Following the substantive harmonisation in Regulation (EC) no. 1/2003, the Commission has started more recently to focus on procedure and sanctions, and in January 2016, the European Parliament called for penalties against natural persons. This ‘On Topic’ issue looks at the current state of...

This commentary discusses the European antitrust investigation into Google and the international implications of the case. It focuses on Google's alleged dominance and the allegations concerning Google's self-preferencing of its Google Shopping results on general web search result pages, which...

Proponents of a new discipline of ‘comparative law and economics' emphasise the complementarity of ‘comparative law' and ‘law & economics'. I share this view, but highlight some of the problems that comparative law and economics encounters. My word of caution is that a good comparative law...

Following the substantive harmonization in Regulation (EC) no. 1/2003, the European Commission has started more recently to focus on the harmonization of procedure and sanctions, and in January 2016, the European Parliament called for penalties against natural persons. This special issue looks...