It contains an in-depth analysis of specific sectors of the economy such as financial services, communications, energy and transport. European Counsel, February 2000 ...an excellent complementary volume to Bellamy & Child. ...[I]t is well worth the investment and will be consulted frequently by anyone seriously dealing with EC competition law. European Journal of Law Reform
`Faull & Nikpay is a must-have for the competition law practitioner. It combines high principles, depth of analysis and breadth of coverage, approaching the subject by economic sector as well as by legal topic. A truly authoritative work.' Alec Burnside, Managing Partner, Cadwalader Brussels `Review from previous edition Faull & Nikpay is written entirely by officials working for the European Commission Competition Department and competition experts have bought copies to discover more about their thinking. The book is much better than that. Many using the book tell me how happy they are with it. In chapter after chapter the best articles in English are cited and more awareness of the economic analysis is demonstrated than in the European Commission's decisions. The development of the law is lucidly explained. This is the best book ... to consult. Not only are the rules and case law described, the reasons for the rules are explained. This feature should help practitioners to understand their likely future development.' Valentine Korah, Journal of World Competition `... an essential guide for all practitioners and regulatory officials whose work touches upon EC competition/antitrust law and practice.' European Access `The publication of this book is both timely and welcome...The book's extensive treatment of the substantive law...is well structured and is...fluent, coherent and accurate...All in all, this is a fine book and will, no doubt, become established as one of the must have texts for practitioners and academics alike.' Peter Kunzlik Nottingham Law Journal Vol 9(2) `rather elegant and excellently written.' European Voice, 21st Sept. 2000. `The EC Law of Competition should be at the right hand of every counsellor.' Professor Barry E. Hawk, Skadden, Arps, Meagher and Flom LLP; Director, Fordham Corporate Law Institute `The in-depth working knowledge that the authors possess makes this an unique work. It is likely to become the new standard reference for EC competition law.' Christopher Bright, Clifford Chance `...this book provides a concise description of the case law and the administrative practice and explains the rationale behind the law. It contains an in-depth analysis of specific sectors of the economy such as financial services, communications, energy and transport.' European Counsel, February 2000 `...an excellent complementary volume to Bellamy & Child. ...[I]t is well worth the investment and will be consulted frequently by anyone seriously dealing with EC competition law.' European Journal of Law Reform
Author Information
Jonathan Faull is co-editor of Faull and Nikpay: The EU Law of Competition. He is Director General for Internal Market and Services at the European Commission in Brussels. He is Visiting Professor at King's College, London and the College of Europe, Bruges, and Emeritus Professor at the Institute of European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Ali Nikpay is co-editor of Faull and Nikpay: The EU Law of Competition. He is a partner at Gibson Dunn and head of their competition and antitrust practice group in London. He is a Visiting Fellow Lecturer at the University of Oxford and was a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, he was the Senior Director for Cartels and Criminal Enforcement at the Office of Fair Trading.
