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COMPETITION LAW AND POLICY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT (LAWSG046 ) Credit value: 15 credits (6 ECTS)
Module Convenor: Dr. Ioannis Lianos	Other Teachers: Dr. Frederic Jenny (visiting professor) Dr. Abel Mateus (senior research fellow)
Intercollegiate teaching: No
Teaching Method: 10 x two-hour seminars
Who may enrol: LLM students, SIL students, Other UCL Masters students
Prerequisites: None
Barred module combinations: None
Core module for specialism: Comparative Law, Competition Law, Law and Economics
Assessment
Practice Assessment: to be confirmed
Assessment method for Masters students: 2-hour unseen written examination
Assessment method for SIL students: 3,000 word coursework essay
Module Overview
Module summary The module will examine the role and place of competition law and policy in a global economy, the different regimes of competition law (with examples from developed and developing countries), the interaction between trade and competition and the process of internationalisation of competition law and policy.
Module syllabus Topics examined Part I: Substantive principles Topic 1: International Cartels Topic 2:Global trends: criminalization of competition law enforcement Topic 3: Exclusionary anti-competitive practices affecting market access (Microsoft case study) Topic 4: International mergers & the interaction between Competition law and Industrial Policy/Public Policy in an International Context Topic 5: State anticompetitive practices in a comparative perspective Part II: Resolving conflicts between competition law systems Topic 6: Extraterritorial application of competition law Topic 7: Limits to national competition law enforcement: Conduct affecting exports or foreign commerce, foreign governmental involvement Topic 8: International approaches: Trade, Development and Competition Topic 9: Multi-jurisdictional enforcement of competition law: comparative perspectives (international litigation in competition law: applicable law, jurisdiction, evidence, execution and recognition of judgments, interaction between public and private remedies) Topic 10: Private litigation tactics in a multi-jurisdictional setting. International arbitration of competition law disputes
Recommended materials E. Fox and D. Crane, Global issues in Antitrust and Competition Law (West, 2010)
Preliminary reading T. Freyer, Antitrust and Global Capitalism: 1930-2004 (Cambridge University Press, 2006) D. Gerber, Global Competition: Law, Markets and Globalization (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Other information: N/A
Prizes for this module: Valentine Korah prize Jevons Institute prize

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