This book provides the first comprehensive account of the New EU Competition Law: an emerging understanding of the discipline that breaks from the consensus of the early 2000s and that ventures into uncharted territories. Competition law has undergone fundamental transformations in the past decade, from the rise and fall of the ‘effects-based approach’ to the challenge of Big Tech and the growing interaction with intellectual property. Making sense of these changes and fully grasping their implications can be difficult.

The book discusses the shift from traditional enforcement in the industrial era to the sort of intervention that a knowledge-based economy demands. It presents the changes that the field is undergoing (policy priorities, relationship with regulation and intangible assets, move away from efficiency and consumer welfare) and illustrates them by reference to the most significant developments.

The analysis includes an up-to-date evaluation of the Digital Markets Act and addresses the application of EU competition law to key areas, including energy, pharma, telecommunications and online platforms.

Conceived as a ‘modular’ book, practitioners and advanced students will find it useful as a map to navigate the underlying trends and as an in-depth dissection of the key case law and administrative practice of the past decade.

Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsbury.pub/New-EU-Competition-Law

The New EU Competition Law convincingly identifies broad trends across competition policy and regulation that reveal a fundamental shift toward more proactive enforcement that targets specific industries or firms in an effort to achieve greater fairness and contestability. The clarity of the book’s argument is complemented by its structure, both of which will make it excellent for assigning to students of law, public administration, and political science. Chapters could be given to students as stand-alone assignments or combined across sections to provide greater depth. For students and practitioners alike, this book provides key insights into the recent trends in EU competition law and regulation, providing an insightful framework to evaluate what may come next. * Laura Phillips-Sawyer, Jane W. Wilson Associate Professor in Business Law, University of Georgia, USA *
The New EU Competition Law provides a deep dive with much refreshing insight into the directions competition law can and should take… His [Pablo Ibáñez Colomo] book is a masterwork for scholars and students of competition law and theory. It is an understatement to say I like it lots, but I certainly do and much more. * Jotwell *
I have yet to read a work that brings the various strings in the development of EU competition and economic regulatory law under an analytical framework that is, while highly topical, as convincing and comprehensive as the one Ibáñez Colomo depicts and suggests in his book. To me it is a masterpiece that is certain to become a long-standing standard reference. Most insights depicted are timeless. * GRUR International *

Pablo Ibáñez Colomo is Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. He is also an Ordinary Member of the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal and a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Belgium.