On July 11, 2007, the Court of First Instance of the European Communities issued two important judgments in the field of competition law, <i>Schneider Electric v. Commission</i> (cf. T-351/03), and <i>Alrosa Company Ltd. v. Commission</i> (cf. T-170/06). The <i>Alrosa</i> ruling received much less press coverage...

This paper describes three factors that contributed to shaping the role played so far by the Commission in its capacity as the major antitrust enforcement authority in the management of the financial crisis in Europe and, hence, the contribution of EC competition law to a solution of the crisis,...

In spite of the silence of the Commission, a lot has happened on the Article 82 front since June 2006. This paper discusses these developments and weighs the pros and cons of releasing guidelines.

: E58, E65, G21, G28, K21, K22

How to bridge the gap between the transformations resulting from the modernization process and the scope of the EU Courts hybrid jurisdiction in antitrust matters? Damien M.B. Gerard (University of Louvain)

This article examines Microsoft’s offense in withholding full information to its workgroup server operating systems rivals so that they could not interoperate with Microsoft’s systems as seamlessly as Microsoft could.

This timely book brings together contributions from prominent scholars and practitioners to the ongoing debate on the criminalization of competition law enforcement. Recognizing that existing remedies and sanctions may be insufficient to deter breaches of competition law, several EU Member...

This fascinating and highly relevant book facilitates discussion on the difficult technical, legal and economic issues with respect to innovation, competition and welfare raised, through the span of more than a decade, by the US and EC Microsoft antitrust cases. It assesses their impact on the...

This timely book brings together contributions from prominent scholars and practitioners to the ongoing debate on the criminalization of competition law enforcement. Recognizing that existing remedies and sanctions may be insufficient to deter breaches of competition law, several EU Member...

A World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute panel has decided the WTO's first antitrust case. It resolved the matter in favour of the United States' claim that Mexico had anticompetitively facilitated exploitative prices and a cartel that raised the price of terminating cross-border telephone calls...