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By providing a careful selection of case law and journal opinion combined with penetrating analysis, critique and commentary, EU Competition Law: Text, Cases, and Materials provides a stand-alone guide that really helps the reader get to grips with this challenging area of law. This fourth edition has been fully updated to cover recent developments within EU competition law including the implications for state aid following government bail-outs of the banking sector, the Commission Guidance Paper on the application of Article 82, and all of the major cases including France Télécom v Commission (2008) and the actions brought against Microsoft and Intel. Online Resource Centre This book is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre which provides: · An additional chapter on State Aids · Regular updates allowing the reader to follow the changes and developments to EU competition law that occur after publication · A selection of annotated web links offer the ideal introduction to online research and further study · Appendix material from the European Commission including relevant articles from the EC Treaty along with a selection of rules, guidelines and notices
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Brenda Sufrin is Professor of law at Bristol University
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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There is a lot of good information in the book, however it has to be, without doubt, one of the most boring legal textbooks I've ever picked up.
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The master course on competition law that is taught at my university relies primarily on the relevant legal sources (the Treaties, regulations, Commission guidelines, etc)--not literature. I felt that I needed a book that provides me with sufficient background information on any specific issue; the more comprehensive, the better. Jones and Sufrin satisfies this need.
The book is very comprehensive and covers not only competition law itself, but also the underlying political, social and, in particular, economic concepts and rationales. It relies heavily on case law and additional sources, but also takes legal practice into account, which makes it sometimes less academic (and perfect for my course). It is also one of the few of its kind that is up to date and `Lisbon proof'.
However, I should point out that the structure is sometimes indeed very confusing, as pointed out by another reviewer. For example, there are chapters that almost exclusively deal with the competition policy per branch (e.g. collusion and abuse of dominance), whereas others deal with the notion of cartels and oligopolies in general. In the end you might have to read multiple chapters in order to fully grasp a specific legal concept. Moreover, the chapters do not seem to be ordered in a logical manner, so you actually have to take a good look at the table of contents.
What disappointed me the most is that the book has no chapter on state aid. Instead, the chapter is provided electronically (PDF) via the Online Resource Centre. It took me a while to discover this. Frankly, I find this unacceptable. When I purchase a book, I expect it to comprise all the relevant chapters so that I do not have to rely on my computer or have to print it out myself. State aid is an essential part of competition law and should be in this book.
To conclude, I can definitely recommend this book if you are looking for a comprehensive, up-to-date book on EU competition law. I primarily used it to look up specific concepts but have not read entire chapters. For the confusing structure and the lack of an important chapter, I subtract one star.
The book is very comprehensive and covers not only competition law itself, but also the underlying political, social and, in particular, economic concepts and rationales. It relies heavily on case law and additional sources, but also takes legal practice into account, which makes it sometimes less academic (and perfect for my course). It is also one of the few of its kind that is up to date and `Lisbon proof'.
However, I should point out that the structure is sometimes indeed very confusing, as pointed out by another reviewer. For example, there are chapters that almost exclusively deal with the competition policy per branch (e.g. collusion and abuse of dominance), whereas others deal with the notion of cartels and oligopolies in general. In the end you might have to read multiple chapters in order to fully grasp a specific legal concept. Moreover, the chapters do not seem to be ordered in a logical manner, so you actually have to take a good look at the table of contents.
What disappointed me the most is that the book has no chapter on state aid. Instead, the chapter is provided electronically (PDF) via the Online Resource Centre. It took me a while to discover this. Frankly, I find this unacceptable. When I purchase a book, I expect it to comprise all the relevant chapters so that I do not have to rely on my computer or have to print it out myself. State aid is an essential part of competition law and should be in this book.
To conclude, I can definitely recommend this book if you are looking for a comprehensive, up-to-date book on EU competition law. I primarily used it to look up specific concepts but have not read entire chapters. For the confusing structure and the lack of an important chapter, I subtract one star.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This book is an absolute beast and granted there is such an abundance of information it can be quite daunting and diffuclt to navigate however this is so comprehensive and in depth that it is ideal for any competition law student looking to write a good essay though granted it would be a great challenge to use it as a revision material. I used this book to help me in an essay and found it the best in the market and got a very good grade thanks to its guidance.
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This book helped me a lot while studying for my exam! Theory is well structured and the cases are very well explained, this gives you a very good introduction to all you need to... Read more
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Perfect and upto Date
If you want learn about European competition law, this book probably is the best. The structure of the book includes discussion of the literature and review of the case law. Read more
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You can find almost everything about competition law!!!
Very complete, if you work with competition law is a must have!!! It's Really BIG, a little bit difficult to move arround with it, but with a lot of good cases about the subject.
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Arguably THE textbook on this subject.
This book may seem a little long in comparison to other textbooks in this area. In our view, this is a mistaken view: the book is littered with useful case and academic extracts,... Read more
Published on 7 Mar 2010 by Jack W. Bissell
Excellent treatment of EC competition law
Probably the most comprehensive and in-depth treatment of EC competition law on the market. Very good mixture of text, case extracts (not too long) and journal articles. Read more
Published on 7 Mar 2009 by K Kwok
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This isn't a book one turns to for entertainment or to get a quick overview of competition law - it is a book one uses in order to seriously get to grips with the subject. Read more
Published on 15 Feb 2009 by Michael Zymler
loads of unstructured information
The quality of the chapters is very uneven. The one on intellectual property rights is excellent; the rest of the book is confusing and contains loads of unstructured information. Read more
Published on 25 April 2003
Not too entertaining
Accurate and interesting. However, this "blue/green peril" is too long and does not completely convince me; there are some areas which are not well covered and some... Read more
Published on 27 April 2001
A comprehensive and unvaluable guide on Competition law.
This is not a book for those who want to have a good overview of competition law (Whish or Goyder are more helpful in that respect due to a more accesible approach and length, but... Read more
Published on 22 April 2001
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