Welcome to Oxford Competition Law

Oxford Competition Law (OCL) is the only fully integrated service to combine recognised market-leading commentaries with rigorous, selective National case reports and analysis from EU member states. OCL provides a suite of fully interlinked competition analysis, peer reviewed case reports and source materials - the ideal resource for assisting with case preparation.

This service includes enhanced online versions of Oxford University Press' key commentaries in EU competition law: Bellamy & Child: European Union Law of Competition, Faull & Nikpay on The EU Law of Competition, and Whish & Bailey's Competition Law.

Introduction to the joint study ‘Algorithms and Competition’ released by the Autorité de la Concurrence and the Bundeskartellamt

Gabriele Carovano |  14th January 2020

The rise of digital platforms and other innovations has transformed markets’ dynamics. Although digitalisation may concern different aspects of an economy, understanding these news markets’ dynamics is of paramount importance for competition authorities. Whereas some competition authorities (CAs) have conducted studies of their own, others have commissioned external reports. Moreover, also several international organisations have studied digital competition issues3 and recently the G7 competition authorities issued a “Common understanding” setting out their views on the challenges of digitalisation for competition policy.

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Supplementary Content for Competition Law: Analysis, Cases, and Materials

Supplementary content for Competition Law: Analysis, Cases, and Materials by Ioannis Lianos, Valentine Korah, and Paolo Siciliani is now available on Oxford Competition Law.

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The Trans-Atlantic Tech Backlash: Convergence on GAFA Antitrust

Dr. Aurelien Portuese  |  11th September 2019

The American tech backlash has just started. All four tech juggernauts - Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple, or 'GAFA' - are subject to unprecedented comeuppances; they, respectively, provide "search, social media, and some retail services online", as described in the DoJ's July 2019 announcement to launch investigations. Google and Amazon are both set to be investigated by the DoJ. The FTC has just imposed upon Facebook a whopping $5 billion fine, the largest ever. The FTC has also started investigations against Apple, and is now poised to scrutinize Google in a radical U-turn after closing its investigations against the company in 2013.

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