The Historical Foundations of Eu Competition Law

ISBN-13: 9780199665358 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 250 str.

Kiran Klaus Patel; Heike Schweitzer

Opis

A critical examination of the establishment and evolution of European competition law and policy, this volume unveils the history of European economic, and political, integration through a study of the foundations and development of its antitrust law.

O autorze

Kiran Klaus Patel serves as Professor of European and Global History in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Before joining Maastricht University, he held a professorship at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and an assistant professorship at Humboldt University in Berlin. He has been (inter alia) a visiting fellow/professor at Harvard University, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales in Paris, Oxford University, and the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies. He has published widely on the history of European integration and transatlantic relations. Heike Schweitzer is Professor of Private Law, European Economic Law and Competition Law in Mannheim, Germany. Before joining Mannheim University, she held the chair for European Competition Law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She received her legal education in Freiburg, Germany, and at the Yale Law School, and she served as a research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and at Columbia Law School. She has published widely on issues of competition law, including state aid and public procurement law, as well as on issues of regulation (telecommunications, media, and health).