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The Private Enforcement of Competition Law offers the first comprehensive and truly international overview of private competition enforcement. Providing new insight into a topic of growing importance, this book is designed to aid practitioners, policymakers, and researchers in dealing with competition matters.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Overview of Private Enforcement Systems
- 1: Private Enforcement at a Glance
- 2: The Interaction of Public and Private Enforcement Systems
- Part II: Elements of Private Enforcement Systems
- 3: Judicial Redress Mechanisms
- 4: Out-of-court Redress Schemes
- 5: Claimants and Standing
- 6: Ensuring the Effectiveness of Redress Schemes
- 7: Defendants and Liability
- 8: Establishing an Infringement
- 9: Territorial Scope of Private Enforcement
- 10: Rules of Evidence
- 11: Causation
- 12: Damages and Their Quantification
- 13: Economic Methods in Private Competition Enforcement
About the author
Pedro Caro de Sousa joined the European Commission's Legal Service (Competition Team) in 2022, having previously served as a competition expert for the OECD between 2015 and 2021. Before joining the OECD, he worked for Linklaters LLP between 2005 and 2014. He has a DPhil from the University of Oxford and was a lecturer in Law at the University of Reading, as well as a tutorial fellow at King's College London and the University of Oxford. He was also a Visiting Scholar at the European University Institute and an Associate Research Fellow at New York University's School of Law. Pedro is a qualified lawyer in Portugal and a barrister of England and Wales.
Summary
The Private Enforcement of Competition Law offers the first comprehensive and truly international overview of private competition enforcement. Providing new insight into a topic of growing importance, this book is designed to aid practitioners, policymakers, and researchers in dealing with competition matters.
