Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza

The course deals with the general and specific issues surrounding EU Competition rules and the enforcement of those rules. The course aims to be a comprehensive study of the basic provisions of EU Competition Law specifically articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. The course provides an economic and market context in which these provisions are applied especially in relation to business phenomena.

The course aims to deal with both public and private law aspects of EU Competition Law by relying on both disciplines.

 

The course delivers an in-depth training on all major aspects of Competition Law and enforcement. The field of law offers good professional perspectives in the EU internal market.

 

The course is taught in English mainly by ex cathedra lectures. Several guest lecturers will be invited, who are particularly experts of the topics they will respectively cover. Each of them will anyway be asked to stick to the coursebook as much as possible.

UPDATE COVID-19

THE ORAL EXAM WILL BE HELD THE SAME DAYS AND TIMES AS INITIALLY SCHEDULED

VIA WEBEX 

 

For any question please contact the convenors de Caria and Poncibò at 

riccardo.decaria@unito.it 

cristina.poncibo@unito.it 

The course examines EU competition law in political, economic and comparative context. 

Classes explore the tools used by competition authorities in Europe: to punish cartels that fix prices or divide markets; assess cooperative agreements between rival firms and supplier–customer relationships; to establish a dominant position and find abuses; and review the competitive effects of mergers and acquisitions. The course also explains how authorities determine when business restraints infringe on the principles governing the EU internal market, and when Member States contravene the rules protecting the European competition system including by means of subsidies known as State aids.

The aim of the course consists in providing a rounded account of the various dimensions of EU competition law, of its place at the heart of the EU market integration project and of its relevance for the enforcement of antitrust principles worldwide.

The following is the schedule of the classes for academic year 2019/20:

1)	26.9	Digital Markets and Challenges to European Competition Law
2)	27.9	The Treaty, objectives and the Single Market
3)	3.10	The Treaty, objectives and the Single Market
4)	4.10	Competition law between the Eu and the US
5)	10.10	Abuses of dominance
6)	11.10	Abuses of dominance
7)	17.10	Horizontal restraints
8)	18.10	Horizontal restraints
9)	24.10	Horizontal restraints
10)	25.10	The State and competition
11)	31.10	The State and competition
12)	7.11	Cartels
13)	8.11	Cartels
14)	14.11	Competition law & ip law
15)	15.11	Competition law & ip law
16)	21.11	Merger control
17)	22.11	Merger control
18)	28.11	Vertical restraints
19)	29.11	Vertical restraints
20)	5.12	Private enforcement

E.M. Fox, D. Gerard, EU Competition Law. Cases, Text and Context, Elgar, 2017

plus, as a mandatory reading, chapter 19 (The relationship between intellectual property rights and competition law) of R. Whish, D. Bailey, Oxford Competition Law, OUP, 2018, 9th edn (which is available in the Bobbio Library, section Merlini, EUROPA Diritto 228).

In the "materiale didattico", students will also find some legislative materials, for their reference, and other materials, to be intended as a useful tool for the preparation of the exam, but that are not mandatory. In general, students can find all the relevant legislative documents on the Eu Commission's DG Competition's website: http://ec.europa.eu/competition/antitrust/legislation/legislation.html

In the academic year 2019/20, lectures will take place on Thursdays and Fridays from 11am-1pm