The German Federal Supreme Court in 2016 decided a case brought by athlete Claudia Pechstein against the International Skating Union on a doping matter. The question at issue was whether the arbitration clause in the athlete’s contract for participating in the World Championships, entered into...

The German Federal Cartel Office and the Austrian Federal Competition Authority have recently published a draft "Guidance on Transaction Value Thresholds for Mandatory Pre-merger Notification (Section 35(1a) GWB and Section 9(4) KartG)" for public consultation. Prof. Dr. Christian Kersting,...

The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is the first encompassing legislative set of rules that goes beyond traditional competition law and provides essential rules for doing business with digital gatekeepers, in response to the global recognition of the need for increased regulation of the sector. This...

The European Commission is charged with implementing the Digital Markets Act (DMA) which will impose a list of 22 do and don't to Big Tech platforms in March 2024. Based on economic and legal reasoning, this paper asks how the Commission can fulfil this challenging task effectively. The paper...

This paper is the national report for Germany in the project "Mapping Judicial Review of Competition Law Decisions", directed by Or Brook and Barry Rodger. The project is based on an empirical exercise with all decisions taken in judicial review of competition law cases between 2004 and 2020...