Perchance to Dream: Well Integrated Public and Private Antitrust Enforcement in the European Union
Philip Lowe and Mel Marquis, eds., Integrating Public and Private Enforcement of Competition Law -- Implications for Courts and Agencies, Hart Publishing, 2014, pp 13-81 (xiii-lxxxi)
69 Pages Posted: 24 Dec 2013 Last revised: 2 Mar 2014
Date Written: December 15, 2013
Abstract
This chapter introduces an edited collection of papers written by 27 authors concerning the rise of private antitrust enforcement in Europe and its interaction with enforcement by competition authorities. This chapter and the book cover several jurisdictions and provide initial assessments of the European Commission’s proposed Directive on damages actions and its Recommendation on collective redress, each of June 2013. The book, 'Integrating Public and Private Enforcement of Competition Law -- Implications for Courts and Agencies', is edited by Philip Lowe and Mel Marquis and was published by Hart of Oxford in February 2014.
Keywords: antitrust, competition law, private enforcement, damages actions, EU Directive on damages actions, collective redress, class actions, antitrust litigation
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