Research Handbook on Private Enforcement of Competition Law in the EU

Edited by Barry J. Rodger, Professor, The Law School, University of Strathclyde, UK, Miguel Sousa Ferro, Professor, University of Lisbon Law School, Portugal and Francisco Marcos, Professor, IE Law School, IE University, Spain

Contents:

Introduction to the research handbook on private enforcement of competition
law in the EU xiv

PART I GENERAL ISSUES
1 Private enforcement of competition law: its role and development in the EU 2
Richard Whish and David Bailey
2 The economics of private enforcement of competition law 28
Maximilian Langer, Erik Lindén, Asger Lunde, Claus Kastberg Nielsen and
Jouni Sohkanen
3 Private enforcement under US antitrust law: origins and contemporary context 52
Andrew I. Gavil

PART II SUBSTANTIVE AND PROCEDURAL ISSUES
4 Respective roles of EU and national law 82
Juliane Kokott and Hanna Schröder
5 The application ratione temporis of the Directive’s provisions and
conflicting limitation periods under national laws 101
Philipp Kirst
6 Competition litigation and EU private international law rules 134
Barry J. Rodger
7 Private enforcement and the imputation of antitrust liability 159
Peter Whelan
8 Alternative remedies in the private enforcement of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU 181
Magnus Strand
9 Causation 204
Ioannis Lianos and Claudio Lombardi
10 Indirect purchasers and passing-on 239
Antonio Robles Martín-Laborda
11 Access to evidence: the ‘disclosure scheme’ of the Damages Directive 265
Francisco Marcos
12 Binding effect of public enforcement decisions 303
Miguel Sousa Ferro
13 Collective redress and aggregation of claims 330
Csongor István Nagy
14 Competition litigation funding 358
Sebastian Peyer

PART III PRIVATE ENFORCEMENT IN PRACTICE
15 Private enforcement in the UK and Ireland 387
Barry J Rodger and Mary Catherine Lucey
16 Portugal and Spain 420
Miguel Sousa Ferro and Francisco Marcos
17 Germany and the Netherlands 459
Jannik Otto, Patrick Hauser and Simon Vande Walle
18 Central and Eastern European countries 504
Jurgita Malinauskaite

Index 527